Re: sprint for separating release from ftp-master

2016-04-13 Thread Neil McGovern
On Wed, Apr 13, 2016 at 07:00:08PM +, Peter Palfrader wrote: > Hi, > > we (the release team, by remote participation the FTP-team, and DSA) are > planning a sprint for entangling release from ftp-master infrastructure. > > Time and location would be at the debian sun camp [DSC]. > > We have

Re: 8.2 and 7.9 planning

2015-08-21 Thread Neil McGovern
On Tue, Aug 18, 2015 at 07:52:49PM +0100, Adam D. Barratt wrote: > 5/6th - okay for me Fine. > 12/13th - the 12th doesn't work for me until at least mid-afternoon I'm away I'm afraid. > 19th/20th - looks okay > 26th/27th - looks okay > Both work for me. Neil

Re: 8.1 (and maybe 7.9) planning

2015-05-01 Thread Neil McGovern
On Fri, May 01, 2015 at 12:08:59PM +0200, Cyril Brulebois wrote: > > May 23/24 > > Offline-ish on May 23. > Same for me. > > May 30/31 > > OK. > OK > > June 6/7 > > Offline on June 6, offline-ish on June 7. > OK > > June 13/14 > > Offline-ish on June 13. > OK > > June 20/21 > > OK.

Re: 7.8 dates

2014-12-10 Thread Neil McGovern
On Tue, Dec 09, 2014 at 08:33:51PM +, Adam D. Barratt wrote: > 3rd / 4th - I'm busy on the Saturday > 10th / 11th - Fine for me > 17th / 18th - jmw's BSP > afternoon to Sunday afternoon > 31st / 1st - Fine for me > All fine. > 24th / 25th - I can do Saturday morning, but will be afk from ear

Bug#767275: unblock: wget/1.16-1

2014-10-29 Thread Neil McGovern
Package: release.debian.org Severity: normal User: release.debian@packages.debian.org Usertags: unblock Dear lovely release team, TL;DR: # CVE-2014-4887 unblock wget/1.16-1 age-days 2 wget/1.16-1 wget 1.16 in unstable currently fixes CVE-2014-4887: Absolute path traversal vulnerability in G

Re: 7.7 planning

2014-09-23 Thread Neil McGovern
On Tue, Sep 23, 2014 at 08:38:37AM +0200, Ansgar Burchardt wrote: > "Adam D. Barratt" writes: > > We're (over)due another wheezy point release; this time, 7.7. I propose > > we go for one of: > > > > 11/12 October > > 18/19 October > > 25/26 October > > All of these are still good for me. > All

Re: 7.6 and 6.0.10

2014-06-05 Thread Neil McGovern
On Wed, Jun 04, 2014 at 09:53:21PM +0100, Adam D. Barratt wrote: > Giving ourselves the usual pre-window to get organised, some suggested > dates would be: > > - June 28/29 If it's early on the 29th, that's ok. Otherwise I'll be away. I could do it at a push though > - July 5/6 Running a half m

Re: Scheduling the 7.5 point release

2014-04-22 Thread Neil McGovern
On Mon, Apr 21, 2014 at 06:35:59PM +0100, Adam D. Barratt wrote: > On Tue, 2014-03-18 at 23:03 +, Adam D. Barratt wrote: > > On Sat, 2014-03-15 at 09:01 +, Adam D. Barratt wrote: > > > On Sat, 2014-03-01 at 21:44 +0100, Niels Thykier wrote: > > > > We are slowly starting to prepare for the

Re: Scheduling the 7.5 point release

2014-03-03 Thread Neil McGovern
On Sat, Mar 01, 2014 at 09:44:38PM +0100, Niels Thykier wrote: > * April 12th/13th > * April 19th/20th (Easter) > * April 26th/27th > * May 3rd/4th > > Please reply before the 15th of March with your preferred date(s). These are all fine by me. Neil -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-rel

Re: Scheduling 7.4 and 6.0.9

2014-01-08 Thread Neil McGovern
On Wed, Jan 08, 2014 at 05:50:27AM +, Adam D. Barratt wrote: > Our "standard" time intervals lead to us looking at point releases for > both stable and oldstable during February. > > The weekend of the 1st / 2nd February is FOSDEM, so probably best avoided. :-) > How are people fixed for: > >

Re: Why does libgeotiff-dev depend on libtiff5-dev ?

2013-06-17 Thread Neil McGovern
Hi Jay, On Mon, Jun 17, 2013 at 10:18:05AM -0400, Jay Berkenbilt wrote: > The release team has not yet found the time to reply to my message of > May 6 on when they will be ready to think about the tiff transition or > whether my plans for the transition are okay. (It is not my intention > to be

Re: Wheezy point release planning

2013-05-14 Thread Neil McGovern
Hi, On Tue, May 14, 2013 at 12:01:38PM +0200, Francesca Ciceri wrote: > Hi, > > On Sun, May 12, 2013 at 07:56:51PM +0100, Adam D. Barratt wrote: > > Hi, > > > > Based on some informal queries a little while ago, the weekend of 15/16 > > June looks like a good date for the first wheezy point rele

