Re: Bug#505111: will suggest removal from testing

2010-08-07 Thread Frans Pop
On Saturday 07 August 2010, Neil McGovern wrote: As there isn't a resolution in sight, I'll add a hint at the end of August for the removal of the package unless there's significant progress to fixing the issue. I still feel this is an overreaction as only the original reporter has ever seen

Please accept debmirror (1:2.4.5) for Squeeze

2010-08-06 Thread Frans Pop
I uploaded a new version of debmirror yesterday with minor changes, but including one fairly important bugfix (#590667). Please accept for Squeeze. TIA, FJP -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-release-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact

[SRM] Please accept choose-mirror 2.28lenny6

2010-05-08 Thread Frans Pop
I've just uploaded an updated version of choose-mirror. There's only a fix of a minor bug from the previous release, but the upload also contains an updated mirror list. Note that this update means debian-installer should also be updated before the next point release. Are there any plans for

[OSRM] Planning for final Etch point release and archiving of oldstable?

2010-05-08 Thread Frans Pop
Hi, I would have expected a final point release for Etch to have happened by now (since security support was ended back in February). My personal interest is of course the D-I updates included for that release. Could the (oldstable) release team please clarify the status and planning? TIA,

Re: Unable to access downloads

2010-04-16 Thread Frans Pop
On Friday 16 April 2010, Diana Allen wrote: SOLUTION: I need a site address where I can download the non-free packages for transfer to CD. I can't seem to find this on the Debian site. You're looking for http://packages.debian.org: http://packages.debian.org/search?keywords=sl-modem Cheers,

[OSRM] Bugfix for choose-mirror

2010-02-04 Thread Frans Pop
Hi, Today an error was discovered in the progress bar handling for the updated choose-mirror. As the error can cause the progress bar to go above 100% there's a small risk of that triggering errors in cdebconf. As this is probably the last chance to ever fix this for Etch, I prefer not to run

[SRM] Update of partman partitioning

2010-01-31 Thread Frans Pop
I've just uploaded a new version of partman-partitioning (64lenny1) with a minor fix for a display issue for gpt disk labels in D-I. Please accept. TIA, FJP signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part.

Re: [SRM] Update of partman partitioning

2010-01-31 Thread Frans Pop
On Sunday 31 January 2010, Frans Pop wrote: I've just uploaded a new version of partman-partitioning (64lenny1) with a minor fix for a display issue for gpt disk labels in D-I. Oops. Forgot the bug closure. It's for #567590. signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part.

Re: Bug#567182: gcc: Please add libgcc1-udeb for Debian Installer

2010-01-28 Thread Frans Pop
On Thursday 28 January 2010, Matthias Klose wrote: On 27.01.2010 23:26, Frans Pop wrote: On Wednesday 27 January 2010, Matthias Klose wrote: - did you consider building the udeb from a separate source package, build-depending on gcc-4.4-source? No, I had not considered

Re: [(O)SRM] debian-installer update uploaded for Etch and Lenny

2010-01-19 Thread Frans Pop
On Tuesday 19 January 2010, dann frazier wrote: I'm currently uploading refreshed linux-kernel-di packages built against 2.6.26-21. Once accepted, I can go ahead and refresh d-i. Please do. Please let me know if there's any other pending d-i changes for stable that I should wait for. None.

Re: [(O)SRM] debian-installer update uploaded for Etch and Lenny

2010-01-13 Thread Frans Pop
On Monday 11 January 2010, Frans Pop wrote: On Thursday 24 December 2009, Frans Pop wrote: For stable (20090123lenny5) all arches except mips were successful. I've already mailed the mips buildd maintainers. I've not heard anything back from the mips buildd maintainers, despite sending

Re: [(O)SRM] debian-installer update uploaded for Etch and Lenny

2010-01-11 Thread Frans Pop
On Thursday 24 December 2009, Frans Pop wrote: As all packages needed to build D-I were now available, I have uploaded for both stable and oldstable. An accept is not needed; apparently D-I gets an automatic accept due to by-hand processing of the image tarballs. For stable (20090123lenny5

[SRM] Please accept partman-auto-crypto

2010-01-11 Thread Frans Pop
I've just uploaded an update for partman-auto-crypto (11lenny1) with a simple fix. It's for a bit of a corner case, but low risk. Please accept. TIA, FJP -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-release-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact

