Re: Bits from the Release Team - Kicking off Wheezy

2011-04-10 Thread sean finney
hi -release team, On Sat, Apr 09, 2011 at 10:13:19AM +0100, Neil McGovern wrote: > > Once again, we will use feedb...@release.debian.org and welcome all > > comments before 11th April. > > > > We've had a rather poor response to this request, so I'd encourage > anyone who's been putting it off t

Re: S-P-U for #611820 ?

2011-03-06 Thread Sean Finney
Hi Adam, On Sun, 2011-02-27 at 22:17 +, Adam D. Barratt wrote: > Any news on this? I've branched, cherry-picked, built, and uploaded the package earlier this evening. Let me know if there's anything else you need from me on this. Thanks, Sean signature.asc Description: This is a

Re: S-P-U for #611820 ?

2011-02-27 Thread Sean Finney
hi adam, On Sun, 2011-02-27 at 22:17 +, Adam D. Barratt wrote: > > Ah, I failed to spot that the second diff included context from the > > first. Yes, if you'd prefer to include the first set of fixes then that > > would be okay (although does make the overall diff a little noisier). > > Any

Re: S-P-U for #611820 ?

2011-02-13 Thread Sean Finney
On Sun, 2011-02-13 at 17:27 +, Adam D. Barratt wrote: > Thanks for your mail. The fix from [2] looks fine, but I'm not > immediately clear how [1] relates to #611820; from a quick look, the > only part of dbconfig-common which ever uses "set -u" is the testsuite? i guess it's not strictly n

S-P-U for #611820 ?

2011-02-13 Thread Sean Finney
hello -release, quick background for those unfamiliar: dbconfig-common is a shared framework for managing installation/upgrade/removal of databases. recently, someone found #611820, where a bug in the sorting logic would omit certain upgrade scripts from being processed when updating from one ver

Re: [php-maint] Bug #566650: Please unblock dtc 0.32.2-1

2010-09-12 Thread sean finney
On Sun, Sep 12, 2010 at 07:44:51PM +0100, Adam D. Barratt wrote: > > If the RT > > wasn't ready to accept the consequences of such a big move, then maybe > > it wasn't a good idea to upload PHP 5.3.2? > > Please could you explain this comment? As above, PHP 5.3.2 has been in > unstable since Marc

unblock request: cacti 0.8.7g-1

2010-09-07 Thread sean finney
hello -release, cacti 0.8.7g-1 has been in unstable for ~20 days with no ill effects reported. this is largely an upstream "maintenance release" incorporating various bug/security fixes present in the previous releases. a list of changes can be found on the upstream release notes: http:

mysql-dfsg-5.0 upload to s-p-u

2009-09-08 Thread sean finney
nny's mysql. from the changelog: [ Sean Finney ] * New patch 64_fix-dummy-thread-race-condition.dpatch to back out an unneeded workaround that causes segfaults in libmysqlclient15. Thanks to Martin Koegler for digging up the patch. (closes: #524366, #513204) [ Norbert Tretkowski

Re: [php-maint] php5 packages for lenny, redux

2009-01-26 Thread sean finney
hiya, On Mon, Jan 26, 2009 at 11:33:16AM +0100, Nico Golde wrote: > It was rejected: > php5_5.2.6.dfsg.1-1+lenny2_amd64.changes > REJECT > Rejected: php5_5.2.6.dfsg.1-1+lenny2.dsc refers to > php5_5.2.6.dfsg.1.orig.tar.gz, but I can't find it in the queue or in the > pool. > Rejecting. > > Plea

Re: [php-maint] php5 packages for lenny, redux

2009-01-26 Thread sean finney
On Sun, Jan 25, 2009 at 06:46:18PM +0100, Luk Claes wrote: > I don't see any reason why it can't go via testing-security personally. > Note that currently testing-security uploads reach tpu automatically and > are processed by the Release Team to get it into lenny proper. okay, this i didn't know

php5 packages for lenny, redux

2009-01-25 Thread sean finney
hi everyone, excuse the cross-posting, i just want to make sure everyone's on the same page for what should be next for php5 -> lenny quick recap: when we last left off[1] Raphael was seeking pre-approval of a lenny-targeted upload of php5. because of library dependency changes, this needed to

request for exception: compiz

2008-08-31 Thread sean finney
hi there, i've just uploaded compiz compiz_0.7.6-7 which contains the following changes: compiz (0.7.6-7) unstable; urgency=medium * refresh quilt patches to apply with no fuzz/offsets. * add fglrx driver to compiz-manager whitelist (closes: #495539). -- Sean Finney <[EMAIL P

request for exception for popt

2008-06-23 Thread sean finney
hi release peeps, popt is currently blocking the transition of a number of packages, which includes compiz/compiz-fusion related packages which are currently in a horrible state in testing and in all other respects ready for a transition from sid to testing afaict. popt (1.10-3 to 1.14-3)

s-p-u for php5 fixing single-quote escaping regression?

