Re: [Mageia-dev] PHP + phpBB mod capabilities needed to fix bug 1956 - please help

2012-01-11 Thread Marja van Waes
On 03/01/12 10:09, Wolfgang Bornath wrote: 2012/1/3 Michael Scherer: Le lundi 02 janvier 2012 à 22:17 +0100, Maarten Vanraes a écrit : Op maandag 02 januari 2012 21:40:31 schreef Michael Scherer: Le lundi 02 janvier 2012 à 19:41 +0100, Marja van Waes a écrit : Hi everyone, Can someone please

Re: [Mageia-dev] please stop doing "bugs" for updating magia 1

2012-01-11 Thread Florian Hubold
Am 11.01.2012 08:57, schrieb Buchan Milne: > On Wednesday, 11 January 2012 06:32:50 Johnny A. Solbu wrote: >> On Wednesday 11 January 2012 03:28, Luis Daniel Lucio Quiroz wrote: >>> I mean, stop asking updates for mageia 1 just because there is another >>> newversion. >> May I suggest that next tim

Re: [Mageia-dev] Fosdem 2012 - Mageia stand

2012-01-11 Thread Colin Guthrie
'Twas brillig, and Oliver Burger at 11/01/12 07:56 did gyre and gimble: > as you might already know from previous mails or from the blog post published > yesterday, Mageia is (again) attending Fosdem this year. > http://blog.mageia.org/en/2012/01/10/happy-new-mageia-year/ > > > Aside from partici

Re: [Mageia-dev] PHP + phpBB mod capabilities needed to fix bug 1956 - please help

2012-01-11 Thread Wolfgang Bornath
2012/1/11 Marja van Waes : > On 03/01/12 10:09, Wolfgang Bornath wrote: >> >> 2012/1/3 Michael Scherer: >>> >>> Le lundi 02 janvier 2012 à 22:17 +0100, Maarten Vanraes a écrit : Op maandag 02 januari 2012 21:40:31 schreef Michael Scherer: > > Le lundi 02 janvier 2012 à 19:41 +0100

Re: [Mageia-dev] PHP + phpBB mod capabilities needed to fix bug 1956 - please help

2012-01-11 Thread Oliver Burger
Am Mittwoch, 11. Januar 2012, 10:54:58 schrieb Wolfgang Bornath: > Why? IMHO this complete issue is going out of proportions. Let's > remember why we *seem to need* this MOD in the first place. And what > will we find? The time-to-edit discussion, again. In the council > meeting where it was decide

Re: [Mageia-dev] [RFC] Moving various packages/codecs to tainted

2012-01-11 Thread andre999
Colin Guthrie a écrit : 'Twas brillig, and andre999 at 10/01/12 03:12 did gyre and gimble: Juan Luis Baptiste a écrit : On Mon, Jan 9, 2012 at 6:38 PM, Anssi Hannula wrote: I'm absolutely fine with either moving codecs to core or tainted, as long as we are at least somewha

Re: [Mageia-dev] Fosdem 2012 - Mageia stand

2012-01-11 Thread Marja van Waes
On 11/01/12 10:15, Colin Guthrie wrote: 'Twas brillig, and Oliver Burger at 11/01/12 07:56 did gyre and gimble: as you might already know from previous mails or from the blog post published yesterday, Mageia is (again) attending Fosdem this year. http://blog.mageia.org/en/2012/01/10/happy-new-ma

Re: [Mageia-dev] Fosdem 2012 - Mageia stand

2012-01-11 Thread AL13N
> 'Twas brillig, and Oliver Burger at 11/01/12 07:56 did gyre and gimble: [...] >> Looking forward to meeting many people there, > > In a stunning break from the norm, I've actually managed to not plan a > skiing holiday over the FOSDEM weekend... Misc won't believe me but I > WILL be there! > > Ad

Re: [Mageia-dev] [RFC] Moving various packages/codecs to tainted

2012-01-11 Thread Anssi Hannula
On 10.01.2012 15:07, Pascal Terjan wrote: > On Tue, Jan 10, 2012 at 03:20, Anssi Hannula wrote: >> The problem is that that "balance" was achieved by sticking packages in >> PLF/main/contrib semi-randomly. For example, H.264 decoders and MPEG-4 >> video encoders are in main/core, while e.g. AAC au

