Re: Feature proposal: Extended Life Cycle Support

2009-07-07 Thread Ding Yi Chen
- "John5342" wrote: > 2009/7/8 Ding Yi Chen : > > > I don't think this has anything to do with motivation. You have an > idea and on the face of it it sounds great but even the greatest > ideas > can be doomed by the details. If you don't believe me (or Kevin) then > go for it and when you g

Re: Feature proposal: Extended Life Cycle Support

2009-07-07 Thread Ding Yi Chen
- "John5342" wrote: > > Firstly, not all people turn the automatic upgrade on. > > Secondly, there are folks use rpm -hiv or build from srpm. > > In that case, they are more likely to spot the bugs. > > I am not talking about upgrades. I am talking about updates. Most > people just run upda

Re: Keyboard US Internacional

2009-07-07 Thread Ding Yi Chen
- "Rodrigo Padula de Oliveira" wrote: > Hello guys. > > How can we add gtk2-immodules and gtk2-immodule-xim by default in a > PT_BR Fedora installation ? > > We need to correct this problem ASAP for Fedora 10 ,11 and rawhide > > We are receiving a lot of claims about this problem in Brazi

Re: EPEL Bug Day July 11, 2009 0-23:59 UTC

2009-07-07 Thread Michael Stahnke
On Tue, Jul 7, 2009 at 9:41 PM, Todd Zullinger wrote: > Michael Stahnke wrote: >> Feel free to take a bug and help out.  It's a 24 hour event, and we >> have about 135 bugs.  If we can get 6 bugs an hour triage and >> updated, that would be all of them. > > This is surely a worthy goal, thanks for

Re: EPEL Bug Day July 11, 2009 0-23:59 UTC

2009-07-07 Thread Todd Zullinger
Michael Stahnke wrote: > Feel free to take a bug and help out. It's a 24 hour event, and we > have about 135 bugs. If we can get 6 bugs an hour triage and > updated, that would be all of them. This is surely a worthy goal, thanks for working on it. I am curious what the plan is for bugs that ar

Re: Feature proposal: Extended Life Cycle Support

2009-07-07 Thread John5342
2009/7/8 Ding Yi Chen : > > - "Kevin Kofler" wrote: > >> Ding-Yi Chen wrote: >> > Therefore, I would like to propose an alternative approach, >> > namely, project Denture. See my blog post for further information: >> > http://dingyichen.livejournal.com/14055.html >> > >> > Any comments? >> >>

Re: http://www.fsf.org/news/dont-depend-on-mono

2009-07-07 Thread Gregory Maxwell
On Tue, Jul 7, 2009 at 10:05 AM, Adam Jackson wrote: [snip] > So, if Frobnitz Inc. distributed Mono, and then filed suit against > Microsoft for infringing one of Frobnitz' patents in the Microsoft C# > implementation, they would lose the right to distribute Mono [1]. [snip] > In other words, it's

Re: Feature proposal: Extended Life Cycle Support

2009-07-07 Thread John5342
2009/7/8 Ding Yi Chen : > > - "John5342" wrote: > >> 2009/7/7 Ding-Yi Chen : >> > >> > 於 二,2009-07-07 於 14:44 +0100,John5342 提到: >> >> 2009/7/7 Ding-Yi Chen : >> >> > >> >> > Any comments? >> >> >> >> In theory your proposal sounds great but i see just one major flaw >> >> that probably doesn'

Re: Feature proposal: Extended Life Cycle Support

2009-07-07 Thread Ding Yi Chen
- "Kevin Kofler" wrote: > Ding-Yi Chen wrote: > > Therefore, I would like to propose an alternative approach, > > namely, project Denture. See my blog post for further information: > > http://dingyichen.livejournal.com/14055.html > > > > Any comments? > > As I've tried to explain to you la

Re: an update to automake-1.11?

2009-07-07 Thread Sam Varshavchik
Kevin Kofler writes: Sam Varshavchik wrote: I don't get that impression. When I end up upgrading, as a result of the entire distro upgrade, or otherwise, to a new autotools, I make sure that I go through my existing configure scripts with a fine-toothed comb. Every time this happens I always en

Re: an update to automake-1.11?

2009-07-07 Thread Sam Varshavchik
Kevin Kofler writes: Sam Varshavchik wrote: That's great, and if this discussion was about cmake, then this would be a valid point. But, this thread is not about cmake. That CMake has this feature implies that the autotools suck for not having it and forcing you to patch the configure script

Re: an update to automake-1.11?

