Re: libmysqlclient12 to libmysqlclient14 transition

2005-10-18 Thread Nathanael Nerode
Christian Hammers wrote: Hello In Debian Sarge we had libmysqlclient12 from MySQL 4.0.x as main mysql library in use. In Etch I already have MySQL 4.1 (libmysqlclient14) and MySQL 5.0 (libmysqlclient15) which is still only release-candidate, so I'd like to drop support for the 4.0 branch

Let's let lm-sensors, wxwindows2.4 in; and other thoughts

2005-10-18 Thread Nathanael Nerode
) kxdocker (alpha, i386, m68k, mips, mipsel, powerpc, sparc) krename (sparc) kvdr (arm, sparc) ...and certainly others I haven't spotted yet. It may make more sense to put GNOME 1 and libpng through first, though I really detest delaying KDE for these things. -- Nathanael Nerode [EMAIL PROTECTED

Plan for force-hint for KDE/JACK

2005-10-18 Thread Nathanael Nerode
++ transition remove epiphany/0.5.1-1 easy clanlib/0.6.5-1-3 clanbomber/1.05cdbs-2 pingus/0.6.0-8.2 trophy/1.1.3-3 -- Nathanael Nerode [EMAIL PROTECTED] A thousand reasons. http://www.thousandreasons.org/ Lies, theft, war, kidnapping, torture, rape, murder... Get me out of this fascist nightmare

Re: libmysqlclient12 to libmysqlclient14 transition

2005-10-18 Thread Nathanael Nerode
) -- then letting libpng in Feel free to help with any part of this :-) Stuff depending on new openssl will probably be deliberately broken if necessary to get KDE friends in. Openssl shouldn't be a big problem though because it can go in ahead of its dependencies. -- Nathanael Nerode [EMAIL PROTECTED

BinNMUs wanted for libpng issues

2005-10-17 Thread Nathanael Nerode
-dev (m68k, source is wxwindows) libgdk-pixbuf2 (arm, source is gdk-pixbuf) gif2png (arm) gdk-imlib11 (sparc, source is imlib) dillo (sparc -- but deserves rebuild on all arches for new openssl) ygraph (arm, sparc) You know, that's a much shorter list than I thought it would be. -- Nathanael Nerode

Re: Packages which may need new uploads after versioned libssl0.9.8

2005-10-16 Thread Nathanael Nerode
Hmm, a list of binary packages would probably be more useful for purposes of checking out what warrants a rebuild. OK, I'll work on it. :-) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Packages to remove for libpng

2005-10-16 Thread Nathanael Nerode
vorlon wrote: This is better fixed by reuploading the packages currently blocked on libpng, such that they get built with a libpng that doesn't require bumped shlibs. Oh ah. I somehow hadn't quite figured out that rebuilds against the new libpng would *downgrade* the dependency, although it

Re: Re: [Pkg-openssl-devel] Statement(s) on libssl situation desired

2005-10-15 Thread Nathanael Nerode
Packages built against the unversioned libssl0.9.8 will, when run on a system with versioned libssl0.9.8, either pick up the symbols from libssl0.9.7 (wrong) or not find their symbols (segfault). Accordingly, all packages linked against the current libssl0.9.8 are in trouble and will

Packages to remove for libpng

2005-10-15 Thread Nathanael Nerode
# gdk-pixbuf needs an ia64 build, zvbi needs ia64 and hppa urgent imlib/1.9.14-24 urgent zvbi/0.2.17-3 hint imlib/1.9.14-24 libpng/1.2.8rel-5 gdk-pixbuf/0.22.0-10 wxwindows2.4/2.4.4.1.1 -- Nathanael Nerode neroden at gcc.gnu.org Doom! Doom! -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED

Packages which may need new uploads after versioned libssl0.9.8

2005-10-15 Thread Nathanael Nerode
tcpdump aria balsa dovecot hammerhead jpilot libpam-mount neon0.23 ntop openssh php4 php5 postgresql-8.0 spamassassin webauth lasso libfwbuilder asterisk-oh323 fwbuilder heartbeat-2 kdesdk xmms gambas tellico trustedqsl ntp cl-tclink ...and growing. -- Nathanael Nerode

Re: Re: [Pkg-openssl-devel] Statement(s) on libssl situation desired

2005-10-15 Thread Nathanael Nerode
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Please note that libssl0.9.7 and libssl0.9.8 have a different SONAME. There can only be a problem when a program (indirectly) links to both of them. In that case, there isn't even an option not to install both of them. If a program is linked to both of them, and

