Re: Debian GNU/Linux 4.0 updated

2007-12-27 Thread Paul Cager
On Thu, December 27, 2007 12:03, Alexander Schmehl wrote: Debian GNU/Linux 4.0 updated [...] The complete list of all accepted and rejected packages together with rationale is on the preparation page for this revision: http://release.debian.org/stable/4.0/4.0r2/ A couple of minor comments

Re: Debian GNU/Linux 4.0 r0 Etech - could not setup syslog

2007-06-13 Thread Christian Perrier
Quoting Kuruvilla, Chindu ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): Hello, I'm Chindu Kuruvilla working as Computer Support Specialist working with College of the North Atlantic - Qatar in the Middle East. I was setting up a syslog server for managing our Cisco devices I am a novice user @

Re: Debian release cycle for enterprise ?

2007-06-08 Thread Frédéric PICA
Hi, I will follow up this discussion under the debian-project mailing list 2007/6/8, Marc Haber [EMAIL PROTECTED]: On Thu, Jun 07, 2007 at 08:25:14PM -0700, Steve Langasek wrote: Personally, I would like to see us able to provide security support for sarge through the release of lenny, so

Re: Debian release cycle for enterprise ?

2007-06-08 Thread Josip Rodin
On Thu, Jun 07, 2007 at 08:25:14PM -0700, Steve Langasek wrote: I could take a DNS server in example, when the server is configured and work, I have no reason to update the server to a new release for at least 4 years if it have the latest security patches. Upgrading to a new stable

Re: Debian release cycle for enterprise ?

2007-06-08 Thread Steve Langasek
On Fri, Jun 08, 2007 at 06:52:34PM +0200, Josip Rodin wrote: Personally, I would like to see us able to provide security support for sarge through the release of lenny, so that users can opt to skip a release if they need a longer cycle, passing through etch only long enough to adjust

Re: Debian release cycle for enterprise ?

2007-06-07 Thread martin f krafft
On 2007-06-07 10:07, Frédéric PICA wrote: I want to use debian in a production environnement and I think this life time is to short. I agree with you but see little chance that Debian will fix this. Our 18 months target right now is a compromise, and those never suit everyone. To support a

Re: Debian release cycle for enterprise ?

2007-06-07 Thread Josip Rodin
On Thu, Jun 07, 2007 at 12:07:58PM +0200, Frédéric PICA wrote: I could take a DNS server in example, when the server is configured and work, I have no reason to update the server to a new release for at least 4 years if it have the latest security patches. Upgrading to a new stable version

Re: Debian release cycle for enterprise ?

2007-06-07 Thread Filipus Klutiero
Le jeudi 7 juin 2007 06:07, Frédéric PICA a écrit : Greets, I am looking on the debian release cycle and I saw that the lenny release is planned for 2008-2009. [...] Quoting http://lists.debian.org/debian-release/ : Coordinating Debian releases Coordination of Debian releases issues such

Re: Debian release cycle for enterprise ?

2007-06-07 Thread Steve Langasek
On Fri, Jun 08, 2007 at 12:02:58AM +0200, Josip Rodin wrote: On Thu, Jun 07, 2007 at 12:07:58PM +0200, Frédéric PICA wrote: I could take a DNS server in example, when the server is configured and work, I have no reason to update the server to a new release for at least 4 years if it have

Re: Debian release cycle for enterprise ?

2007-06-07 Thread Marc Haber
On Thu, Jun 07, 2007 at 08:25:14PM -0700, Steve Langasek wrote: Personally, I would like to see us able to provide security support for sarge through the release of lenny, so that users can opt to skip a release if they need a longer cycle, passing through etch only long enough to adjust their

Re: Debian GNU/Linux 4.0 Non-US

2007-05-23 Thread Teodor
On 5/22/07, Andreas Barth [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: * Tapio Laihinen ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [070513 21:34]: When the Non-US version of the etch is coming? The non-us-branch of Debian has already been discontinued with the release of sarge. In this case it should be removed from the manuals and

Re: Debian GNU/Linux 4.0 Non-US

2007-05-23 Thread Josip Rodin
On Wed, May 23, 2007 at 06:38:22PM +0200, Josip Rodin wrote: http://www.debian.org/mirror/list-non-US The latter page should remain as an archive. Where did you see it linked from? I found a link on /distrib/ftplist. That will now be moved to /distrib/archive. -- 2. That which causes

Re: Debian GNU/Linux 4.0 Non-US

2007-05-23 Thread Teodor
On 5/23/07, Josip Rodin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wed, May 23, 2007 at 07:28:06PM +0300, Teodor wrote: In this case it should be removed from the manuals and the web pages: http://www.debian.org/distrib/packages I'm removing it from that page now, thanks for the note. It's older than

