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time for inclusion in buster.
On behalf of the release team,
Niels Thykier
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Cyril Brulebois:
> → ACK for the whole lot.
>
>
> KiBi.
Unblocked, thanks.
~Niels
Niels Thykier:
> Hi,
>
> As brought up on the meeting last night, I think we should try to go for
> PIE by default in Stretch on all release architectures!
> * It is a substantial hardening feature
> * Upstream has vastly reduced the performance penalty for x86
> * The ma
Adrian Bunk:
> [ fullquote adding -ports, for people not following -release or -devel ]
>
> [...]
>
> Is https://release.debian.org/stretch/arch_qualify.html the up-to-date
> information available to you, and the "candidate" line how a decision
> would look like based on the current information?
Niels Thykier:
> [...]
>
> As for "porter qualification"
> =
>
> We got burned during the Jessie release, where a person answered the
> roll call for sparc and we kept sparc as a release architecture for
> Jessie. However, we end
John Paul Adrian Glaubitz:
> On 09/30/2016 06:08 PM, Niels Thykier wrote:
>> I strongly /suspect/ that "no porters" for powerpc will imply the
>> removal of powerpc for Stretch. It may or may not be moved to ports
>> (assuming someone is willing to support it there)
Mathieu Malaterre:
> Hi all,
>
> [...]
>
> [Let's assume that we can't find a powerpc porter in time for Stretch.]
>
> 1. Will `powperpc` automatically be downgraded to simple port ? Or is
> this also not automated and the port may simply be removed (eg. sparc)
> ?
> 2. Apart from loosing the au
ni...@thykier.net:
> Hi,
>
> Like last release, we are doing a roll call for porters of all release
> architectures. If you are an active porter behind one of the [release
> architectures] for the entire lifetime of Debian Stretch (est. end of
> 2020), please respond with a signed email containin
Kurt Roeckx:
> On Wed, Aug 17, 2016 at 10:05:06PM +0200, ni...@thykier.net wrote:
>> * If we were to enable -fPIE/-pie by default in GCC-6, should that change
>>also apply to this port? [0]
>
> If -fPIE is the default will -fPIC override it?
>
> It will also default to tell the linker to use
Martin Michlmayr:
> * ni...@thykier.net [2016-08-17 22:05]:
>> 2020), please respond with a signed email containing the following
>> before Friday, the 9th of September:
>
> Can you please specify where to respond to? I don't think dozens of
> emails to -ports and -devel make any sense.
>
Ah,
Philipp Kern:
> On 2016-06-05 12:01, Niels Thykier wrote:
>> * amd64, i386, armel, armhf, arm64, mips, mipsel, powerpc, ppc64el,
>>s390x
>>- *No* blockers at this time from RT, DSA nor security.
>>- s390, ppc64el and all arm ports have DSA concerns.
&
Steven Chamberlain:
> Hi,
>
Hi,
> John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote:
>> I have invested lots of time and effort to get sparc64 into a usable state
>> in Debian.
>> We are close to 11.000 installed packages. Missing packages include Firefox,
>> Thunderbird/Icedove, golang and LibreOffice to name t
John Paul Adrian Glaubitz:
> Hi Niels!
>
> On 06/05/2016 12:01 PM, Niels Thykier wrote:
>> Beyond mips64el, we are not aware of any new architectures for Stretch.
>>
>> I kindly ask you to:
>>
>> * Porters, please assert if your architecture is targeting St
Hi members of DSA, Security, RT and all porters.
While the freeze still seem far away, I think it is time to start with
the architecture qualifications.
For starters, here are the architectures we are aware of:
* amd64, i386, armel, armhf, arm64, mips, mipsel, powerpc, ppc64el,
s390x
- *N
On 2013-11-29 09:22, Aurelien Jarno wrote:
> On Thu, Nov 28, 2013 at 09:04:56PM +0100, Niels Thykier wrote:
>> Note that s390x and powerpc could also do with more porters, but at
>> this time we are not giving an official warning for them.
>
> I see on http://rele
On 2013-11-03 23:04, Steve Langasek wrote:
> On Sun, Nov 03, 2013 at 11:54:34AM +0100, Niels Thykier wrote:
>> [...]
>
>> I suppose a "sponsor-only" DD could be sufficient, provided that the
>> sponsor knows the porters well enough to be willing to sign off on
On 2013-11-03 16:03, Steven Chamberlain wrote:
> On 03/11/13 10:54, Niels Thykier wrote:
>> Come to think of it; maybe we should have a BTS page for each of the
>> ports (e.g. a pseudo package in the BTS).
>
> We've had this on kfreebsd, due it to having been
On 2013-11-03 16:54, Niels Thykier wrote:
> On 2013-11-03 15:49, Thorsten Glaser wrote:
>> > Niels Thykier dixit:
>> >
>>> >> [...]
>>> >> Until we have a clear definition of "actively maintained ports", I would
>>> >
On 2013-11-03 15:49, Thorsten Glaser wrote:
> Niels Thykier dixit:
>
>> [...]
>> Until we have a clear definition of "actively maintained ports", I would
>> recommend porters to err on the side of being verbose over being silent.
>
> I’ve held off on the
On 2013-10-29 17:48, Ian Jackson wrote:
> Niels Thykier writes ("Re: Bits from the Release Team (Jessie freeze info)"):
>> [...]
>> As mentioned we are debating whether the "5 DDs" requirement still makes
>> sense. Would you say that we should abolish the
On 2013-10-29 16:05, Ian Jackson wrote:
> Niels Thykier writes ("Bits from the Release Team (Jessie freeze info)"):
>> Results of porter roll-call
>> ===
> ...
>> Summary table:
>> Arch
On 2013-10-19 16:38, Jeremiah C. Foster wrote:
> Hello,
>
> On Sun, Oct 13, 2013 at 05:01:31PM +0200, Niels Thykier wrote:
>
> [snip freeze policy]
>
Hi,
I s/-arm/-ports/'ed the CC, since I figured the rest of the porters
would find the answer equally interesting.
&g
Hi,
The final results are in:
Summary table:
Arch || DDs || NMs/DMs || Other || Total
---++-++-++---++--
armel || 3 || 0 || 1 ||4
armhf || 3 || 1 || 2 ||6
hurd-i386 || 5 || 0 || 3 ||8
On 2013-09-01 09:33, Niels Thykier wrote:
> Hi,
>
> As we announced in [LAST-BITS], we would like to get a better idea of
> that status of the ports, to make an informed decision about which
> port can be released with jessie. One of the steps is to get an
> overview of which
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Hi,
As we announced in [LAST-BITS], we would like to get a better idea of
that status of the ports, to make an informed decision about which
port can be released with jessie. One of the steps is to get an
overview of which of the porters are (still
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