Re: Migration hint needed for wireless-tools

2010-01-03 Thread Frans Pop
On Monday 04 January 2010, Luk Claes wrote: We need to do another upload of debian-installer to fix an issue with syslinux menus on x86, but it FTBFS on amd64 because: The following packages have unmet dependencies: netcfg: Depends: libiw30-udeb (= 30~pre1) but it is not

[(O)SRM] debian-installer update uploaded for Etch and Lenny

2009-12-24 Thread Frans Pop
As all packages needed to build D-I were now available, I have uploaded for both stable and oldstable. An accept is not needed; apparently D-I gets an automatic accept due to by-hand processing of the image tarballs. For oldstable (20070308etch6) all arches have been built successfully. For

Migration hint needed for wireless-tools

2009-12-24 Thread Frans Pop
Please force migration of wireless-tools to testing. We need to do another upload of debian-installer to fix an issue with syslinux menus on x86, but it FTBFS on amd64 because: The following packages have unmet dependencies: netcfg: Depends: libiw30-udeb (= 30~pre1) but it is not

Re: binNMU request to correct libc dependencies for udebs

2009-12-23 Thread Frans Pop
On Wednesday 23 December 2009, Adam D. Barratt wrote: On Tue, 2009-12-22 at 00:20 +0100, Frans Pop wrote: There are only a few udebs left that still depend on libc6 rather than libc6-udeb. In most cases the reason is simply that they have not been uploaded since glibc got support

binNMU request to correct libc dependencies for udebs

2009-12-21 Thread Frans Pop
There are only a few udebs left that still depend on libc6 rather than libc6-udeb. In most cases the reason is simply that they have not been uploaded since glibc got support for creating the correct dependencies. A binNMU should solve this. I'm therefore requesting a binNMU for the following

Re: Problems with Debian PowerPC

2009-12-18 Thread Frans Pop
On Friday 18 December 2009, Philipp Kern wrote: While I did not take care about the fallout due to time constraints on my side, I did take a look at the meta-gnome2 migration back then. We did not place any approval hint but it seems that the multiple arch:all confused britney sufficiently so

[SRM] debmirror: update because of change in main Debian archive

2009-12-18 Thread Frans Pop
The main Debian archive now has rsyncable gzipped meta files. This has caused debmirror to unnecessarily download the gzipped file after first applying pdiffs, because the md5sum of the gzipped file created by debmirror no longer matches the one in the Release file. Please accept debmirror

[(old)stable] D-I kernel updates

2009-12-17 Thread Frans Pop
Hi Dann, I'm preparing to upload a new version of D-I for both stable and oldstable and was wondering whether or not to update the kernel udebs. Are the current kernel images in (o-)p-u the versions intended for the next point releases? Anything in them worth the effort? p-u has 2.6.26-20;

Re: [(old)stable] D-I kernel updates

2009-12-17 Thread Frans Pop
On Thursday 17 December 2009, dann frazier wrote: p-u still needs an update, so I wouldn't bother there. The bits in OK o-p-u are candidates for the next oldstable release, though I believe they add no additional hardware support. Feel free to resync them though. Given that there's several

[OSRM] D-I kernel updates

2009-12-17 Thread Frans Pop
Please accept the new kernel udebs (linux-kernel-di-*-2.6) I've just uploaded for Etch. After that I guess another run to process p-u-new by FTP masters will be needed to get them in the archive. After that I will upload debian-installer for both stable and oldstable. Cheers, FJP

[SRM] Update of clock-setup for D-I

2009-12-16 Thread Frans Pop
Hi, I've just uploaded an update of clock-setup (0.97lenny1) with a workaround for a bug in rdate (see changelog for bug numbers). On some systems, when the hardware clock is not set, the system will boot with a system date before the epoch (1-1-1970). In those cases rdate fails to update the

Re: [OSRM] D-I: major update of choose-mirror for oldstable (etch)

2009-12-13 Thread Frans Pop
On Sunday 13 December 2009, Adam D. Barratt wrote: My only comment was that the diffs would have been easier to review without so many whitespace changes. :-) Yes. As explained in my initial mail, that was a deliberate choice to decrease the risk of errors by removing them and to make

[OSRM] D-I: major update of choose-mirror for oldstable (etch)