Re: Hurd and the archive

2013-05-08 Thread Neil McGovern
On Wed, May 08, 2013 at 04:33:03PM +0200, Samuel Thibault wrote: > Neil McGovern, le Wed 08 May 2013 11:35:52 +0100, a écrit : > > But not tested - how about USB - did that ever get sorted? > > We have not worked on it. > > > How about things like wireless drivers, raid

Re: Hurd and the archive

2013-05-08 Thread Neil McGovern
On Wed, May 08, 2013 at 01:07:42AM +0200, Samuel Thibault wrote: > Neil McGovern, le Tue 07 May 2013 11:14:01 +0100, a écrit : > > On Mon, May 06, 2013 at 10:27:54PM +0200, Samuel Thibault wrote: > > > We have not worked too much on the hardware support in the past months, > &

Re: Hurd and the archive

2013-05-07 Thread Neil McGovern
On Mon, May 06, 2013 at 10:27:54PM +0200, Samuel Thibault wrote: > We have not worked too much on the hardware support in the past months, > so it is basically network board drivers from linux 2.6.32, and IDE > disk support. I for instance installed it on my Dell D430, and network > just works fin

Re: Hurd and the archive

2013-05-06 Thread Neil McGovern
On Sun, May 05, 2013 at 05:07:13PM +0200, Joerg Jaspert wrote: > So, release people: How likely is it that Hurd gets added to jessie? > Within the next one or two months I mean, not "maybe in a years > time". :) > I don't see it happening, to be honest. Neil -- signature.asc Description: Digi

Bug#705356: unblock: netbase/5.1

2013-04-16 Thread Neil McGovern
Hi Marco, On Tue, Apr 16, 2013 at 04:14:13AM +0200, Marco d'Itri wrote: > Yes, but they are all trivial changes. > [...] > OK, I suck as a maintainer and as a human being and I neglected my > packages for most of the last year. > But I'd rather move on and fix what can still be fixed. > [...] >

Re: Bug#678979: request freeze exception for slony1-2

2013-03-19 Thread Neil McGovern
user debian-rele...@packages.debian.org usertags 678979 wheezy-will-remove thanks On Sat, Mar 16, 2013 at 12:44:15PM -0400, Peter Eisentraut wrote: > On Sat, 2013-03-16 at 11:38 +, Adam D. Barratt wrote: > > On Sun, 2012-10-07 at 14:30 +0200, Mehdi Dogguy wrote: > > > On 21/09/2012 04:58, Pete

Bug#698117: unblock: rebuildd/0.4.2

2013-03-19 Thread Neil McGovern
tags 698117 moreinfo user debian-rele...@packages.debian.org usertags 671635 wheezy-will-remove thanks On Mon, Mar 04, 2013 at 02:51:36PM +0100, Raphael Hertzog wrote: > The time spent by the RM and the maintainer to prepare and accept the tpu > upload is higher than adding a simple unblock (assum

Bug#699035: unblock: unattended-upgrades/0.79.4

2013-01-26 Thread Neil McGovern
Hi, On Sat, Jan 26, 2013 at 04:26:53PM +, Dmitrijs Ledkovs wrote: > The fix is to add missing dependency on xz-utils. > Also a unit tests is added explicitly testing xz compressed deb. > This doesn't look clean due to changes in: > --- unattended-upgrades-0.79.3/test/aptroot/var/log/apt/his

Bug#698984: unblock: simpleid - fixes RC issue with OpenID 2.0 support

2013-01-26 Thread Neil McGovern
On Sat, Jan 26, 2013 at 01:38:27PM +0100, Daniel Pocock wrote: > I simply haven't included any patches with any prior version of the > package, so I haven't needed to rely on any 1.0 or 3.0 methods for > including a patch > Again, I'm going to point at the freeze policy. Specifically Rule 1. > I

Re: pre-approval for fixing some important bugs discovered by piuparts for wheezy

2013-01-26 Thread Neil McGovern
Hi, On Sat, Jan 26, 2013 at 01:25:14PM +0100, Andreas Beckmann wrote: > what's the release team opinion on fixing several "important" bugs for > wheezy? These are problems discovered by piuparts and all have bugs > filed long ago, usually with a sentence like "Getting the archive > piuparts-clean

Depends on about-to-go-away youtube-dl

2013-01-26 Thread Neil McGovern
Package: freevo Severity: grave Hi, Youtube-dl is about to be removed from testing. As freevo depends on it, it is also a candidate for removal. Please let debian-release@lists.debian.org know how you plan on handling this issue. Thanks, Neil -- System Information: Debian Release: 7.0 APT pre

Bug#694975: release.debian.org: Wheezy-ignore tag for freecad and netgen

2013-01-26 Thread Neil McGovern
Hi, On Sat, Jan 19, 2013 at 02:46:29PM +0100, Anton Gladky wrote: > thanks for looking into this bug. VCS of coin3d has a COPYING file, which > is clearly BSD-license [1]. So this version should be packaged to fix > the license issue properly. The current version of coin is GPL [2]. > This does

Bug#690402: RM: scim-prime/1.0.0-4

2013-01-26 Thread Neil McGovern
On Sat, Oct 13, 2012 at 09:56:08PM +0100, Neil Williams wrote: > Package: release.debian.org > Severity: normal > User: release.debian@packages.debian.org > Usertags: rm > Removal hint added. Neil -- signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: Postpone fix for 540512 and 538822 till after release (dash and sh diversions)