Statement(s) on libssl situation desired

2005-10-14 Thread Nathanael Nerode
libssl0.9.8. Finally, are there any plans to alleviate testing migration issues for packages held up by this, and if so, how? -- Nathanael Nerode [EMAIL PROTECTED] A thousand reasons. http://www.thousandreasons.org/ Lies, theft, war, kidnapping, torture, rape, murder... Get me out of this fascist

libbonobouimm1.3/libbonobomm1.3

2005-10-14 Thread Nathanael Nerode
I somehow hadn't figured out. Stupid me. :-P in which case they should be rebuilt against gtkmm2.4, as implied by upstream's placement of them with the gtkmm 2.8 libraries. Bugs filed. -- Nathanael Nerode [EMAIL PROTECTED] This space intentionally left blank. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE

monodoc/mono-tools will need a hint

2005-10-14 Thread Nathanael Nerode
# mono-tools still has 9 days to go, but then it will need this easy monodoc/1.1.9-1 mono-tools/1.1.9-3 -- Nathanael Nerode [EMAIL PROTECTED] A thousand reasons. http://www.thousandreasons.org/ Lies, theft, war, kidnapping, torture, rape, murder... Get me out of this fascist nightmare

libsigc++-1.2 hint notes

2005-10-12 Thread Nathanael Nerode
periods and uploads. -- Nathanael Nerode [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Instead, we front-load the flamewars and grudges in the interest of efficiency.) --Steve Lanagasek, http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/2005/09/msg01056.html -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe

first pass at KDE/JACK hint, openssl disaster, etc.

2005-10-12 Thread Nathanael Nerode
: to prevent this at this time). This was an unauthorized transition and we are doing our best to stop the bad effects of it. -- Nathanael Nerode [EMAIL PROTECTED] Make sure your vote will count. http://www.verifiedvoting.org/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject

[DRAFT] Another update on transition statuses

2005-10-12 Thread Nathanael Nerode
transitions. Any other transition which would delay any of the packages involved in the KDE/JACK transition could set us back weeks. -- Nathanael Nerode [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Instead, we front-load the flamewars and grudges in the interest of efficiency.) --Steve Lanagasek, http

Re: nature of GOT bugs (was Re: Please reenable GCJ on mips

2005-10-09 Thread Nathanael Nerode
* or a bug in ld.so -- inability to handle correctly specified multiple GOTs for more than 16k global symbols Thiemo wrote: That (it shouldn't segfault), and/or potentially also a bug in ld which leads to failure for large MultiGOT binaries. Rocking. It looks like most people involved

Re: Please reenable GCJ on mips

2005-10-08 Thread Nathanael Nerode
Daniel Jacobowitz wrote: It's a lot of work to fix and no one has done it. That's not the same thing at all. That's nice, but there's still a real problem unrelated to that. An example of a relatively healthy bug which is a lot of work to fix and no one has done it is

Re: force jack-audio-connection-kit into testing ?

2005-10-08 Thread Nathanael Nerode
Junichi wrote: I agree that at this stage it might be good enough just to kick a few packages out of testing to let it propagate. Unfortunately, new ARTS depends on new JACK and old ARTS depends on old JACK. This means that pushing JACK in must be done at the same time as pushing KDE in, if we

[DRAFT] Update on transition statuses

2005-10-08 Thread Nathanael Nerode
Release team -- please take this, make it into something useful, and post it to d-d-a if deemed appropriate. We currently still have quite a lot of transitions going on. *Please don't* upload shlib bumps or lib renamings unless required by one of these transitions. This has not changed since

Removing GNOME 1 (was Re: orbit2cpp

2005-09-26 Thread Nathanael Nerode
or indirectly on gdk-imlib1 *at once*, and such a request should come from debian-gtk-gnome regulars, who are perhaps best equipped to make such a list. -- Nathanael Nerode [EMAIL PROTECTED] A thousand reasons. http://www.thousandreasons.org/ Lies, theft, war, kidnapping, torture, rape, murder... Get me

oo2c and friends

2005-09-23 Thread Nathanael Nerode
. -- Nathanael Nerode [EMAIL PROTECTED] A thousand reasons. http://www.thousandreasons.org/ Lies, theft, war, kidnapping, torture, rape, murder... Get me out of this fascist nightmare! -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

orbit2cpp

2005-09-23 Thread Nathanael Nerode
. But they should certainly be dropped from testing. remove orbit2cpp/1.3.9-1 remove libbonobomm1.3/1.3.8-2.2 remove libbonobouimm1.3/1.3.7-3.1 This cleans up the libsigc++1.2 dependency tree a little. -- Nathanael Nerode [EMAIL PROTECTED] A thousand reasons. http://www.thousandreasons.org/ Lies, theft