2009-07-07 Thread Sam Varshavchik
Kevin Kofler writes: Sam Varshavchik wrote: This may come as a shock to some, but configure does not often change unless configure.ac changes too. So, I'm not sure what does the frequency of changes to configure.ac has to do with anything. Where your argument falls apart is that patch fuzz i

Re: Feature proposal: Extended Life Cycle Support

2009-07-07 Thread Ding Yi Chen
- "John5342" wrote: > 2009/7/7 Ding-Yi Chen : > > > > 於 二,2009-07-07 於 14:44 +0100,John5342 提到: > >> 2009/7/7 Ding-Yi Chen : > >> > > >> > Any comments? > >> > >> In theory your proposal sounds great but i see just one major flaw > >> that probably doesn't have a solution. Your idea of packa

Re: Feature proposal: Extended Life Cycle Support

2009-07-07 Thread Josh Boyer
On Tue, Jul 07, 2009 at 03:33:27PM -0700, Jesse Keating wrote: >On Tue, 2009-07-07 at 23:36 +0200, Kevin Kofler wrote: >> Jesse Keating wrote: >> > Why was this update marked as security, but not bundled with the package >> > that actually had the security issue that you were rebuilding for? When

Re: an update to automake-1.11?

2009-07-07 Thread Kevin Kofler
Sam Varshavchik wrote: > I don't get that impression. When I end up upgrading, as a result of the > entire distro upgrade, or otherwise, to a new autotools, I make sure that > I go through my existing configure scripts with a fine-toothed comb. Every > time this happens I always end up tweaking som

Re: an update to automake-1.11?

2009-07-07 Thread Kevin Kofler
Sam Varshavchik wrote: > That's great, and if this discussion was about cmake, then this would be a > valid point. But, this thread is not about cmake. That CMake has this feature implies that the autotools suck for not having it and forcing you to patch the configure script for your usecase.

Re: an update to automake-1.11?

2009-07-07 Thread Kevin Kofler
Sam Varshavchik wrote: > This may come as a shock to some, but configure does not often change > unless configure.ac changes too. > > So, I'm not sure what does the frequency of changes to configure.ac has to > do with anything. Where your argument falls apart is that patch fuzz is a local concep

Re: http://www.fsf.org/news/dont-depend-on-mono

2009-07-07 Thread Kevin Kofler
Bill McGonigle wrote: > With being tied up with ECMA and the various well-publicized efforts to > get RAND licenses on them, these aren't the parts most people were > worried about. But the thing is, RAND does not necessarily mean royalty-free, let alone compatible with Free Software licenses (no

Re: http://www.fsf.org/news/dont-depend-on-mono

2009-07-07 Thread DebianTux23
alfin...@boxbe.com On Wed, Jul 8, 2009 at 12:48 AM, Matthew Woehlke < mw_tr...@users.sourceforge.net> wrote: > Junk Score: 4 out of 10 (below your Auto Allow threshold) | Change: > https://www.boxbe.com/mail-screening&tc=205147289_978180501 > Approve sender: > https://www.boxbe.com/policy_update

Re: http://www.fsf.org/news/dont-depend-on-mono

2009-07-07 Thread Rui Miguel Silva Seabra
Argh... I know I said I wouldn't, but this one really needs to have some scale applied. On Wed, Jul 08, 2009 at 12:43:28AM +0200, drago01 wrote: > > They just "promised" (and their word is worthless in this regard) not to > > sue you. > > So what about the patents owned by redhat? > http://www.

Re: http://www.fsf.org/news/dont-depend-on-mono

2009-07-07 Thread Sam Varshavchik
Matthew Woehlke writes: Rui Miguel Silva Seabra wrote: In a couple of years Microsoft is bought by Fu-Bar Inc and there goes the promise down the drain. ...if only. The odds of *any* company that might buy out M$ (well, if it isn't started by Gates and/or Ballmer and/or such) being as bad as

Re: Do we need split media CDs for F12?

2009-07-07 Thread DebianTux23
alfin...@boxbe.com On Tue, Jun 16, 2009 at 4:25 AM, Robert 'Bob' Jensen wrote: > Junk Score: 1 out of 10 (below your Auto Allow threshold) | Change: > https://www.boxbe.com/mail-screening&tc=147907721_1484328999 > Approve sender: > https://www.boxbe.com/policy_update?sender=fedora-devel-list%40

Re: http://www.fsf.org/news/dont-depend-on-mono

2009-07-07 Thread Matthew Woehlke
drago01 wrote: So what about the patents owned by redhat? http://www.redhat.com/legal/patent_policy.html It's also just "promise". True. However anything RH shipped as GPLv3 that uses a RH patent is no longer a mere promise, it's a legally binding patent license. Something that has yet to com

Re: http://www.fsf.org/news/dont-depend-on-mono

2009-07-07 Thread Matthew Woehlke
Rui Miguel Silva Seabra wrote: In a couple of years Microsoft is bought by Fu-Bar Inc and there goes the promise down the drain. ...if only. The odds of *any* company that might buy out M$ (well, if it isn't started by Gates and/or Ballmer and/or such) being as bad as M$ have got to be pretty

Re: http://www.fsf.org/news/dont-depend-on-mono

2009-07-07 Thread drago01
On Wed, Jul 8, 2009 at 12:19 AM, Rui Miguel Silva Seabra wrote: >> And no I am not doing something illegal because the company which >> holds the patents stated in a legally binding document that I can >> implement this standards as long as I don't sue them over a patent >> that is covered by the

Re: http://www.fsf.org/news/dont-depend-on-mono

2009-07-07 Thread Matthew Woehlke
drago01 wrote: On Wed, Jul 8, 2009 at 12:11 AM, Matthew Woehlke<> wrote: (Thank you.) http://www.google.com/search?sourceid=mozclient&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8&q=sflc+microsoft+patent+promise (Granted, much of that is about OOXML, but it seems to be referring to the same OSP, and even so, given the op

Re: an update to automake-1.11?