2009-12-06 Thread Frans Pop
On Saturday 28 November 2009, Frans Pop wrote: Unless there are objections I will also backport the changes for Etch as that version has the same issues and I think it's worth having the better support for installs from archive.d.o after Etch is moved there. As there have been no comments

Re: [SRM] D-I: major update of choose-mirror for stable

2009-11-30 Thread Frans Pop
On Saturday 28 November 2009, Frans Pop wrote: The backport is fairly large as some functions needed to be rewritten. I just see that the source tarball for the previous stable update by Otavio (lenny3) included .svn directories. My upload is clean in that regard, but it does make the debdiff

Re: [SRM] D-I: major update of choose-mirror for stable

2009-11-29 Thread Frans Pop
On Saturday 28 November 2009, Frans Pop wrote: The changes have been tested and reviewed extensively. But despite that I noticed an inconsistency between network- and CD-based installations during additional, extra, tripple-check testing. Not a major issue, but could affect selection

[SRM] D-I: major update of choose-mirror for stable

2009-11-28 Thread Frans Pop
Hi, I've just uploaded version 2.28lenny4 of choose-mirror for stable. The new version includes major code changes which have been backported from the version recently uploaded to unstable. The changes are needed because previous versions of choose-mirror do not support oldstable or

Re: Status of the hppa buildds

2009-11-12 Thread Frans Pop
Hi Dann, dann frazier wrote: Things are back in order. Today I finished getting the new penalosa setup as a buildd, and I've resurrected peri which appeared to be having problems talking to w-b. I've worked around the libstdc++/apt problem on both by downgrading to a working version. AFAICT

Re: Bug#547218: debootstrap: cannot create squeeze chroot

2009-09-17 Thread Frans Pop
tags 547218 - patch thanks On Thursday 17 September 2009, Eric Cooper wrote: debootstrap currently fails to create a squeeze chroot. The log output shows that readline-common depends either on dpkg = 1.15.4 (which is not yet in squeeze) or on install-init (which isn't being installed), so it

Last Lenny point release not yet listed on web site

2009-09-16 Thread Frans Pop
5.0.3 is still missing from the errata page: http://www.debian.org/releases/stable/errata#pointrelease Cheers, FJP -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-release-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org

Re: [Lenny,regression] Bug#524505: qcontrol: no longer works with udev in lenny

2009-09-10 Thread Frans Pop
On Tuesday 08 September 2009, Adam D. Barratt wrote: Frans Pop wrote: I agree that at this point an update qcontrol is the most obvious solution. I'll wait for confirmation from SRM before preparing an upload. Please go ahead with the qcontrol update. Thanks Adam. It turns out

Re: [Lenny,regression] Bug#524505: qcontrol: no longer works with udev in lenny

2009-09-08 Thread Frans Pop
On Tuesday 08 September 2009, Marco d'Itri wrote: On Sep 08, Frans Pop elen...@planet.nl wrote: - upload a new version of qcontrol to follow udev Probably the simplest option. I strongly doubt there are any other users of the persistent device name. Probably the best solution, since I

Re: Future of the s390 port

2009-08-31 Thread Frans Pop
Marco d'Itri wrote: On Aug 31, Bastian Blank wa...@debian.org wrote: I doubt that I would be able to push this port through another release in the current state. The consequence would by that the port dies completely and with it the only free and released distribution for this machines. Is

Re: open issues with the hppa port

2009-08-22 Thread Frans Pop
Andreas Barth wrote: BTW, I'm still missing the vlc upload for hppa (as well as for mipsel, but the mipsel problem is found + solved on IRC). Built but awaiting upload together with 124 other packages :-( -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-release-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of

Re: planning directfb 1.4 transition

2009-08-22 Thread Frans Pop
On Saturday 22 August 2009, Fathi Boudra wrote: This is an informative mail. I have uploaded DirectFB 1.4 to experimental. At some point, the transition could be started (after coordination with the related maintainers). I didn't tried myself to rebuild affected packages yet. I've built

Re: open issues with the hppa port

2009-08-21 Thread Frans Pop
Andreas Barth wrote: * Carlos O'Donell (car...@systemhalted.org) [090821 16:49]: xmms2 is the only package that doesn't build. Analysis of the xmms2 build shows that this is a python crash. Thankfully the python crash reproduces (in a different location each time). I'll look into this.