Re: Re: [debian-ntp] Bug#328200: Problems with ntp

2005-09-15 Thread Nathanael Nerode
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Ok, I've just been through the ntp source tree looking at all the copyright and license assertions. Executive summary is that there are indeed some problems, but it's not bad, and I believe it can be fixed with an upload that elides certain bits from the upstream

Re: Problems with ntp

2005-09-15 Thread Nathanael Nerode
Marco D'Itri wrote: No, maybe it's you who do not understand english, or probably just like armchair lawyering. Please stop being rude when you're wrong. You apparenly don't understand the difference between a license and a copyright notice. Actually, it's quite possible the authors of NTP

Re: Bug#327780: current gcc-4.0 is utterly useless on m68k

2005-09-13 Thread Nathanael Nerode
with the high demands of the port by himself). It has a lot of code which needs to be updated to current GCC standards and is therefore notoriously irritating to debug. I doubt that it's reasonable to maintain a port to m68k under these conditions. -- Nathanael Nerode [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: JACK/KDE/FLTK and other transitions

2005-09-13 Thread Nathanael Nerode
of them will be GTK, Qt, or JACK dependent, which makes it relatively straightforward.) -- Nathanael Nerode [EMAIL PROTECTED] This space intentionally left blank. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Getting GNOME 2.10 in: roundup of remaining issues

2005-09-10 Thread Nathanael Nerode
What do these have to do with getting GNOME 2.10 in? The last two are not in testing at all right now, and I haven't noticed any of these three packages listed in the hint output. Perhaps they don't... But they are dependencies of meta-gnome2, which *does* show up as broken in the hint output,

Getting GNOME 2.10 in: roundup of remaining issues

2005-09-09 Thread Nathanael Nerode
changing the 'hint' to a 'force-hint', which should obviously only be done after everything else is ready. -- Nathanael Nerode [EMAIL PROTECTED] Make sure your vote will count. http://www.verifiedvoting.org/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble

Re: snmpkit stuck in unstable ?

2005-09-08 Thread Nathanael Nerode
. :-) -- Nathanael Nerode [EMAIL PROTECTED] A thousand reasons. http://www.thousandreasons.org/ Lies, theft, war, kidnapping, torture, rape, murder... Get me out of this fascist nightmare! -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL

FAM transition unnecessary?

2005-08-04 Thread Nathanael Nerode
Looking at /usr/include/fam.h (the only FAM header file), it appears to provide a pure C interface only. The library has an awful lot of C++ symbols, but it seems clear that nobody's supposed to be linking to them. Changing the name is reasonable anyway, but it looks like it might be safe for it

Things holding gcc-defaults out of etch

2005-08-04 Thread Nathanael Nerode
So there's something weird keeping gcc-defaults out of etch. gcc-defaults is waiting for gcc-3.4. britney thinks that updating gcc-3.4 in testing will break jigdo on arm. Presumably this is because jigdo in testing depends on libstdc++6-0 on arm, which isn't going to exist any more. jigdo in

Speeding the GNOME transition

2005-08-04 Thread Nathanael Nerode
OK. The GNOME transition isn't going to happen for a *long* time, since it's stuck behind the xorg-x11 transition. Also, at least control-center and icewm need new uploads. But I've found some other things which might help clear it once that happens. --- # libpango is holding up gdesklets

Re: Release Team meeting minutes - 2005-06-18

2005-06-28 Thread Nathanael Nerode
release blockers: pet release goals (aka non-blockers): How about a newer glibc version? Not mentioned, but I think a lot of people would really like to see it. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: release policy text changes

2005-06-26 Thread Nathanael Nerode
Andreas Barth wrote: Hi, I started to draft the textual changes to our release policy according to our meetings results. Please feel free to cluebat me until the texts are in good shape. :) Cheers, Andi 1. DFSG-freeness Code {+and Documentation+} in main and contrib

Re: A Prisonner of the dependency hell

2005-05-28 Thread Nathanael Nerode
Bill Allombert wrote: After spending a dozen of hour tracking it, I have the obvious headache, but also the following: 1) debootstrap woody 2) Install the following packages: konqueror aptitude libqt3 libhtml-tree-perl libapt-pkg-perl libft-perl 3) point apt at sarge. At this point

