Re: Bits from the release team: Release goals, schedule, state of the union

2009-08-25 Thread Andreas Barth
* Steffen Joeris (steffen.joe...@skolelinux.de) [090826 08:53]: > For kernel-security support, we have Dann Frazier in the security team, who > is > also working in the kernel team (and of course other kernel team members > might > help on security behind the curtain). So your basic concern is

Re: Bits from the release team: Release goals, schedule, state of the union

2009-08-25 Thread Marc 'HE' Brockschmidt
Steffen Joeris writes: > On Wed, 26 Aug 2009 06:51:48 am Marc 'HE' Brockschmidt wrote: >> Release Goals >> = [...] >> - kFreeBSD: >> Debian 6.0 Squeeze should be the first Debian release shipping with >> a non-Linux kernel. > Out of curiosity, how is security support working f

Re: Thoughts about PHP 5.3

2009-08-25 Thread Raphael Geissert
Hi, Release Team: we, as in the PHP Team, are discussing the possibility of uploading PHP 5.3 to unstable, replacing the 5.2 series. There are some concerns, at least on my part, regarding the state of the code and the next release. On Tuesday 25 August 2009 16:01:10 Ondřej Surý wrote: > On Tu

Re: Security update for ‘burn’ package

2009-08-25 Thread Ben Finney
"Adam D. Barratt" writes: > On Sun, 2009-08-23 at 15:57 +1000, Ben Finney wrote: > > Question: Is it correct to put changes in a stable update that > > effectively make a dead-end branch in the history? > > Does the version of the package in unstable suffer from the same > security issues

Re: Bits from the release team and request for discussion

2009-08-25 Thread Manoj Srivastava
On Tue, Aug 25 2009, Luk Claes wrote: > Manoj Srivastava wrote: >> Hi, >> >> I would like to set up a selinux related release goal for >> Squeeze. >> >> Developer assiociated: Manoj Srivastava (Perhaps also Russell Coker, >> but I have not discussed this with

GRUB 2 (Re: Bits from the release team: Release goals, schedule, state of the union)

2009-08-25 Thread Robert Millan
Hi, On Tue, Aug 25, 2009 at 10:51:48PM +0200, Marc 'HE' Brockschmidt wrote: > > There are some other goals in the queue for which we would like to > have a bit more information; individual mails requesting that have been > sent out. If you know of something you want to see as release goal for >

bug #526398, lenny update?

2009-08-25 Thread Dieter Holkenpolk
Hello, This is to let you know that for me lenny was broken out of the box because of bug #526398 (fixed in squeeze). On my laptop the script /usr/bin/on_ac_power falsely reports that I'm on battery power. A touch /forcefsck doesn't work around the issue (as can be seen by looking at /etc/init.d/c

Release goal for Squeeze

2009-08-25 Thread Praveen P
I would like to see squeeze released 100% free at par with "Guidelines for Free System Distributions" by FSF. I am using gnewsense also. It is very difficult to get quality free softwares to replace the proprietary ones now. The condition will go worse with the advancement of time. So this is my

Re: Status of Haskell in unstable/testing

2009-08-25 Thread Riku Voipio
On Tue, Aug 25, 2009 at 10:35:04PM +0300, Kari Pahula wrote: > Please don't remove ghc6 on ia64 from unstable. ghc6 has a > Build-Depends on ghc6 and the current 6.8.2 on ia64 is sufficient for > building 6.12. would dropping ghc6/ia64 from testing be still acceptable? that would potentially allo

Re: [SRM] stable udev update

2009-08-25 Thread Marco d'Itri
On Aug 25, Julien Cristau wrote: > Looks like the uploaded package wasn't built in a lenny environment. Indeed, sorry for the mistake. I am uploading a properly built 0.125-7+lenny3. (What about .symbols files for libraries >= standard as a release goal?) -- ciao, Marco signature.asc Descrip

