Re: severity of bugs that FTBFS because of missing B-D

2023-10-12 Thread Russ Allbery
7;s not something I've managed to find time to do. -- Russ Allbery (r...@debian.org) <https://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>

Re: Upcoming changes to Debian Linux kernel packages

2023-10-05 Thread Russ Allbery
been ABI updates anyway, particularly in stable. -- Russ Allbery (r...@debian.org) <https://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>

Bug#1031325: e2fsprogs 1.47.0 introduces a breaking change into Bookworm, breaking grub and making installations of Ubuntu and Debian releases via debootstrap impossible

2023-02-17 Thread Russ Allbery
7;t immediately obvious to me. Sorry about the noise. -- Russ Allbery (r...@debian.org) <https://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>

Bug#1031325: e2fsprogs 1.47.0 introduces a breaking change into Bookworm, breaking grub and making installations of Ubuntu and Debian releases via debootstrap impossible

2023-02-16 Thread Russ Allbery
ture for them. That said, this is an architectural stab in the dark and I obviously don't work on file system development, so maybe this isn't viable for some reason that I'm not seeing. -- Russ Allbery (r...@debian.org) <https://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>

Bug#1031325: e2fsprogs 1.47.0 introduces a breaking change into Bookworm, breaking grub and making installations of Ubuntu and Debian releases via debootstrap impossible

2023-02-16 Thread Russ Allbery
arget distribution before using it to build the file system the actual installation is going into. I suspect this won't be Ted's favorite option because this isn't a natural way to think about the option space from a file system developer perspective, but maybe we could find som

Bug#1031325: e2fsprogs 1.47.0 introduces a breaking change into Bookworm, breaking grub and making installations of Ubuntu and Debian releases via debootstrap impossible

2023-02-15 Thread Russ Allbery
only going to care when stable is released; people doing production work on unstable or testing already know that they're signing up for occasional breakage. So the proximity-to-release argument to me feels most relevant if this change is specifically a problem for the release process and

Bug#995072: nmu: tripwire_2.4.3.7-3

2021-09-25 Thread Russ Allbery
Package: release.debian.org Severity: normal User: release.debian@packages.debian.org Usertags: binnmu X-Debbugs-Cc: 994...@bugs.debian.org tripwire now segfaults when it tries to read information about a file. Rebuilding the package from source makes the problem go away. The problem appeared

Bug#985235: unblock: libpam-krb5/4.9-2

2021-03-14 Thread Russ Allbery
rb5 (4.9-2) unstable; urgency=medium + + * Apply upstream patch to avoid a double free if calling +krb5_cc_get_principal on the new cache fails. + + -- Russ Allbery Sun, 14 Mar 2021 12:31:39 -0700 + libpam-krb5 (4.9-1) unstable; urgency=high * New upstream release. diff -Nru libpam-krb5-4.9

Re: Don't ship gnupg1 with bullseye

2021-02-02 Thread Russ Allbery
'd prefer not to drop that until GnuPGv1 is no longer in the archive. -- Russ Allbery (r...@debian.org) <https://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>

Re: Release status of i386 for Bullseye and long term support for 3 years?

2020-12-14 Thread Russ Allbery
cture around the work, recruiting people, building a task list, and so forth, instead of just assuming "oh, everything will work on i386, it always has." Volunteering to do that sort of coordination is helpful even if you aren't debugging FTBFS problems. -- Russ Allbery (r...@debian.org) <https://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>

Re: Release status of i386 for Bullseye and long term support for 3 years?

2020-12-14 Thread Russ Allbery
tting onto the amd64 kernel even if you keep an i386 userspace), but at some point it seems likely they will no longer be. That means it may be time to push our users a bit harder to switch to the amd64 kernel if they can. -- Russ Allbery (r...@debian.org) <https://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>

Re: Release status of i386 for Bullseye and long term support for 3 years?