Re: Debian GNU/Linux 4.0 Non-US

2007-05-23 Thread Josip Rodin
On Wed, May 23, 2007 at 07:49:20PM +0300, Teodor wrote: IMO all pages that contains references to the non-US archive should be modified to state that it was integrated in the `main' archive and removed on ${DATE} or with release 3.1. /mirror/list-non-US actually does say so. -- 2. That

Re: Debian GNU/Linux 4.0 Non-US

2007-05-22 Thread Andreas Barth
* Tapio Laihinen ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [070513 21:34]: When the Non-US version of the etch is coming? The non-us-branch of Debian has already been discontinued with the release of sarge. Cheers, Andi -- http://home.arcor.de/andreas-barth/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a

Re: Debian GNU/Linux 4.0 Non-US

2007-05-13 Thread Sam Morris
On Sun, 13 May 2007 22:17:56 +0300, Tapio Laihinen wrote: Hello. When the Non-US version of the etch is coming? Tapio Laihinen Check out http://www.debian.org/mirror/list-non-US: To prevent anyone from taking unnecessary legal risks, some Debian packages were only available from a site in

Re: debian-installer plans for the lenny cycle

2007-04-19 Thread Luis Matos
I am only going to make this question as interested user. Since live-cd is happening, they are doing a great job, i think it would be interesting to have d-i used to install the system from the live-cd. I know it is possible, but how it is possible, i don't relly know. Qua, 2007-04-18 às 22:18

Re: debian-installer plans for the lenny cycle

2007-04-19 Thread Daniel Baumann
Luis Matos wrote: Since live-cd is happening, they are doing a great job, i think it would be interesting to have d-i used to install the system from the live-cd. I know it is possible, but how it is possible, i don't relly know. http://lists.debian.org/debian-desktop/2007/04/msg00018.html

Re: debian-installer plans for the lenny cycle

2007-04-19 Thread Frans Pop
On Thursday 19 April 2007 13:26, Luis Matos wrote: Since live-cd is happening, they are doing a great job, i think it would be interesting to have d-i used to install the system from the live-cd. I know it is possible, but how it is possible, i don't relly know. As Ubuntu is already doing

Re: debian-installer plans for the lenny cycle

2007-04-18 Thread Frans Pop
On Tuesday 17 April 2007 21:06, Luk Claes wrote: We would like to know which major features are expected to be added in the next 24 months and how much time you expect them to need to get stable enough for a Debian stable release. An overview of the plans of the D-I team can be found at:

Re: debian-installer plans for the lenny cycle

2007-04-18 Thread César Gómez Martín
On 4/18/07, Frans Pop [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tuesday 17 April 2007 21:06, Luk Claes wrote: We would like to know which major features are expected to be added in the next 24 months and how much time you expect them to need to get stable enough for a Debian stable release. An overview of

Re: [Debian] Re: Please accept to etch

2007-03-14 Thread Kirill Korotaev
* kernel-patch-openvz (version in unstable now) [SECURITY]: Deadlock in mincore (CVE-2006-4814) and a number of other critical fixes This CVE refers to a kernel bug in Linux 2.4, how does that apply here? It is 100% 2.6 related, check the following changelog:

Re: [Debian] Re: Please accept to etch

2007-03-14 Thread Kir Kolyshkin
Steve Langasek wrote: * kernel-patch-openvz (version in unstable now) [SECURITY]: Deadlock in mincore (CVE-2006-4814) and a number of other critical fixes This CVE refers to a kernel bug in Linux 2.4, how does that apply here? Here is the patch in question. Perhaps Linus gave the

Re: [Debian] Re: Unfreeze of a number of packages

2007-03-12 Thread Kirill Korotaev
Marc, * kernel-patch-openvz And finally I would like you to consider to accept the version of kernel-patch-openvz that I have uploaded to experimental. I know that this is a quite big change but there are a number of reasons why it should be done. I don't think this qualifies for a freeze

Re: debian-31r5-powerpc-binary-1.iso broken

2007-02-22 Thread Steve Langasek
On Thu, Feb 22, 2007 at 11:09:53AM +0100, Holger Levsen wrote: http://cdimage.debian.org/debian-cd/3.1_r5/powerpc/iso-cd/debian-31r5-powerpc-binary-1.iso doesnt boot on a clamshell ibook nor on a ibook g3 (800mhz). I know that sarge r0 or r1 worked.