Re: [SRM] stable udev update

2009-08-25 Thread Julien Cristau
On Tue, Aug 25, 2009 at 19:29:23 +0100, Adam D. Barratt wrote: > On Sun, 2009-08-16 at 23:13 +0200, Marco d'Itri wrote: > > I uploaded to http://www.bofh.it/~md/debian/ a new udev package intended > > for the next stable release update. > > There are many changes, but most of them are trivial and

Re: Status of Haskell in unstable/testing

2009-08-25 Thread Kari Pahula
tags 539789 + fixed-upstream thanks On Mon, Aug 24, 2009 at 10:55:27AM +0300, Kari Pahula wrote: > I'll give a try to building a HEAD branch snapshot. Good news, that version compiled ok. I'm ready to guess that 6.12 is likely to work too, then. Its release is scheduled to happen well before th

Re: Bits from the release team and request for discussion

2009-08-25 Thread Luk Claes
Manoj Srivastava wrote: > Hi, > > I would like to set up a selinux related release goal for > Squeeze. > > Developer assiociated: Manoj Srivastava (Perhaps also Russell Coker, > but I have not discussed this with him) > Issues to be solved: >(a) Get all De

Re: [SRM] stable udev update

2009-08-25 Thread Adam D. Barratt
On Sun, 2009-08-16 at 23:13 +0200, Marco d'Itri wrote: > I uploaded to http://www.bofh.it/~md/debian/ a new udev package intended > for the next stable release update. > There are many changes, but most of them are trivial and everything has > also been uploaded to unstable. Please go ahead. Rega

Re: Serious problem with geoip - databases could not be build from source

2009-08-25 Thread Patrick Matthäi
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 MJ Ray schrieb: > Patrick Matthäi wrote: >> GeoIP is a quite usefull library for geolocation. >> It has got a stable ABI/API and upstream is normaly very helpfull with >> patches and issues. > [...] >> Currently I see only three options: >> 1) upstrea

Re: Security update for ‘burn’ package

2009-08-25 Thread Adam D. Barratt
On Sun, 2009-08-23 at 15:57 +1000, Ben Finney wrote: > The package ‘burn’ has a security bug open, assigned the alert number > TEMP-0542329 “burn: Insecure escaping of file names”. I have been > advised to make a bug-fix release of this package for ‘stable’ and > send a ‘debdiff’ output to this for

Re: Serious problem with geoip - databases could not be build from source

2009-08-25 Thread MJ Ray
Patrick Matthäi wrote: > GeoIP is a quite usefull library for geolocation. > It has got a stable ABI/API and upstream is normaly very helpfull with > patches and issues. [...] > Currently I see only three options: > 1) upstream decides to open his build system > 2) we move it to contrib with all c

Re: Unjamming the botan transition

2009-08-25 Thread Zack Weinberg
On Tue, Aug 25, 2009 at 10:18 AM, Andreas Barth wrote: > * Zack Weinberg (za...@panix.com) [090825 18:00]: >> Despite this being *labeled* a success, packages did not move, and I >> think the problem is keysafe becoming uninstallable on >> kfreebsd-{amd64,i386}.  If so, perhaps binNMUs of that pack

Re: please unblock reiser4progs 1.0.7-4

2009-08-25 Thread Adam D. Barratt
On Tue, 2009-08-25 at 13:34 +0200, Felix Zielcke wrote: > please unblock reiser4progs 1.0.7-4. This fixes an upcoming release > goal. > (Yes probable it would be better to include more changes, but I doubt > that upstream makes another release and there are no open bug reports.) Unblocked, however

Re: Unjamming the botan transition

2009-08-25 Thread Andreas Barth
* Zack Weinberg (za...@panix.com) [090825 19:27]: > On Tue, Aug 25, 2009 at 10:18 AM, Andreas Barth wrote: > > * Zack Weinberg (za...@panix.com) [090825 18:00]: > >> Despite this being *labeled* a success, packages did not move, and I > >> think the problem is keysafe becoming uninstallable on > >>