2020-12-14 Thread Russ Allbery
k on actual i386 hardware, and I don't know if it has other issues that I personally happened not to notice.) -- Russ Allbery (r...@debian.org) <https://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>

Re: Bug#944920: Revise terminology used to specify requirements

2020-01-03 Thread Russ Allbery
xplicit language to allow the Release Team to downgrade requirements to recommendations. -- Russ Allbery (r...@debian.org) <https://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>

Re: Bug#944920: Revise terminology used to specify requirements

2019-12-29 Thread Russ Allbery
let you know when that's done. Once that's complete, we can do a reconciliation. I'm inclined to downgrade Policy musts that the release team does not consider likely to be release-critical in the future, for instance. -- Russ Allbery (r...@debian.org) <https://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>

Re: Bug#944920: Revise terminology used to specify requirements

2019-11-17 Thread Russ Allbery
Bastian Blank writes: > On Sun, Nov 17, 2019 at 10:10:11AM -0800, Russ Allbery wrote: >> +The Release Team may, at their discretion, downgrade a Policy requirement >> +to a Policy recommendation for a given release of the Debian distribution. >> +This may be done for only

Bug#924138: unblock: libnet-duo-perl/1.02-1

2019-03-09 Thread Russ Allbery
Control: tag -1 -moreinfo Jonathan Wiltshire writes: > On Sat, Mar 09, 2019 at 12:44:59PM -0800, Russ Allbery wrote: >> * Upload 1.02-1 to unstable and have you unblock that for propagation to >> testing as a regular package update? This is a leaf package, so I'm >&g

Bug#924138: unblock: libnet-duo-perl/1.02-1

2019-03-09 Thread Russ Allbery
Package: release.debian.org Severity: normal User: release.debian@packages.debian.org Usertags: unblock This is an unblock request for a package I've not yet uploaded, since I wanted to get your guidance on how you'd prefer to get this update. On March 15th, the Duo API is changing to require

Re: Fixing Linux getrandom() in stable

2018-05-10 Thread Russ Allbery
Michael Biebl writes: > Am 10.05.2018 um 19:22 schrieb Russ Allbery: >> I may be misunderstanding the nature of the issue, but I believe that a >> Type=oneshot service that runs a small C program that calls getrandom() >> and then exit(0) when it returns would provide a use

Re: Fixing Linux getrandom() in stable

2018-05-10 Thread Russ Allbery
ide to take this approach (this seems obviously correct for kadmind, for instance), having this sort of facility available would make it easy to declare the right dependency. It's akin to systemd-networkd-wait-online.service. -- Russ Allbery (r...@debian.org) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>

Re: missing recommends are not RC severity

2018-04-20 Thread Russ Allbery
Adrian Bunk writes: > On Thu, Apr 19, 2018 at 08:34:57PM -0700, Russ Allbery wrote: >> I'm quite sure from past discussion that we want to be sure packages don't >> Recommend contrib or non-free packages, and don't want to re-open that. >> But that's n

Re: missing recommends are not RC severity

2018-04-19 Thread Russ Allbery
and make the package buggy for multiple reasons, so no need to change anything there.) Release folks, why this exception in the release policy? Are you comfortable with Debian releasing with packages that Recommend packages that aren't part of the release? (Have we historically done this?) -- Russ Allbery (r...@debian.org) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>

Bug#827061: Please commit to OpenSSL 1.0.2 in stretch now not constantly re-evaluateing

2016-11-01 Thread Russ Allbery
because (as security software) the consequences of making a small error in the API change can be very high. Upstream is working on the changes and on comprehensive tests to ensure that the port was done correctly, but their timeline doesn't line up well with our release freeze. -- Russ

Bug#837728: RM: heimdal/1.7~git20150920+dfsg-4

2016-10-02 Thread Russ Allbery
package (and will get that in the next upload, hopefully pretty soon). For libheimdal-kadm5-perl, there isn't really anything one can do with the package, since it's Heimdal-specific. Should I open a separate bug to remove it from testing as well, or do you want to just handle that as par

Bug#811205: transition: log4shib

2016-01-16 Thread Russ Allbery
Package: release.debian.org Severity: normal User: release.debian@packages.debian.org Usertags: transition Mini-transition for log4shib. All of the packages that depend on it are part of the shibboleth-sp2 suite. There will also be a transition for opensaml2 along the way, which has to under

Bug#775393: RM: interchange/5.7.7-2

2015-01-14 Thread Russ Allbery
y trivial fix. I think replacing Digest::SHA1 with Digest::SHA is generally all that's needed. -- Russ Allbery (r...@debian.org) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-release-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe".

