Announcing the Linaro porting jam

2011-02-15 Thread Steve Langasek
Hello, my fellow ARM aficionados! The Linaro Developer Platform Team is pleased to announce a new initiative to help improve the state of software on ARM: the ARM porting jam. Starting today, February 16th, we will be running a weekly IRC jam on Wednesdays from 1400-1800 UTC to bring developers t

Re: bug search and source package names

2011-02-15 Thread Robert Collins
On Mon, Feb 7, 2011 at 11:53 AM, Robert Collins wrote: > Another thing to consider - > https://bugs.launchpad.net/launchpad/+bug/268508 - is a bug filed > about how this search is *a problem* rather than a benefit. > > Given the fairly low key response to this thread, I'm going to blog on > the La

Ubuntu Kernel Team Meeting Minutes - 2011-02-15

2011-02-15 Thread Brad Figg
= Meeting Minutes = [[http://irclogs.ubuntu.com/2011/02/15/%23ubuntu-meeting.txt|IRC Log of the meeting.]] <> [[http://voices.canonical.com/kernelteam|Meeting minutes.]] == Agenda == [[https://wiki.ubuntu.com/KernelTeam/Meeting#Tues, 15 Feb, 2011|20110215 Meeting Agenda]] === Release M

Candidate Images for 10.04.2 Available for Testing

2011-02-15 Thread Kate Stewart
Dear Developers, For those interested in helping to test out the candidate images for the next version of Lucid (10.04.2), images are now available on the ISO tracker. http://iso.qa.ubuntu.com/qatracker/ There is one known issue documented with workaround (bug 645818), to watch out for if

Re: Updating configuration files

2011-02-15 Thread Raphael Hertzog
Hi, On Wed, 09 Feb 2011, sean finney wrote: > so i didn't exactly leave in a huff, but i did signal that i had > no further intention of wasting my time until i had some idea > that it would actually go anywhere. I'm sorry for all this. The problem is that Guillem is a single point of failure in

Regarding launchpad bug 706603 (gem1.9.1 doens't install executables on PATH)

2011-02-15 Thread Zygmunt Krynicki
Dear Moriwaki-san. I'd like to ask for your thoughts on this Ubuntu bug that affects rubygems. A few people have discussed this bug on #ubuntu-devel and we'd like to propose a change in packaging and patches that would affect both rubygems 1.8 and ruby 1.9. For details please check the final

Re: Regarding launchpad bug 706603 (gem1.9.1 doens't install executables on PATH)

2011-02-15 Thread Daigo Moriwaki
Zygmunt, Zygmunt Krynicki wrote: > For details please check the final comments in the discussion. If you > have any objections to this change please add your thoughts there. If > you agree I'd like to ask you to work with me on changing this in Debian > and Ubuntu in a consistent way. > > You can

Re: Updating configuration files

2011-02-15 Thread sean finney
hi barry, On Wed, Feb 09, 2011 at 09:22:16AM -0500, Barry Warsaw wrote: > Has anybody thought about porting this nice behavior to Debian/Ubuntu? the problem is that dpkg does not keep track of the original "pristine" version of the conffile, so there's no 3rd version for the 3 way merge. some ti

Re: Updating configuration files

2011-02-15 Thread sean finney
hi barry, steve, fyi my on-list messages are getting moderated--what happened to "every debian developer is an ubuntu developer"? :) so, you might want to break etiquite and top-post to this message, or at least generously quote since the context might otherwise be missing. On Wed, Feb 09, 2011