Re: status of getting security fixes into sarge

2004-12-14 Thread Nathanael Nerode
Just did a little checking on Joey Hess's list: opendchub 0.7.14-1.1 needed, have 0.7.14-1 for CAN-2004-1127 Needs 2 days, m68k build mailutils 1:0.5-4 needed, have 1:0.5-3 for CAN-2004-0984 Blocked for over 1 month by missing s390 builds now. Still. perl 5.8.4-4 needed, have

Re: upgrade-i386

2004-10-05 Thread Nathanael Nerode
Steve Langasek wrote: On Fri, Oct 01, 2004 at 01:07:25PM -0400, Nathanael Nerode wrote: So I produced a kernel intended for the upgrade-i386 directory. See http://lists.debian.org/debian-kernel/2004/08/msg02087.html I wanted it to be tested, but nobody has paid any attention. I don't

Re: Criteria for getting a upload in tpu approved (exim4)

2004-07-17 Thread Nathanael Nerode
Andreas Metzler wrote: OTOH 4.34-2 is rather well tested, it has been in sid since 2004-05-31 and I'd like to get it into testing. - The new upstream simplifies some part of the configuration due to new features but mainly consists of bugfixes. If this is unacceptable I can try to prepare

Re: removal / ignore suggestions

2004-06-08 Thread Nathanael Nerode
Steve Langasek wrote: On Thu, Jun 03, 2004 at 01:07:02AM +0200, Andreas Barth wrote: snip # FTBFS, first reported on 2002-11-20, no success in fixing till now remove xemacs21-packages/2003.01.27-1.1 Hint added, but this also seems to require removal of xemacs21 itself. Thoughts? Xemacs21

Re: Re: gif-producing code and sarge

2004-06-05 Thread Nathanael Nerode
Joe Buck wrote: IBM holds *so* many software patents (all invalid on their faces, of course) that if it decided to enforce them, and was successful, most of Debian would likely have to be removed. Many of IBM's patents are clearly valid according to US law; OK, that may be true -- I should

Re: gif-producing code and sarge?

2004-06-02 Thread Nathanael Nerode
Colin Watson wrote: On Sun, May 23, 2004 at 08:57:39PM +0200, Andreas Barth wrote: Hi, as far as I understood, we probably need for the release of sarge at least six more weeks, i.e. not before 4th July. Some packages are put into non-free/contrib because they produce (direct or indirect)

Re: Upload of GNOME 2.6 to unstable

2004-05-06 Thread Nathanael Nerode
Wouter Verhelst wrote: When autobuilding the experimental distribution, I'd think one would want to install packages from experimental (otherwise there wouldn't be much point). Since experimental is explicitely for packages that are expected to be broken, I suspect the number of

Re: Bug#242666: libgcrypt7 is not supported

2004-04-16 Thread Nathanael Nerode
Joey Hess wrote: Another fine waste of electrons: It's using libgnutls10? (Or is it using libgcrypt7 directly?) Hmmm. OK, I guess that's a good enough reason to put off the change. :-P Take a look at debootstrap's changelog sometime. Oh, debootstrap is still being used by default, not

Re: Bug#242666: libgcrypt7 is not supported

2004-04-14 Thread Nathanael Nerode
Ivo Timmermans wrote: Werner Koch wrote: libgcrypt7 is not supported by upstream because it has always been marked as work-in-progress. Please replace it by the current libgcrypt (1.1.94) which will RSN be re-released as the stable 1.2. We are then going to track down any remaining

Re: Bug#242666: libgcrypt7 is not supported

2004-04-14 Thread Nathanael Nerode
Colin Watson wrote: It is very painful to change the version of libgcrypt7 in base at this point. Doing this will break debian-installer testing, which is the It's using libgnutls10? (Or is it using libgcrypt7 directly?) Hmmm. OK, I guess that's a good enough reason to put off the change.

Re: Strongly advise preventing new hotplug from getting into 'sarge' yet

2004-04-06 Thread Nathanael Nerode
Steve Langasek wrote: On Tue, Apr 06, 2004 at 08:20:54AM -0400, David B Harris wrote: On Tue, 6 Apr 2004 01:15:13 -0500 Steve Langasek [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Can one of the release managers comment on this? Me and the other ALSA maintainers had planned on changing (perhaps getting rid

Re: NMU sysklogd and/or switch to different system logger?