2013-01-26 Thread Neil McGovern
Control: tag 540512 +wheezy-ignore Control: tag 538822 +wheezy-ignore This is obviously not going to get fixed this time. Adding ignore tags. On Wed, Nov 07, 2012 at 08:40:58PM +0100, Paul Gevers wrote: > There has been a small discussion about dash RC bugs 538822 and 540512 > in the bts and the

Bug#699012: unblock: netgen/4.9.13.dfsg-3.2

2013-01-26 Thread Neil McGovern
On Sat, Jan 26, 2013 at 10:35:16AM +, Jonathan Wiltshire wrote: > On Sat, Jan 26, 2013 at 09:54:36AM +0100, Anton Gladky wrote: > > +netgen (4.9.13.dfsg-3.2) testing-proposed-updates; urgency=low > > + > > + * Non-maintainer upload. > > Have the maintainers commented on your proposed change?

Bug#698984: unblock: simpleid - fixes RC issue with OpenID 2.0 support

2013-01-26 Thread Neil McGovern
On Sat, Jan 26, 2013 at 10:20:56AM +0100, Daniel Pocock wrote: > If it is essential, I can make a 0.8.1-13 upload with the extra > changelog detail against 0.8.1-11 > Hi, We won't accept any changes to packaging systems, and we won't review anything without a diff. PLEASE go read http://release.

Re: [Pkg-ace-devel] Bug#697847: missing source for Win32 binaries

2013-01-11 Thread Neil McGovern
On Thu, Jan 10, 2013 at 09:26:37PM +0100, Thomas Girard wrote: > Since my GPG key has expired, I will not be able to upload this in a > timely fashion, so you can consider this email as a call for NMU. > For info, you can simply change the expiration date... Neil -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to d

Bug#692734: unblock: ettercap/0.7.5-4

2013-01-09 Thread Neil McGovern
On Wed, Jan 09, 2013 at 02:40:25PM +, Barak A. Pearlmutter wrote: > As I've stated previously, I don't believe that backporting fixes is > really feasible. There are too many, they are mixed with > non-security-related modifications, there would be enormous opportunity > for error, and ongoing

Bug#692734: unblock: ettercap/0.7.5-4

2013-01-09 Thread Neil McGovern
Hi, 365 files changed, 23718 insertions(+), 14033 deletions(-) This isn't something that can be reviewed, especially with the large number of unrelated changes to (for example build system switch!) the package. The options remaining are: * Backport specific fixes for the version in testing * Re

Bug#694378: Bug#683803: apt-cacher-ng: errors in combination with http.debian.net: [302 Moved Temporarily]

2012-12-28 Thread Neil McGovern
On Wed, Dec 26, 2012 at 12:08:49PM +0100, Eduard Bloch wrote: > Hallo, > * Gabriele Stilli [Tue, Dec 25 2012, 10:10:36PM]: > > > any chance of having this fix backported to Wheezy? It's quite annoying > > not being able to do proper upgrades when using http.debian.net with > > (what will become) s

Re: Bug#694378: Bug#683803: apt-cacher-ng: errors in combination with http.debian.net: [302 Moved Temporarily]

2012-12-26 Thread Neil McGovern
On Wed, Dec 26, 2012 at 12:08:49PM +0100, Eduard Bloch wrote: > Hallo, > * Gabriele Stilli [Tue, Dec 25 2012, 10:10:36PM]: > > > any chance of having this fix backported to Wheezy? It's quite annoying > > not being able to do proper upgrades when using http.debian.net with > > (what will become) s

Re: Release talk at FOSDEM?

2012-12-26 Thread Neil McGovern
On Mon, Dec 24, 2012 at 10:41:11AM +0100, Wouter Verhelst wrote: > Since we'll have released by then[1], I thought it might be nice if you > guys were to hold a talk at FOSDEM about the past release process and/or > the upcoming one. Anyone up for that? > I won't be attending this year - anyone e

Re: Bug#690557: unblock: git-buildpackage/0.6.0~git20120822

2012-12-14 Thread Neil McGovern
On Thu, Dec 13, 2012 at 11:14:41PM +0100, Guido Günther wrote: > On Thu, Dec 13, 2012 at 10:39:06PM +0100, Salvatore Bonaccorso wrote: > > In meanwhile I think the debdiff is too huge to have this for an > > unblock to wheezy. I suggest to close this request to reduce the > > current open unblock r

Bug#695158: wheezy-ignore tag for RC bug #591969 in typo3-src

2012-12-05 Thread Neil McGovern
On Tue, Dec 04, 2012 at 08:01:58PM +0100, Tobias Hansen wrote: > the discussion in RC bug #591969 ended with a call for a wheezy-ignore > tag. The bug was also tagged squeeze-ignore. What does the release team say? > In general, I'm fairly loathed to add a *second* release ignore tag. Can someon

