Stetch goal: improvements to testing-proposed-updates / experimental?

2015-04-28 Thread Anthony Towns
required more RC bug fixes, how long it took for library transitions to get in sync, etc) and get some ideas for those things. Otherwise, nothing much jumped out at me... Cheers, aj -- Anthony Towns a...@erisian.com.au

Bug#709460: [Britney] binNMUs plus source take-over issue

2015-04-25 Thread Anthony Towns
that add some output as to what binaries doop_source is actually looking at which seemed helpful) Cheers, aj -- Anthony Towns a...@erisian.com.au diff --git a/britney.py b/britney.py index 55dd7c3..b254ea7 100755 --- a/britney.py +++ b/britney.py @@ -1859,11 +1859,6 @@ class Britney(object

Re: getaddrinfo: DNS round robin vs RFC3484 s6 rule 9, for etch

2007-09-28 Thread Anthony Towns
On Fri, Sep 28, 2007 at 04:56:31PM +0100, Ian Jackson wrote: We have to decide whether we want to make the same change to etch. The main upside would be that the ftpmasters would once again be able to use round robin DNS for eg ftp.us.debian.org. $ host ftp.us.debian.org ftp.us.debian.org

Re: TS for Release Assistents

2007-08-30 Thread Anthony Towns
On Thu, Aug 30, 2007 at 03:48:38PM +0200, Pierre Habouzit wrote: Hmm you mean I should inform a Maintainer's package for a package whose last 4 uploads since 2006-10-27 are NMUs ? for a bug that is what, 10 months old ? Heh. It qualifies to the 0-day NMU policy for so many reasons that

Re: Release goal

2007-08-27 Thread Anthony Towns
On Mon, Aug 27, 2007 at 01:40:51PM -0700, Steve Langasek wrote: So what about the following release goal: Installing and using the distribution should be so easy that even Linus Torvalds can use it. ;) It already is; I don't think overcoming Linus Torvalds' irrational biases is a

Re: m68k release future

2006-10-29 Thread Anthony Towns
On Sat, Oct 28, 2006 at 11:34:24AM +1000, Anthony Towns wrote: No, I just like to know what we're trying to achieve before starting to do anything. Okay, so the idea is: (a) move m68k from etch to testing-m68k (b) automatically promote m68k packages from unstable to testing-m68k

Re: m68k release future

2006-10-27 Thread Anthony Towns
On Fri, Oct 20, 2006 at 08:21:15PM -0500, Stephen R Marenka wrote: (c) not bother with an etch-equivalent release for m68k I'm not sure about this. I'd sure like to have some form of stable, even if we only do base and security-support base-type packages. I'd hate to have to maintain

Re: m68k release future

2006-10-27 Thread Anthony Towns
On Fri, Oct 27, 2006 at 12:47:19PM +0200, Roman Zippel wrote: On Fri, 27 Oct 2006, Anthony Towns wrote: Personally, I think m68k would be better served by having a testing-m68k and taking occassional snapshots which serve as the supported stable-m68k release, rather than worrying about

Re: m68k release future

2006-10-27 Thread Anthony Towns
On Fri, Oct 27, 2006 at 02:13:03PM +0200, Wouter Verhelst wrote: Um, I think I've missed something. What'd be the functional difference between the two? testing-m68k == having something that updates from unstable at its own pace for m68k only. That might mean lagging behind the real testing if

Re: m68k release future

2006-10-27 Thread Anthony Towns
On Fri, Oct 27, 2006 at 05:55:13PM +0200, Michael Schmitz wrote: testing-m68k == having something that updates from unstable at its own pace for m68k only. That might mean lagging behind the real testing if there are toolchain problems, eg. If you wanted it to, it could mean advancing

Re: m68k not a release arch for etch; status in testing, future plans?

2006-10-20 Thread Anthony Towns
[-68k readded] On Thu, Oct 19, 2006 at 06:04:49PM +0200, Aurelien Jarno wrote: Bill Allombert a ?crit : My personnal plan is to set up one or two fast amd64 octocore as a m68k buildd. That would lift most of the objection with the port. The question is to know if it is ok to use emulators

Re: m68k not a release arch for etch; status in testing, future plans?

2006-10-20 Thread Anthony Towns
On Wed, Oct 18, 2006 at 06:11:38PM +0200, Geert Uytterhoeven wrote: Assumed m68k would be able to kill (most of) the backlog in time, what would prevent m68k from becoming releasable? - It didn't sustain the `95%' rate during the last x months? x=3, yes. The sustainability issue is

Re: m68k not a release arch for etch; status in testing, future plans?