Re: open issues with the hppa port

2009-08-16 Thread Frans Pop
Andreas Barth wrote: As an current exmaple, take the libcdio-transition. This transition needs to have updated packages xmms2, xmp and vlc. However, the packages are out-of-date on hppa, and for this reason cannot enter testing (and they depend on an old library that will go away with the

Re: Kernel BoF, 29th July

2009-07-29 Thread Frans Pop
On Tuesday 28 July 2009, Ben Hutchings wrote: There will be a second kernel BoF/meeting tomorrow (29th July) at 16:00-18:00 local time (14:00-16:00 UTC). I would like to discuss a possible lenny-and-1/2 kernel release. There should be time to discuss several other issues. Are there logs of

Re: Kernel BoF, 29th July

2009-07-29 Thread Frans Pop
On Wednesday 29 July 2009, maximilian attems wrote: Are there logs of the two meetings? well the second meeting got shortcut by recent events, first meeting yes: http://charm.itp.tuwien.ac.at/~mattems/%23debian-kernel.2009-07-25.log Thx. Just for the record, the following is NOT correct:

Re: Kernel BoF, 29th July

2009-07-29 Thread Frans Pop
On Wednesday 29 July 2009, you wrote: Just for the record, the following is NOT correct: 10:09 maks otavio: only linux-modules-extra 10:09 maks nothing d-i uses and nothing one should really have to care. D-I uses the loop-aes modules (for encrypted partitioning) and that is exactly

Re: Kernel BoF, 29th July

2009-07-29 Thread Frans Pop
On Wednesday 29 July 2009, Frans Pop wrote: On Wednesday 29 July 2009, you wrote: Just for the record, the following is NOT correct: 10:09 maks otavio: only linux-modules-extra 10:09 maks nothing d-i uses and nothing one should really have to care. D-I uses the loop-aes modules

Re: Coordinating efforts to get a new kernel in testing?

2009-07-11 Thread Frans Pop
On Saturday 11 July 2009, Luk Claes wrote: what are the remaining issues that you are concerned about? The ones that prevent linux-2.6 from migrating once it would be unblocked. Like FTBFS of linux-modules-extra-2.6 on 3 architectures I guess? That seemed to me like a valid reason not to

[SRM] Please accept installation-guide/20081208lenny1

2009-04-29 Thread Frans Pop
Hi, I've uploaded an update for the Installation Guide for stable. The changes from the previous version are not huge, but there have been a number of fixes, clarifications and additions, including new sections on accessibility support in D-I and improved documentation on installing

Re: Live 5.0.0 i386 is maybe not i386

2009-03-15 Thread Frans Pop
On Sunday 15 March 2009, Richard Atterer wrote: Even if this had not been done, installation might still have failed on that machine because the Debian installer needs quite a bit of RAM. http://www.debian.org/releases/stable/i386/ch02s05.html.en claims 44 MB, but again I think the figure is

Bug#515132: debian-installer: source for version of dhcp3-client-udeb used in D-I not in archive

2009-02-13 Thread Frans Pop
Package: debian-installer Severity: serious Version: 20090123 X-Debbugs-CC: debian-release@lists.debian.org D-I was built with version 3.1.1-5 of dhcp3-client-udeb included in images [1], but after that build a new version 3.1.1-6 has been accepted into lenny (hinted by luk). This means that

Re: Bug#515132: debian-installer: source for version of dhcp3-client-udeb used in D-I not in archive

2009-02-13 Thread Frans Pop
On Friday 13 February 2009, Adeodato Simó wrote: Please make an effort not to submit bugs at RC severities if you're not confident they apply. I checked the d-release mailing list for February which does not mention dhcp3 and I checked if there was something like a lenny-r0 suite on the

Re: Please unblock debian-cd

2009-01-15 Thread Frans Pop
On Wednesday 14 January 2009, Adeodato Simó wrote: unblock debian-cd/3.1.0 Okay. This is a very big update, but well, I guess it's reasonable that debian-cd is special in the way d-i is. Thanks. Ok. I've increased aging period for debian-cd by two days so that there's time for the