2009-07-07 Thread Jesse Keating
On Tue, 2009-07-07 at 18:16 -0400, Sam Varshavchik wrote: > Jesse Keating writes: > > > These days distributing via tarball is bizarre. Distributed source > > control is changing the way that projects work and release. Sure there are > > plenty of projects out here that don't work this way but

Re: Feature proposal: Extended Life Cycle Support

2009-07-07 Thread Jesse Keating
On Tue, 2009-07-07 at 23:36 +0200, Kevin Kofler wrote: > Jesse Keating wrote: > > Why was this update marked as security, but not bundled with the package > > that actually had the security issue that you were rebuilding for? When > > the entire list of packages is in one email then it makes sense

EPEL Bug Day July 11, 2009 0-23:59 UTC

2009-07-07 Thread Michael Stahnke
EPEL bug day is fast approaching and we are looking for your help. This is a chance to get involved with EPEL and help make the overall product a little better. Goal: Reduce or update bugs from EPEL. Strategy: The vast majority of EPEL bugs have been classified loosely into three categories.

Re: http://www.fsf.org/news/dont-depend-on-mono

2009-07-07 Thread drago01
On Wed, Jul 8, 2009 at 12:11 AM, Matthew Woehlke<> wrote: > (Since I see some people here doing it... *cough*Please do not quote my > e-mail address unobfuscated in message bodies.*cough* Thank you.) > > Simo Sorce wrote: >> >> People, why don't you all stop playing lawyer and wait that some lawyer

Re: http://www.fsf.org/news/dont-depend-on-mono

2009-07-07 Thread Rui Miguel Silva Seabra
Note: this is my last email on this thread On Tue, Jul 07, 2009 at 10:55:15PM +0200, drago01 wrote: > >> > What you're explicitly told s that you won't be sued if you do so > >> > without the right. > >> > > >> > And you have no right! > >> > >> If I told you "you can do whatever you want with th

Re: an update to automake-1.11?

2009-07-07 Thread Sam Varshavchik
Jesse Keating writes: These days distributing via tarball is bizarre.  Distributed source control is changing the way that projects work and release. Sure there are plenty of projects out here that don't work this way but more and more are headed in this direction.  Yes. If I get the desire

Re: an update to automake-1.11?

2009-07-07 Thread Sam Varshavchik
Mark McLoughlin writes: On Tue, 2009-07-07 at 07:14 -0400, Sam Varshavchik wrote: > libguestfs is a case in point - the Debian maintainer builds it from > git using some unknown version of autoconf, and I build it on RHEL and This is a rare exception. No, it's a rare exception for project to

Re: http://www.fsf.org/news/dont-depend-on-mono

2009-07-07 Thread Matthew Woehlke
(Since I see some people here doing it... *cough*Please do not quote my e-mail address unobfuscated in message bodies.*cough* Thank you.) Simo Sorce wrote: People, why don't you all stop playing lawyer and wait that some lawyer actually comment on the promise? I guess some organization like th

Re: an update to automake-1.11?

2009-07-07 Thread Sam Varshavchik
Kevin Kofler writes: Sam Varshavchik wrote: Sure, why not. It just so happens that, not too long ago, I was in an analogous position where I had some other package that also built against zlib, for $dayjob$. At $dayjob$ we also package free software using a scripted reproducible build. Not RPMs

Re: an update to automake-1.11?

2009-07-07 Thread Sam Varshavchik
Kevin Kofler writes: Sam Varshavchik wrote: Which, as I pointed out, is still the case if you were to patch configure.ac instead. But, go ahead and ignore this inconvenient fact, too. As I explained (and you ignored), configure.ac tends to change a lot less between upstream releases, especi

Re: http://www.fsf.org/news/dont-depend-on-mono

2009-07-07 Thread Adam Jackson
On Tue, 2009-07-07 at 17:46 -0400, Simo Sorce wrote: > On Tue, 2009-07-07 at 16:39 -0400, Adam Jackson wrote: > > Also, please do remember that it is _not_ in itself illegal to > > distribute software that embodies someone else's patent. It's only > > illegal to do so without the owner's consent.