2006-10-20 Thread Anthony Towns
On Wed, Oct 18, 2006 at 09:45:04PM +0200, Roman Zippel wrote: On Thu, 19 Oct 2006, Anthony Towns wrote: The reason we keep all architectures in sync is so that you end up running the same thing if you install Debian on any supported architecture. Otherwise you'd install Debian on i386

Re: m68k not a release arch for etch; status in testing, future plans?

2006-10-20 Thread Anthony Towns
On Thu, Oct 19, 2006 at 05:25:41PM +0200, Michael Schmitz wrote: Is the stuff at http://ftp-master.debian.org/testing/update_out_code/ still current? It seems to be lacking stuff, according to the README. Err, it's a symlink to the code that's actually being used. What's missing? Cheers, aj

m68k release future

2006-10-20 Thread Anthony Towns
Hey all, So, from the other thread, seems like the idea for m68k is: (a) keep building unstable as per usual (b) maintain a separate testing-like suite for m68k based on (and thus probably trailing) the real testing, maintained by m68k porters, that is installable (using d-i

Re: m68k not a release arch for etch; status in testing, future plans?

2006-10-18 Thread Anthony Towns
On Wed, Oct 18, 2006 at 09:49:50AM +0200, Ingo Juergensmann wrote: Oh well... It doesn't meet the release criteria because of the toolchain problems, that have now been solved. No, it hasn't. You need to be reliably abouve 95% for the entirety of:

Re: m68k not a release arch for etch; status in testing, future plans?

2006-10-18 Thread Anthony Towns
On Wed, Oct 18, 2006 at 02:55:32PM +0200, Lo?c Minier wrote: On Wed, Oct 18, 2006, Raphael Hertzog wrote: I believe there are some problems because we don't want to have too many versions of the same source package, that's why this is not generalized and why we try to keep all arches in

Re: m68k not a release arch for etch; status in testing, future plans?

2006-10-18 Thread Anthony Towns
On Wed, Oct 18, 2006 at 12:59:20PM +0200, Michael Schmitz wrote: Regarding a solution for m68k beyond etch - I'd prefer to keep m68k snapshots on a basis like you mentioned: * have m68k be in unstable, and have it have its own testing-like suite of some description

Re: Kernel Firmware issue: are GPLed sourceless firmwares legal to distribute ?

2006-10-17 Thread Anthony Towns
On Tue, Oct 17, 2006 at 03:49:25PM -0400, Nathanael Nerode wrote: The answer to the question in the subject is simple: NO. Thankyou for your opinion. I note you seemed to neglect to mention that you're not a lawyer. Cheers, aj signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: m68k not a release arch for etch; status in testing, future plans?

2006-10-17 Thread Anthony Towns
On Tue, Oct 17, 2006 at 01:24:26PM +0200, Wouter Verhelst wrote: I've seen, no concrete suggestions on what the m68k porters want to do about this. I *have* asked about the possibility to maintain our own slightly-different m68k distribution (similar to how amd64 works for sarge) on

Re: m68k not a release arch for etch; status in testing, future plans?

2006-10-16 Thread Anthony Towns
On Sun, Sep 17, 2006 at 11:55:02PM -0700, Steve Langasek wrote: It's with some regret that I have to confirm that m68k is not going to be a release architecture for etch. We have also asked about removing m68k from testing since it is not currently a release candidate; Anthony Towns has

Re: Packages awaiting proposed-updates moderation

2006-08-02 Thread Anthony Towns
On Wed, Aug 02, 2006 at 10:50:25AM +0200, Lo?c Minier wrote: On Wed, Aug 02, 2006, Martin Zobel-Helas wrote: for those who wonder why their package did not yet hit proposed-updates, they want to have a look on [1] and [2]. I don't quite understand the various steps that a package traverses

Re: Packages awaiting proposed-updates moderation

2006-08-02 Thread Anthony Towns
On Wed, Aug 02, 2006 at 02:51:27PM +0200, Frans Pop wrote: I think this list misses a step: - package gets built for other architectures by buildds Good point. It fits in: On Wed, Aug 02, 2006 at 08:32:55PM +1000, Anthony Towns wrote: 1. Package gets uploaded (queue/unchecked) 2. Package

Re: Summary: Secure APT Key Management

2006-07-30 Thread Anthony Towns
Joey: Thanks for the Bcc. On Sun, Jul 30, 2006 at 12:56:26PM +0200, Martin Schulze wrote: The way he envisions key management is that every Debian machine trusts the SPI CA. Debian should provide a webpage for downloading and verifying keys, protected by SSL/TLS. The use would require I