Re: License incompatibility below RC threshold

2015-01-07 Thread Russ Allbery
Russ Allbery writes: > The only specific claim that Francesco has made that I was able to find > is that the choice of venue clause in CeCILL-C makes it incompatible. > However, CeCILL also contains a choice of venue clause, and the FSF > state that it is GPL-compatible. Given th

Re: License incompatibility below RC threshold

2015-01-07 Thread Russ Allbery
of this argument. > What do you think should be done? Nothing, in the absence of more credible evidence that there is a license incomaptibility. -- Russ Allbery (r...@debian.org) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-release-requ...@lists.deb

Bug#773447: closed by "Adam D. Barratt" (Re: Bug#773447: unblock: keystone/2014.1.3-4)

2014-12-19 Thread Russ Allbery
ere are other reasons why you may need to avoid it, such as needing to insert code between specific things it does, so this isn't necessarily a solution.) -- Russ Allbery (r...@debian.org) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-release-requ...

Re: Bug#771191: Bug#771126: Bug#771191: Bug#771126: libav/tests/lena.pnm: also not mentioned in debian/copyright

2014-12-03 Thread Russ Allbery
ders are "supposed" to interact, and a tiny bit more welcoming. -- Russ Allbery (r...@debian.org) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-release-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: https://lists.debian.org/87388xywh0@hope.eyrie.org

Bug#768315: unblock: util-linux/2.25.2-3

2014-11-15 Thread Russ Allbery
had to fight my way forward to get my changes into > Debian. Right now I'm really regretting even getting involved with > util-linux in Debian. I'm sorry. :/ I hadn't seen anything about this issue until just now. If I had, I would have given advice on it earlier. Thank you s

Re: Bug#769273: bsdutils: Dependency on libsystemd0 violates policy

2014-11-13 Thread Russ Allbery
urse of action, Debian has been doing 3 for the last ten years, so it has the power of precedent. :) -- Russ Allbery (r...@debian.org) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-release-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "u

Re: Bug#769273: bsdutils: Dependency on libsystemd0 violates policy

2014-11-12 Thread Russ Allbery
sets of functionality. We introduce new library dependencies or just increases in size of existing libraries on that scale routinely without anyone even noticing. -- Russ Allbery (r...@debian.org) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-release-re

Bug#768315: unblock: util-linux/2.25.2-3

2014-11-06 Thread Russ Allbery
cron facilities in Debian. Of course, if in your view as a maintainer this functionality isn't ready for jessie or you don't want to support it, just backing out of the change also works. (And to be clear I'm not on the release team, and it's their opinion tha

Bug#768315: unblock: util-linux/2.25.2-3

2014-11-06 Thread Russ Allbery
and dropping init-system-helpers isn't a good long-term solution. We'll instead need to figure out the best way to make sure that what that package is doing can be done correctly. -- Russ Allbery (r...@debian.org) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/> -- To UNSUBSCR

Bug#759312: wheezy-pu: package gnubg/0.90+20120429-1

2014-08-26 Thread Russ Allbery
"Adam D. Barratt" writes: > On 2014-08-26 6:58, Russ Allbery wrote: >> "Adam D. Barratt" writes: >>> The patch looks fine, thanks. Just for a final confirmation, please >>> could we have a debdiff of the proposed upload (against the current >>

Bug#759312: wheezy-pu: package gnubg/0.90+20120429-1

2014-08-25 Thread Russ Allbery
obnoxious patch of a patch; the unstable version no longer uses single-debian-patch, but I was still using it then. Regeneration of the diff of course changed the order of the modified files, so the diff is particularly ugly. -- Russ Allbery (r...@debian.org) <http://www.eyrie.o

Bug#759312: wheezy-pu: package gnubg/0.90+20120429-1

2014-08-25 Thread Russ Allbery
Package: release.debian.org Severity: normal Tags: wheezy User: release.debian@packages.debian.org Usertags: pu Hello folks, The current gnubg in stable segfaults during "end game" when run with the -t flag. I got a request from one user to fix this in stable, at: http://bugs.debian.org

Bug#744718: pu: samba4/4.0.0~beta2+dfsg1-3.2+deb7u1

2014-04-13 Thread Russ Allbery
ave happened in the past, they've released an "end of life" security advisory to notify Debian stable users that a given package will not receive security support and should be considered insecure. -- Russ Allbery (r...@debian.org) <http://www.eyrie.