2004-04-01 Thread Nathanael Nerode
Martin Schulze wrote: Really, 2.*2*? Any reason for that rather than 2.4? They're similar. So it's from 2.4 as well. Please take a look at the source and let me know if there are any problems to be expected with it, if you're in doubt. The structures are the same... except for one thing.

Re: NMU sysklogd and/or switch to different system logger?

2004-03-31 Thread Nathanael Nerode
Martin Schulze wrote: Nathanael Nerode wrote: sysklogd has two annoyingly-long-open patched RC bugs. (syslog-ng, for example, doesn't.) sysklogd's maintainer (Martin Schulze) is presumably too busy to deal with it, or something. Either sysklogd should be NMUed, or a different syslog

Re: Excess copies of libdb

2004-03-31 Thread Nathanael Nerode
Rene Engelhard wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi, Nathanael Nerode wrote: -- libdb3: rpm (and librpm4) libsasl2 dhelp libpam-modules openoffice.org-bin OOo builds and (apparently) works with db3, db4.0, 4.1 and (I tested this yesterday) 4.2, too - the db

Re: Excess copies of libdb

2004-03-31 Thread Nathanael Nerode
Colin Watson wrote: On Mon, Mar 29, 2004 at 12:53:14AM -0500, Nathanael Nerode wrote: OK, just as a data point, here are the things on my system built against various versions of libdb other than libdb4.2. -- libdb1-compat libc6 Is there ever going to be any way to get rid of this waste

Re: Excess copies of libdb

2004-03-31 Thread Nathanael Nerode
Clint Adams wrote: Note that upgrading applications to new libdb versions is generally more work than you expect, as on-disk databases need to be upgraded. Sometimes you can use the db*_upgrade tools, sometimes you can dump and reload, sometimes it's acceptable and much easier to trash the

Strongly advise preventing new hotplug from getting into 'sarge' yet

2004-03-31 Thread Nathanael Nerode
I filed bug 241225 to prevent new hotplug from going into sarge until the ALSA issue is resolved. New hotplug currently breaks alsa for basically everyone using kernel 2.6. This is a nasty regression, regardless of whose fault it is, and it seems extremely inappropriate to allow this regression

Excess copies of libdb

2004-03-29 Thread Nathanael Nerode
Steve Langasek wrote: db3 #223142, #234507 db4.0 #223140 I know we can't remove them. One of the base problems It would be nice to see fewer copies of libdb in sarge, in all honesty. Christian Perrier reported on debian-boot that there are no less than six versions currently pulled in

Removing zope

2004-03-29 Thread Nathanael Nerode
For zope to be removed, one must also do this: remove zope-textindexng2/2.05-1 remove zope-zpatterns/0.4.3p2-17 -- Make sure your vote will count. http://www.verifiedvoting.org/

NMU sysklogd and/or switch to different system logger?

2004-03-29 Thread Nathanael Nerode
sysklogd has two annoyingly-long-open patched RC bugs. (syslog-ng, for example, doesn't.) sysklogd's maintainer (Martin Schulze) is presumably too busy to deal with it, or something. Either sysklogd should be NMUed, or a different syslog package should be the default for sarge. Thoughts? --

Today's Hints

2004-03-28 Thread Nathanael Nerode
These should both work right now. easy mono/0.30.2-1 mcs/0.30.2-1 easy arts/1.2.1-2 xmms-arts/0.7.1-1 -- Make sure your vote will count. http://www.verifiedvoting.org/

Re: All my current hinting suggestions (includes XFree86)

2004-03-26 Thread Nathanael Nerode
Steve Langasek wrote: = easy lam/7.0.4-2 blacs-mpi/1.1-21 scalapack/1.7-7 python-scientific/2.4.5-2 hdf5/1.6.1-4 netpipe/3.6-1 xmpi/2.2.3b8-3 Lets that whole list in. Well, this isn't working, apparently, from the big FAILED in update_output.txt, and I can't tell why from update-output.txt.

Hinting lm-sensors in

2004-03-21 Thread Nathanael Nerode
Yay! All the necessary uploads have been done for lm-sensors! Congrats to everyone involved! It will still take ten days and some rebuilds. (Unless the 'urgent' hint becomes possible.) But when they're ready I think this is the right hint: easy lm-sensors/2.8.5-3 mrtgutils/0.5

Re: More removal suggestions

2004-03-21 Thread Nathanael Nerode
Riku Voipio wrote: On Fri, Mar 12, 2004 at 09:37:15PM -0500, Nathanael Nerode wrote: Igor Genibel wrote: Could you explain your motivation about dovecot ? The upstream seems to be active and aware ( http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=225048 ) and the maintainer too