Fwd: Question about packages held from Sarge

2005-01-22 Thread Anthony Towns
--- Message-ID: [EMAIL PROTECTED]:443 Date: Sat, 22 Jan 2005 12:07:25 -0500 From: Roberto Sanchez [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: debian-devel@lists.debian.org Subject: Question about packages held from Sarge I tracked Sid for a while on my workstations and recently (about 3 months ago) decided to go to

Re: Obsolete binaries

2004-12-19 Thread Anthony Towns
Santiago Vila wrote: On Sun, 19 Dec 2004, Björn Stenberg wrote: http://bjorn.haxx.se/debian/obsolete.html I see that the gambas package is in your list, why do you want to remove it? I think it would be better not to draw conclusions (ftpmaster needs). Drawing conclusions isn't so bad, but

Re: Obsolete binaries

2004-12-19 Thread Anthony Towns
Anthony Towns wrote: http://ftp-master.debian.org/rene-full.txt Oh, I should note: those are automated suggestions; they're not all correct, and the action they might require for resolution isn't necessarily straightforward or obvious. Don't go filing bugs or otherwise pestering anyone

Re: section and priority of dummy packages

2004-12-15 Thread Anthony Towns
Steve Langasek wrote: On Thu, Dec 16, 2004 at 02:37:26AM +0100, Santiago Vila wrote: While we are at it: do the release managers have the power to change priorities and sections, or would this have to be sorted out via bugs against ftp.debian.org? Power, no. Authority? Potentially. It has

Re: KDE 3.3.1 for Sarge

2004-11-22 Thread Anthony Towns
Adeodato Simó wrote: * Steve Langasek [Sun, 21 Nov 2004 02:47:35 -0800]: KDE 3.3 in sarge is contingent on the KDE maintainers being able to provide the same sort of assurances that were asked of the GNOME maintainers regarding the safety of allowing these packages to trickle in (i.e., the

Re: KDE 3.3.1 for Sarge

2004-11-22 Thread Anthony Towns
Riku Voipio wrote: In theory, kde x.y.* should be api/abi compatible. In practice, upstream may change method in kdelibs between 3.3.2 and 3.3.3 after noticing that the only user of that method is a plugin in kmail, change the few place the method is used, and and assume that nobody is going to

Re: Keep non-gnome2.6 package out of the discussion please [was: GNOME 2.6 definitely not ready for unstable]

2004-05-24 Thread Anthony Towns
is not a discussion list; if you're just making witty reparte and don't have actionable information to add, please drop the Cc or use a different list. Cheers, aj -- Anthony Towns [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://azure.humbug.org.au/~aj/ Don't assume I speak for anyone but myself. GPG signed mail preferred. ``Like

Re: Keep non-gnome2.6 package out of the discussion please [was: GNOME 2.6 definitely not ready for unstable]

2004-05-24 Thread Anthony Towns
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Re: Gnome 2.6 in unstable should be ok now ...

2004-05-22 Thread Anthony Towns
expected from the release team for Gnome2.6 before the upload to unstable or are we ok now ? I can't think of anything. Jeff? Colin? Steve? Joey? Any obvious reasons left why the Gnome 2.6 debs are definitely not ready for consumption yet? Cheers, aj -- Anthony Towns [EMAIL PROTECTED] http

Re: Update on upload of GNOME 2.6 to unstable status

2004-05-20 Thread Anthony Towns
.)) Cheers, (((aj))) -- Anthony Towns [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://azure.humbug.org.au/~aj/ Don't assume I speak for anyone but myself. GPG signed mail preferred. ``Like the ski resort of girls looking for husbands and husbands looking for girls, the situation is not as symmetrical as it might seem

Re: Update on upload of GNOME 2.6 to unstable status

2004-05-20 Thread Anthony Towns
related to the security breakin, and may've been problems related to d-i autobuilding too. It's not meant to be broken, at any rate. OTOH, t-p-u isn't really a good thing to use for anything other than security updates, and similar changes. It's not a replacement for unstable. Cheers, aj -- Anthony

Re: Update on upload of GNOME 2.6 to unstable status

2004-05-20 Thread Anthony Towns
. :( Cheers, aj -- Anthony Towns [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://azure.humbug.org.au/~aj/ Don't assume I speak for anyone but myself. GPG signed mail preferred. ``Like the ski resort of girls looking for husbands and husbands looking for girls, the situation is not as symmetrical as it might seem