Re: shibboleth-sp2, boost, and memcached transitions

2014-03-06 Thread Russ Allbery
n oversight. Sorry for the inconvenience. Ah, okay, thanks! I'll work on a new upload, probably by this weekend, to unblock the libmemcached transition. -- Russ Allbery (r...@debian.org) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-release-requ...@lists.deb

shibboleth-sp2, boost, and memcached transitions

2014-03-06 Thread Russ Allbery
w upstream version with the fix for the libmemcached transition? Or keep holding off for the Boost transition? -- Russ Allbery (r...@debian.org) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-release-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscri

Re: Bits from the Release Team: Architecture health check

2014-01-30 Thread Russ Allbery
s any support for whatsoever. Adding support for some third option might be possible, but I'm dubious that's realistic for a jessie release timeframe. -- Russ Allbery (r...@debian.org) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-release-re

Re: Bits from the Release Team: Architecture health check

2014-01-29 Thread Russ Allbery
the degree to which logind forces systemd as init is disputed, and as yet no one has done the concrete work to establish which technical opinion is correct with systemd and logind >205. -- Russ Allbery (r...@debian.org) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, em

Re: Bits from the Release Team: Architecture health check

2014-01-29 Thread Russ Allbery
iece of software/packaging does not actually exist yet, though, and people's time/motivation to work on it may be affected by the outcome of the larger decision. -- Russ Allbery (r...@debian.org) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-re

Bug#722980: Status of ruby1.8 removal transition?

2014-01-07 Thread Russ Allbery
used, so unless someone has a neat solution, I'm inclined to not worry about it. (It doesn't feel like it warrants a stable update.) -- Russ Allbery (r...@debian.org) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-release-requ...@lists.debian.org

Bug#722980: Status of ruby1.8 removal transition?

2014-01-06 Thread Russ Allbery
Antonio Terceiro writes: > On Mon, Jan 06, 2014 at 01:22:15PM -0800, Russ Allbery wrote: >> On my next package upload, should I just drop Ruby 1.8? I can easily >> do that, but I wasn't sure if we were at the point where that was now >> desirable, or if the upgrade p

Bug#722980: Status of ruby1.8 removal transition?

2014-01-06 Thread Russ Allbery
l do another upload within at least the next couple of weeks with that change (or sooner if it becomes more urgent). -- Russ Allbery (r...@debian.org) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-release-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "

Bug#722980: Status of ruby1.8 removal transition?

2014-01-06 Thread Russ Allbery
r now, I'm continuing to build 1.8 and 1.9.1 modules, but I can quickly change that as soon as I know what to do. (Due to the nature of this source package, it handles which Ruby versions to build for itself, so it requires some minor source changes to fiddle with the supported version list.) --

Re: Proposed release goal: UTF-8 support

2013-10-01 Thread Russ Allbery
There's a limit to what we can do inside Debian, and in some cases waiting for upstream is the right approach. -- Russ Allbery (r...@debian.org) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-release-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subje

Bug#710329: transition: libxml-security-c17

2013-07-09 Thread Russ Allbery
Julien Cristau writes: > On Wed, May 29, 2013 at 16:48:19 -0700, Russ Allbery wrote: >> I'm staging the packages in experimental and have everything done >> except for the actual shibboleth-sp2 package and its Apache module, >> which I'm going to work on to

Bug#710329: transition: libxml-security-c17

2013-05-29 Thread Russ Allbery
Package: release.debian.org Severity: normal User: release.debian@packages.debian.org Usertags: transition Hello folks, I'm preparing a new version of the Shibboleth packages, which as usual involves three library transitions, although they're all used only by this package set. libxml-securi

Re: perl 5.18 progress

2013-05-19 Thread Russ Allbery
Niels Thykier writes: > On 2013-05-20 01:54, Russ Allbery wrote: >> Be aware that Perl 5.18.0 includes podlators 2.5.1, which means that >> pod2man now exits with an error by default if there are POD syntax >> errors. I believe this means that some fairly large percenta