Re: debian-31r5-powerpc-binary-1.iso broken

2007-02-22 Thread Steve McIntyre
On Thu, Feb 22, 2007 at 11:09:53AM +0100, Holger Levsen wrote: Hi, http://cdimage.debian.org/debian-cd/3.1_r5/powerpc/iso-cd/debian-31r5-powerpc-binary-1.iso doesnt boot on a clamshell ibook nor on a ibook g3 (800mhz). I know that sarge r0 or r1 worked.

Re: debian-31r5-powerpc-binary-1.iso broken

2007-02-22 Thread Holger Levsen
Hi, On Thursday 22 February 2007 11:17, Steve Langasek wrote: No, the release team doesn't create those images. Please contact debian-cd. Ok. But debian-release@ is the right list to contact the stable release team, isn't it? (I understand that for this specific request debian-cd@ is

Re: [Debian-arabic-packages] Re: Request to include to l10n packages in Etch

2007-02-07 Thread Steve Langasek
On Tue, Feb 06, 2007 at 02:26:02PM -, Alan Baghumian wrote: I'll thank you, if you do the same with aspell-hy. Recently I've submitted a patch for gedit (#406794) to support aspell-hy, and if you accept to enter aspell-hy in Etch, it would be nice. aspell-hy unblocked. Cheers, -- Steve

Re: debian-installer build deps testing/unstable divergences

2007-02-07 Thread Steve Langasek
On Tue, Feb 06, 2007 at 01:28:14PM -0500, Joey Hess wrote: Steve Langasek wrote: These changes include a bump to the debhelper compat level with no apparent rationale, in addition to the extensive upstream changes; I'm not comfortable unblocking this (and it hardly seems I would have a

Re: [Debian-arabic-packages] Re: Request to include to l10n packages in Etch

2007-02-06 Thread Alan Baghumian
Hi, I'll thank you, if you do the same with aspell-hy. Recently I've submitted a patch for gedit (#406794) to support aspell-hy, and if you accept to enter aspell-hy in Etch, it would be nice. Thanks, Alan On Sat, Feb 03, 2007 at 11:43:17AM +0200, Lior Kaplan wrote: During the last 5 months

Re: debian-installer build deps testing/unstable divergences

2007-02-06 Thread Steve Langasek
On Mon, Feb 05, 2007 at 03:14:25AM -0500, Joey Hess wrote: These are d-i build deps that provide files that go on d-i images, that currently have different versions in unstable and testing. The significance is that since rc2 will be built on the autobuilders, it will build against the unstable

Re: debian-installer build deps testing/unstable divergences

2007-02-06 Thread Joey Hess
Steve Langasek wrote: These changes include a bump to the debhelper compat level with no apparent rationale, in addition to the extensive upstream changes; I'm not comfortable unblocking this (and it hardly seems I would have a chance to anyway, we're already at version 1.4.15 in unstable

Re: debian-installer build deps testing/unstable divergences

2007-02-05 Thread Martin Michlmayr
* Joey Hess [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2007-02-05 03:14]: apex-nslu2 | 1.4.7 | testing | arm apex-nslu2 | 1.4.14 | unstable | arm Several changes. Yes, there are quite a few changes but I tested the new version yesterday and it seems to work fine. I don't have a problem with

Re: [Debian-arabic-packages] Re: Request to include to l10n packages in Etch

2007-02-03 Thread Alan Baghumian
Hi, I prefer to have latest aspell-fa and also aspell-hy ;-) in Etch. Alan On 02/03/2007 03:34:47 PM, Lior Kaplan wrote: Frans Pop wrote: On Saturday 03 February 2007 10:43, Lior Kaplan wrote: aspell-ar-large - 49 days in unstable, not present in Etch. ttf-freefarsi - 50 days in unstable,

Re: debian-archive-keyring: should probably depend on apt = 0.6

2006-12-01 Thread Bill.Allombert
On Thu, Nov 30, 2006 at 11:43:12PM +0100, Peter Palfrader wrote: Package: debian-archive-keyring Version: 2006.11.22 Severity: serious debian-archive-keyring does not depent on an apt that comes with apt-key, so in the course of upgrading from sarge to etch one can end up with a system

Re: debian-archive-keyring: should probably depend on apt = 0.6

2006-12-01 Thread Peter Palfrader
On Fri, 01 Dec 2006, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: In my opinion, since apt depends debian-archive-keyring, the proper fix is to do 'apt-key update' in apt postinst (in supplement to doing it in debian-archive-keyring postinst). That sounds like a nice idea. Adding a dependency on apt to