2007-05-17 Thread sean finney
hey release peeps, in addition to the recent slew of php security fixes, a rather nasty regression was reported in #422567 , in which the reporter also found the fix in upstream CVS. i've built a package with this patch and given it to the 2 or 3 people who have chimed in on the bug report, who h

unblock request: cacti-cactid 0.8.6i-2

2007-03-06 Thread sean finney
hey folks, just going through my packages and i found an uncommitted german debconf translation for cacti-cactid. no other changes in this upload. sean signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part

Re: unblock request: dbconfig-common 1.8.31

2007-03-06 Thread sean finney
ahoy, On Mon, 2007-03-05 at 22:07 -0800, Steve Langasek wrote: > > An upload to t-p-u for the l10n updates would be ok. Fixing the dpkg > order-of-operations corner case also seems like it would be ok, but I > haven't been able to pick out which change in the package is related to this > bug, so

Re: unblock request: dbconfig-common 1.8.31

2007-03-05 Thread sean finney
On Mon, 2007-03-05 at 01:35 -0800, Steve Langasek wrote: > > Yes, and I'm afraid the code changes in 1.8.30 aren't something I'm willing > to let through; the shell code is subtle enough that my eyes are likely to > start bleeding before I'm able to give it a thorough review. aw. the bugs that t

unblock request: php4 (6:4.4.4-9) and php5 (5.2.0-9)

2007-03-04 Thread sean finney
hey again, i've just uploaded new versions of php4/php5 containing backported fixes to the latest batch of CVE's resulting from the start of the month of php bugs by the hardened php folks. it was decided that we'd backport the fixes instead of taking the newest upstream versions of the pacakges

unblock request: dbconfig-common 1.8.31

2007-03-04 Thread sean finney
hey folks, i just did an upload of dbconfig-common to unstable, which contains a large number of debconf translations supplied by the latest il8n efforts. there are no code changes from the previous version (1.8.30), but the previous version is not currently in etch afaik. wrt the changes betwee

php5 upload -> unstable, targeted for etch

2006-12-19 Thread sean finney
hey -release, a day or two ago i did a new upload of php5 which contains mostly superficial/documentation fixes, but one very important memory-leak fix, so please consider it for etch. i'm just about to get on a trans-atlantic flight, so if you have any problems with this please bring it up with

#369233: libradius1-dev: either fix or stop shipping a broken /usr/lib/libradiusclient.la

2006-05-28 Thread sean finney
hey -release, executive summary, .la file shipped in libradius1-dev was not correctly built and breaks any libtool-using software that needs to build against the package. i was wondering if i could get a bit of feedback on this one. my inclination is that the severity ought to be important, th

Re: bin-NMU of nagios 1.x packages in unstable?

2006-03-29 Thread sean finney
On Wed, Mar 29, 2006 at 08:40:02PM -0800, Steve Langasek wrote: > > nagios-mysql depends on nagios-common (= ${Source-Version}) > > > so when nagios-mysql is bumped without bumping nagios-common, we > > have our current situation. > > Which is no worse than the previous situation, of nagios-mysql

bin-NMU of nagios 1.x packages in unstable?

2006-03-28 Thread sean finney
hey release-peeps, i got a grave bug reported against nagios recently (#359637), because nagios is no longer installable in unstable. it looks like someone's bin-NMU'd it on 2006/03/20, along with the other arch:any packages. my best guess is that this has to do with the recent mysql versioning

Re: Drop the minor release number

2005-07-08 Thread sean finney
On Fri, Jul 08, 2005 at 05:05:09PM +0200, Eduard Bloch wrote: > Then we would have > > Debian 4.0 for etch, 4.1 for etch stable release 1, 4.2 for etch stable > release 2, 4.2a for etch stable release 2 with a minor CD mastering fix > (for example), etc.pp. > > Does the release team agree with t

bug #311695: i'm not getting updates, wierd

2005-06-03 Thread sean finney
strange, i'm not sure why, but i've missed out on everything past the first post. my guess is that there's something wrong with the alioth mailing lists (where the bug reports should be sent) or something, but, eh anyway, i'm a bit hesitant to be patching nagios this close to sarge, no matter

Re: Bug#311526: [Pkg-nagios-devel] Bug#311526: nagios-common: purging package removed configuration files from another package