Re: perl 5.18 progress

2013-05-19 Thread Russ Allbery
TBFS once this becomes the default version of Perl. http://lintian.debian.org/tags/manpage-has-errors-from-pod2man.html -- Russ Allbery (r...@debian.org) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-release-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of &qu

Re: Pre-approval for cpufreqd upload

2013-03-23 Thread Russ Allbery
re all plugins and it's not > going to be any useful to build anything against them. I wouldn't fix this at this point in the release cycle if your other changes are approved. Since these are *.la files for plugins, this is fairly harmless and unlikely to cause issues. --

Re: Advice needed: update-manager in wheezy considered dangerous

2013-03-11 Thread Russ Allbery
epending on whether we can track down all the odd dependency loops or not) that people who don't read the release notes are going to get the infamous "could not perform immediate configuration" error from apt. So chances may be higher this upgrade than many. :) -- Russ Allbery (r...@d

Bug#702306: unblock: puredata/0.43.2-5

2013-03-04 Thread Russ Allbery
Package: release.debian.org Severity: normal User: release.debian@packages.debian.org Usertags: unblock Please unblock package puredata to fix RC bug #690410. As discussed in the bug log, the upstream source does strange things with buffers that cause crashes when built with _FORTIFY_SOURCE.

Bug#702288: unblock: openafs/1.6.1-3

2013-03-04 Thread Russ Allbery
es and protect against client parsing of + bad ACL entries. (CVE-2013-1794) +- OPENAFS-SA-2013-002: Fix ptserver buffer overflow via integer + overflow in the IdToName RPC. (CVE-2013-1795) + + -- Russ Allbery Mon, 04 Mar 2013 11:17:02 -0800 + openafs (1.6.1-2) unstable; urgency=low

Re: Bug#699808: tech-ctte: syslinux vs the wheezy release

2013-02-06 Thread Russ Allbery
ading this can fill it in from memory. *grin*) If we could find a way to release some of that tension, that would be great, but it's a hard problem, and there's no way that we're going to come up with a solution to it right now in the middle of the wheezy freeze. -- Russ Allbery (r...

Re: Bug#699808: tech-ctte: syslinux vs the wheezy release

2013-02-06 Thread Russ Allbery
and we don't like a lot of the implications of that, but we don't know how to do better and get releases out faster because there's a truly intimidating amount of work that has to get done to do the release and all the alternatives seem to make the work even worse. -- Russ Allbery (r.

Re: Bug#699808: tech-ctte: syslinux vs the wheezy release

2013-02-06 Thread Russ Allbery
e buildds at testing since there would be no way to stage library transitions that *are* going into the release, so let me note that this is not a well-thought-out proposal, just the sketch of an idea.) But that's all outside the scope of tech-ctte deliberation, since that's technical d

Bug#699415: pre-approval for unblock: nagios-snmp-plugins/1.1.1-8

2013-02-03 Thread Russ Allbery
s solution and the right general solution. -- Russ Allbery (r...@debian.org) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-release-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Arc

Bug#699415: pre-approval for unblock: nagios-snmp-plugins/1.1.1-8

2013-02-01 Thread Russ Allbery
Net::SNMP version always begins with v, since 4 is always going to be lt any string starting with v. But maybe the old version that this is checking against didn't use v in the version number. -- Russ Allbery (r...@debian.org) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>

Re: Bug#689578: sysklogd modifies /etc/syslog.conf with helper script

2013-01-21 Thread Russ Allbery
recall if there's anything allowed in the sysklogd configuration that rsyslog doesn't support, but at least for all of our systems installing an /etc/rsyslog.d fragment that did: $IncludeConfig /etc/syslog.conf was all that was required to transition without changing any existing configura

Bug#694577: unblock: rssh/2.3.3-6

2012-11-27 Thread Russ Allbery
after -- or as the +argument to another option. Verify that the -e option's value matches +expectations rather than trying to look for invalid -e option values. +(CVE-2012-2251) + * Reject the rsync --rsh option even if it does not contain a trailing +equal sign. (CVE-2012-2252) +