Please unblock debian-cd

2009-01-12 Thread Frans Pop
(Resend with proper address for the list.) Hi, I've just uploaded a new version of debian-cd which will be used to build CD images for Lenny, so please unblock debian-cd/3.1.0 As the new version contains a few structural changes to improve support for installing various desktop environments

Please accept installation-guide for lenny

2008-12-10 Thread Frans Pop
I uploaded a new version of the installation guide a few days ago. It has also been built successfully for the website. Changes: - most importantly: Spanish translation was completed since the previous upload and is thus now included - fair number of fixes in the translations of the appendix

Re: More frequent dinstall runs and mirror pushes

2008-12-05 Thread Frans Pop
On Friday 05 December 2008, Joerg Jaspert wrote: as the subject says, we are planning to increase the frequency of dinstall[1] runs. Our current plan is to have 4 runs a day, switching From the current [07|19]:52 schedule to the new [01|07|13|19]:52 schedule. All times are in UTC. Please be

Re: Possibility for dependencies against specific kernel modules

2008-11-01 Thread Frans Pop
Michael Meskes wrote: On Fri, Oct 31, 2008 at 07:48:41PM +0100, Frans Pop wrote: I guess one solution could be to have virtualbox-ose not depend on virtualbox-modules, but on virtualbox-ose-modules-$ABI. Building vbox modules from lme makes no real sense to me because lme is not supposed

Bug#502346: virtualbox-ose-modules package older than virtualbox-ose

2008-10-29 Thread Frans Pop
reopen 502346 thanks This RC BR was closed silently (using 'close' to control), without giving any explanation and without the issue being fixed. IMO that's not an acceptable way to deal with RC bugs. I'm reopening the BR as the virtualbox-ose kernel modules in testing are still not usable

cairo, directfb and cdebconf

2008-10-13 Thread Frans Pop
If I understand Jérémy's comments correctly, cdebconf will need to be modified and will need a versioned build dep on the new cairo/directfb packages when those have been uploaded. Reason: without those modifications cdebconf-gtk-udeb can no longer be rebuilt correctly against the new

Re: cairo, directfb and cdebconf

2008-10-13 Thread Frans Pop
On Monday 13 October 2008, Luk Claes wrote: we should be releasing about a month after RC1 IMHO. Hmmm. I have not seen any call for translations of the release notes yet, at least not on the d-i18n list where translators tend to hang out. AFAICT the Lenny release notes aren't even being built

Bug#497110: partman-dmraid: obsolete component; should not be included in Lenny

2008-10-10 Thread Frans Pop
retitle 497110 partman-dmraid: obsolete, keep out of Lenny severity 497110 serious submitter 497110 ! thanks Please remove partman-dmraid (source and udeb) from Lenny. Because of recent changes in libparted, partman and other D-I components that have now migrated to testing this udeb is no

Re: [Pkg-virtualbox-devel] Handling of linux-modules-*-2.6 during

2008-10-04 Thread Frans Pop
On Saturday 04 October 2008, Daniel Baumann wrote: Michael Meskes wrote: it was stupid to upload 1.6.6 to unstable, however, the the only sane Which of course is easy to say in hindsight. I do not remember seeing a similar statement before the upload. how suprising is that when the

Re: Heads-up: source compliance for D-I build dependencies

2008-10-02 Thread Frans Pop
Thanks for picking up on this Adeodato. On Thursday 02 October 2008, Adeodato Simó wrote: This is only true for udebs that are included in installer initrds, but as that varies per type of image and architecture it does need to be checked on a case-by-case basis. Examples: parted would be

Heads-up: source compliance for D-I build dependencies

2008-09-30 Thread Frans Pop
Debian Installer builds are a bit special when compared with other packages or even udebs. The way the builds are done means some special attention is needed to ensure full source compliance for the release. debian-installer images consist of: 1) files unpacked udebs from testing 2) libraries

Re: Heads-up: source compliance for D-I build dependencies

2008-09-30 Thread Frans Pop
On Tuesday 30 September 2008, Frans Pop wrote: A second related issue is that after the final D-I upload no updates for packages that have udebs or are D-I build dependencies can be accepted into testing, unless the version included in D-I is first saved in a special suite. This last was done