Serious problem with geoip - databases could not be build from source

2009-08-25 Thread Patrick Matthäi
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hello lists and maxmind, (please CC me in your replys, I am not subscribed to debian-legal@ and debian-devel@, thanks). First some facts: - - geoip is installed/used by many users, popcon reports something like 20% - - Some more packages are in the r

Re: Unjamming the botan transition

2009-08-25 Thread Andreas Barth
* Zack Weinberg (za...@panix.com) [090825 18:00]: > Despite this being *labeled* a success, packages did not move, and I > think the problem is keysafe becoming uninstallable on > kfreebsd-{amd64,i386}. If so, perhaps binNMUs of that package on > those architectures would help? The package did mo

Unjamming the botan transition

2009-08-25 Thread Zack Weinberg
I'm trying to figure out why the renamed botan library packages and their dependencies (monotone and keysafe) have not made it into testing, despite everything being a "Valid candidate". The most recent update_output.txt (Generated on: 2009.08.25 10:44:55 +) just says Trying hint from luk: bo

Bug#543520: RM: vlc/testing-proposed-updates -- NVIT; Pkg in testing more recent than in t-p-u

2009-08-25 Thread Christophe Mutricy
Package: ftp.debian.org Severity: normal Hello Please could you remove vlc 0.8.6.h-6 from testing-proposed-update. Vlc is already at version 1.0.1-1 in testing. Thanks -- Xtophe -- System Information: Debian Release: 5.0.2 APT prefers stable APT policy: (500, 'stable') Architecture: amd64

Re: Upcoming Lenny point release

2009-08-25 Thread Bernd Zeimetz
Adam D. Barratt wrote: > Hi, > > The next Lenny point release (5.0.3) is scheduled for Saturday, > September 5th. > > With the exception of already planned kernel and installer updates, > stable NEW will be frozen during the weekend of August 29th - 30th. Please review mod-wsgi before that (see

please unblock reiser4progs 1.0.7-4

2009-08-25 Thread Felix Zielcke
Hello, please unblock reiser4progs 1.0.7-4. This fixes an upcoming release goal. (Yes probable it would be better to include more changes, but I doubt that upstream makes another release and there are no open bug reports.) reiser4progs (1.0.7-4) unstable; urgency=low * Remove libaal.la, libaal

Re: apt plans for the squeeze cycle

2009-08-25 Thread Michael Vogt
On Sun, Aug 16, 2009 at 02:41:11PM +0200, Marc Brockschmidt wrote: > Heya, Hi, sorry for my late reply. I'm currently not great at responding to mail (because real life). But the apt project is alive and well, just a bit conservative. > As announced on dda [RT1], we want to get an impression when

[SRM] wordpress update for lenny

2009-08-25 Thread Giuseppe Iuculano
Hi, I'd like to fix an annoying bug (#519798) in the wordpress password reset procedure in lenny. debdiff attached. Cheers, Giuseppe. diffstat for wordpress_2.5.1-11+lenny1 wordpress_2.5.1-11+lenny2 debian/patches/017lostpassword.dpatch | 39 ++ wordpress-2.5.1

Stable upload for avelsieve

2009-08-25 Thread Jan
Hi all, I would like to see an upload of avelsieve accepted to stable-p-u. A few weeks before the stable release I fixed an important bug for dovecot users using the sieve capabilities via avelsieve. Unfortunately I lost track of that with an upload of a new upstream version which didn't make it i

Re: Bug#542353: [Patch] Re: Clive error: nothing to extract

2009-08-25 Thread Damyan Ivanov
Version: 2.2.4-1 thanks -=| Thomas Kremer, Tue, Aug 25, 2009 at 01:35:40AM +0200 |=- > I've managed to make a chroot and install clive/sid (2.2.4-1). The > video I've tested could be found without a problem. Thanks for checking. I am marking the bug as fixed in that version. > For the Lenny ver

Re: Upcoming Lenny point release

2009-08-25 Thread Goswin von Brederlow
Hi, please coordinate with Mark Hymers, the current ia32-libs and ia32-libs-gtk maintainer, about security and proposed updates in those two packages. MfG Goswin -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-release-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listma