Re: Upload of GNOME 2.6 to unstable

2004-05-18 Thread Anthony Towns
into similar things before, but it's non-trivial. If so, then i will setup and maintain a powerpc autobuilder for it. Setting up a ppc autobuilder for experimental as-is wouldn't be any harder than in the above scenario, I would've thought. Cheers, aj -- Anthony Towns [EMAIL PROTECTED] http

Re: Update on upload of GNOME 2.6 to unstable status

2004-05-18 Thread Anthony Towns
(Hrm, mutt's [L]ist-reply is dropping -gtk-gnome, suck) On Tue, May 18, 2004 at 12:01:12AM +0200, Sebastien Bacher wrote: Le lun, 17/05/2004 ? 18:22 +1000, Anthony Towns a ?crit : alpha, hppa and s390 should be there too. Skipping out m68k might be okay, but you should certainly ask and try

Re: Upload of GNOME 2.6 to unstable

2004-05-18 Thread Anthony Towns
, easily accessible, authenticated, bugs can be filed on it, and so forth. It _could_ mean that you can Depend:/Build-Depend: on it more usefully, but I don't know that that's really worth stressing over. Cheers, aj -- Anthony Towns [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://azure.humbug.org.au/~aj/ Don't assume I

Re: Update on upload of GNOME 2.6 to unstable status

2004-05-18 Thread Anthony Towns
be ideal if we do this for Gnome 2.8 before it gets out of beta/CVS, so that it can be put into unstable shortly after it's released upstream. Cheers, aj -- Anthony Towns [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://azure.humbug.org.au/~aj/ Don't assume I speak for anyone but myself. GPG signed mail preferred. ``Like

Re: Upload of GNOME 2.6 to unstable

2004-05-18 Thread Anthony Towns
On Tue, May 18, 2004 at 10:36:28AM +0200, Matthias Klose wrote: Anthony Towns writes: On Wed, May 12, 2004 at 09:36:30PM +0200, Sven Luther wrote: [experimental/gnome; experimental/libtool; experimental/kde; etc] Now, aj, what do you feel about this, is this solution technically

Re: Update on upload of GNOME 2.6 to unstable status

2004-05-17 Thread Anthony Towns
. When you've done everything you can to ensure GNOME 2.6 is going to work fine, then it's time to put it in unstable and see if you're right. You have not yet done that. Please also think about the Debian release cycle. Please don't be insulting. Cheers, aj -- Anthony Towns [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: Update on upload of GNOME 2.6 to unstable status

2004-05-17 Thread Anthony Towns
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Re: Update on upload of GNOME 2.6 to unstable status

2004-05-16 Thread Anthony Towns
on how the package should be constructed, and keeping patches in the BTS) Cheers, aj -- Anthony Towns [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://azure.humbug.org.au/~aj/ Don't assume I speak for anyone but myself. GPG signed mail preferred. ``Like the ski resort of girls looking for husbands and husbands looking

Re: Upload of GNOME 2.6 to unstable

2004-04-30 Thread Anthony Towns
On Thu, Apr 29, 2004 at 09:55:42PM +0200, Wouter Verhelst wrote: On Fri, Apr 30, 2004 at 02:17:57AM +1000, Anthony Towns wrote: On Tue, Apr 27, 2004 at 12:20:52PM +0200, Wouter Verhelst wrote: Also, I don't see why you would want to manually specify what stuff to take from unstable

Re: Upload of GNOME 2.6 to unstable

2004-04-29 Thread Anthony Towns
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Re: Upload of GNOME 2.6 to unstable

2004-04-26 Thread Anthony Towns
On Sat, Apr 24, 2004 at 04:13:22PM +0200, Sven Luther wrote: What about setting up a parallel autobuilder chain for experimental, Sure, that'd be great. Cheers, aj -- Anthony Towns [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://azure.humbug.org.au/~aj/ Don't assume I speak for anyone but myself. GPG signed mail

Re: Upload of GNOME 2.6 to unstable

2004-04-26 Thread Anthony Towns
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Re: Upload of GNOME 2.6 to unstable

2004-04-26 Thread Anthony Towns
. But anything that people feel able to implement is good as far as I'm concerned. Cheers, aj -- Anthony Towns [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://azure.humbug.org.au/~aj/ Don't assume I speak for anyone but myself. GPG signed mail preferred. Protect Open Source in Australia from over-reaching changes to IP

Re: discover2 transition botched in testing

2004-04-23 Thread Anthony Towns
On Wed, Apr 21, 2004 at 06:20:15PM -0400, Joey Hess wrote: AJ, can we force the whole mess of discover{,1{,-data}} packages into testing? Soon? Urgencies of disocver{,1}{,-data} all bumped to high. Cheers, aj -- Anthony Towns [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://azure.humbug.org.au/~aj/ Don't assume I