Re: Heads-up: source compliance for D-I build dependencies

2008-09-30 Thread Frans Pop
On Tuesday 30 September 2008, Frans Pop wrote: Maybe it could be an option to use the transition upload block mechanism to prevent further uploads of (selected) D-I build dependencies to sid and thus prevent version skew between testing and unstable. I've committed a simple script check

Re: First set of hints for Debian Installer RC1

2008-09-27 Thread Frans Pop
On Saturday 27 September 2008, Otavio Salvador wrote: I've reviewed all packages we track and droped the ones I belive aren't suitable for Lenny release since had many changes on it since last migrated version. Obviously if you or anyone disagree with that we can discuss it. Please do NOT

Re: First set of hints for Debian Installer RC1

2008-09-27 Thread Frans Pop
On Saturday 27 September 2008, Otavio Salvador wrote: I can prepare that list if you want. Isn't that exactly what dato asked for? Those are mixed up. The ones that aren't udeb-only and are maintained by debian-boot are available at:

Re: First set of hints for Debian Installer RC1

2008-09-27 Thread Frans Pop
On Saturday 27 September 2008, Adeodato Simó wrote: * Frans Pop [Sat, 27 Sep 2008 15:34:58 +0200]: On Saturday 27 September 2008, Otavio Salvador wrote: I've reviewed all packages we track and droped the ones I belive aren't suitable for Lenny release since had many changes on it since

Re: unblocking partman-multipath

2008-09-19 Thread Frans Pop
On Friday 19 September 2008, Adeodato Simó wrote: Now that you mention, is there some document one could read to educate themselves with a high-level (or not so high level) overview of how all that works? I'd be interested... The closest single document is:

Re: unblocking partman-multipath

2008-09-18 Thread Frans Pop
On Thursday 18 September 2008, Guido Günther wrote: This was basically in response to your mail to d-d-a. Pushing partman-multipath would do now harm and would increase test coverage since people could install lenny instead of unstable then. You still have some very basic misconceptions about

Re: Bug#497619: netinst: fail to create ext3 file systems

2008-09-04 Thread Frans Pop
Adding d-release as this looks like this issue may impact release planning. On Thursday 04 September 2008, Theodore Tso wrote: On Thu, Sep 04, 2008 at 12:55:23AM +0200, Frans Pop wrote: The Depends on e2fsprogs-udeb are e2fslibs (= 1.41.0), libblkid1 (= 1.37), libc6 (= 2.7-1), libcomerr2

Re: Bug#497619: netinst: fail to create ext3 file systems

2008-09-04 Thread Frans Pop
On Thursday 04 September 2008, Frans Pop wrote: On Thursday 04 September 2008, Theodore Tso wrote: On Thu, Sep 04, 2008 at 12:55:23AM +0200, Frans Pop wrote: The Depends on e2fsprogs-udeb are e2fslibs (= 1.41.0), libblkid1 (= 1.37), libc6 (= 2.7-1), libcomerr2 (= 1.37), libuuid1

Re: Bug#497619: netinst: fail to create ext3 file systems

2008-09-04 Thread Frans Pop
On Thursday 04 September 2008, Frans Pop wrote: On Thursday 04 September 2008, Theodore Tso wrote: On Thu, Sep 04, 2008 at 12:55:23AM +0200, Frans Pop wrote: The Depends on e2fsprogs-udeb are e2fslibs (= 1.41.0), libblkid1 (= 1.37), libc6 (= 2.7-1), libcomerr2 (= 1.37), libuuid1

Freeze exception request for qcontrol (arm, armel)

2008-08-28 Thread Frans Pop
Please allow qcontrol to migrate to testing: unblock qcontrol/0.4.2-1 The new version is a new upstream release, but IMO should be allowed anyway for the following reasons: - the only upstream change is addition of support for the QNAP TS-409, which is a NAS device that is also (newly)

Re: Preparation of the next stable Debian GNU/Linux update

2008-07-27 Thread Frans Pop
Lenny anymore, which means I'm dropping per now a lot of my D-I work, debian-cd work, documentation work and website work and any testing work I normally do. Frans Pop signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part.