Bug#694108: unblock: kfreebsd-8/8.3-6

2012-11-23 Thread Russ Allbery
ock requests, I'll certainly keep from clogging up the BTS, but I thought they wanted an unblock request for *everything* that needs to migrate to testing at this point. -- Russ Allbery (r...@debian.org) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debia

Bug#693931: Please unblock krb5 1.10.1+dfsg-3

2012-11-21 Thread Russ Allbery
lls sasl_client_done() or sasl_server_done(). I've run into other Kerberos load and unload bugs because of this when using Perl with Authen::SASL::Cyrus, which calls those functions when the Authen::SASL::Cyrus object is garbage-collected. -- Russ Allbery (r...@debian.org) <http://ww

Bug#692319: unblock: webauth/4.1.1-2

2012-11-04 Thread Russ Allbery
.0 to +libwebauth-perl and of webauth-weblogin << 4.0.0 to libwebkdc-perl. +The API of the Perl modules changed in 4.0.0. Thanks, Dameon Wagner. +(Closes: #691878) + + -- Russ Allbery Sun, 04 Nov 2012 13:57:09 -0800 + webauth (4.1.1-1) unstable; urgency=low * New upstream

Bug#689000: unblock: remctl/3.2-4

2012-09-27 Thread Russ Allbery
remctl-3.2/debian/changelog 2012-06-28 13:57:33.0 -0700 +++ remctl-3.2/debian/changelog 2012-09-27 21:13:18.0 -0700 @@ -1,3 +1,10 @@ +remctl (3.2-4) unstable; urgency=low + + * Cherry-pick upstream fix to close a file descriptor leak in remctld +when checking access against ACL f

Re: Patch for fixing keystone rc bug #687311 : permission to upload in SID?

2012-09-25 Thread Russ Allbery
he answers to questions asked by the config script. I'm not sure that I would say "completely forbidden," but it's something to avoid unless there's some overriding requirement for config to work that way. -- Russ Allbery (r...@debian.org) <http://www

Re: Please do not unblock gnome-meta just yet

2012-09-25 Thread Russ Allbery
7;t think I ever said that explicitly. I agree with Julien that there's no reason for the release-team to hold off on unblocking the current package, since it doesn't make matters any worse. But I also agree with Ian that I don't think this is what we intended and we probably need to ta

Bug#688006: unblock: krb5-sync/2.2-3

2012-09-17 Thread Russ Allbery
Package: release.debian.org Severity: normal User: release.debian@packages.debian.org Usertags: unblock Please unblock package krb5-sync for the fix to RC bug #687346. Changelog: * Apply upstream commit to silently ignore password changes with a NULL password, only new keys. This repre

Bug#686615: unblock: nvidia-graphics-drivers-legacy-96xx/96.43.20-8

2012-09-03 Thread Russ Allbery
acy-96xx (96.43.20-8) unstable; urgency=low + + [ Debconf translations ] + * Spanish (es): CamaleĆ³n (Closes: #686437) + + -- Russ Allbery Mon, 03 Sep 2012 13:20:51 -0700 + nvidia-graphics-drivers-legacy-96xx (96.43.20-7) unstable; urgency=low [ Debconf translations ] dif

Bug#686381: unblock: nvidia-graphics-drivers-legacy-96xx/96.43.20-7

2012-08-31 Thread Russ Allbery
ow + + [ Debconf translations ] + * French (fr): Christian PERRIER (Closes: #683716) + * Portuguese (pt): Miguel Figueiredo (Closes: #685444) + + -- Russ Allbery Fri, 31 Aug 2012 10:16:44 -0700 + nvidia-graphics-drivers-legacy-96xx (96.43.20-6) unstable; urgency=low [ Andreas Beckma

Bug#686301: unblock: libheimdal-kadm5-perl/0.08-4

2012-08-30 Thread Russ Allbery
it 00fbf80098a1f8fea014c9849f8adcd615ff1687 Author: Russ Allbery Date: Thu Aug 30 16:28:43 2012 -0700 Call the public kadm5 API functions instead of the internal ones The kadm5_c_* functions are an internal API. The public functions are the ones without the _c, which dispatch