Re: http://www.fsf.org/news/dont-depend-on-mono

2009-07-07 Thread Bill McGonigle
On 07/07/2009 04:24 AM, drago01 wrote: > http://port25.technet.com/archive/2009/07/06/the-ecma-c-and-cli-standards.aspx Were there any announcements about their libraries? This sounds like clarification about which parts of .NET they *don't* plan to sue people over. It would have been easy enou

Re: logistics list

2009-07-07 Thread Till Maas
On Fri July 3 2009, John Poelstra wrote: > The logist...@lists.fedoraproject.org mailing list has been created to > meet the requirements discussed here: > http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-advisory-board/2009-July/msg0.htm >l Imho announcement mails should not require someone to read some

Re: http://www.fsf.org/news/dont-depend-on-mono

2009-07-07 Thread Simo Sorce
On Tue, 2009-07-07 at 16:39 -0400, Adam Jackson wrote: > On Tue, 2009-07-07 at 21:11 +0100, Rui Miguel Silva Seabra wrote: > > On Tue, Jul 07, 2009 at 04:06:02PM +0200, drago01 wrote: > > > On Tue, Jul 7, 2009 at 12:02 PM, Rui Miguel Silva Seabra wrote: > > > > On Tue, Jul 07, 2009 at 11:07:52AM +0

Re: Feature proposal: Extended Life Cycle Support

2009-07-07 Thread Kevin Kofler
Jesse Keating wrote: > Why was this update marked as security, but not bundled with the package > that actually had the security issue that you were rebuilding for? When > the entire list of packages is in one email then it makes sense. Such > as https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2009-1095.html

Re: Feature proposal: Extended Life Cycle Support

2009-07-07 Thread Till Maas
On Tue July 7 2009, Jesse Keating wrote: > Why was this update marked as security, but not bundled with the package > that actually had the security issue that you were rebuilding for? When It was bundled with the packagate that had the security issue: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/F9/

Re: an update to automake-1.11?

2009-07-07 Thread Kevin Kofler
Ville Skyttä wrote: > Well, the copyright notice at the top of configure (included in my > previous mail) pretty clearly tells me what I can do with the script, and > who to contact in case I'd disagree or have any questions. The FSF cannot claim copyright over the configure.ac code I or whoever e

Re: Feature proposal: Extended Life Cycle Support

2009-07-07 Thread Jesse Keating
On Tue, 2009-07-07 at 23:06 +0200, Till Maas wrote: > > This may be disliked by upstream and others, because it creates bogus > security > update notification mails, that say that there are security updates for > packages that are no security updates, e.g.: > https://www.redhat.com/archives/fed

Re: Feature proposal: Extended Life Cycle Support

2009-07-07 Thread Till Maas
On Tue July 7 2009, Jesse Keating wrote: > See above, should be how we do things now, group related updates into a > single bodhi submission, and attach the bugs/CVEs to that single > submission. This may be disliked by upstream and others, because it creates bogus security update notification m

Re: http://www.fsf.org/news/dont-depend-on-mono

2009-07-07 Thread drago01
On Tue, Jul 7, 2009 at 10:11 PM, Rui Miguel Silva Seabra wrote: > On Tue, Jul 07, 2009 at 04:06:02PM +0200, drago01 wrote: >> On Tue, Jul 7, 2009 at 12:02 PM, Rui Miguel Silva Seabra >> wrote: >> > On Tue, Jul 07, 2009 at 11:07:52AM +0200, drago01 wrote: >> >> > The promise makes quite sure to tel

Re: http://www.fsf.org/news/dont-depend-on-mono

2009-07-07 Thread Adam Jackson
On Tue, 2009-07-07 at 21:11 +0100, Rui Miguel Silva Seabra wrote: > On Tue, Jul 07, 2009 at 04:06:02PM +0200, drago01 wrote: > > On Tue, Jul 7, 2009 at 12:02 PM, Rui Miguel Silva Seabra wrote: > > > On Tue, Jul 07, 2009 at 11:07:52AM +0200, drago01 wrote: > > >> > The promise makes quite sure to te

Re: Dracut now has a wiki page in the Fedora wiki...

2009-07-07 Thread Casey Dahlin
On 07/04/2009 03:11 AM, Adam Williamson wrote: > On Fri, 2009-07-03 at 23:19 -0400, Jon Masters wrote: >> On Fri, 2009-07-03 at 15:00 -0500, Bruno Wolff III wrote: >>> On Fri, Jul 03, 2009 at 10:43:34 +0100, >>> Adam Williamson wrote: but it's actually a lot less trouble to just do: >>

Re: Dracut now has a wiki page in the Fedora wiki...

2009-07-07 Thread James Laska
On Fri, 2009-07-03 at 11:18 +0100, Adam Williamson wrote: > On Thu, 2009-07-02 at 23:22 +, "Jóhann B. Guðmundsson" wrote: > > > It would be nice if someone who actually who's primary language is > > English reviews and fixes potential ken lee entry's i've made. > > I did a copyedit on the pa

Re: http://www.fsf.org/news/dont-depend-on-mono

2009-07-07 Thread Rui Miguel Silva Seabra
On Tue, Jul 07, 2009 at 12:15:28PM +0200, Dodji Seketeli wrote: > Le 07/07/2009 12:02, Rui Miguel Silva Seabra a écrit : > > > What you're explicitly told s that you won't be sued if you do so without > > the right. > > > > And you have no right! > > Just to try to understand your point. > > 1

Re: http://www.fsf.org/news/dont-depend-on-mono

2009-07-07 Thread Rui Miguel Silva Seabra
On Tue, Jul 07, 2009 at 04:06:02PM +0200, drago01 wrote: > On Tue, Jul 7, 2009 at 12:02 PM, Rui Miguel Silva Seabra wrote: > > On Tue, Jul 07, 2009 at 11:07:52AM +0200, drago01 wrote: > >> > The promise makes quite sure to tell you you have no right[1], but you > >> > can > >> > infringe that they

Re: Keyboard US Internacional

2009-07-07 Thread Rodrigo Padula de Oliveira
Hello guys. How can we add gtk2-immodules and gtk2-immodule-xim by default in a PT_BR Fedora installation ? We need to correct this problem ASAP for Fedora 10 ,11 and rawhide We are receiving a lot of claims about this problem in Brazilian lists and forum. Bugzilla entry: https://bugzilla.