Upgrade only supported from most recent point release

2004-03-20 Thread Nathanael Nerode
Adrian Bunk wrote: snip This will ensure _nothing_. It's supported that users upgrade from Debian 3.0r0 to 3.1. Unfortunately, I think that already isn't supported. If I'm not very much mistaken, there are several things which simply will not work without an intermediate upgrade to 3.0r2 --

Package removal proposals

2004-03-20 Thread Nathanael Nerode
I'm getting more aggressive as time goes on. All of these have RC bugs which affect the package in Sarge and have been open since at least January. I ignored patched and pending bugs, although I'll probably send a different message to a different list asking for NMUs of those. I also ignored

Re: Package removal proposals

2004-03-20 Thread Nathanael Nerode
Josip Rodin wrote: On Sat, Mar 20, 2004 at 03:22:20PM -0500, Nathanael Nerode wrote: remove dict-jargon/4.4.4-4 FTBFS (#229435). Eventually it will be fixed and it can go in again, of course. Um. It's Architecture: all. So what? It still has source and object files, since it generates

Hint 'lam'

2004-03-20 Thread Nathanael Nerode
hint lam/7.0.4-2 Won't work until scalapack builds on mips, but that appears to be just a matter of time. -- Make sure your vote will count. http://www.verifiedvoting.org/

Removal suggestions due to uninstallability

2004-03-20 Thread Nathanael Nerode
So, the nagios mess does not look close to being fixed. The following packages have no installable binaries in 'testing' (except nagios-nrpe-doc, which seems kind of silly when none of the other packages are installable.) remove nagios-nrpe/2.0-2 remove nagios-statd/3.09-3 remove nagios/2:1.1-11

Re: Package removal proposals

2004-03-20 Thread Nathanael Nerode
Josip Rodin wrote: On Sat, Mar 20, 2004 at 05:30:21PM -0500, Nathanael Nerode wrote: remove dict-jargon/4.4.4-4 FTBFS (#229435). Eventually it will be fixed and it can go in again, of course. Um. It's Architecture: all. So what? It still has source and object files, since

Re: Removal suggestions due to uninstallability

2004-03-20 Thread Nathanael Nerode
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Adrian Bunk wrote: | On Sat, Mar 20, 2004 at 06:46:28PM -0500, Nathanael Nerode wrote: | |So, the nagios mess does not look close to being fixed. |The following packages have no installable binaries in 'testing' (except |nagios-nrpe-doc, which seems

Suggest removing irssi-plugin-icq from sarge

2004-03-16 Thread Nathanael Nerode
remove irssi-plugin-icq/0.2-2 #232702, request of maintainer -- Make sure your vote will count. http://www.verifiedvoting.org/

Suggest removing gkrellongrun

2004-03-15 Thread Nathanael Nerode
remove gkrellongrun/0.6.1-2.2 Bug #190882. -- Make sure your vote will count. http://www.verifiedvoting.org/

remove wesnoth from testing (copyright issues)

2004-03-15 Thread Nathanael Nerode
remove wesnoth/0.6.99.4-1 Bug #238191 -- Make sure your vote will count. http://www.verifiedvoting.org/

Suggest removal of icecast2 from testing

2004-03-11 Thread Nathanael Nerode
remove icecast2/1.9+2.0alphasnap2+20030802-1.2 Bug #229720; the 'license-clean' version still hasn't been uploaded, and the 'license-dirty' version shouldn't be released. -- Make sure your vote will count. http://www.verifiedvoting.org/

Cycle preventing removal

2004-03-08 Thread Nathanael Nerode
deadlock. Is it possible to hint a joint removal? If not, this may require manual intervention. -- Nathanael Nerode neroden at gcc.gnu.org US citizens: if you're considering voting for Bush, look at these first: http://www.misleader.org/ http://www.cbc.ca/news/background/arar/ http

Removal-from-testing proposals, current version

2004-03-04 Thread Nathanael Nerode
that this 'can't be removed', but see above remove kernel-image-2.4.18-i386bf/2.4.18-5 remove kernel-patch-2.4.17-s390/0.0.20020816-2 remove kernel-image-2.4.17-s390/2.4.17-3 remove rcconf/1.6 -- Nathanael Nerode neroden at gcc.gnu.org US citizens: if you're considering voting for Bush, look at these first

Removal-from-sarge proposals

2004-02-23 Thread Nathanael Nerode
'l' except for this one I happened to notice: remove rcconf/1.6: #218951 Thomas Hood described it as an experimental POS with potential. -- Nathanael Nerode neroden at gcc.gnu.org US citizens: if you're considering voting for Bush, look at these first: http://www.misleader.org/ http