Re: Bug#685116: Fwd: Re: pu: package nvidia-graphics-drivers/195.36.31-6squeeze2

2012-08-27 Thread Russ Allbery
Russ Allbery writes: > Russ Allbery writes: >> Andreas Beckmann writes: >>> I haven't forgotten about this, but uploading this package I currently >>> get a REJECT with a python traceback from dak (#685807). >>> @Russ: in case someone fixes d

Bug#685116: Fwd: Re: pu: package nvidia-graphics-drivers/195.36.31-6squeeze2

2012-08-27 Thread Russ Allbery
Russ Allbery writes: > Andreas Beckmann writes: >> I haven't forgotten about this, but uploading this package I currently >> get a REJECT with a python traceback from dak (#685807). >> @Russ: in case someone fixes dak, could you try to re-upload this, it's >&

Bug#685744: unblock: mime-support/3.52-1.1

2012-08-24 Thread Russ Allbery
unstable. I am pre-requesting this since I am leaving for a > weekend and I could forgot to do that after the weekend :). FYI for the release team, a message from one of the maintainers in debian-devel indicates that this NMU may be controversial. -- Russ Allbery (r...@debian.org)

Bug#685116: Fwd: Re: pu: package nvidia-graphics-drivers/195.36.31-6squeeze2

2012-08-24 Thread Russ Allbery
ld you try to re-upload this, it's > tagged in SVN and builds in plain squeeze. Sure, no problem. -- Russ Allbery (r...@debian.org) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-release-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of &q

Bug#685570: unblock: openafs/1.6.1-2

2012-08-21 Thread Russ Allbery
Package: release.debian.org Severity: normal User: release.debian@packages.debian.org Usertags: unblock Please unblock package openafs (translation updates only). Changelog: * Translation updates: - Fix German translation encoding. Thanks, Christian PERRIER. (Closes: #678736)

Bug#684554: unblock: rssh/2.3.3-5

2012-08-10 Thread Russ Allbery
+ + * Apply upstream patch to close security vulnerability that permitted +clever manipulation of environment variables on the ssh command line +to bypass rssh checking. (CVE-2012-3478) + + -- Russ Allbery Fri, 10 Aug 2012 22:14:34 -0700 + rssh (2.3.3-4) unstable; urgency=low * Forc

Re: autobuilding src:nvidia-* [non-free]

2012-08-06 Thread Russ Allbery
ped building my own kernel a long time ago, so most of my understanding is hearsay. I keep maintaining -source packages for other packages with kernel modules mostly because I keep getting a small number of bug reports for them, so people are clearly still using them. -- Russ Allbery (r..

Re: autobuilding src:nvidia-* [non-free]

2012-08-06 Thread Russ Allbery
t doing this. I noticed that dkms now Recommends the tracking kernel header package, so maybe that makes this somewhat more obsolete. That means that the average user should, through the dependency tree, get the header package installed when they install nvidia-modules-dkms, whic

Re: autobuilding src:nvidia-* [non-free]

2012-08-06 Thread Russ Allbery
ted Debian users. What Andreas has been doing, which I think is fairly reasonable, is keeping them out of testing until shortly before the freeze and then updating them for the freeze, which means only doing new uploads for ABI changes that happen during the freeze or in stable (relativel

Bug#683247: Bug#683030: unblock: vlc/2.0.3-1

2012-07-30 Thread Russ Allbery
ubuntu.com/MultiarchSpec#Dependencies_involving_Architecture:_all_packages Oh, thank you. That was the bit that I was missing. It looks like I have some updates to do on my packages! -- Russ Allbery (r...@debian.org) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-release-r

Bug#683247: Bug#683030: unblock: vlc/2.0.3-1

2012-07-30 Thread Russ Allbery
ackages are already effectively multi-arch without needing to use any of the new support? -- Russ Allbery (r...@debian.org) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-release-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe

Bug#675762: I don't see the license violation here

2012-07-27 Thread Russ Allbery
t for nearly all of his projects), which clearly does state that all the files are now public domain. So there's no need to parse that statement; it's thankfully been superseded. -- Russ Allbery (r...@debian.org) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, e

Bug#675762: I don't see the license violation here

2012-07-27 Thread Russ Allbery
b package (in particular, cdb-0.75.tar.gz, with MD5 checksum 81fed54d0bde51b147dd6c20cdb92d51) into the public domain. The package is no longer copyrighted. So yes, agreed. -- Russ Allbery (r...@debian.org) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-re

Re: Bug#681687: missing mime entry

2012-07-22 Thread Russ Allbery
s are working in both systems for the wheezy release and then aim at removing the requirement to support update-mime for all packages providing .desktop files for wheezy+1. -- Russ Allbery (r...@debian.org) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email t

Re: freeze exception for systemd integration of atop?

