software-properties SRU stopped due to odd bug

2021-12-12 Thread Robert Ancell
Hi all, I have a software-properties SRU [1] in bionic that has phasing stopped due to an error [2]. The stack trace is showing the following (new) code is failing: di = distro_info.UbuntuDistroInfo() releases = di.get_all(result="object") with the error: AttributeError: 'UbuntuDis

+1 maintenance report

2021-06-20 Thread Robert Ancell
The packages I managed to resolve issues for on the week 14-17th June: - xscreensaver - merged from Debian. - v4l-utils - had one test that had timed out, but worked once retried. - micropython - diagnosed the build failure, found the commit that fixes it upstream and filed https://launchpad.net/b

+1 maintenance report

2020-12-03 Thread Robert Ancell
I spent this Thursday and Friday on +1 rotation. * Had a hangout with mwhudson to help work out how to tackle archive maintenance - thanks mwhudson! * Searched through update_excuses.html for fixable issues. * Retried builds where timeouts occurred or the archive wasn't in a good state at build ti

Re: Keep or remove software-center?

2016-10-11 Thread Robert Ancell
On Tue, Oct 11, 2016 at 2:16 AM Martin Pitt wrote: > I just noticed that we still have software-center in yakkety. It > > hasn't been maintained for several cycles, we never found anyone who > > wanted to port it to Python 3, the desktop team moved to > > gnome-software a while ago, and it isn't

Re: Installation Media and supportability of i386 in 18.04 LTS Re: Ubuntu Desktop on i386

2016-06-29 Thread Robert Ancell
On Thu, Jun 30, 2016 at 9:37 AM Stéphane Graber wrote: > On Wed, Jun 29, 2016 at 09:33:24PM +0000, Robert Ancell wrote: > > It may be worth considering disabling i386 builds for individual packages > > to reduce the support costs. That way the core packages can build for > i3

Re: Installation Media and supportability of i386 in 18.04 LTS Re: Ubuntu Desktop on i386

2016-06-29 Thread Robert Ancell
On Thu, Jun 30, 2016 at 4:41 AM Steve Langasek wrote: > > On Wed, Jun 29, 2016 at 08:18:54AM +0100, Martin Wimpress wrote: > > Excuse the top posting, only have a phone available. > > > Ubuntu MATE works with a few organisations around the world, one in my > own > > country, that refurbish donate

VT calls failing on /dev/console

2016-04-03 Thread Robert Ancell
Hi all, I've noticed in Xenial that VT ioctls that LightDM is using (VT_GETSTATE, VT_ACTIVATE, VT_WAITACTIVE) on /dev/console now seem to be failing (errno 5 - Input/output error). If I switch to /dev/tty0 they seem to work (this is what GDM and logind are using). Two questions: - Does anyone kno

Re: changelogs.ubuntu.com questions/issues?

2016-03-09 Thread Robert Ancell
For the record, Seb opened bug 1555266 to track this. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1555266 On Thu, Mar 10, 2016 at 8:09 AM Brian Murray wrote: > On Wed, Mar 09, 2016 at 07:48:36PM +0100, Sebastien Bacher wrote: > > Le 09/03/2016 19:11, Sebastien Bacher a écrit : > > > Hey there, > > > > > >

Re: moving libraries to multiarch locations and adding the M-A: same attribute

2015-10-21 Thread Robert Ancell
I've opened bugs to track these: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+bugs?field.tag=multiarch On Thu, Oct 22, 2015 at 2:25 AM Matthias Klose wrote: > Hi, > > I initially started looking at cross-building openjdk-8 and openjdk-9, > seeing > that I need get a large number of gnome library packages

Re: moving libraries to multiarch locations and adding the M-A: same attribute

2015-10-21 Thread Robert Ancell
lightdm has multi-arch support in trunk - this will go into x-series. On Thu, Oct 22, 2015 at 2:25 AM Matthias Klose wrote: > Hi, > > I initially started looking at cross-building openjdk-8 and openjdk-9, > seeing > that I need get a large number of gnome library packages ready for > multiarch.

Re: [ubuntu/wily-proposed] libxcb 1.11-0ubuntu1 (Accepted)

2015-07-15 Thread Robert Ancell
nyway. --Robert On Thu, Jul 16, 2015 at 3:47 AM Micah Gersten wrote: > >From: Robert Ancell > >Date: 10:09pm, Tue, Jul 14, 2015 > >Subject: [ubuntu/wily-proposed] libxcb 1.11-0ubuntu1 (Accepted) > >To: > > > > > >libxcb (1.11-0ubuntu1) wily; urgency=medi

Re: New XMir in wily

2015-06-08 Thread Robert Ancell
place automatically. [1] https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/xorg-server/+bugs?field.tag=xmir On Wed, Jun 3, 2015 at 5:03 PM, Robert Ancell wrote: > With xorg-server 1.17.1-0ubuntu4 we have a new XMir codebase. This is > the code that was used for the MWC convergence demo [1]. > > There

New XMir in wily

2015-06-02 Thread Robert Ancell
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Re: Update gvfs to 1.20.3