Re: unblocking e2fsprogs

2008-07-24 Thread Frans Pop
On Thursday 24 July 2008, Theodore Tso wrote: I wouldn't dream of asking debian-boot to support ext4dev at this late date --- but there is one thing I would ask. As I recall, there was a temporary fix to force to use of 128 byte inodes for the interim etch release of the d-i. Could we make

Re: Bug#491263: network-console, etch netinst, openssh

2008-07-17 Thread Frans Pop
reassign 491263 debian-installer 20070308etch2 thanks On Friday 18 July 2008, Mike Edwards wrote: A few issues relating to network-console on etch netinst 4.0r3: * Keys generated by network-console are found on the blacklist included with newer versions of openssh-server. * If

Re: Selection of kernel for Lenny (was: 2.6.25-2 testing sync)

2008-07-10 Thread Frans Pop
Any reason debian-boot was dropped from CCs? Andres Salomon wrote: On Tue, 8 Jul 2008 09:15:14 +0200 Not to mention OLPC support; it would be *really* nice to be able to use d-i to install Debian onto an XO. Of course, other things (grub-under-OFW or just plain OFW support, jffs2 formatting

Selection of kernel for Lenny (was: 2.6.25-2 testing sync)

2008-07-07 Thread Frans Pop
(adding d-kernel and d-release) On Monday 07 July 2008, Otavio Salvador wrote: Frans Pop [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Thursday 03 July 2008, Otavio Salvador wrote: please hint linux-2.6 2.6.25-6, linux-kbuild-2.6 2.6.25-2, linux-modules-extra-2.6 2.6.25-5 Please wait few more days

Re: Selection of kernel for Lenny (was: 2.6.25-2 testing sync)

2008-07-07 Thread Frans Pop
On Monday 07 July 2008, maximilian attems wrote: There are valid arguments to be found for staying with 2.6.25 a bit longer, but D-I has not yet converted to it is NOT one of them. testing users are currently on an unsupported kernel. Eh, how does that follow my last para which I assume you

Re: Selection of kernel for Lenny

2008-07-07 Thread Frans Pop
On Monday 07 July 2008, Frans Pop wrote: .26 also includes at least one change I know of that is somewhat risky: PAT support for x86 (which could be disabled). #d-uk just gave me this tidbit: ... am I missing something or will the move to .26, with libata binding before most of the IDE stuff

Re: Testing removal policy (was: Mechanism in place...)

2008-06-29 Thread Frans Pop
On Sunday 29 June 2008, Pierre Habouzit wrote: FWIW I was the one asking the removal: upstream has a fix that is backportable, not trivially, but that is. And there is openntpd that is a drop in replacement for most desktop users (and I assume that testing users aren't really servers, that

Re: Mechanism in place to prevent some packages from being removed from testing

2008-06-25 Thread Frans Pop
On Wednesday 25 June 2008, Adeodato Simó wrote: tasksel.list is automatically generated, but triggered by hand only, so it would be nice if the tasksel maintainers could mail us whenever there's a change in the Key packages. I principle it could/should be updated whenever a new version of

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,

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 from sid

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 what

Re: request for exception for popt

2008-06-23 Thread Frans Pop
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 from sid to testing afaict. The reason it is frozen is

Re: d-i uses bootloaders

2008-06-21 Thread Frans Pop
On Saturday 21 June 2008, Joey Hess wrote: Adeodato Simó wrote: yaird Another one missing. This breaks a small corner of d-i's UI. If yaird is not going to be added back to testing (and looking at the BTS, I doubt it will), we should modify d-i to not offer it as an option. It does not.

Re: Considerations for lilo removal

2008-06-16 Thread Frans Pop
William Pitcock wrote: I am wondering if it is a good idea to remove lilo entirely. At the moment, lilo has been pulled from testing, and the code is in a shape That's just great. That means that whoever did this just broke an option that's been available in Debian Installer since forever: to

Re: d-i uses bootloaders

2008-06-16 Thread Frans Pop
Joey Hess wrote: As a followup to #484129, I'd like to remind the release team that d-i uses and installs bootloaders. These include, but are not limited to grub, syslinux, ***LILO***, elilo, vmelilo, silo, aboot, palo, amiboot, arcboot, emile, apex-nslu2, sibyl, colo, delo, quik, and yaboot.

Re: hppa release status

2008-06-16 Thread Frans Pop
Kyle McMartin wrote: Anyway, I don't particularly much care for stable releases. I have no problems with HPPA being punted from lenny and existing only as sid, as long as people still take patches to fix the issues without the release-critical bug burden over their heads. Holding up Debian

New package with udeb

2008-06-15 Thread Frans Pop
Hi, Please add 'block qcontrol' in the block hints file. Section could be handled by britney. Package was accepted from NEW today. TIA, FJP signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part.

