Re: Old Firefox versions discourage real-world testing of Ubuntu development versions

2017-09-04 Thread Chris Coulson
On 04/09/2017 20:18, Simon Quigley wrote: > Hello Sebastian, > > On 09/04/2017 08:20 AM, Sebastien Bacher wrote: >> The desktop team has been suggesting to remove firefox from those >> architectures because we don't have the resources to work on those build >> issues and we believe there are litt

Re: qreal change in Qt 5.2

2013-12-05 Thread Chris Coulson
On 05/12/13 05:26, Timo Jyrinki wrote: 2013/12/4 Dmitry Shachnev : Also, IIRC, nothing was decided about the SONAME stuff (and I would really want if we got synchronized with Debian on (not)doing the bump). I'd go for not bumping SONAME and doing all rebuilds at once. Debian should lead the way

Re: Let's Discuss Interim Releases (and a Rolling Release)

2013-02-28 Thread Chris Coulson
On 28/02/13 15:31, Rick Spencer wrote: = tl;dr = Ubuntu has an amazing opportunity in the next 7-8 months to deliver a Phone OS that will be widely adopted by users and industry while also putting into place the foundation for a truly converged OS. To succeed at this we will need both velocit

Re: GCC 4.7, STL and binary compatibility of objects built with different language standards

2012-06-11 Thread Chris Coulson
On 11/06/12 16:05, Chase Douglas wrote: I would have assumed that language standard choices should be intermixable across libraries. Is it possible this is merely a bug in GCC? -- Chase Hi Chase, Matthias just pointed me to http://gcc.gnu.org/wiki/Cxx11AbiCompatibility on IRC, so it seems

GCC 4.7, STL and binary compatibility of objects built with different language standards

2012-06-08 Thread Chris Coulson
Hi, I've just finished debugging a Unity crash which occurs when we try a test rebuild of Unity and Nux with GCC4.7 in quantal. Although the original issue was caused by mixing 2 C++ ABI's (because libsigc hasn't been rebuilt yet in quantal), it was no better even after rebuilding libsigc with the

Re: [ubuntu/precise] thunderbird-couchdb 0.0.1-0ubuntu2 (Accepted)

2012-01-13 Thread Chris Coulson
On 12/01/12 21:45, Angel Abad wrote: thunderbird-couchdb (0.0.1-0ubuntu2) precise; urgency=low * Rebuild against libedataserver-1.2-15. Date: Thu, 12 Jan 2012 22:39:46 +0100 Changed-By: Angel Abad Maintainer: Chris Coulson https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/precise/+source/thunderbird-couchdb

Re: The need for apport hooks

2011-08-09 Thread Chris Coulson
On 06/08/11 23:46, Bryce Harrington wrote: > In any case, these types of reports post-release are most useful in > aggregate rather than as individual bug reports. If they were filed in > some ultra simple crash database (with no signup required of the user) > we could get most of the value without

Re: Removing XULRunner from oneiric - call for help

2011-06-15 Thread Chris Coulson
the end of the week, I will assume that nobody cares about the remaining packages and will start filing removal requests for them. Regards Chris On Fri, 2011-05-20 at 15:53 +0100, Chris Coulson wrote: > Hi, > > At UDS we decided that we are no longer going to maintain XULRunner in &

Removing XULRunner from oneiric - call for help

2011-05-20 Thread Chris Coulson
Hi, At UDS we decided that we are no longer going to maintain XULRunner in the Ubuntu archive from Oneiric onwards (although, this process already started at the end of Natty when we did some last minute work to demote it to universe). The reason for this is that the new rapid release cadence for