Re: an update to automake-1.11?

2009-07-07 Thread John5342
2009/7/7 Ville Skyttä : > On Tuesday 07 July 2009, Kevin Kofler wrote: >> Ville Skyttä wrote: >> > The FSF seems to disagree with that. >> > >> > http://www.gnu.org/software/autoconf/manual/html_node/Distributing.html#D >> >istributing >> >> That applies to the automatically copied shell code, but

Re: an update to automake-1.11?

2009-07-07 Thread Ville Skyttä
On Tuesday 07 July 2009, Kevin Kofler wrote: > Ville Skyttä wrote: > > The FSF seems to disagree with that. > > > > http://www.gnu.org/software/autoconf/manual/html_node/Distributing.html#D > >istributing > > That applies to the automatically copied shell code, but not necessarily to > the code fro

Re: Howto escape # in a spec file

2009-07-07 Thread Mamoru Tasaka
stefan riemens wrote, at 07/08/2009 02:22 AM +9:00: Hi all, I need to escape a # character in a spec file, but I can't seem to find how to do that (is it even possible?) See also BZ #508847. There are a couple of .#pfd1.xml like files which need to be rm -f 'd... Thanks, Stefan For me using

Re: Howto escape # in a spec file

2009-07-07 Thread Jos Vos
On Tue, Jul 07, 2009 at 07:22:57PM +0200, stefan riemens wrote: > I need to escape a # character in a spec file, but I can't seem to > find how to do that (is it even possible?) > > See also BZ #508847. There are a couple of .#pfd1.xml like files which > need to be rm -f 'd... On RHEL5 (rpm 4.4.

Re: relicensing of Fedora wiki/docs (OPL => CC BY SA)

2009-07-07 Thread Jochen Schmitt
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Am 07.07.2009 09:58, schrieb Karsten Wade: > The consensus of the Docs Team, with full Legal support, is to > relicense wiki and documentation from the deprecated OPL 1.0 to the CC > BY SA 3.0 license. This move brings Fedora on to the mainland of fre

Re: Broken dependencies in Rawhide - 2009-07-07

2009-07-07 Thread Jussi Lehtola
On Tue, 2009-07-07 at 15:47 +, Michael Schwendt wrote: > The following packages in the repository suffer from broken dependencies: > > package: pypar-2.1.0_66-3.fc10.i386 from fedora-development-i386 > unresolved deps: > libpython2.5.so.1.0 > python(abi) = 0:2.5 I haven't been abl

relicensing of Fedora wiki/docs (OPL => CC BY SA)

2009-07-07 Thread Karsten Wade
This is a policy and licensing change that affects anyone who edits the wiki or otherwise contributes to Fedora documentation. The consensus of the Docs Team, with full Legal support, is to relicense wiki and documentation from the deprecated OPL 1.0 to the CC BY SA 3.0 license. This move brings

Howto escape # in a spec file

2009-07-07 Thread stefan riemens
Hi all, I need to escape a # character in a spec file, but I can't seem to find how to do that (is it even possible?) See also BZ #508847. There are a couple of .#pfd1.xml like files which need to be rm -f 'd... Thanks, Stefan -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@redhat.com http

Re: Broken dependencies in Rawhide - 2009-07-07

2009-07-07 Thread Josh Boyer
On Tue, Jul 07, 2009 at 10:16:59PM +0530, Parag N(पराग़) wrote: >Hi, > >On Tue, Jul 7, 2009 at 9:16 PM, Michael Schwendt wrote: >> The following packages in the repository suffer from broken dependencies: >> >> package: CodeAnalyst-gui-2.8.38-12.fc12.i586 from fedora-development-i386 >>  unresolved

Re: an update to automake-1.11?

2009-07-07 Thread Toshio Kuratomi
On 07/07/2009 09:45 AM, Braden McDaniel wrote: > On Tue, 2009-07-07 at 01:17 -0700, Toshio Kuratomi wrote: >> Perhaps but it doesn't decrease the work that the maintainer has to do. > > It very well might if Fedora upgrades to a new autoconf, automake, or > libtool that is not 100% backward compa

Re: Broken dependencies in Rawhide - 2009-07-07

2009-07-07 Thread Jesse Keating
On Tue, 2009-07-07 at 22:26 +0530, Debarshi Ray wrote: > > This should have already included in daily rawhide report. I am not > > sure why broken deps report is not getting included in daily rawhide > > report. > > There is some problem with the script and Jesse is not around to fix it. > I'm w

Re: an update to automake-1.11?