2012-07-12 Thread Russ Allbery
shipping systemd service files with my packages. -- Russ Allbery (r...@debian.org) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-release-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: h

Re: BinNMU changelog handling for Multi-Arch: same packages

2012-07-11 Thread Russ Allbery
approach makes sense for wheezy+1 if the dpkg maintainers don't think that the move to package metadata will be done in time. -- Russ Allbery (r...@debian.org) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-release-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subj

Re: BinNMU changelog handling for Multi-Arch: same packages

2012-07-11 Thread Russ Allbery
h simpler debate about the right interface to view those files for installed packages. -- Russ Allbery (r...@debian.org) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-release-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe".

Re: BinNMU changelog handling for Multi-Arch: same packages

2012-07-11 Thread Russ Allbery
e web and trying to do archeology on what happened. Saving the binary NMU changelog in a separate file feels like the right solution to me. -- Russ Allbery (r...@debian.org) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-release-requ...@lists.debian.o

Re: how does the freeze work?

2012-06-20 Thread Russ Allbery
have a long release cycle, so there's always going to be a lot of pressure, but there's always backports. -- Russ Allbery (r...@debian.org) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-release-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "

Re: Bug#618351: gcc-doc: Still depends on gcc-4.4-doc after the move to 4.5.

2012-06-10 Thread Russ Allbery
27;t the GCC documentation now non-free? -- Russ Allbery (r...@debian.org) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-release-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/877gveaoz9@windlord.stanford.edu

Re: Accepted gcc-defaults 1.118 (source all amd64)

2012-05-26 Thread Russ Allbery
the release team's job to decide whether gcc-4.7 is acceptable as a release compiler for wheezy. -- Russ Allbery (r...@debian.org) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-release-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsub

Re: Comments regarding automake1.12_1.12-1_amd64.changes

2012-05-22 Thread Russ Allbery
also test make 3.82 at the same time. It's currently in experimental, and we suspect that it may break some packages that use a deprecated rule construct, but we have no idea how many packages might break. -- Russ Allbery (r...@debian.org) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>

Bug#671115: FTBFS on sid: checking for mysql_init... no

2012-05-13 Thread Russ Allbery
to libssl-dev solves the FTBFS but > libmysqlclient-dev should probably be the one depending on libssl-dev. It should probably just be omitting all that stuff from its library configuration and relying on transitive library dependencies. -- Russ Allbery (r...@debian.org)

Bug#661958: transition: apache2

2012-04-15 Thread Russ Allbery
ly true. I kind of don't want the working packages to be removed from testing, though (not that making the bugs RC causes that directly). -- Russ Allbery (r...@debian.org) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-release-requ...@lists.debian.org wi

Bug#656352: pu: package libpam-krb5/4.3-1squeeze1

2012-01-18 Thread Russ Allbery
Cyril Brulebois writes: > Russ Allbery (18/01/2012): >> Petter Reinholdtsen from DebianEdu requested this change make it into >> stable as well, since it's causing problems for them (they set up accounts >> in Kerberos and LDAP only by default). > If they're d

Bug#656352: pu: package libpam-krb5/4.3-1squeeze1

2012-01-18 Thread Russ Allbery
Package: release.debian.org Severity: normal User: release.debian@packages.debian.org Usertags: pu Filing this in advance of actually doing the update work libpam-krb5 4.4-3 in unstable added the following change (from NEWS.Debian): The default PAM configuration for the password stack

Re: shibboleth-sp2 builds on arm*

2012-01-08 Thread Russ Allbery
Julien Cristau writes: > On Fri, Jan 6, 2012 at 10:27:49 -0800, Russ Allbery wrote: >> The bug in g++ that was preventing shibboleth-sp2 from building with g++ >> 4.6 was fixed (#630752) and I removed the dependency on g++-4.4 on arm* >> from the package at the gcc maintain

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