Wheezy-ignore for good-not-evil bugs

2012-11-16 Thread Neil McGovern
tags 692614 + wheezy-ignore tags 692619 + wheezy-ignore tags 692624 + wheezy-ignore tags 692625 + wheezy-ignore tags 692627 + wheezy-ignore tags 692628 + wheezy-ignore tags 692629 + wheezy-ignore tags 692630 + wheezy-ignore tags 692631 + wheezy-ignore tags 692613 + wheezy-ignore tags 692615 + wheez

Re: Bug#692327: libotr: Please provide libotr2

2012-11-06 Thread Neil McGovern
On Tue, Nov 06, 2012 at 02:59:11PM +0100, Thibaut VARENE wrote: > And I see nothing wrong with breaking packages in unstable, but maybe > there too I'm mistaken. > Yes, as you breaking a package in unstable may: a) Break other packages b) Remove the ability to update via unstable if a RC bug does

Re: Squeeze point release (6.0.6)

2012-09-18 Thread Neil McGovern
On Mon, Sep 17, 2012 at 03:59:09PM +0200, Philipp Kern wrote: > On Mon, Sep 17, 2012 at 03:58:13PM +0200, Philipp Kern wrote: > > ok, given the replies, let's settle on this: > > On Fri, Sep 07, 2012 at 09:43:03PM +0200, Philipp Kern wrote: > > > * Sep 29/30: ok from RT side > > We still need a pre

Bug#682908: Is this a done deal?

2012-08-15 Thread Neil McGovern
On Wed, Aug 15, 2012 at 11:27:07AM -0400, Jordi Gutiérrez Hermoso wrote: > Emacs 24 has been in pre-release mode So... not actually released then. > Anyways, this doesn't answer my question, which I've asked thrice. > Here it goes again: is this a done deal, and we're getting an ancient > (yes, a

Bug#683299: unblock: open-vm-tools/2:8.8.0+2012.05.21-724730-3

2012-07-30 Thread Neil McGovern
On Mon, Jul 30, 2012 at 10:07:14PM +0200, Daniel Baumann wrote: > On 07/30/2012 10:02 PM, Julien Cristau wrote: > > Or if you prefer, I can remove the package from > > wheezy, that works just as well as far as I'm concerned, but I thought > > I'd give it a chance. > > feel free to do so if you thi

Re: Next upload 2012-06-26 (dpkg 1.16.5)

2012-07-29 Thread Neil McGovern
On Sat, Jul 28, 2012 at 07:52:18PM +0200, Guillem Jover wrote: > On Sat, 2012-07-28 at 11:59:07 +0200, Neil McGovern wrote: > > Right, the delta diff was small enough that I actually put in the time > > to look at the full diff. This took a number of hours, but anyway: > >

Re: Next upload 2012-06-26 (dpkg 1.16.5)

2012-07-28 Thread Neil McGovern
On Sat, Jul 28, 2012 at 11:59:07AM +0200, Neil McGovern wrote: > On Mon, Jul 23, 2012 at 07:18:29PM +0200, Guillem Jover wrote: > > On Mon, 2012-07-23 at 17:51:56 +0100, Neil McGovern wrote: > > > Nope, 1.16.5. I'd like to see that to get a view as to why 1.16.5 was &

Re: Next upload 2012-06-26 (dpkg 1.16.5)

2012-07-28 Thread Neil McGovern
On Mon, Jul 23, 2012 at 07:18:29PM +0200, Guillem Jover wrote: > On Mon, 2012-07-23 at 17:51:56 +0100, Neil McGovern wrote: > > Nope, 1.16.5. I'd like to see that to get a view as to why 1.16.5 was > > broken. Once we've managed to have a look at that, it may give a clu

Re: Bug#681687: missing mime entry

2012-07-26 Thread Neil McGovern
On Sun, Jul 22, 2012 at 01:51:32PM -0700, Steve Langasek wrote: > > If it's the solution that the TC decide on to resolve the issue, it > > sounds like something we could work with, at least imho, from what I've > > seen so far. I've CCed -release for any further comments, as I don't > > know how

Re: Next upload 2012-06-26 (dpkg 1.16.5)

2012-07-23 Thread Neil McGovern
On Mon, Jul 23, 2012 at 06:38:21PM +0200, Julien Cristau wrote: > On Mon, Jul 23, 2012 at 15:14:15 +0100, Neil McGovern wrote: > > > That is of course, your perogative. However, if you could kindly prepare > > a patchset between 1.16.5 and whatever you want to mig

Re: Next upload 2012-06-26 (dpkg 1.16.5)

2012-07-23 Thread Neil McGovern
Hi, On Sat, Jul 21, 2012 at 09:56:24PM +0200, Guillem Jover wrote: > On Wed, 2012-06-20 at 09:42:18 +0100, Neil McGovern wrote: > > Advancing that as much as you can would certainly be useful to catch any > > errors, and to ensure translators get a chance to contribute. >

Re: mumble migration block

2012-07-20 Thread Neil McGovern
On Fri, Jul 20, 2012 at 12:48:34PM +0100, Ian Jackson wrote: > Can you please make sure that mumble 1.2.3-349-g315b5f5-2 does not > migrate to wheezy ? In particular, please do not accept an unblock > request for it or for any later version. > I've commented out the automatic unblock it was gran