2009-07-07 Thread Kevin Kofler
Ville Skyttä wrote: > The FSF seems to disagree with that. > > http://www.gnu.org/software/autoconf/manual/html_node/Distributing.html#Distributing That applies to the automatically copied shell code, but not necessarily to the code from the original configure.ac. Kevin Kofler -- fedo

Re: an update to automake-1.11?

2009-07-07 Thread Kevin Kofler
Matthew Woehlke wrote: > ...but they depend on a slew of *other* things, like a POSIX shell and > many POSIX tools. Right. Assuming POSIX in a tool which is supposed to be a portability tool is completely nonsensical and anachronistic, considering the most popular operating system is a proprieta

Re: Broken dependencies in Rawhide - 2009-07-07

2009-07-07 Thread Debarshi Ray
> This should have already included in daily rawhide report. I am not > sure why broken deps report is not getting included in daily rawhide > report. There is some problem with the script and Jesse is not around to fix it. Cheerio, Debarshi -- One reason that life is complex is that it has a re

Re: Broken dependencies in Rawhide - 2009-07-07

2009-07-07 Thread पराग़
Hi, On Tue, Jul 7, 2009 at 9:16 PM, Michael Schwendt wrote: > The following packages in the repository suffer from broken dependencies: > > package: CodeAnalyst-gui-2.8.38-12.fc12.i586 from fedora-development-i386 >  unresolved deps: >     libbfd-2.19.51.0.2-20.fc12.so > > package: CodeAnalyst-gui

Re: an update to automake-1.11?

2009-07-07 Thread Braden McDaniel
On Tue, 2009-07-07 at 01:17 -0700, Toshio Kuratomi wrote: > On 07/06/2009 08:09 PM, Braden McDaniel wrote: > > On Mon, 2009-07-06 at 16:36 -0700, Toshio Kuratomi wrote: > >> On 07/06/2009 03:57 PM, Braden McDaniel wrote: > >>> On 7/6/09 6:10 PM, Toshio Kuratomi wrote: > >>> > >>> [snip] > >>> > >>>

Re: Feature proposal: Extended Life Cycle Support

2009-07-07 Thread Jesse Keating
On Tue, 2009-07-07 at 16:24 +0200, Jeroen van Meeuwen wrote: > If you take into account that the proposal concerns security fixes only, > then every update has to be labeled a security update (and preferably > have some kind of CVE/bug# attached??). We would need to think about a > policy for th

Re: an update to automake-1.11?

2009-07-07 Thread Braden McDaniel
On Tue, 2009-07-07 at 14:01 +0200, Kevin Kofler wrote: > Braden McDaniel wrote: > > Breaking compatibility with previous versions of automake, autoconf, or > > libtool has no impact on released tarballs made using those tools; they > > continue to work as intended because they do not depend on the

Re: Feature proposal: Extended Life Cycle Support

2009-07-07 Thread Bill Nottingham
Jeroen van Meeuwen (kana...@kanarip.com) said: > For the Bugzilla gurus out there, to what extent is Bugzilla capable to > Assign a bug to the owner of a package for a certain branch? > > Say I file a bug against foo in Fedora 8 now, and have ownership of the > foo package in PackageDB... woul

Re: an update to automake-1.11?

2009-07-07 Thread Ville Skyttä
On Monday 06 July 2009, Kevin Kofler wrote: > Sam Varshavchik wrote: > > But that's what /you/ want to do, not me. Me, I'll just apply a patch to > > the configure script, directly. > > And you'll be violating the GPL (unless you're talking about a > BSD-style-licensed software or configure.ac is e

Re: Feature proposal: Extended Life Cycle Support

2009-07-07 Thread Kevin Kofler
Jeroen van Meeuwen wrote: > "Fedora End-Of-Sales" or something (please avoid the Legacy or LTS names). End-Of-Sales doesn't make a lot of sense for something which isn't sold… Kevin Kofler -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@redhat.com https://www.redhat.com/mailman/lis

Re: Feature proposal: Extended Life Cycle Support

2009-07-07 Thread Kevin Kofler
Ding-Yi Chen wrote: > Therefore, I would like to propose an alternative approach, > namely, project Denture. See my blog post for further information: > http://dingyichen.livejournal.com/14055.html > > Any comments? As I've tried to explain to you last time you proposed that approach on your blo

Broken dependencies in Rawhide - 2009-07-07

2009-07-07 Thread Michael Schwendt
Summary of broken packages (by src.rpm name): bmpx clutter-cairo clutter-cairomm clutter-gst clutter-gtkmm cluttermm CodeAnalyst-gui gauche-gl gauche-gtk ginac kdeedu libchamplain libprojectM libvirt-qpid octave-forge orsa pyclutt

Re: an update to automake-1.11?