Re: Upload of GNOME 2.6 to unstable

2004-04-20 Thread Anthony Towns
to express. Sure. I realise this isn't a simple thing we're asking you to do either -- maintaining and using stuff in experimental isn't anyone's idea of a fun time. But it's nevertheless the best way of handling this stuff. Cheers, aj -- Anthony Towns [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://azure.humbug.org.au

Re: Upload of GNOME 2.6 to unstable

2004-04-17 Thread Anthony Towns
or not. Cheers, aj -- Anthony Towns [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://azure.humbug.org.au/~aj/ Don't assume I speak for anyone but myself. GPG signed mail preferred. Protect Open Source in Australia from over-reaching changes to IP law http://www.petitiononline.com/auftaip/ http://www.linux.org.au/fta

Re: please release sarge instead of removing binary firmware

2004-04-13 Thread Anthony Towns
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Re: please release sarge instead of removing binary firmware

2004-04-13 Thread Anthony Towns
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tracking removals from testing

2004-03-18 Thread Anthony Towns
sarge-ignore means, anyway). -- Anthony Towns [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://azure.humbug.org.au/~aj/ I don't speak for anyone save myself. GPG signed mail preferred. Linux.conf.au 2004 -- Because we could. http://conf.linux.org.au/ -- Jan 12-17, 2004 signature.asc Description

Re: Cycle preventing removal

2004-03-13 Thread Anthony Towns
-uncommonsql/1.1.8.5-1 cl-local-time/1.1.9-1 ] hint -cl-uncommonsql/- -cl-local-time/- Cheers, aj -- Anthony Towns [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://azure.humbug.org.au/~aj/ I don't speak for anyone save myself. GPG signed mail preferred. Linux.conf.au 2004 -- Because we could. http

Re: d-i second stage packages not in testing

2004-03-13 Thread Anthony Towns
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Re: accepted: $package/$arch

2004-01-09 Thread Anthony Towns
On Fri, Jan 09, 2004 at 09:54:42AM +0100, Bj?rn Stenberg wrote: What exactly does the /$arch suffix mean in update_output.txt? That binaries on that specific arch have been updated. The suffix is also used in update_excuses. Cheers, aj -- Anthony Towns [EMAIL PROTECTED] http

Re: accepted: $package/$arch

2004-01-09 Thread Anthony Towns
On Fri, Jan 09, 2004 at 12:47:20PM +0100, Bj?rn Stenberg wrote: Anthony Towns wrote: On Fri, Jan 09, 2004 at 09:54:42AM +0100, Bj?rn Stenberg wrote: What exactly does the /$arch suffix mean in update_output.txt? That binaries on that specific arch have been updated. The suffix is also

Re: please push apache into testing

2004-01-04 Thread Anthony Towns
bloody debian list. Then set your bloody Mail-Followup-To: header, or explicitly indicate you're not in the list and request Cc's. And since you're obviously aware of my question, answer the bloody thing already instead of just whining about it. Yeesh. Cheers, aj -- Anthony Towns [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: Fwd: libapache-mod-perl in 'Testing'

2004-01-02 Thread Anthony Towns
to be working find now. this bug's been reported a dozen times over by now. it's not our fault. Surely there should be a Conflicts: or Depends: that stops this happening? Cheers, aj -- Anthony Towns [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://azure.humbug.org.au/~aj/ I don't speak for anyone save myself. GPG

Re: Clearer hinting suggestions.

2003-12-31 Thread Anthony Towns
ftp.d.o). Cheers, aj -- Anthony Towns [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://azure.humbug.org.au/~aj/ I don't speak for anyone save myself. GPG signed mail preferred. Linux.conf.au 2004 -- Because we can. http://conf.linux.org.au/ -- Jan 12-17, 2004 pgpRQblhNWMdQ.pgp Description

Re: Whee! And hinting suggestions

2003-12-27 Thread Anthony Towns
actual holdup at the moment. Voltaire's a powerpc. Doesn't have fortran installed though, could do if someone asks -admin though. Cheers, aj -- Anthony Towns [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://azure.humbug.org.au/~aj/ I don't speak for anyone save myself. GPG signed mail preferred

Random stuff

2003-12-22 Thread Anthony Towns
of packages that you mostly don't use, and weighing up what's worth keeping and what's not throughout Debian. -- Anthony Towns [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://azure.humbug.org.au/~aj/ I don't speak for anyone save myself. GPG signed mail preferred. Linux.conf.au 2004 -- Because we can