Hints, round n of m

2004-02-18 Thread Nathanael Nerode
and won't be until it's repackaged (for similar reasons plus others). == urgent libjackasyn Um, yeah, I know there isn't such a hint yet, but if there was, this would be a good idea. Otherwise we have to wait another 10 days when all that changed was a Build-Depends. -- Nathanael Nerode neroden

Stronger hint suggestions

2004-02-18 Thread Nathanael Nerode
in, and then kdeaddons 3.1.5 will go in -- and kdeaddons is still at version 2.2.2 in sarge. In other words, this will allow there to be a version of KDE 3 entirely present in sarge for the first time, accomplishing an important release goal and allowing everyone to relax. :-) -- Nathanael Nerode

Obsolete hints

2004-02-09 Thread Nathanael Nerode
,motv -- Nathanael Nerode neroden at gcc.gnu.org US citizens: if you're considering voting for Bush, look at these first: http://www.misleader.org/ http://www.cbc.ca/news/background/arar/ http://www.house.gov/reform/min/politicsandscience/

More obsolete hints

2004-02-09 Thread Nathanael Nerode
:1.5-3 Version mismatch, mozilla 2:1.5-3 != 2:1.6-1 Not using hint Hint from ajt: jack-audio-connection-kit/0.75.0-2 alsa-lib/0.9.8-2 Version mismatch, jack-audio-connection-kit 0.75.0-2 != 0.94.0-1 Version mismatch, alsa-lib 0.9.8-2 != 1.0.1-1 Not using hint -- Nathanael Nerode neroden

Breaking the jack-audio-connection-kit deadlock...

2004-02-09 Thread Nathanael Nerode
-- may (or may not) need Ryan Murray to wake up -- Nathanael Nerode neroden at gcc.gnu.org US citizens: if you're considering voting for Bush, look at these first: http://www.misleader.org/ http://www.cbc.ca/news/background/arar/ http://www.house.gov/reform/min/politicsandscience/

New hint suggestions

2004-02-09 Thread Nathanael Nerode
previous suggestions have all gone in and been successful. :-) == remove logtrend-visuapache/0.82.2-1 Necessary to remove libgd-perl. (Although, come to think of it, why was libgd-perl being removed again?) -- Nathanael Nerode neroden at gcc.gnu.org US citizens: if you're considering voting

Mipsel not keeping up?

2004-02-06 Thread Nathanael Nerode
The lone mipsel buildd appears to be suffering all manner of problems. Perhaps it's time to admit that mipsel isn't keeping up right now? :-P -- Nathanael Nerode neroden at gcc.gnu.org http://home.twcny.rr.com/nerode/neroden/fdl.html

Re: 3.0r3

2004-02-02 Thread Nathanael Nerode
Martin Schulze wrote: Joel Konkle-Parker wrote: According to http://people.debian.org/~joey/stable.html, 3.0r3 is due to be cut pretty soon. How's it looking? It'll probably be mid or end of February. Regards, Joey Is it possible to get the boot-floppies from unstable (which are

Re: Removing encompass from testing?

2004-01-31 Thread Nathanael Nerode
IMHO encompass should be dropped from testing. Opinions? I suggested this several days (weeks?) ago because I *anticipated* encompass keeping neon (and hence subversion) out of sarge. Note that apart from whatever problems encompass itself has, it is stuck until gtkhtml3.0 is fixed, and

Hinting suggestions, latest edition

2004-01-31 Thread Nathanael Nerode
freeze there will be no new uploads of anything in this mess (except to fix build failures or RC bugs) until kdemultimedia gets in. :-) -- Nathanael Nerode neroden at gcc.gnu.org http://home.twcny.rr.com/nerode/neroden/fdl.html

Testing scripts hints not publically available any more

2004-01-30 Thread Nathanael Nerode
http://ftp-master.debian.org/testing/update_out_code/ http://ftp-master.debian.org/testing/hints/ Forbidden. Please (a) reenable these, and (b) link them from somewhere appropriate (such as http://www.debian.org/devel/testing). Thank you. -- Nathanael Nerode neroden at gcc.gnu.org http

Consider removing iraf from testing

2004-01-29 Thread Nathanael Nerode
. It may be more reasonable to remove the package entirely, from sid as well, despite the maintainer's statements of intent -- that's why this is CC:ed to QA. -- Nathanael Nerode neroden at gcc.gnu.org http://home.twcny.rr.com/nerode/neroden/fdl.html