Re: Update of znc for 4.0r4 - fixes two crash bugs

2008-06-13 Thread Frans Pop
I applied two upstream patches for znc 0.045-3 in Etch and set myself as the new maintainer of the package (Joey Hess orphaned the package and I adopted it). [...] debdiff: The debdiff is not clean as you seem to have used a different indentation method for your changes than the one used

Status of correct libc dependencies for udebs

2008-06-11 Thread Frans Pop
With glibc 2.7-11, udebs should be getting correct dependencies on libc*, i.e. 'Depends: libc6-udeb' instead of 'Depends: libc6'. I have just done a check for all architectures what their status is in unstable for the replacement of old incorrect dependencies by new ones. The counts are for

Re: Please unfreeze libdirectfb 1.0.1-9

2008-06-10 Thread Frans Pop
On Tuesday 10 June 2008, Fathi BOUDRA wrote: Could you please unfreeze libdirectfb 1.0.1-9 ? Already suggested yesterday: http://lists.debian.org/debian-release/2008/06/msg00179.html Cheers, FJP signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part.

Re: Post D-I release hints

2008-06-10 Thread Frans Pop
On Tuesday 10 June 2008, Philipp Kern wrote: - multipath (23 days old, missing alpha+hppa) Don't see the source package for multipath, gnupg needs aging again. Sorry, that should have been multipath-tools, but never mind. Thanks for the rest. signature.asc Description: This is a digitally

Re: hppa release status

2008-06-10 Thread Frans Pop
Andreas Barth wrote: On further discussing that within the release team, we noticed that the Qualification page on http://wiki.debian.org/hppaLennyReleaseRecertification is not really complete, e.g. it says: | The installer is being maintained by ... and it's currently working | effectively.

Post D-I release hints

2008-06-09 Thread Frans Pop
Now that Beta 2 has been released, the following packages can be hinted for migration: * remove the block hint for apt (set on request from Otavio) * hints for packages with udebs, probably routine/safe: unblock brltty/3.10~r3724-1 unblock cpuburn/1.4-33 unblock devmapper/2:1.02.25-1 unblock

Re: Please unfreeze openssh 1:4.7p1-12

2008-06-08 Thread Frans Pop
On Sunday 08 June 2008, Colin Watson wrote: openssh (1:4.7p1-9 to 1:4.7p1-12) Maintainer: Debian OpenSSH Maintainers Too young, only 9 of 10 days old Not touching package, as requested by freeze (contact debian-release if update is needed) Not considered Could you please

Bug#484009: ftp.debian.org: Core gnome metapackages removed from Lenny breaks gnome desktop

2008-06-02 Thread Frans Pop
Pierre Habouzit wrote: update-manager update-notifier Those are RC buggy for a long time, and leaf nodes, they can come back in when the RC bug is fixed. And if tasksel depends on them then we have some kind of a issue because release tools completely don't know about that. Tasksel will

Re: please allow ltsp 5.1.9-1 into testing

2008-05-30 Thread Frans Pop
On Friday 30 May 2008, Martin Zobel-Helas wrote: On Fri May 30, 2008 at 00:32:55 -0700, Vagrant Cascadian wrote: ltsp is again blocked from migrating into testing, likely due to the ltsp-client-builder udeb, though this udeb is not used by debian-installer by default. it has been in

Re: unblock request: ttf-cjk-compact 1.13

2008-05-25 Thread Frans Pop
On Sunday 25 May 2008, Kenshi Muto wrote: Please unblock ttf-cjk-compact/1.13. This source provides only ttf-cjk-compact-udeb package. This version fixes FTBFS and syncs glyphs with current installer messages. I believe there aren't any regressions. This will have to wait until after the

Re: Base system installation errors in testing due to libldap

2008-05-18 Thread Frans Pop
Russ Allbery wrote: Frans Pop [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: For amd64 at least I'm currently getting installation errors due to the fact that both libldap2 and libldap-2.4-2 are in testing and getting installed, which results in: libldap-2.4-2: Conflicts: libldap2 but 2.1.30.dfsg-13.5

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