Re: [Mageia-dev] PHP + phpBB mod capabilities needed to fix bug 1956 - please help

2012-01-11 Thread Florian Hubold
Am 11.01.2012 10:54, schrieb Wolfgang Bornath: > 2012/1/11 Marja van Waes : >> On 03/01/12 10:09, Wolfgang Bornath wrote: >>> 2012/1/3 Michael Scherer: Le lundi 02 janvier 2012 à 22:17 +0100, Maarten Vanraes a écrit : > Op maandag 02 januari 2012 21:40:31 schreef Michael Scherer: >> Le

Re: [Mageia-dev] [RFC] Moving various packages/codecs to tainted

2012-01-11 Thread Pascal Terjan
On Wed, Jan 11, 2012 at 12:56, Anssi Hannula wrote: > On 10.01.2012 15:07, Pascal Terjan wrote: >> On Tue, Jan 10, 2012 at 03:20, Anssi Hannula wrote: >>> The problem is that that "balance" was achieved by sticking packages in >>> PLF/main/contrib semi-randomly. For example, H.264 decoders and MP

Re: [Mageia-dev] please stop doing "bugs" for updating magia 1

2012-01-11 Thread Antoine Pitrou
On Tue, 10 Jan 2012 20:28:15 -0600 Luis Daniel Lucio Quiroz wrote: > > You dont get me, > > I mean, stop asking updates for mageia 1 just because there is another > newversion. Uh. As a Mageia user I would expect Mageia to package significant *bugfix releases* and ship them in the updates for

Re: [Mageia-dev] please stop doing "bugs" for updating magia 1

2012-01-11 Thread Guillaume Rousse
Le 11/01/2012 16:09, Antoine Pitrou a écrit : As a Mageia user I would expect Mageia to package significant *bugfix releases* and ship them in the updates for the stable distro. You'd rather read the current update policy, rather than expect blind assertions: https://wiki.mageia.org/en/Updates_

Re: [Mageia-dev] please stop doing "bugs" for updating magia 1

2012-01-11 Thread Juan Luis Baptiste
On Wed, Jan 11, 2012 at 3:43 AM, Florian Hubold wrote: > Well, 2) and 3) are not valid reasons here, because backports should get > a similar amount of QA testing as normal update candidates, and for > the updates policy require a bugreport for validation through QA. I think this is unrealistic i

Re: [Mageia-dev] PHP + phpBB mod capabilities needed to fix bug 1956 - please help

2012-01-11 Thread Marja van Waes
On 11/01/12 10:54, Wolfgang Bornath wrote: 2012/1/11 Marja van Waes: On 03/01/12 10:09, Wolfgang Bornath wrote: Le lundi 02 janvier 2012 à 19:41 +0100, Marja van Waes a écrit : Hi everyone, Can someone please help to fix bug 1956? IMHO the best way in this case here would be a mod writte

Re: [Mageia-dev] please stop doing "bugs" for updating magia 1

2012-01-11 Thread Antoine Pitrou
On Wed, 11 Jan 2012 16:51:55 +0100 Guillaume Rousse wrote: > Le 11/01/2012 16:09, Antoine Pitrou a écrit : > > As a Mageia user I would expect Mageia to package significant *bugfix > > releases* and ship them in the updates for the stable distro. > You'd rather read the current update policy, rath

Re: [Mageia-dev] please stop doing "bugs" for updating magia 1

2012-01-11 Thread Christian Lohmaier
On Wed, Jan 11, 2012 at 4:51 PM, Guillaume Rousse wrote: > Le 11/01/2012 16:09, Antoine Pitrou a écrit : > >> As a Mageia user I would expect Mageia to package significant *bugfix >> releases* and ship them in the updates for the stable distro. > > You'd rather read the current update policy, rath

Re: [Mageia-dev] please stop doing "bugs" for updating magia 1

2012-01-11 Thread Pascal Terjan
On Wed, Jan 11, 2012 at 16:48, Christian Lohmaier wrote: > On Wed, Jan 11, 2012 at 4:51 PM, Guillaume Rousse > wrote: >> Le 11/01/2012 16:09, Antoine Pitrou a écrit : >> >>> As a Mageia user I would expect Mageia to package significant *bugfix >>> releases* and ship them in the updates for the st