Revised hinting suggestions

2004-01-27 Thread Nathanael Nerode
-4 The problem is that this is non-free with unsatisfiable depends and will *never* go in manually. 5328 is needed for out-of-the-box 2.6 kernel support, which is worth having for sarge. -- Nathanael Nerode neroden at gcc.gnu.org http://home.twcny.rr.com/nerode/neroden/fdl.html

Force nvidia-graphics-drivers in

2004-01-16 Thread Nathanael Nerode
== force nvidia-graphics-drivers/1.0.4496-10 The testing scripts still don't recognize that non-free packages can depend on packages not in Debian, so there's no other way to get this in. -- Nathanael Nerode neroden at gcc.gnu.org http://home.twcny.rr.com/nerode/neroden/fdl.html

Suggest removing encompass to allow neon in

2004-01-15 Thread Nathanael Nerode
will need to be kept out because gtkhtml3.0 is broken. :-P -- Nathanael Nerode neroden at gcc.gnu.org http://home.twcny.rr.com/nerode/neroden/fdl.html

Suggest hinting libdumbnet, libevent

2004-01-15 Thread Nathanael Nerode
. -- Nathanael Nerode neroden at gcc.gnu.org http://home.twcny.rr.com/nerode/neroden/fdl.html

Consider hinting libpcd, openmotif

2004-01-11 Thread Nathanael Nerode
hint libpcd/1.0.1 openmotif/2.2.2-6 These two need to go in together because of ida. It won't work until ida/0.20 gets built on arm and m68k, but hopefully that will happen soon.

Getting jack company in

2004-01-04 Thread Nathanael Nerode
). -- Nathanael Nerode neroden at gcc.gnu.org http://home.twcny.rr.com/nerode/neroden/fdl.html

How to get emacs20 removed from testing

2004-01-02 Thread Nathanael Nerode
I notice emacs20 has been trying to be removed for a while. In order to make this work, you need to remove eshell/2.4.2-6 remove w3-el/4.0pre.46-18 remove emacs20/20.7-13.1 W3-el and eshell are packages for emacs20 (only). The packages serve no function with emacsen other than emacs20. Eshell

Clearer hinting suggestions.

2003-12-31 Thread Nathanael Nerode
AJ, thanks for the pointer to http://ftp-master.debian.org/testing/hints/README; I'd never seen it before, because it isn't linked to by anything. ==? reassign bug 224599 (and mergee 224602) to nvidia-glx or something These are known not to be bugs in the python-qt3 package. The maintainer

Re: clearer hinting suggestions.

2003-12-31 Thread Nathanael Nerode
On Wed, Dec 31, 2003 at 02:01:34AM -0500, Nathanael Nerode wrote: ==? Ignore RC bugs for kdebase/4:3.1.4-1 Neither of the RC bugs are present in sid (only in woody); it seems to be a failing of the current 'testing' scripts that they don't recognize this, given that both bugs are tagged 'woody

More hinting (simple removal) suggestions.

2003-12-31 Thread Nathanael Nerode
== remove rocks-n-diamonds/2.0.0-0.2 May not be distributable; see bug #210233 == remove mindi-kernel/1.0-1 No source; see bug #217160 == remove kernel-image-3.4.18-i386bf Boot-floppies image, useless in sarge == remove iraf/2.11.3-2 FTBFS, major FHS violation, binary with same name as one in

Whee! And hinting suggestions

2003-12-27 Thread Nathanael Nerode
Woo-hoo; beautiful hinting. :-) Nice to see zlib in. Looks like s390, arm, and sparc were put on the out-of-date architecture list, right? Lots of stuff should start going in automatically, such as apache. -- So, it's time to hint mozilla in together with its locale packages. I have been

Packages to consider removing from testing

2003-12-24 Thread Nathanael Nerode
libcache-cache-perl: See bug 215107; the (new) maintainer apparently does not want it in testing until he fixes it. Yet it is already in testing kernel-image-2.4.18-i386bf: Boot-floppies kernel image. Boot-floppies won't be in sarge. iraf: Three serious policy violations. (223543,

Re: Hopes and dreams

2003-12-23 Thread Nathanael Nerode
Colin Watson wrote: zlib's going to be a little while due to missing buildds, and a lot of the rest depends on that ... I think we might have to remove some packages for jack-audio-connection-kit. IRC conversations are a bit timezone-lagged though. It's really hard to tell until the buildds

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