Re: debian-edu-config release critical bug

2006-11-04 Thread Jonas Smedegaard
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Steffen Joeris wrote: Hi I know that this is an old and long discussed bug, but please allow me to raise the discussion again right now as I think that the issue is not completely clear. First of all the bug is called: debian-edu-config:

Re: debian-edu-config release critical bug

2006-11-03 Thread Christian Perrier
What do you think? *I* do think that, if that bug is RC for debian-edu-config, then another one should be opened for localization-config, which does exactly the same (actually not in very good shape for etch as it basically does nothing). BTW, localization-config is maintained as part of

Re: Debian Etch freeze... pkg-kde-extras implications

2006-11-03 Thread Wookey
On 2006-11-03 18:07 +, Mark Purcell wrote: So one common factor seems to be the arm buildd's failing and not rescheduling.. I shall try and get some binary packages built on leisner for arm. Wookey. If you are able could I ask you to upload the build-deps for: kaffeine, klibido,

Re: debian-edu-config release critical bug

2006-11-03 Thread Steve Langasek
Hi Steffen, On Fri, Nov 03, 2006 at 09:32:21PM +1100, Steffen Joeris wrote: I know that this is an old and long discussed bug, but please allow me to raise the discussion again right now as I think that the issue is not completely clear. First of all the bug is called: debian-edu-config:

Re: [Debian Installer] General release plan for RC1

2006-10-10 Thread Josselin Mouette
Le mardi 10 octobre 2006 à 07:18 +0200, Tshepang Lekhonkhobe a écrit : On 10/8/06, Loïc Minier [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sun, Oct 08, 2006, Attilio Fiandrotti wrote: Just today mike emmel fixed the boom bug, it should technically possible switching to GTK+ 2.10.x. Repeating this

Re: [Debian Installer] General release plan for RC1

2006-10-10 Thread Tshepang Lekhonkhobe
On 10/10/06, Josselin Mouette [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The current plan is to ship GNOME 2.14 in etch [1]. This was a hard decision to make, but we prefer shipping a rock-solid and polished 2.14 version rather than a buggy 2.16 version with which Ubuntu is having many issues. [1]

Re: [Debian Installer] General release plan for RC1

2006-10-08 Thread Loïc Minier
On Sun, Oct 08, 2006, Attilio Fiandrotti wrote: Just today mike emmel fixed the boom bug, it should technically possible switching to GTK+ 2.10.x. Repeating this here for other readers: 2.10.6-2 in experimental was uploaded today with the fix. -- Loïc Minier [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To

Re: [Debian GNUstep maintainers] announce: GNUstep library transition in Debian

2006-09-18 Thread Yavor Doganov
Hubert Chan wrote: So please upload your packages now, if you haven't done so already. Please don't NMU lusernet.app; I'm working with Sergey Golovin to port it to Pantomime 1.2. It's basically ready but I need more time to test it thoroughly. This will allow us to drop pantomime1 from the

Re: Debian Naming Suggestion

2006-09-09 Thread George Danchev
On Friday 08 September 2006 20:14, Jeremy Herndon wrote: I currently do not subscribe to the mailing lists. So I don't know if this has been considered. Hi, Ok, CC:ed, but probaby -project is a far better place to discuss sich considerations. I want to offer a suggestion for a new

Re: Debian Naming Suggestion

2006-09-09 Thread Kari Pahula
On Fri, Sep 08, 2006 at 10:14:45AM -0700, Jeremy Herndon wrote: I currently do not subscribe to the mailing lists. So I don't know if this has been considered. Besides a couple of months ago, when you sent this very same message? http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/2006/07/msg00959.html --

Re: Debian Naming Suggestion

2006-09-08 Thread Andrew Donnellan
This discussion has been had before and at the moment there aren't any plans to change the naming scheme. On 9/9/06, Jeremy Herndon [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I currently do not subscribe to the mailing lists. So I don't know if this has been considered. I want to offer a suggestion for a new

Re: Debian Installer - Etch Beta 3 release

2006-06-28 Thread Christian Guggenberger
So you want a binary nmu? if yes, you should send a mail to debian-release@lists.debian.org asking for it and it should be done by the buildd network without much hassle. I have filed #375158 now, severity grave, to get RM's attention. You shouldn't report a bug just to ask for a

Re: Debian Installer - Etch Beta 3 release

2006-06-24 Thread Steve Langasek
On Fri, Jun 23, 2006 at 07:48:15PM -0300, Otavio Salvador wrote: So you want a binary nmu? if yes, you should send a mail to debian-release@lists.debian.org asking for it and it should be done by the buildd network without much hassle. I have filed #375158 now, severity grave, to get RM's