Re: [Mageia-dev] please stop doing "bugs" for updating magia 1

2012-01-11 Thread Juan Luis Baptiste
On Wed, Jan 11, 2012 at 11:48 AM, Christian Lohmaier wrote: > Welcome to distro-isolation, putting burden on maintainers, giving > them all the reason to deny a reasonable request for a bugfix release > because it just is too much work to hunt for a specific commit that > fixed bug x. > You don't

Re: [Mageia-dev] please stop doing "bugs" for updating magia 1

2012-01-11 Thread Antoine Pitrou
On Wed, 11 Jan 2012 12:43:35 -0500 Juan Luis Baptiste wrote: > > Sure, you cannot be save of regressions, but what makes you think you > > are smarter than upstream? What makes you so sure that not the one > > commit you add as a patch to your package is the one that causes the > > regressions? >

Re: [Mageia-dev] please stop doing "bugs" for updating magia 1

2012-01-11 Thread Juan Luis Baptiste
On Wed, Jan 11, 2012 at 1:22 PM, Antoine Pitrou wrote: > On Wed, 11 Jan 2012 12:43:35 -0500 > But how do you choose which patches you want to backport from the > stream of bugfixes done by upstream? Because normally a single commit fixes a single bug and the commit message says it clearly, so it'

Re: [Mageia-dev] please stop doing "bugs" for updating magia 1

2012-01-11 Thread Michael Scherer
Le mercredi 11 janvier 2012 à 11:24 -0500, Juan Luis Baptiste a écrit : > On Wed, Jan 11, 2012 at 3:43 AM, Florian Hubold wrote: > > Well, 2) and 3) are not valid reasons here, because backports should get > > a similar amount of QA testing as normal update candidates, and for > > the updates poli

Re: [Mageia-dev] please stop doing "bugs" for updating magia 1

2012-01-11 Thread Antoine Pitrou
On Wed, 11 Jan 2012 13:33:41 -0500 Juan Luis Baptiste wrote: > On Wed, Jan 11, 2012 at 1:22 PM, Antoine Pitrou wrote: > > On Wed, 11 Jan 2012 12:43:35 -0500 > > But how do you choose which patches you want to backport from the > > stream of bugfixes done by upstream? > > Because normally a singl

Re: [Mageia-dev] please stop doing "bugs" for updating magia 1

2012-01-11 Thread Michael Scherer
Le mercredi 11 janvier 2012 à 17:48 +0100, Christian Lohmaier a écrit : > On Wed, Jan 11, 2012 at 4:51 PM, Guillaume Rousse > wrote: > > Le 11/01/2012 16:09, Antoine Pitrou a écrit : > > > >> As a Mageia user I would expect Mageia to package significant *bugfix > >> releases* and ship them in the

Re: [Mageia-dev] please stop doing "bugs" for updating magia 1

2012-01-11 Thread Johnny A. Solbu
On Wednesday 11 January 2012 19:33, Juan Luis Baptiste wrote: > > Should the packager monitor all > > bug fixing activity? > > No we don't need to, we just need to look for the fix we are > interested in as I described before. And how do one do that without monitoring most bugfixing activity or re

Re: [Mageia-dev] please stop doing "bugs" for updating magia 1

2012-01-11 Thread Juan Luis Baptiste
On Wed, Jan 11, 2012 at 2:19 PM, Antoine Pitrou wrote: > On Wed, 11 Jan 2012 13:33:41 -0500 >> > >> >> No we don't need to, we just need to look for the fix we are >> interested in as I described before. > > Uh, you have a hard time understanding a question don't you? > And you a hard time unders

Re: [Mageia-dev] please stop doing "bugs" for updating magia 1

2012-01-11 Thread Juan Luis Baptiste
On Wed, Jan 11, 2012 at 2:38 PM, Johnny A. Solbu wrote: > On Wednesday 11 January 2012 19:33, Juan Luis Baptiste wrote: > And how do one do that without monitoring most bugfixing activity or > reviewing them, hunting for a particular fix? > > To some people, that magic trick is not obvious. > As