2015-02-01 Thread Robert Ancell
I've opened a bug to track this: https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1416891 On Mon, Feb 2, 2015 at 5:47 AM, Ross Lagerwall wrote: > In both Ubuntu 14.04, gvfs is at 1.20.1 and (being one of the upstream > maintainers), it makes me sad to use it because I've released newer > stable versions with some

Re: Call for Testing: Mir & multi-monitor

2013-08-26 Thread Robert Ancell
Instructions are here: http://unity.ubuntu.com/mir/debug_for_xmir.html But in short, first look at /var/log/lightdm/lightdm.log and then /var/log/lightdm/unity-system-compositor.log and /var/log/Xorg.0.log if the lightdm.log indicates there is a problem with either. --Robert On Tue, Aug 27, 201

Re: Call for Testing: Mir & multi-monitor

2013-08-26 Thread Robert Ancell
These packages are in Ubuntu: https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/unity-system-compositor etc On Tue, Aug 27, 2013 at 10:38 AM, Scott Kitterman wrote: > On Monday, August 26, 2013 23:22:29 Dmitrijs Ledkovs wrote: > > On 26 August 2013 23:14, Scott Kitterman wrote: > > > On Monday, August 26, 2

Re: non-Unity flavours and Mir

2013-06-17 Thread Robert Ancell
On Tue, Jun 18, 2013 at 4:33 PM, Scott Kitterman wrote: > On Monday, June 17, 2013 09:52:49 PM Oliver Ries wrote: > > On Fri, Jun 14, 2013 at 11:12 AM, Scott Kitterman > wrote: > Part of the problem is that no one outside Canonical know enough to really > have an informed opinion. Here are some i

Re: Legacy hardware support in MIR

2013-06-17 Thread Robert Ancell
Mir uses the free drivers that X does currently and Android drivers. So if you card is currently supported in X (i.e. intel, ati, nouveau) then it will continue to work (if those drivers are continued to be maintained). On Tue, Jun 18, 2013 at 9:16 AM, Karl Anliot wrote: > I have to ask because

Re: non-Unity flavours and Mir

2013-06-14 Thread Robert Ancell
I think most of the points have been covered in this thread but I'll just emphasise a few points: - The use of Mir in Ubuntu should have no effect on using any alternative display systems. Some things will gain Mir backends but everything will continue to support X and Wayland if the upstreams sup

Re: Releasing Alphas and Betas without "freezing"

2012-06-17 Thread Robert Ancell
On 16/06/12 02:12, Rick Spencer wrote: > In short, freezing the archive before an alpha or beta should not > actually be contributing to either ensuring the installability of > Ubuntu images or ensuring the quality of these images. This implies, > therefore, that all the work around freezing, and a

Re: Removing gnome-nettool from the default Desktop image?

2012-06-07 Thread Robert Ancell
On 08/06/12 04:48, Jeremy Bicha wrote: > Hi, > > I'd like to see gnome-nettool removed from the default Ubuntu Desktop > image. It will of course still be available for easy install for those > who want it. Personally, I just use tools like ping, traceroute, or > whois from the command line. I don'

Screen calibration at UDS with the ColorHug

2012-04-11 Thread Robert Ancell
Hi, I'll be at UDS with a ColorHug [1], the open source colour calibration tool that works with Ubuntu 12.04. I'll set up a calibration session where people can calibrate their laptop displays and we can see how well the software/hardware works. I know we wanted to set up a session for this a wh

Derivatives using the LightDM GTK+ greeter

2012-01-12 Thread Robert Ancell
Hi all, I just wanted to clarify some points regarding LightDM and the GTK+ greeter (lightdm-gtk-greeter package): - This greeter was always intended as an example greeter - It's being used as the default installed greeter for some derivatives - The GTK+ greeter is now an independent project fr

Re: UDS-O About onscreen keyboard - display manager - dwelling

2011-05-08 Thread Robert Ancell
On 05/06/2011 08:20 PM, Francesco Fumanti wrote: > Sorry, I am not attending UDS. Not sure if you are aware, but you can participate remotely at UDS, see: http://uds.ubuntu.com/participate/remote/ The LightDM session is on Thursday 12th, at 1200 Hungary time (http://summit.ubuntu.com/uds-o/2011-0

Re: UDS-O About onscreen keyboard - display manager - dwelling

2011-05-05 Thread Robert Ancell
On 05/05/2011 06:55 PM, Francesco Fumanti wrote: > 2) Display manager > > I have come accross the following blueprint for oneiric: > https://blueprints.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+spec/desktop-o-lightdm > > Does this mean that LightDM is going to replace GDM? That is my proposal. The decision will be ma

Re: build-from-branch into the primary archive

2011-02-16 Thread Robert Ancell
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 17/02/11 18:02, Martin Pool wrote: > I'd like to do a new feature in Launchpad to help Ubuntu, which is > to allow packages to be built directly from source package > branches. This would address one of the messy parts of source > package branches

Re: python-gobject package is broken

2010-12-08 Thread Robert Ancell
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 A new package is being built: https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/pygobject/2.27.0-0ubuntu4 On 09/12/10 10:18, Barry Warsaw wrote: > The python-gobject package just got broken: > > http://launchpadlibrarian.net/60345542/buildlog_ubuntu-natty-i386.ni