Re: mumble and celt, #682010, TC

2012-07-19 Thread Neil McGovern
On Thu, Jul 19, 2012 at 05:45:27PM +0100, Ian Jackson wrote: > > * That the package is likely to be able to communicate with non-debian > > derived distributions. > > The information we seem to be getting is that it is indeed likely that > the mumble we have will be able to do so, because mumble u

Re: mumble and celt, #682010, TC

2012-07-19 Thread Neil McGovern
[resent... signed this time. Again] On Thu, Jul 19, 2012 at 05:45:27PM +0100, Ian Jackson wrote: > > * That the package is likely to be able to communicate with > > non-debian > > derived distributions. > > The information we seem to be getting is that it is indeed likely that > the mumble we have

Re: mumble and celt, #682010, TC

2012-07-19 Thread Neil McGovern
Hi, On Thu, Jul 19, 2012 at 12:24:12AM +0100, Ian Jackson wrote: > The problem with mumble and the celt codec has been referred to the TC > - see the bug mentioned above. I would be interested to hear from the > security and release teams. > I consider there to be two issues which would concern

Re: Fixing the mime horror ini Debian

2012-07-15 Thread Neil McGovern
s decision. Thanks, Neil On Sat, Jul 14, 2012 at 04:34:35PM -0600, Neil McGovern wrote: > Hence, I consider this bug serious and thus RC, and am reassigning to evince. > > Feel free to pop it over to tech-ctte if you don't agree. > > Thanks, > Neil > > > -- &g

Re: Fixing the mime horror ini Debian

2012-07-14 Thread Neil McGovern
severity 658139 serious reassign 658139 evince tags 658139 + patch retitle 658139 missing mime entry On Sun, Jul 15, 2012 at 12:09:27AM +0200, Andreas Tille wrote: > > It does seem quite annoying. Have you considered asking the release > > team whether they would be inclined to agree that this bu

Re: python-weblib => python-pyweblib

2012-07-14 Thread Neil McGovern
On Sat, Jul 14, 2012 at 10:49:51PM +0200, Marc Haber wrote: > the python-weblib package in Debian has recently been taken over by > me. The package has a long-standing mis-name bug, since it should be > called python-pyweblib to be in alignment with the python policy. > > Would it be possible to d

Bug#680951: unblock: ace-of-penguins/1.3-9

2012-07-11 Thread Neil McGovern
On Wed, Jul 11, 2012 at 12:19:04PM +0300, Jari Aalto wrote: > 2012-07-10 20:00 Neil McGovern : > | Hi, > | > | On Tue, Jul 10, 2012 at 12:58:53PM +0300, Jari Aalto wrote: > | > | > The Fix > | > | > Add required font package to debian/control > | >

Bug#680951: unblock: ace-of-penguins/1.3-9

2012-07-10 Thread Neil McGovern
Hi, On Tue, Jul 10, 2012 at 12:58:53PM +0300, Jari Aalto wrote: > | > The Fix > | > Add required font package to debian/control::Depends > | > > +Recommends: xfonts-100dpi > + . > + NOTE: If you experience problems with the F1 help key, please > + make sure you have package xfonts-100dp

Re: CD sizes again (and BoF reminder!)

2012-07-09 Thread Neil McGovern
On Sat, Jul 07, 2012 at 04:22:58PM -0600, Stefano Zacchiroli wrote: > Ansgar has been experimenting with .deb sizes to make the packages > needed for a minimal desktop installation fit in the first CD. It looks > like that's doable by switching to xz compression for the involved > binaries. Would

Re: Futur status of RoarAudio packages

2012-07-06 Thread Neil McGovern
On Fri, Jul 06, 2012 at 02:18:58PM +0200, Philipp Schafft wrote: > I will file RM requests (also for unstable as I don't see how the > situation could be resolved this way) as soon (still wating for the-me > to be back from holidays). If there's no r-depends, and the package is removed from unstab

Re: Freeze exception request for zendframework 1.11.12-1

2012-07-06 Thread Neil McGovern
On Thu, Jul 05, 2012 at 02:21:29PM +0200, Frank Habermann wrote: > > 4303 files changed, 43422 insertions(+), 12755 deletions(-) > > > > Can you please provide a clean patch that we can review, preferably > > one that doesn't touch every single file. > > > > Additionally, do you know what > > /t

Re: Freeze exception request for zendframework 1.11.12-1

2012-07-05 Thread Neil McGovern
On Wed, Jul 04, 2012 at 09:11:35PM +0200, Frank Habermann wrote: > Dear release managers, > > I ask for a freeze exception request for zendframework version 1.11.12-1. > > This version fixes security bug #679215 and is the last minor bugfix version > of > zendframework 1.11. > Hi, 4303 file

Re: songwrite: fixing RC bug would require new source package

2012-07-04 Thread Neil McGovern
On Wed, Jul 04, 2012 at 08:34:24AM +0200, Ralf Treinen wrote: > songwrite is currently orphaned and has an RC bug #672210. The problem is > that the version of songwrite is much too old, in fact upstream has since > october 2007 (!) moved from songwrite to songwrite2. IMHO, fixing #672210 > would r