Re: [Mageia-dev] please stop doing "bugs" for updating magia 1

2012-01-11 Thread Michael Scherer
Le mercredi 11 janvier 2012 à 16:09 +0100, Antoine Pitrou a écrit : > On Tue, 10 Jan 2012 20:28:15 -0600 > Luis Daniel Lucio Quiroz > wrote: > > > > You dont get me, > > > > I mean, stop asking updates for mageia 1 just because there is another > > newversion. > > Uh. > As a Mageia user I woul

Re: [Mageia-dev] please stop doing "bugs" for updating magia 1

2012-01-11 Thread zezinho
Le mercredi 11 janvier 2012 19:22:23, Antoine Pitrou a écrit : > Just because someone doesn't file a bug against Mageia doesn't mean the > bug doesn't bother anybody, because many users don't report upstream > bugs to the distro's tracker. > (also, other users don't bother reporting bugs at all :-)

Re: [Mageia-dev] please stop doing "bugs" for updating magia 1

2012-01-11 Thread Antoine Pitrou
On Wed, 11 Jan 2012 14:41:54 -0500 Juan Luis Baptiste wrote: > > As I said, when there's a bug report on mga, we start investigating > the problem and go and look at upstream for a bug report there for > *that* particular bug. So let me repeat myself from two messages above (!): “Just because s

Re: [Mageia-dev] please stop doing "bugs" for updating magia 1

2012-01-11 Thread Juan Luis Baptiste
On Wed, Jan 11, 2012 at 2:10 PM, Michael Scherer wrote: > Le mercredi 11 janvier 2012 à 11:24 -0500, Juan Luis Baptiste a écrit : > > So trusting and having bugs are totally unrelated. And if you doubt that > bugs appear, just see our bugzilla. > We trust upstream ( most of them ), and yet there i

Re: [Mageia-dev] please stop doing "bugs" for updating magia 1

2012-01-11 Thread Juan Luis Baptiste
On Wed, Jan 11, 2012 at 3:05 PM, Antoine Pitrou wrote: > > “Just because someone doesn't file a bug against Mageia doesn't mean the > bug doesn't bother anybody, because many users don't report upstream > bugs to the distro's tracker.” > Simple, we won't fix bugs that aren't reported or noticed b

Re: [Mageia-dev] PHP + phpBB mod capabilities needed to fix bug 1956 - please help

2012-01-11 Thread nicolas vigier
On Wed, 11 Jan 2012, Marja van Waes wrote: > > I can't talk for that minority, of course. However, I can talk for myself: > > In such circumstances it is very possible that I'd agree to do something to > later find out I can't concentrate on the task no matter how hard I try. > > I regret it wasn

Re: [Mageia-dev] please stop doing "bugs" for updating magia 1

2012-01-11 Thread Antoine Pitrou
On Wed, 11 Jan 2012 15:13:05 -0500 Juan Luis Baptiste wrote: > On Wed, Jan 11, 2012 at 3:05 PM, Antoine Pitrou wrote: > > > > “Just because someone doesn't file a bug against Mageia doesn't mean the > > bug doesn't bother anybody, because many users don't report upstream > > bugs to the distro's

Re: [Mageia-dev] PHP + phpBB mod capabilities needed to fix bug 1956 - please help

2012-01-11 Thread Maarten Vanraes
Op woensdag 11 januari 2012 21:13:50 schreef nicolas vigier: [...] > But the main problem is not edit time, I don't really care about edit > time myself. The main problem is that there seems to be a majority of > people who think it should be enabled, that there is no good reason to > not do it, or

Re: [Mageia-dev] please stop doing "bugs" for updating magia 1

2012-01-11 Thread Christian Lohmaier
On Wed, Jan 11, 2012 at 6:43 PM, Juan Luis Baptiste wrote: > On Wed, Jan 11, 2012 at 11:48 AM, Christian Lohmaier > wrote: > [...] > You don't do packaging, right ? Wrong. I do packaging, although not for any distro. > it isn't that hard and is how all distro's do it. Look at Fedora or > SuSE's