Re: Release-critical Bugreport for December 12, 2003

2003-12-17 Thread Anthony Towns
or release. Fix that now. The less buggy stuff should be considered an optimisation, if it doesn't hit your package when it should, the solution is to fix the RC bugs in your package. Cheers, aj -- Anthony Towns [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://azure.humbug.org.au/~aj/ I don't speak for anyone save myself

Re: Some observations regardig the progress towards Debian 3.1

2003-11-15 Thread Anthony Towns
On Sat, Nov 15, 2003 at 05:42:20PM +0100, Adrian Bunk wrote: below are some subjective opservations and opinions regarding the progress towards Debian 3.1 . This is off-topic for -release. Please restrict any replies to -devel or private mail. Cheers, aj -- Anthony Towns [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: jack 0.75 mini-freeze

2003-11-14 Thread Anthony Towns
instead. If you're not able to do that, do something else that's productive instead. Cheers, aj -- Anthony Towns [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://azure.humbug.org.au/~aj/ I don't speak for anyone save myself. GPG signed mail preferred. Australian DMCA (the Digital Agenda Amendments) Under Review

Re: arla/heimdal/krb4/cyrus-sasl2 ?

2003-11-13 Thread Anthony Towns
, presumably) Cheers, aj -- Anthony Towns [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://azure.humbug.org.au/~aj/ I don't speak for anyone save myself. GPG signed mail preferred. Australian DMCA (the Digital Agenda Amendments) Under Review! -- http://azure.humbug.org.au/~aj/blog/copyright/digitalagenda

Re: [mdz@debian.org: Re: Bug#200028: w3m-img: w3mimgdisplay is setuid root]

2003-11-08 Thread Anthony Towns
be OK now. Better to update stalin anyway -- keeping it everywhere but on m68k is better than dropping it everywhere. Added to dosrcanyway. Cheers, aj -- Anthony Towns [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://azure.humbug.org.au/~aj/ I don't speak for anyone save myself. GPG signed mail preferred. Australian

New hinting stuff

2003-11-02 Thread Anthony Towns
ends up broken, since the unstable version deps on the new glibc. We've still got mozilla and friends to work on, and a bunch of other stuff of course. Cheers, aj -- Anthony Towns [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://azure.humbug.org.au/~aj/ I don't speak for anyone save myself. GPG signed mail preferred

Re: More testing cleanup

2003-10-02 Thread Anthony Towns
, and we provide infrastructure (such as our ] bug-tracking system and mailing lists) for non-free software packages. Cheers, aj -- Anthony Towns [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://azure.humbug.org.au/~aj/ I don't speak for anyone save myself. GPG signed mail preferred. Australian DMCA (the Digital Agenda

Re: updating gcc-3.3 to the final gcc-3.3.2 release for sarge

2003-09-25 Thread Anthony Towns
that I've forced the current version of gcc-3.3 into testing for tomorrow's dinstall; in spite of it being broken on arm, and unbuilt on m68k. This will ease a bunch of problems, but is still causing major hassles for Qt and KDE, so we still need a properly fixed gcc-3.3 ASAP. Cheers, aj -- Anthony

Re: Packages failing to be removed from testing

2003-09-21 Thread Anthony Towns
immediately after this failure, so this should sort itself out tomorrow. If you'd scrolled down a bit further, you'd've noticed it was retried after gnome-pilot-conduits and gnome-pim were removed, and succeeded. Cheers, aj -- Anthony Towns [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://azure.humbug.org.au/~aj/ I don't

Re: More Assignments

2003-08-23 Thread Anthony Towns
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Re: debian-installer (was Re: Unofficial Sarge Release Issues (Updated for August))

2003-08-07 Thread Anthony Towns
versions are not guaranteed to be available, and aren't guaranteed to boot on new hardware. Cheers, aj -- Anthony Towns [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://azure.humbug.org.au/~aj/ I don't speak for anyone save myself. GPG signed mail preferred. ``Is this some kind of psych test

Re: ulog-acctd not entering testing -- help sought

2003-05-01 Thread Anthony Towns
or debian-arm@lists.debian.org or [EMAIL PROTECTED]) that your guesses about the lack of ipt_ULOG.h are right, and if they are, file a bug against ftp.debian.org requesting the removal of ulog-acctd on those architectures. Cheers, aj -- Anthony Towns [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://azure.humbug.org.au/~aj/ I

Re: Assignments III (2003/04/18)