Re: libggi removal

2012-07-04 Thread Neil McGovern
On Tue, Jul 03, 2012 at 11:09:04PM +0200, Moritz Mühlenhoff wrote: > I suggest we remove libggi from Wheezy. It's totally obsolete these days, > dead upstream and RC-buggy since 1.5 years (608981). > > Removing it would involve the following packages: > > GGI-related and to be removed along, no r

Re: Bug#618314 closed by Debian FTP Masters (Bug#659309: Removed package(s) from unstable)

2012-07-02 Thread Neil McGovern
Hi Toni, On Mon, Jul 02, 2012 at 12:43:50PM +0200, Toni Mueller wrote: [snip lots] > This will at least prevent practical scim usage in Wheezy for any new > installs. I therefore request that you re-think that course of action, > and allow swift re-introduction of possibly stripped-down packages [

Bug#650601: Re: Bug#650601: transition: libpng 1.5

2012-06-29 Thread Neil McGovern
On Fri, Jun 29, 2012 at 02:45:14PM +0900, Nobuhiro Iwamatsu wrote: > 2012/6/27 Julien Cristau : > > On Wed, Jun 27, 2012 at 08:45:03 +0900, Nobuhiro Iwamatsu wrote: > > > >> Hi, > >> > >> I am still correcting FTBFS. > >> However, almost packages can shift to libpng 1.5. > >> May I upload libpng 1.

Re: Pending freeze and packages pending upload

2012-06-27 Thread Neil McGovern
On Wed, Jun 27, 2012 at 01:21:30PM +0100, Roger Leigh wrote: > Uploaded. There may be a point release with translation updates > and potentially minor bugfixes at some point in the next month or so. > Great, thanks. > > gutenprint 5.2.8 > > This is a point release with a large number of new p

Re: Futur status of RoarAudio packages

2012-06-27 Thread Neil McGovern
Hi, On Tue, Jun 26, 2012 at 09:06:12PM +0200, Philipp Schafft wrote: > > I have no preference either way, as long as the package complies with > > release > > policy, then it may be included in the release. > > > Your answer isn't very helpfull to me as it is. So I have some > questions: I

Re: Bits from the Release Team: Final countdown!

2012-06-27 Thread Neil McGovern
On Wed, Jun 27, 2012 at 12:02:28AM +0200, Vincent Danjean wrote: > ocl-icd is small and the core code should not change a lot until > OpenCL 1.3 or more appears. The core code of the version already in > testing is very similar to the one waiting in NEW. > In that case, hopefully it will be pro

Re: Bits from the Release Team: Final countdown!

2012-06-25 Thread Neil McGovern
Hi, On Sat, Jun 23, 2012 at 11:05:26PM +0200, Wouter Verhelst wrote: > On Thu, Jun 21, 2012 at 10:16:07AM +0100, Neil McGovern wrote: > > Hi, > > > > We know no-one likes reading long mails on d-d-a, so we'll keep this > > short: we'll be stopping automatic

Re: GDM 3.4 in wheezy

2012-06-20 Thread Neil McGovern
On Wed, Jun 20, 2012 at 05:18:07PM +0200, Josselin Mouette wrote: > as already explained by Jordi, there’s one big remaining bit for GNOME > in wheezy: GDM. Currently it is stuck at version 3.0 (mostly because I > didn’t have enough time to work on it), and version 3.4 should be > hopefully ready f

Re: claws-mail and claws-mail-extra-plugins in wheezy

2012-06-20 Thread Neil McGovern
On Wed, Jun 20, 2012 at 09:04:29AM +0200, Ricardo Mones wrote: > Claws Mail upstream has also set a release date for the next version [0], > which will be on 27 June. > Hi, That would be cutting it very fine. If you are happy to maintain the snapshot for the length of a stable release, I would

Re: sylpheed in wheezy

2012-06-20 Thread Neil McGovern
On Wed, Jun 20, 2012 at 08:58:43AM +0200, Ricardo Mones wrote: > Dear Release Team, > > Sylpheed upstream has published a release plan for next Sylpheed stable > version, 3.2 [0] and the release it's planned for next 29 June. > > If possible, I would like to have this version instead of cur

Re: Samba 3.6.6 due out July 2nd...

2012-06-20 Thread Neil McGovern
On Wed, Jun 20, 2012 at 08:00:50AM +0200, Christian PERRIER wrote: > Still, Karolin Seeger, the Samba release manager, announce recently in > the samba-technical mailign list tjhat the 3.6.6 release is due out > for July 2nd. > Hi, This would be too late for the freeze, which will be happening i

Re: Next upload 2012-06-26 (dpkg 1.16.5)

2012-06-20 Thread Neil McGovern
On Wed, Jun 20, 2012 at 07:32:20AM +0200, Guillem Jover wrote: > I'm planning to upload dpkg 1.16.5 to unstable on the 26th, to be able > to finish cleaning up some pending changes I've locally and to give > some time for the initial wave of translation updates once I've sent > the call. Given that

Re: warzone2100 & wheezy

2012-06-20 Thread Neil McGovern
On Wed, Jun 20, 2012 at 11:09:02AM +0800, Paul Wise wrote: > Dear release team, > > warzone2100 3.1 beta 11 was released today and I would like it and > future 3.1 versions to enter wheezy. 3.1 is the culmination of a year's > work and brings some important improvements (like deterministic network