Re: Debian Installer - Etch Beta 3 release

2006-06-24 Thread Frans Pop
On Thursday 22 June 2006 22:29, Frans Pop wrote: Now that 2.6.16-15 kernels have been uploaded to unstable (using a linux-2.6.16 source package), we can start thinking about the Etch Beta 3 release of D-I. For d-i development this means that we are now in stabilizing and bugfixing mode. So,

Re: Debian Installer - Etch Beta 3 release

2006-06-23 Thread Otavio Salvador
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Christian Guggenberger [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: So you want a binary nmu? if yes, you should send a mail to debian-release@lists.debian.org asking for it and it should be done by the buildd network without much hassle. I have filed #375158 now,

Re: debian history?

2006-04-03 Thread Martin Schulze
?? wrote: I wanna debian history if exist summarize debian history infomation ttp://www.debian.org/doc/manuals/project-history/ http://cvs.infodrom.org/calendar/calendar.infodrom.debian Regards, Joey -- Every use of Linux is a proper use of Linux. -- Jon 'maddog' Hall --

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

2005-09-15 Thread Russ Allbery
Bob Proulx [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Matthew Garrett wrote: Bdale Garbee [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: There are several files that are BSD with advertising clause, including libntp/memmove.c, libntp/mktime.c, libntp/random.c, libntp/strerror.c, libntp/strstr.c, ntpd/refclock_jupiter.c, and

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

2005-09-14 Thread Bdale Garbee
On Wed, 2005-09-14 at 00:03 -0700, Steve Langasek wrote: The maintainers should have a chance to clear up this question first. 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

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

2005-09-14 Thread Matthew Garrett
Bdale Garbee [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The file util/ansi2knr.c is also GPL. I'm pretty sure it's unused, but an easy reference in debian/copyright would cover it. This may be a problem if it is used, as: There are several files that are BSD with advertising clause, including

Re: [Debian GNUstep maintainers] GNUstep and FHS

2005-07-29 Thread Anton Zinoviev
On Wed, Jul 27, 2005 at 12:52:48AM +0300, Yavor Doganov wrote: * Ask the RMs/QA for an exception due to GNUstep's nature There is already a precedent in FHS - the /usr/lib/X11R6 directory. GNUstep is not a different case, just a less important one. For now. (I am CC-ing Anton Zinoviev, who

Re: [Debian GNUstep maintainers] Re: GNUstep and FHS

2005-07-29 Thread Eric Heintzmann
Hubert Chan a écrit : On Fri, 29 Jul 2005 16:48:38 +0300, Anton Zinoviev [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I think it would be very hard to get /usr/GNUstep added to FHS. /usr/OpenStep ? For some strange reason, -policy seems to be rather quiet on this issue this time around. There's only

Re: Debian Sarge Snapshot - error in readme

2005-04-24 Thread Steve McIntyre
On Sat, Apr 23, 2005 at 01:11:06PM -0700, Steve Langasek wrote: On Sat, Apr 23, 2005 at 03:18:24PM +0100, Steve Kemp wrote: -- About This CD = This CD-ROM is labeled Debian GNU/Linux testing Sarge - Official Snapshot i386 Binary-14 which means that this CD is number

Re: Debian Sarge Snapshot - error in readme

2005-04-23 Thread Steve Langasek
Hi Steve, On Sat, Apr 23, 2005 at 03:18:24PM +0100, Steve Kemp wrote: I've just downloaded CD 14 of the sarge snapshot; http://cdimage.debian.org/pub/weekly/i386/sarge-i386-14.iso The top-level readme.txt contains the following erroneous text: -- About This CD =

Re: debian-release FAQ wikipage?

2005-02-24 Thread Steve Langasek
On Tue, Feb 22, 2005 at 04:15:09PM -0600, Drew Scott Daniels wrote: I've started a [EMAIL PROTECTED] FAQ at http://wiki.debian.net/?DebianReleaseFAQ I hope it can help save some valuable release team time and reduce annoying messages to this list. Q: Can you change testing's code name or

Re: Debian and militarist propaganda

2004-06-15 Thread Tim Dijkstra
On Mon, 14 Jun 2004 14:59:24 +0200 Robert Millan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello, I object to the Release Manager's decision of choosing a military-related term (sarge) for the next release of Debian. Your April fools joke is a bit late this year... grts Tim

Re: Debian and militarist propaganda

2004-06-14 Thread Wouter Verhelst
On Mon, Jun 14, 2004 at 02:59:24PM +0200, Robert Millan wrote: Hello, I object to the Release Manager's decision of choosing a military-related term (sarge) for the next release of Debian. Yeah, I agree. I also object to choosing an adjective ('woody') as one of our release names. We