2009-07-07 Thread Matthew Woehlke
Braden McDaniel wrote: Breaking compatibility with previous versions of automake, autoconf, or libtool has no impact on released tarballs made using those tools; they continue to work as intended because they do not depend on the presence of these tools. ...but they depend on a slew of *other*

Re: Feature proposal: Extended Life Cycle Support

2009-07-07 Thread John5342
2009/7/7 Ding-Yi Chen : > > 於 二,2009-07-07 於 14:44 +0100,John5342 提到: >> 2009/7/7 Ding-Yi Chen : >> > >> > Any comments? >> >> In theory your proposal sounds great but i see just one major flaw >> that probably doesn't have a solution. Your idea of packages being >> built based on dependencies shou

Re: F10 anaconda incompatible with current F10 yum - WTF

2009-07-07 Thread Jeroen van Meeuwen
On 07/02/2009 05:31 PM, Xavier Toth wrote: It's a one liner. --- anaconda-11.5.0.12/yuminstall.py.orig 2009-06-30 09:05:19.0 -0500 +++ anaconda-11.5.0.12/yuminstall.py2009-06-30 09:06:03.0 -0500 @@ -575,8 +575,7 @@ YumSorter.getReposFromConfig(self) # O

Re: Display configuration test day [TODAY]

2009-07-07 Thread James Laska
On Mon, 2009-07-06 at 22:53 -0400, Matthias Clasen wrote: > Just a reminder that we are kicking off our 'fit and finish' initiative > with a test day on display configuration tomorrow, in > #fedora-fit-and-finish. If you go to > > http://www.fedoraproject.org/wiki/Test_Day:2009-07-07_Fit_and_Fini

Re: an update to automake-1.11?

2009-07-07 Thread Seth Vidal
On Tue, 7 Jul 2009, Colin Walters wrote: On Tue, Jul 7, 2009 at 10:23 AM, Seth Vidal wrote: I disagree. I think the discrete tarball snapshot of a release will continue for quite some time and I've not seen anyone moving away from that in their public software releases. It's not so black a

Re: http://www.fsf.org/news/dont-depend-on-mono

2009-07-07 Thread Adam Jackson
On Tue, 2009-07-07 at 07:14 -0700, Jesse Keating wrote: > On Jul 7, 2009, at 3:15, Dodji Seketeli wrote: > > Le 07/07/2009 12:02, Rui Miguel Silva Seabra a écrit : > >> What you're explicitly told s that you won't be sued if you do so > >> without the right. > >> > >> And you have no right! > >

Re: http://www.fsf.org/news/dont-depend-on-mono

2009-07-07 Thread drago01
On Tue, Jul 7, 2009 at 4:41 PM, Frank Murphy wrote: > https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-legal-list/2009-July/msg00014.html OK, so lets move on before this ends into a flamewar ;) -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@redhat.com https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-de

Re: an update to automake-1.11?

2009-07-07 Thread Colin Walters
On Tue, Jul 7, 2009 at 10:23 AM, Seth Vidal wrote: > > I disagree. I think the discrete tarball snapshot of a release will continue > for quite some time and I've not seen anyone moving away from that in their > public software releases. It's not so black and white; for example, it often makes sen

Re: Requesting Feature Page Status Updates by July 14, 2009

2009-07-07 Thread Bill Nottingham
Kevin Kofler (kevin.kof...@chello.at) said: > > Per https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Milestone_Adjustment_Proposal what > > used to be called "Beta" is now called "Alpha". This matches industry > > nomenclature for what we were actually producing. > > Uh, I kinda recalled that the feedback on the

Re: Feature proposal: Extended Life Cycle Support

2009-07-07 Thread Ding-Yi Chen
於 二,2009-07-07 於 14:44 +0100,John5342 提到: > 2009/7/7 Ding-Yi Chen : > > > > Any comments? > > In theory your proposal sounds great but i see just one major flaw > that probably doesn't have a solution. Your idea of packages being > built based on dependencies should work great apart from the fact

Re: an update to automake-1.11?

2009-07-07 Thread Seth Vidal
On Tue, 7 Jul 2009, Jesse Keating wrote: These days distributing via tarball is bizarre.  Distributed source control is changing the way that projects work and release. Sure there are plenty of projects out here that don't work this way but more and more are headed in this direction.  I

Re: http://www.fsf.org/news/dont-depend-on-mono

2009-07-07 Thread Frank Murphy
https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-legal-list/2009-July/msg00014.html Regards, Frank -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@redhat.com https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list

Re: http://www.fsf.org/news/dont-depend-on-mono

2009-07-07 Thread Adam Jackson
On Tue, 2009-07-07 at 16:06 +0200, Julian Aloofi wrote: > Unfortunately the patent promise covers more things than just C# / CLI > patents. > And it seems like you're going to lose the whole promise when you just > sue them over one specification in there, e.g. the XPS specification. > Maybe that

Re: Feature proposal: Extended Life Cycle Support

2009-07-07 Thread Jeroen van Meeuwen
On 07/07/2009 12:07 AM, Jesse Keating wrote: On Sat, 2009-07-04 at 23:58 +0200, Jeroen van Meeuwen wrote: I wanted to draw your attention to a feature I've proposed for Fedora 12, mysteriously called Extended Life Cycle. You can find more details at https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Features/Exten

Re: Feature proposal: Extended Life Cycle Support

2009-07-07 Thread Jeroen van Meeuwen
On 07/07/2009 01:06 AM, Kevin Fenzi wrote: On Mon, 06 Jul 2009 20:20:50 +0200 Jeroen van Meeuwen wrote: Reading it on a question-mark per question-mark basis though, I think the feature page answers half of the half-posed questions. Anyway: - a bunch fas names? Approximate number? A bunch

Re: an update to automake-1.11?