Re: On the (ab)use of the Urgency field

2012-06-20 Thread Neil McGovern
On Wed, Jun 20, 2012 at 02:35:41AM -0400, Eric Dorland wrote: > It looks like my recent libassa upload fell afoul of this, but it does > in fact fix a release critical bug in libassa 3.5.1-1. The -dev > package is missing a dependency that makes building against the > library impossible. The change

Re: Futur status of RoarAudio packages

2012-06-15 Thread Neil McGovern
Hi, On Thu, Jun 14, 2012 at 10:41:42PM +0200, Philipp Schafft wrote: > I want to ask if the release team decided anything in this direction. > Does the release team want a useful version of the package in wheezy? > > I'm not interested in any discussion but a plain offical statement from > the Re

Re: Re: Architecture qualification

2012-06-04 Thread Neil McGovern
On Sat, Jun 02, 2012 at 12:22:14AM +0200, Svante Signell wrote: > On Thu, 2012-05-31 at 16:18 +0200, Svante Signell wrote: > > From the one of the porters side, this would be a _very_ good solution > > indeed! If GNU/Hurd enters som kind of testing status, the number of > > users and contributors w

Re: hurd-i386 qualification for Wheezy

2012-05-30 Thread Neil McGovern
On Thu, May 24, 2012 at 06:08:16PM +0100, Adam D. Barratt wrote: > On 19.05.2012 19:04, Adam D. Barratt wrote: > >I'm not sure we've ever released with an architecture which was in > >either broken or fucked, but hopefully someone will correct me if I'm > >mistaken on that. > > Anyone? :-) > > Op

Re: Squeeze point release (6.0.5)

2012-04-27 Thread Neil McGovern
press says OK :) Neil On Fri, Apr 27, 2012 at 08:11:27PM +0100, Adam D. Barratt wrote: > Hi, > > press@ / -live *gentle poke* > > fwiw, the BSP weekend (12/13th) is looking a likely candidate currently. > > On Tue, 2012-04-24 at 21:06 +0100, Adam D. Barratt wrote: > > 6.0.5 is somewhat overdue

Re: Planning for final lenny point release (5.0.10)

2012-02-21 Thread Neil McGovern
I'm not free on the 25th, 3rd (daytime) and 10th/11th will be sporadic. Others in press may be available :) Neil (Press hat) On Mon, Feb 20, 2012 at 09:11:46PM +, Adam D. Barratt wrote: > On Tue, 2012-02-14 at 21:36 +, Adam D. Barratt wrote: > > 25-26/2 - Steve's not available for CDs >

Re: Upload of dtc-xen 0.5.13-1+squeeze1 in squeeze-proposed-updates

2011-08-04 Thread Neil McGovern
On Fri, Aug 05, 2011 at 12:22:58AM +0800, Thomas Goirand wrote: > Hi Adam, > > Are you a new member of the release team? If so, then I'm happy there > are much needed new members! :) > For reference, Adam as been one of the Release *Managers* for over a year now. Neil -- A. Because it breaks t

Re: Release goal proposal: remove yada

2011-08-04 Thread Neil McGovern
On Thu, Aug 04, 2011 at 01:14:29PM +0100, Adam D. Barratt wrote: > To get a fuller picture, what are the changes being made to each of > the files in question and when/where are they being made? You > mentioned earlier that cleaning the package would lead to changes > being made - it sounds like t

Re: di/cd/release meetup at DebConf

2011-07-28 Thread Neil McGovern
On Thu, Jul 28, 2011 at 11:16:59AM +0200, Neil McGovern wrote: > I'd like to have a sit down with relevant people to work out how we can > improve d-i and debian-cd handling for the next release. Please indicate > your availability at: > http://www.doodle.com/x2kit5h9zurfk6ss >

di/cd/release meetup at DebConf

2011-07-28 Thread Neil McGovern
Hi, I'd like to have a sit down with relevant people to work out how we can improve d-i and debian-cd handling for the next release. Please indicate your availability at: http://www.doodle.com/x2kit5h9zurfk6ss Thanks, Neil -- < vorlon> We need a fresher website - WordPress is the perfect solutio

Re: test

2011-07-10 Thread Neil McGovern
On Thu, Jul 07, 2011 at 01:23:51PM +, Camaleón wrote: > May I also ask if the idea of a 2-year fixed cycle freeze is still in > place (is valid) or has been reviewed and then discarded? > The current plan is that we will try the fixed release date for the coming release, and see how it goes.