Re: Debian and militarist propaganda

2004-06-14 Thread Bas Zoetekouw
Hi Robert! You wrote: I object to the Release Manager's decision of choosing a military-related term (sarge) for the next release of Debian. I don't think this is done intentionaly, but using military terms to codename a Debian release is in fact turning an innocent element into

Re: Debian and militarist propaganda

2004-06-14 Thread Robert Millan
This is just as ridiculous as the petition for changing the name of the The Two Towers movie after 9-11. Hey, I don't mind if you find my petition ridiculous, but don't put Toy Story at the same level as Tolkien's work ok? ;) -- Robert Millan [..] but the delight and pride of Aule is in

Re: debian-installer (was Re: Unofficial Sarge Release Issues (Updated for August))

2003-08-07 Thread Anthony Towns
On Wed, Aug 06, 2003 at 02:55:45PM -0500, Drew Scott Daniels wrote: Now that I think of it though, if Adrian Bunk had his way it may be acceptable to have a release without an installer It's not acceptable to have a release without an installer. It is, in fact, utterly unthinkable. Hi, I

Re: debian-installer (was Re: Unofficial Sarge Release Issues (Updated for August))

2003-08-06 Thread Drew Scott Daniels
On Wed, 6 Aug 2003, Josip Rodin wrote: On Wed, Aug 06, 2003 at 10:22:22AM -0500, Drew Scott Daniels wrote: - The debian-installer (d-i) is in what I would call almost a releasable state, but that's just my opinion. See debian-boot for information. Without it being on the CDs, it's

Re: debian-release list dead?

2002-08-25 Thread Martin Schulze
Peter Palfrader wrote: I intended to ask for removal of this list but Joey sugested to ask first whether anybody intents to use this list or finds it useful as it is now. I took a list at the content of this list. In theory it should be used for release management but since this burdon

Re: debian-release list dead?

2002-08-17 Thread Wichert Akkerman
Previously Peter Palfrader wrote: I intended to ask for removal of this list but Joey sugested to ask first whether anybody intents to use this list or finds it useful as it is now. I think it would be useful, but if the release manager doesn't use it we might as well remove it I guess.

Re: Debian 3.0 (woody) Freeze Begins

2001-07-02 Thread Adam Di Carlo
Anthony Towns [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: While I may not be too concerned one way or another about the name of the next release, I do have some ideas about how it might be good to handle the next release. My overriding goal for this release was to manage to get a short, controllable freeze; one

Re: Debian GNU/Linux 2.2r2 Released

2000-12-05 Thread Steve McIntyre
On Tue, Dec 05, 2000 at 02:45:37PM +0100, Nils Lohner wrote: http://non-us.debian.org/debian-non-us/dists/Debian2.2r2/non-US/ChangeLog Arse. I should have picked up on this earlier - the non-US Changelog is inconsistent. The r2 Changelog file names are relative to the dists/ directory, while

Re: Debian 2.1r5

2000-03-26 Thread paulwade
On Thu, 23 Mar 2000, Jim Westveer wrote: On 23-Mar-2000 J.A. Bezemer wrote: On Thu, 23 Mar 2000, Wichert Akkerman wrote: snip We consider anything to be official ONLY if it is mentioned in the ChangeLog. Everything else has been (very!) unreliable in the past. NOTE: Has

Re: Debian 2.1r5

2000-03-26 Thread paulwade
On Sun, 26 Mar 2000, Philip Charles wrote: On Sat, 25 Mar 2000 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thu, 23 Mar 2000, Jim Westveer wrote: On 23-Mar-2000 J.A. Bezemer wrote: On Thu, 23 Mar 2000, Wichert Akkerman wrote: snip We consider anything to be official ONLY if it

Re: Debian 2.1r5

2000-03-24 Thread Christian Surchi
On Fri, Mar 24, 2000 at 01:53:12PM +, Mark Brown wrote: Which only appeared with 2.1r5? Strange indeed. Can you report a bug if you want me to look at it, please? I've tried, but I can't reproduce it. I wanted to connect to news.megasys.it (public news server, probably) and I have a

Re: Debian 2.1r5

2000-03-23 Thread Wichert Akkerman
Previously Jordi wrote: I thought 2.1r5 had been released already, but I can't find it on the ftps. The changelog does not mention a release neither so I guess it didn't happen. Will it be released? as far as I know it has been released, but nobody has done an announcement about it. Is there