Re: [Mageia-dev] please stop doing "bugs" for updating magia 1

2012-01-11 Thread Christian Lohmaier
On Wed, Jan 11, 2012 at 8:56 PM, zezinho wrote: > Le mercredi 11 janvier 2012 19:22:23, Antoine Pitrou a écrit : >> Just because someone doesn't file a bug against Mageia doesn't mean the >> bug doesn't bother anybody, because many users don't report upstream >> bugs to the distro's tracker. >> (a

Re: [Mageia-dev] please stop doing "bugs" for updating magia 1

2012-01-11 Thread Christian Lohmaier
On Wed, Jan 11, 2012 at 8:32 PM, Michael Scherer wrote: > Le mercredi 11 janvier 2012 à 17:48 +0100, Christian Lohmaier a écrit : >> On Wed, Jan 11, 2012 at 4:51 PM, Guillaume Rousse >> wrote: >> > Le 11/01/2012 16:09, Antoine Pitrou a écrit : >> > >> >> As a Mageia user I would expect Mageia to

Re: [Mageia-dev] please stop doing "bugs" for updating magia 1

2012-01-11 Thread Juan Luis Baptiste
On Wed, Jan 11, 2012 at 3:44 PM, Antoine Pitrou wrote: > And my point is that these bugs are fixed automatically if you follow > bugfix releases from upstream... > > Apparently you like to create work for yourself, though :) > No, it seems that you like to read what you like to read, On this thre

Re: [Mageia-dev] PHP + phpBB mod capabilities needed to fix bug 1956 - please help

2012-01-11 Thread Wolfgang Bornath
2012/1/11 Maarten Vanraes : > Op woensdag 11 januari 2012 21:13:50 schreef nicolas vigier: > [...] >> But the main problem is not edit time, I don't really care about edit >> time myself. The main problem is that there seems to be a majority of >> people who think it should be enabled, that there i

Re: [Mageia-dev] please stop doing "bugs" for updating magia 1

2012-01-11 Thread Juan Luis Baptiste
On Wed, Jan 11, 2012 at 3:53 PM, Christian Lohmaier wrote: > adding patches to the packages and releasing them instead of waiting > for a new upstream release is different from having the policy to > stick with whatever release was used when releasing the distro and > then only apply fixes via pat

Re: [Mageia-dev] PHP + phpBB mod capabilities needed to fix bug 1956 - please help

2012-01-11 Thread Romain d'Alverny
On Wed, Jan 11, 2012 at 21:13, nicolas vigier wrote: > The main problem is that there seems to be a majority of > people who think it should be enabled, that there is no good reason to > not do it, or at least try it for a few months (as was proposed several > times by different people), but it is

Re: [Mageia-dev] imported .src.rpm / .spec attribution

2012-01-11 Thread Florent Monnier
Le samedi 07 janvier 2012 14:53:59, vous avez écrit : > Le samedi 07 janvier 2012 13:58:05, Luc Menut a écrit : > > Le 07/01/2012 13:23, Florent Monnier a écrit : > > > Hi, > > > > > > In Mandriva I was using this command to make proper attribution of > > > imported .spec files: > > > > > > $ mdv

Re: [Mageia-dev] [RFC] Moving various packages/codecs to tainted

2012-01-11 Thread Anssi Hannula
On 11.01.2012 16:01, Pascal Terjan wrote: > On Wed, Jan 11, 2012 at 12:56, Anssi Hannula wrote: >> On 10.01.2012 15:07, Pascal Terjan wrote: >>> On Tue, Jan 10, 2012 at 03:20, Anssi Hannula wrote: The problem is that that "balance" was achieved by sticking packages in PLF/main/contrib s

Re: [Mageia-dev] [RFC] Moving various packages/codecs to tainted

2012-01-11 Thread David Walser
andre999 wrote: > We're talking about codecs, essentially the decoders which are used to > read encoded files. > If the patent claims are valid/enforceable (and most aren't), it is up > to the patent holder to decide if it is in their interest to enforce the > patent claims. > Since they will no

Re: [Mageia-dev] [RFC] Moving various packages/codecs to tainted

2012-01-11 Thread Dan Fandrich
On Wed, Jan 11, 2012 at 09:23:20PM -0500, David Walser wrote: > andre999 wrote: > > However I do agree that we should put encoders that seem to be covered > > by valid patents in some countries in "tainted". > > If we really want a hard and fast rule, I agree that this makes the most > sense. I