2005-06-02 Thread sean finney
tags 311526 +pending -sid thanks hey, i've uploaded a new version to sid that should fix this problem. i'll keep the bug open until the fix makes it's way into sarge... sean -- signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: Bug#311526: [Pkg-nagios-devel] Bug#311526: nagios-common: purging package removed configuration files from another package

2005-06-02 Thread sean finney
On Wed, Jun 01, 2005 at 09:56:42PM -0700, Steve Langasek wrote: > I would very much like to see this fixed for sarge, but it seems to now be > quie late in the evening EDT. Is this something that still has a chance of > being uploaded before tomorrow's dinstall? okay, i have something ready to go

Re: Bug#311526: [Pkg-nagios-devel] Bug#311526: nagios-common: purging package removed configuration files from another package

2005-06-02 Thread sean finney
hey, On Wed, Jun 01, 2005 at 09:56:42PM -0700, Steve Langasek wrote: > I would very much like to see this fixed for sarge, but it seems to now be > quie late in the evening EDT. Is this something that still has a chance of > being uploaded before tomorrow's dinstall? crap... i didn't end up gett

Re: [Pkg-nagios-devel] Bug#311526: nagios-common: purging package removed configuration files from another package

2005-06-01 Thread sean finney
tags 311526 confirmed sarge sid thanks On Wed, Jun 01, 2005 at 05:06:24PM +0200, Norbert Tretkowski wrote: > Package: nagios-common > Severity: grave > Justification: renders package unusable > > From nagios-common's postrm: > > | rm -Rf {/var/cache,/var/run,/var/log,/etc}/nagios > > Removing /

Re: RFC on mysql 4.1 in sarge

2005-05-20 Thread sean finney
hey, On Thu, May 19, 2005 at 02:49:13AM -0700, Steve Langasek wrote: > I see the same three options. Joey has said he is working on a final woody > point release for the last weekend in May; you'll probably need to > coordinate with him and get something uploaded soon if you want to try for > thi

Re: RFC on mysql 4.1 in sarge

2005-05-20 Thread sean finney
hey, On Thu, May 19, 2005 at 08:35:03AM -0700, Steve Langasek wrote: > > > 3 does not sound so bad to me; it's arguably user error anyway to replace > > > a > > > package-provided directory with a symlink in this manner > > > If you consider this an user error, then what is the officially blesse

Re: RFC on mysql 4.1 in sarge

2005-05-18 Thread sean finney
On Wed, May 18, 2005 at 11:00:29PM +0200, Adrian Bunk wrote: > 4 drop mysql-dfsg-4.1 from unstable/sarge not exactly an attractive option, but i guess everything is on the table at this point so it's worth bringing up... the reverse dependencies aren't nearly as severe as i had assumed, actually,

RFC on mysql 4.1 in sarge

2005-05-18 Thread sean finney
(please excuse the cross-posting, i felt it was necessary to get all affected parties' input) hi, for some time now, christian and i have been trying to build in a workaround for a rather tricky bug in the mysql-server and mysql-server-4.1 packages, and we'd like to field some comments on what o

Re: cacti and mysql

2005-05-17 Thread sean finney
hey steve, On Tue, May 17, 2005 at 07:21:31PM -0700, Steve Langasek wrote: > Well, unpacking the two versions and applying the diffs still gives me 100 > lines of changes to upstream code that don't seem to be documented in the > changelog, though perhaps this is what's referred to as "import of u

Re: cacti and mysql

2005-05-15 Thread sean finney
hey steve, On Sun, May 15, 2005 at 09:53:41PM -0700, Steve Langasek wrote: > Mmm, as correct as that might be in principle, I'm afraid that looks like > too large of a change to make to the package at this late date. while interdiff may look big, basically all i've done is remove the included ado

cacti and mysql

2005-05-15 Thread sean finney
hi steve et al, On Fri, May 06, 2005 at 03:52:13PM -0700, Steve Langasek wrote: > > package : cacti > > version : 0.8.6c-7 > > rationale : again, it closes a couple annoying bugs, and also includes > > upstream's list of official 'bugfix' patches. > > Approved. FWIW, the 04_cacti_o

Re: sarge release status of some packages

2005-05-07 Thread sean finney
hi steve, On Fri, May 06, 2005 at 03:52:13PM -0700, Steve Langasek wrote: > > package : cacti > > version : 0.8.6c-7 > > rationale : again, it closes a couple annoying bugs, and also includes > > upstream's list of official 'bugfix' patches. > > Approved. FWIW, the 04_cacti_officia

sarge release status of some packages

2005-05-05 Thread sean finney
hi release team. first, congrats on finally making it here. i have a couple sid -> sarge requests for my packages, and a question about one. i'll try and keep this short and succinct, as i'm sure you're getting a bunch of these. none of the packages involve new upstream releases, or any signi