Bug#639319: [britney] Improved auto-hinter

2011-08-25 Thread Adam D. Barratt
On Thu, 2011-08-25 at 23:59 +0100, Adam D. Barratt wrote: > the way that excuses are generated means that either of these > forms are possible: > > foo Depends: bar > foo/amd64 Depends: bar > > but "foo[/amd64] Depends: bar/amd64" will never be output. With that in > mind, I suspect we could dro

Uploading linux-2.6 (3.0.0-3)

2011-08-25 Thread Ben Hutchings
I intend to upload linux-2.6 version 3.0.0-3 to unstable on Friday or Saturday. This will include the fixes from stable release 3.0.3 and should fix the FTBFS on mips & mipsel. There should be no ABI bump. Ben. signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part

NEW changes in proposedupdates

2011-08-25 Thread Debian FTP Masters
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Bug#639319: [britney] Improved auto-hinter

2011-08-25 Thread Adam D. Barratt
On Thu, 2011-08-25 at 22:41 +0100, Adam D. Barratt wrote: > After a certain amount of head-desking when various things didn't work, > I'm finally happy enough with my improved auto-hinter functionality for > britney that I thought it should be in the BTS for others to pull > apart^W^Wcomment on. +

Bug#639319: [britney] Improved auto-hinter

2011-08-25 Thread Adam D. Barratt
Package: release.debian.org Severity: wishlist User: release.debian@packages.debian.org Usertags: britney Tags: patch Hi, After a certain amount of head-desking when various things didn't work, I'm finally happy enough with my improved auto-hinter functionality for britney that I thought it s

Re: [RFC] Breaking britney2's backward compatibility

2011-08-25 Thread Adam D. Barratt
On Thu, 2011-08-25 at 22:09 +0200, Philipp Kern wrote: > On Thu, Aug 25, 2011 at 08:49:03PM +0200, Julien Cristau wrote: > > On Thu, Aug 25, 2011 at 19:42:24 +0100, Adam D. Barratt wrote: > > > The key question is whether we think it's enough of an issue that we > > > want to stay in compatible mod

Re: [RFC] Breaking britney2's backward compatibility

2011-08-25 Thread Philipp Kern
On Thu, Aug 25, 2011 at 08:49:03PM +0200, Julien Cristau wrote: > On Thu, Aug 25, 2011 at 19:42:24 +0100, Adam D. Barratt wrote: > > The key question is whether we think it's enough of an issue that we > > want to stay in compatible mode until we could implement something like > > the opt-in model.

Bug#629477: transition: gnustep-base, gnustep-gui, libobjc

2011-08-25 Thread Julien Cristau
On Thu, Aug 18, 2011 at 12:13:47 +0200, Philipp Kern wrote: > On Tue, Jun 07, 2011 at 02:03:58AM +0300, Yavor Doganov wrote: > > We would like to carry out a GNUstep transition > > (libgnustep-base1.20->1.22; libgnustep-gui0.18->0.20) *and* > > libobjc2->3, ideally coinciding with the migration of

Re: [RFC] Breaking britney2's backward compatibility

2011-08-25 Thread Julien Cristau
On Thu, Aug 25, 2011 at 19:42:24 +0100, Adam D. Barratt wrote: > The key question is whether we think it's enough of an issue that we > want to stay in compatible mode until we could implement something like > the opt-in model. > I'd say turn off compatible mode, and see if that ends up being an

Re: [RFC] Breaking britney2's backward compatibility

2011-08-25 Thread Adam D. Barratt
On Fri, 2011-08-12 at 10:42 +0200, Julien Cristau wrote: > On Thu, Aug 11, 2011 at 21:57:22 +0100, Adam D. Barratt wrote: > > Obsolete binary packages in a configurable list of archive sections [...] > are not automatically removed when the source package is > > updated; instead they are kept in te

Re: binNMUs?

2011-08-25 Thread Julien Cristau
On Mon, Aug 1, 2011 at 15:31:56 +0200, Andreas Barth wrote: > Also, I think we still have a reason for +b(something) as sometimes we > just need to rebuild on a single architecture (because something > strange has happend there), and I don't want to get rid of that > ability. > The more I think

Re: Future of sun-java6 package ?

2011-08-25 Thread Sylvestre Ledru
Le jeudi 25 août 2011 à 15:28 +0200, Julien BLACHE a écrit : > Torsten Werner wrote: > > Hi, > > >> rm of sun-java6 a target for wheezy if any security alerts come ? > > > > I think we should remove it from unstable soon. It is a good question > > What's the status of the free JVMs wrt JDBC4? >

Re: Future of sun-java6 package ?

2011-08-25 Thread Julien BLACHE
Torsten Werner wrote: Hi, >> rm of sun-java6 a target for wheezy if any security alerts come ? > > I think we should remove it from unstable soon. It is a good question What's the status of the free JVMs wrt JDBC4? I know firsthand that JDBC4 doesn't work with OpenJDK6 while it works flawlessl

Bug#638779: No need to do exp any more

2011-08-25 Thread Iain Lane
We just uploaded a new upstream to exp. Thus, no need to binNMU there any more. Cheers, -- Iain Lane [ i...@orangesquash.org.uk ] Debian Developer [ la...@debian.org ] Ubuntu Developer [ la...@ub