Re: Debian 2.1r5

2000-03-23 Thread Jordi
On Thu, Mar 23, 2000 at 04:47:56PM +0100, Wichert Akkerman wrote: Previously Jordi wrote: I thought 2.1r5 had been released already, but I can't find it on the ftps. The changelog does not mention a release neither so I guess it didn't happen. Will it be released? as far as I know it

Re: Debian 2.1r5

2000-03-23 Thread Vincent Renardias
On Thu, 23 Mar 2000, Wichert Akkerman wrote: Previously Jordi wrote: I thought 2.1r5 had been released already, but I can't find it on the ftps. The changelog does not mention a release neither so I guess it didn't happen. Will it be released? as far as I know it has been released,

Re: Debian 2.1r5

2000-03-23 Thread Christian Surchi
Vincent, what about w3-el dependencies? Ah, leafnode has strange segmentation fault... :( bye Christian

Re: Debian 2.1r5

2000-03-23 Thread Jim Westveer
On 23-Mar-2000 J.A. Bezemer wrote: On Thu, 23 Mar 2000, Wichert Akkerman wrote: snip We consider anything to be official ONLY if it is mentioned in the ChangeLog. Everything else has been (very!) unreliable in the past. NOTE: Has the new w3-el-e20 already been installed?? (The

Re: Debian 2.1r5

2000-03-23 Thread Jim Westveer
On 23-Mar-2000 J.A. Bezemer wrote: On Thu, 23 Mar 2000, Wichert Akkerman wrote: snip We consider anything to be official ONLY if it is mentioned in the ChangeLog. Everything else has been (very!) unreliable in the past. NOTE: Has the new w3-el-e20 already been installed?? (The

Re: Debian 2.1r5

2000-03-23 Thread Jordi
On Thu, Mar 23, 2000 at 04:52:07PM +, Vincent Renardias wrote: On Thu, 23 Mar 2000, Wichert Akkerman wrote: Previously Jordi wrote: I thought 2.1r5 had been released already, but I can't find it on the ftps. The changelog does not mention a release neither so I guess it didn't

Re: Debian 2.1r5

2000-03-23 Thread Mark Brown
On Thu, Mar 23, 2000 at 06:19:36PM +0100, Christian Surchi wrote: Ah, leafnode has strange segmentation fault... :( What segfaults? Did it work before? I did actually test this version, but it's possible that I missed something. There are a number of bugs in 1.6 that cause random segfaults

Re: Debian 2.1r5 + last y2k fixes

2000-01-07 Thread Remco van de Meent
Vincent Renardias wrote: here's the list of packages that I plan to include in 2.1r5: http://www.debian.org/~vincent/2.1r5.txt webalyser:http://bugs.debian.org/53820 It's called webalizer :) And I just made a quick fix to the slink version of webalizer that seems to solve the problems.

Re: Debian 2.1r5 + last y2k fixes

2000-01-07 Thread Martin Schulze
Vincent Renardias wrote: hello, here's the list of packages that I plan to include in 2.1r5: http://www.debian.org/~vincent/2.1r5.txt (I'll also probably include the m68k boot-floppies, but the corresponding .changes file seems to be missing...) wml is missing, probably more, lists

Re: Debian 2.1r5 + last y2k fixes

2000-01-07 Thread Wichert Akkerman
Previously Vincent Renardias wrote: here's the list of packages that I plan to include in 2.1r5: http://www.debian.org/~vincent/2.1r5.txt Euh, could you please mail the whole list as well? I usually do my work offline so this is somewhat inconvenient for me.. Wichert. --

Re: Debian 2.1r5 + last y2k fixes

2000-01-07 Thread Fumitoshi UKAI
Hi, At Fri, 7 Jan 2000 12:50:15 + (GMT), Vincent Renardias [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: here's the list of packages that I plan to include in 2.1r5: http://www.debian.org/~vincent/2.1r5.txt [Vincent 2000/01/07] package : fml version : 3.0+beta.2102-0slink1 architectures:

Re: Debian 2.1r5 + last y2k fixes

2000-01-07 Thread Ben Gertzfield
Vincent == Vincent Renardias [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Vincent hello, Vincent here's the list of packages that I plan to include in Vincent 2.1r5: http://www.debian.org/~vincent/2.1r5.txt (I'll Vincent also probably include the m68k boot-floppies, but the Vincent

Re: debian 2.1r4 and boot-floppies

1999-12-08 Thread Vincent Renardias
On 8 Dec 1999, Adam Di Carlo wrote: Just to confirm, for the updated 2.1r4 boot-floppies, I am only diverging from pure slink 2.1r4 in the following pkgs (mostly for base): -rw-r--r-- 1 apharris users 1943492 Dec 7 23:24 kernel-image-2.0.38_2.0.38-1_i386.deb -rw-rw-r-- 1