2009-07-07 Thread Jesse Keating
On Jul 7, 2009, at 4:14, Sam Varshavchik wrote: Richard W.M. Jones writes: On Mon, Jul 06, 2009 at 11:09:51PM -0400, Braden McDaniel wrote: 2. improves the resiliency of the package build to changes to Fedora's autotools chain. Many projects come with public source repositories

Re: http://www.fsf.org/news/dont-depend-on-mono

2009-07-07 Thread Jesse Keating
On Jul 7, 2009, at 3:15, Dodji Seketeli wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Le 07/07/2009 12:02, Rui Miguel Silva Seabra a écrit : What you're explicitly told s that you won't be sued if you do so without the right. And you have no right! Just to try to understand you

Re: http://www.fsf.org/news/dont-depend-on-mono

2009-07-07 Thread drago01
On Tue, Jul 7, 2009 at 4:06 PM, Julian Aloofi wrote: > Am Dienstag, den 07.07.2009, 15:36 +0200 schrieb drago01: >> On Tue, Jul 7, 2009 at 3:27 PM, Jonathan >> Underwood wrote: >> > 2009/7/7 Adam Jackson : >> >> On Tue, 2009-07-07 at 09:56 +0100, Rui Miguel Silva Seabra wrote: >> >>> On Tue, Jul 07

Re: http://www.fsf.org/news/dont-depend-on-mono

2009-07-07 Thread Julian Aloofi
Am Dienstag, den 07.07.2009, 15:36 +0200 schrieb drago01: > On Tue, Jul 7, 2009 at 3:27 PM, Jonathan > Underwood wrote: > > 2009/7/7 Adam Jackson : > >> On Tue, 2009-07-07 at 09:56 +0100, Rui Miguel Silva Seabra wrote: > >>> On Tue, Jul 07, 2009 at 10:24:24AM +0200, drago01 wrote: > >>> > http://po

Re: http://www.fsf.org/news/dont-depend-on-mono

2009-07-07 Thread drago01
On Tue, Jul 7, 2009 at 12:02 PM, Rui Miguel Silva Seabra wrote: > On Tue, Jul 07, 2009 at 11:07:52AM +0200, drago01 wrote: >> > The promise makes quite sure to tell you you have no right[1], but you can >> > infringe that they won't sue *you*[2]. >> > >> > [1] => means you can't do it with GPL >> >

Re: http://www.fsf.org/news/dont-depend-on-mono

2009-07-07 Thread Adam Jackson
On Tue, 2009-07-07 at 14:27 +0100, Jonathan Underwood wrote: > Not answering Ajax's question specifically, but this looks a bit iffy: > > "If you file, maintain, or voluntarily participate in a patent > infringement lawsuit against a Microsoft implementation of any Covered > Specification, then t

Re: readline update?

2009-07-07 Thread Rex Dieter
Miroslav Lichvar wrote: > On Fri, Jul 03, 2009 at 02:48:47PM +0200, Kevin Kofler wrote: >> Miroslav Lichvar wrote: >> > kdeedu-4.2.95-1.fc12 >> >> kdeedu only uses readline in KAlgebra which is GPLv2+ (and only in the >> command-line version ("calgebra") at that), so no problems there. (I also >>

Re: Feature proposal: Extended Life Cycle Support

2009-07-07 Thread Jeroen van Meeuwen
On 07/07/2009 12:29 AM, Toshio Kuratomi wrote: On 07/06/2009 03:07 PM, Jesse Keating wrote: Bugzilla spam. If we keep the release open for random bug filing, we have no good way of telling bugzilla that only specific users should get bugs for specific releases of Fedora. Ownership is at a pro

How to properly name a cross-toolchain package?

2009-07-07 Thread Peter Lemenkov
Hello All! I plan to add arm-toolchain into Fedora and encountered a difficulty - how to properly name the package? From what I found in the Internets, the cross-toolchains *often* named with the following prefix: For example: i686-pc-linux-gnu- powerpc-unknown-linux-gnu- x86_64-unknown-li

Re: Feature proposal: Extended Life Cycle Support

2009-07-07 Thread John5342
2009/7/7 Ding-Yi Chen : > > 於 日,2009-07-05 於 12:32 +0200,Jeroen van Meeuwen 提到: >> On 07/05/2009 12:12 PM, Jos Vos wrote: >> > On Sun, Jul 05, 2009 at 12:03:05PM +0200, Jeroen van Meeuwen wrote: >> > >> >> The CentOS project, or it's upstream, has a release cycle of approximately >> >> three years

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