2003-04-27 Thread Anthony Towns
On Sat, Apr 26, 2003 at 06:18:21PM +0100, Colin Watson wrote: On Thu, Apr 24, 2003 at 09:04:15PM +1000, Anthony Towns wrote: -alsa-lib-0.5 (Posting this now since it's changing day by day and I'm getting the feeling that other people are working on very nearly the same problem. How did

Assignments III (2003/04/18)

2003-04-24 Thread Anthony Towns
what they are). If you run out of things to do, please feel free to take the initiative in doing more stuff. Cheers, aj -- Anthony Towns [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://azure.humbug.org.au/~aj/ I don't speak for anyone save myself. GPG signed mail preferred. ``Dear Anthony Towns

Re: Assignments III (2003/04/18)

2003-04-24 Thread Anthony Towns
On Thu, Apr 24, 2003 at 09:04:15PM +1000, Anthony Towns wrote: Subject: Re: Assignments III (2003/04/18) (As you can tell, I got sidetracked between starting that message and sending it. Oh well.) Cheers, aj -- Anthony Towns [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://azure.humbug.org.au/~aj/ I don't speak

Re: Assignments II (2003/04/03)

2003-04-17 Thread Anthony Towns
-- the job's not done until that happens (or it's been removed from the archive entirely, I suppose). Cheers, aj -- Anthony Towns [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://azure.humbug.org.au/~aj/ I don't speak for anyone save myself. GPG signed mail preferred. ``Dear Anthony Towns: [...] Congratulations

Re: Assignments

2003-04-04 Thread Anthony Towns
to be particularly easy to understand. Cheers, aj -- Anthony Towns [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://azure.humbug.org.au/~aj/ I don't speak for anyone save myself. GPG signed mail preferred. ``Dear Anthony Towns: [...] Congratulations -- you are now certified as a Red Hat Certified Engineer

Re: Assignments

2003-04-03 Thread Anthony Towns
it be removed from the archive. You also should be updating the bug log with any extra information you find. Cheers, aj -- Anthony Towns [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://azure.humbug.org.au/~aj/ I don't speak for anyone save myself. GPG signed mail preferred. ``Dear Anthony Towns: [...] Congratulations

Assignments II (2003/04/03)

2003-04-03 Thread Anthony Towns
testing for months or years without a bug report being filed. Likewise, we don't want unmaintained and buggy software sitting neglected in unstable. Cheers, aj -- Anthony Towns [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://azure.humbug.org.au/~aj/ I don't speak for anyone save myself. GPG signed mail preferred

Re: Assignments

2003-04-02 Thread Anthony Towns
-- Anthony Towns [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://azure.humbug.org.au/~aj/ I don't speak for anyone save myself. GPG signed mail preferred. ``Dear Anthony Towns: [...] Congratulations -- you are now certified as a Red Hat Certified Engineer!'' pgpr5HI7qj6F9.pgp Description: PGP signature

Assignments

2003-03-24 Thread Anthony Towns
will be permanently archived. Cheers, aj -- Anthony Towns [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://azure.humbug.org.au/~aj/ I don't speak for anyone save myself. GPG signed mail preferred. ``Dear Anthony Towns: [...] Congratulations -- you are now certified as a Red Hat Certified Engineer

Re: bogus bug reports blocking important packages from entering testing

2003-02-02 Thread Anthony Towns
: the number of RC bugs in packages really do need to drop to zero sooner or later, anyway. As far as glibc's concerned, it's being kept out of testing until it's working reasonably, which could be decades away, the way things are going. Cheers, aj -- Anthony Towns [EMAIL PROTECTED] http

Re: e2fsprogs 1.26

2002-02-11 Thread Anthony Towns
. Of course, there may be some other bugs in e2fsprogs 1.26. The aim is to find and fix any bugs that matter in the 10 (or 20) days between the package being uploaded, and it being put into testing. Cheers, aj -- Anthony Towns [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://azure.humbug.org.au/~aj/ We came. We Saw. We

Re: e2fsprogs 1.26

2002-02-04 Thread Anthony Towns
the urgency to low, which should be enough time to notice any severe problems with it. Cheers, aj -- Anthony Towns [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://azure.humbug.org.au/~aj/ I don't speak for anyone save myself. GPG signed mail preferred. The daffodils are coming. Are you? linux.conf.au, February 2002

mips/mipsel woody release

2001-10-02 Thread Anthony Towns
be added to woody alongside alpha, arm, hppa, i386, ia64, m68k, powerpc and sparc in the next week or so. There won't be any more architectures considered for inclusion in woody. Cheers, aj -- Anthony Towns [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://azure.humbug.org.au/~aj/ I don't speak for anyone save myself. GPG

Base System release critical bug status II

2001-07-28 Thread Anthony Towns
; will not delay freeze. Only the apt and db2 problems of those listed above seem likely to be problematic. Cheers, aj -- Anthony Towns [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://azure.humbug.org.au/~aj/ I don't speak for anyone save myself. GPG signed mail preferred. ``_Any_ increase in interface difficulty, in exchange

boot-floppies 3.0.8!