Re: test

2011-07-07 Thread Neil McGovern
nterpretation of that announcement, and its applicability now, but despite that I do acknowledge it may be useful to provide a confirmation. Thus, you can take this as confirmation that there is no current plan to support 5.0 to 7.0 upgrades, unless we release by February 2012. As we are due t

Re: Bits from the Release Team - Kicking off Wheezy

2011-05-22 Thread Neil McGovern
On Tue, Mar 29, 2011 at 10:51:02AM +0100, Neil McGovern wrote: > Sprint > -- > We feel it would be useful for the Release Team as a whole to get > together to think about what the plans are for the next release. As > such, we're planning a sprint to meet in person. Detail

Re: sh4 architecture into Wheezy

2011-04-26 Thread Neil McGovern
On Tue, Apr 26, 2011 at 12:58:24PM +0900, Nobuhiro Iwamatsu wrote: > > We don't have faster hardware. > > We think of a too slow thing in a question > > A test of gcc of sh4 takes time. > When there is not a test, a package is done in about two days. > > How does sh4 become targeted for the r

Re: sh4 architecture into Wheezy

2011-04-03 Thread Neil McGovern
On Thu, Mar 31, 2011 at 08:02:18AM +0900, Nobuhiro Iwamatsu wrote: > The package which time needs most is GCC. GCC takes about 6 days. Ouch! That doesn't sound supportable to be honest. Do you have faster hardware? Neil -- So we can expect stockholm to be elected in 2009? isnt the world own3d

Re: please migrate mhonarc package to testing

2011-01-24 Thread Neil McGovern
On Sun, Jan 23, 2011 at 10:45:58AM -0800, Jeff Breidenbach wrote: > On Sun, Jan 16, 2011 at 6:19 PM, Jeff Breidenbach wrote: > >> diffstat: 61 files changed, 1502 insertions(+), 657 deletions(-) > >> Is all of that necessary to fix the security issues? > > > > No. > > > > However, I do not have th

Bug#608744: unblock: mercurial-server/1.1-1

2011-01-24 Thread Neil McGovern
On Fri, Jan 21, 2011 at 02:58:41PM +0200, Teodor MICU wrote: > 2011/1/3 Mehdi Dogguy : > > On 01/03/2011 11:31 AM, Teodor wrote: > >> > >> Please unblock package mercurial-server. The two RC bugs for this > >> package were fixed so it should get back for inclussion in Debian 6.0 > >> (squeeze). > >

Severity

2010-12-01 Thread Neil McGovern
Hia, I'm currently wondering why #598135 is RC. Would someone care to explain what I'm missing? :) Thanks, Neil -- [local irc server has just been brought up] suddenly there's quite some silence in the hacklab -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-release-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject

Bug#605238: future unblock: wmanager/0.2.1-9

2010-11-28 Thread Neil McGovern
Hi Peter, thanks for getting in touch On Sun, Nov 28, 2010 at 02:13:56PM +0200, Peter Pentchev wrote: > Package: release.debian.org > Severity: normal > User: release.debian@packages.debian.org > Usertags: unblock > > Thanks for your efforts towards great Debian releases! > > I've made some

Re: Bug #566650: Please unblock dtc 0.32.2-1

2010-11-08 Thread Neil McGovern
On Mon, Nov 08, 2010 at 10:47:54PM +0800, Thomas Goirand wrote: > As it stands, it's unreasonable to even try working on the 0.30.x branch > for Squeeze, given the short amount of time remaining. I feel very sad > about it, but as there's no way to convince the RT that the 0.32.x > branch is in a v

Re: Please unblock virtualbox-ose

2010-10-26 Thread Neil McGovern
On Mon, Oct 25, 2010 at 11:35:03AM +0200, Martin Zobel-Helas wrote: > Neil, > > On Mon Oct 25, 2010 at 09:49:00 +0100, Neil McGovern wrote: > > 3) Remove the package from squeeze > > did you had a look at it's r-depends? Removing is not an option. > I should hav

Re: Please unblock virtualbox-ose

2010-10-25 Thread Neil McGovern
Hi Bernd, On Mon, Oct 25, 2010 at 09:30:50AM +0200, Bernd Zeimetz wrote: > Give it more time for testing in unstable then. That's one of the things that's being considered, if you'd carefully read the thread. > Virtualbox is important enough to have the latest version of it in the > next release

Re: Please unblock virtualbox-ose

2010-10-25 Thread Neil McGovern
Hi Michael, thanks for getting in touch. On Wed, Oct 20, 2010 at 01:40:50PM +0200, Michael Meskes wrote: > The only part of your email that I do not agree with is the part about > removing. Yes, it's not easily possible, but I don't understand why this is > even considered. > Just on this point,

Re: Bug #566650: Please unblock dtc 0.32.2-1

2010-10-20 Thread Neil McGovern
the "this week in Debian" podcast. It was > fun. I wish I was living in Cambridge with 9 other DDs, I feel alone > here in Shanghai (lucky, Li Daobing lives here now)! :) > > Neil McGovern wrote: > > Hi Thomas, > > > > Firstly, please accept my apologies for

Re: Bug #566650: Please unblock dtc 0.32.2-1

2010-10-15 Thread Neil McGovern
On Fri, Oct 15, 2010 at 09:25:52PM +0800, Thomas Goirand wrote: > Thomas Goirand wrote: > > Can we move forward and discuss what should be done now, rather than > > discussing the past? > > > > Thomas > > It's been more than 10 days, and I still have no answer to what I will > be allowed to chang

Re: Freeze exception for roxterm 1.18.5-3

2010-10-12 Thread Neil McGovern
On Tue, Oct 12, 2010 at 03:30:03PM +0100, Tony Houghton wrote: > Hi, > > Please could a freeze exception be made for roxterm 1.18.5-3 which fixes > bug 598971. Although there are no reported symptoms in Debian the faulty > code contributed to quite a serious problem in Ubuntu ie a terminal > emula

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