Re: debian 2.1r4 and boot-floppies

1999-12-07 Thread Wichert Akkerman
Previously Adam Di Carlo wrote: What is your targetted freeze date or whatever, so I know when this stuff is due ? Let me intervene here and say that I want to see 2.1r4 happen this week, sunday at the *very* latest. We simply cannot delay y2k updates any longer. Wichert. --

Re: debian 2.1r4 and boot-floppies

1999-12-06 Thread Vincent Renardias
[ debian-test members: I'd like to have success/failure reports concerning the kernel* and pcmcia* packages listed below; they're supposed to go on the 2.1r4 boot-floppies, so any feedback is welcome. ] On 4 Dec 1999, Adam Di Carlo wrote: I had been asked about boot-floppies and whether we

Re: debian 2.1r4 and boot-floppies

1999-12-06 Thread Adam Di Carlo
Vincent Renardias [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Did you find a slink machine usable for this compilation BTW? Yeah -- I think so. Thanks for the pointers and stuff, Vincent. What is your targetted freeze date or whatever, so I know when this stuff is due ? -- .Adam Di [EMAIL

Re: version numbering (was Re: Debian 2.1 stable update)

1999-08-31 Thread J.A. Bezemer
On Sat, 28 Aug 1999, Adam Di Carlo wrote: Wichert Akkerman [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Previously Vincent Renardias wrote: 2.1r3 is the next release of slink; Right. It's the third point-release of slink, and point-release only have security-fixes and very important bugfixes.

version numbering (was Re: Debian 2.1 stable update)

1999-08-28 Thread Adam Di Carlo
Wichert Akkerman [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Previously Vincent Renardias wrote: 2.1r3 is the next release of slink; Right. It's the third point-release of slink, and point-release only have security-fixes and very important bugfixes. IMHO the stable update should be 2.2 and then potato

Re: Debian 2.1 stable update.

1999-08-25 Thread Richard Braakman
Josip Rodin wrote: Then 2.2 - 2.3 change would be upgrade to a semi-incompatible libc version and a big bunch of other (relatively) minor packages. Am I right? Yes... semi-incompatible libc, semi-incompatible gcc, semi-incompatible kernel, semi-incompatible perl... all in all it might warrant a

Re: Debian 2.1 stable update.

1999-08-23 Thread Richard Braakman
Wichert Akkerman wrote: Previously Vincent Renardias wrote: 2.1r3 is the next release of slink; Right. It's the third point-release of slink, and point-release only have security-fixes and very important bugfixes. IMHO the stable update should be 2.2 and then potato can be either 2.3 or

Re: Debian 2.1 stable update.

1999-08-23 Thread Josip Rodin
On Mon, Aug 23, 1999 at 09:23:29PM +0200, Richard Braakman wrote: 2.1r3 is the next release of slink; Right. It's the third point-release of slink, and point-release only have security-fixes and very important bugfixes. IMHO the stable update should be 2.2 and then potato can be

Re: Debian 2.1r3

1999-08-16 Thread Christian Meder
On Sat, Aug 14, 1999 at 12:10:10PM +0200, Wichert Akkerman wrote: package: ftape version: 4.03pre2.1999.04.25-1 major update over slink, don't think it meets the update criteria First of all it's only a minor update: slink has got pre1. Secondly * compiles with 2.2.x kernels *

Re: Debian 2.1r3

1999-08-16 Thread Adam Di Carlo
Christian Meder [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Sat, Aug 14, 1999 at 12:10:10PM +0200, Wichert Akkerman wrote: package: ftape version: 4.03pre2.1999.04.25-1 major update over slink, don't think it meets the update criteria First of all it's only a minor update: slink has got pre1.

Re: Debian 2.1r3

1999-08-16 Thread Vincent Renardias
Hello, On Sat, 14 Aug 1999, Wichert Akkerman wrote: Packages I think should NOT be installed [snip] package: gdb version: 4.17-4.m68k.objc.threads.hwwp.fpu.gnat.3.1 some sparc update, but I'm not convinced we need to include it. We

Re: Debian and Adaptec 294x

1999-07-10 Thread Adam Di Carlo
Herbert, I apologize, I think you were right. According to Debian-testing group, the following kernel/rescue disk seems to work quite well. Karl, I'd like to provide your rescue image in the Debian archive proper (i.e., dists/stable/disks-i386/current/aha/ ?). Should we just grab your rescue

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