2001-07-19 Thread Anthony Towns
no problem with CPU time (hi Ben :). Cheers, aj -- Anthony Towns [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://azure.humbug.org.au/~aj/ I don't speak for anyone save myself. GPG signed mail preferred. ``_Any_ increase in interface difficulty, in exchange for a benefit you do not understand, cannot perceive, or don't

Re: m68k boot-floppies for woody

2001-06-07 Thread Anthony Towns
, aj -- Anthony Towns [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://azure.humbug.org.au/~aj/ I don't speak for anyone save myself. GPG signed mail preferred. ``_Any_ increase in interface difficulty, in exchange for a benefit you do not understand, cannot perceive, or don't care about, is too much

Re: Stable Release plan

2001-04-19 Thread Anthony Towns
. And only then you should do the announcement. The annoucement needs to go out as soon as people notice apt-get trying to upgrade their system so they know what's going on. (As an aside, Joey's announcement was amazingly informative as far as that goes) Cheers, aj -- Anthony Towns [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: Stable Release plan

2001-04-19 Thread Anthony Towns
the changed packages since the last point release (or from the original release? not sure if there'd be enough space for that, though) and their source, and that can be installed from (with updated boot-floppies etc)? (Replies to -cd only, probably) Cheers, aj -- Anthony Towns [EMAIL PROTECTED] http

Uploads to proposed-updates

2001-03-31 Thread Anthony Towns
--- cfengine_1.6.2-0.1_m68k.changes --- cfengine_1.6.2-0.1_powerpc.changes --- cfengine_1.6.2-0.1_sparc.changes --- e2fsprogs_1.18-3.0potato1_arm.changes --- e2fsprogs_1.18-3.0potato1_i386.changes --- e2fsprogs_1.18-3.0potato1_m68k.changes --- e2fsprogs_1.18-3.0potato1_powerpc.changes ---

Uploads to proposed-updates (updated)

2001-03-25 Thread Anthony Towns
--- cfengine_1.6.2-0.1_m68k.changes --- cfengine_1.6.2-0.1_powerpc.changes --- cfengine_1.6.2-0.1_sparc.changes --- e2fsprogs_1.18-3.0potato1_arm.changes --- e2fsprogs_1.18-3.0potato1_i386.changes --- e2fsprogs_1.18-3.0potato1_m68k.changes --- e2fsprogs_1.18-3.0potato1_powerpc.changes ---

Re: Uploads to proposed-updates (updated)

2001-03-25 Thread Anthony Towns
On Sun, Mar 25, 2001 at 10:48:40AM -0500, Anthony Towns wrote: install-u acroread_4.05-2_i386.changes For reference, install-u means okay to install, but (a) the .debs have been stuck in the morgue because a newer version's been uploaded to p-u, and (b) that newer version is acceptable

More updates

2001-03-25 Thread Anthony Towns
And then, after reading my email... 188,197c188,192 reject mtools_3.9.6-4_arm.changes Not release critical reject mtools_3.9.6-4_i386.changes Not release critical reject mtools_3.9.6-4_m68k.changes Not release critical reject mtools_3.9.6-4_powerpc.changes Not release critical

To Do for 2.2r3

2001-03-25 Thread Anthony Towns
packages in p-u need checking over * packages in non-US/p-u need checking over Cheers, aj -- Anthony Towns [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://azure.humbug.org.au/~aj/ I don't speak for anyone save myself. GPG signed mail preferred. ``_Any_ increase in interface difficulty, in exchange for a benefit you

Uploads to proposed-updates (updated)

2001-03-25 Thread Anthony Towns
--- cfengine_1.6.2-0.1_m68k.changes --- cfengine_1.6.2-0.1_powerpc.changes --- cfengine_1.6.2-0.1_sparc.changes --- e2fsprogs_1.18-3.0potato1_arm.changes --- e2fsprogs_1.18-3.0potato1_i386.changes --- e2fsprogs_1.18-3.0potato1_m68k.changes --- e2fsprogs_1.18-3.0potato1_powerpc.changes ---

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