Re: Potential issues for most ports (Was: Re: Bits from the Release Team (Jessie freeze info))

2013-11-03 Thread Steve Langasek
ved in getting the porters access to porter boxes? Porter boxes exist so that DDs *not* involved in a port have access to a machine of the architecture and can keep their packages working. I've never heard of a porter who didn't have access to their own box

Re: DSO linking changes for wheezy

2010-11-16 Thread Steve Langasek
oving libglitz is more painful than it would be otherwise, because instead of just rebuilding cairo itself without glitz, you must rebuild everything above cairo in the stack that used pkg-config for linking. I don't argue that this makes --as-needed *correct* as a default

Re: Reg. endianity, 32/64-bit and GCC macros.

2007-01-22 Thread Steve Langasek
are to use endian.h. > 2. Confirm 32/64-bit: It is 32-bit, right? Yes, but why do you need to know this? -- Steve Langasek Give me a lever long enough and a Free OS Debian Developer to set it on, and I can move the world. [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: debian-installer

2006-12-19 Thread Steve Langasek
gt; > those boxen could test them out and let me know what else needs to be > > fixed. > First, there was a theory that "ramdisk_size" is no longer needed with > 2.6.x kernels. That's wrong, unfortunately: It's right when using initramfs instead of ramdisk, f

Re: m68k not a release arch for etch; status in testing, future plans?

2006-10-31 Thread Steve Langasek
On Mon, Oct 23, 2006 at 01:09:13AM -0500, Manoj Srivastava wrote: > On Sun, 22 Oct 2006 00:52:59 +0200 (CEST), Michael Schmitz <[EMAIL > PROTECTED]> said: > >> On Fri, Oct 20, 2006 at 02:05:37PM -0700, Steve Langasek wrote: > >> > On Fri, Oct 20, 2006 at 10:58

Re: m68k release future

2006-10-27 Thread Steve Langasek
rtagged bugs as release critical, or :m68k-non-rc as not being > RC in spite of a serious severity) The debian-release@lists.debian.org:rc-m68k usertag already exists to track m68k-specific RC bugs, FWIW. Cheers, -- Steve Langasek Give me a lever long enough and a

Re: m68k not a release arch for etch; status in testing, future plans?

2006-10-20 Thread Steve Langasek
On Fri, Oct 20, 2006 at 10:58:25PM +0200, Bill Allombert wrote: > IIRC, the m68k kernels are already cross-compiled. Yes, which has repeatedly caused problems due to assumptions in the kernel packaging that host arch == build arch... -- Steve Langasek Give me a lever l

Re: m68k not a release arch for etch; status in testing, future plans?

2006-10-20 Thread Steve Langasek
e. FWIW, it's my understanding he intends to run aranym on these systems, thereby making this native building in an emulator rather than cross-building. -- Steve Langasek Give me a lever long enough and a Free OS Debian Developer

Re: m68k not a release arch for etch; status in testing, future plans?

2006-10-18 Thread Steve Langasek
the release > criteria either... Would you feel better about m68k's status if you had arm for company? Strictly enforcing the release criteria for arm isn't going to get m68k any closer to being reincluded as an arch candidate. -- Steve Langasek Give me a lever

Re: m68k not a release arch for etch; status in testing, future plans?

2006-10-18 Thread Steve Langasek
ian.org/fetch.cgi?pkg=kaffe;ver=2%3A1.1.7-3;arch=m68k;stamp=1153832010 -- Steve Langasek Give me a lever long enough and a Free OS Debian Developer to set it on, and I can move the world. [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.debia

Re: m68k not a release arch for etch; status in testing, future plans?

2006-10-16 Thread Steve Langasek
t least this > would allow porter/non-maintainer source uploads. The 0-day NMU policy promulgated by the release team has as its express purpose to improve the release-readiness of testing, so m68k-specific fixes wouldn't be covered by this. But porters are allowed to do NMUs on their own a

Re: m68k not a release arch for etch; status in testing, future plans?

2006-09-23 Thread Steve Langasek
On Fri, Sep 22, 2006 at 12:07:36PM +0200, Roman Zippel wrote: > On Wed, 20 Sep 2006, Steve Langasek wrote: > > Moreover, there's the matter that this leaves no time for an archive-wide > > check for toolchain /regressions/. As we enter the freeze, i386 and amd64 > >

Re: m68k not a release arch for etch; status in testing, future plans?

2006-09-20 Thread Steve Langasek
eems like the most sensible solution for m68k, but all previous attempts have run aground on the interdependency problem. Perhaps you could suggest a few guidelines you would like to see used, as a starting point for such a discussion? -- Steve Langasek Give me a lever long enough

Re: m68k not a release arch for etch; status in testing, future plans?

2006-09-20 Thread Steve Langasek
tion with other architectures. m68k was disqualified because it's not able to keep up with the demands placed on it by package maintainers. -- Steve Langasek Give me a lever long enough and a Free OS Debian Developer to set it on, and I can move the world. [E

m68k not a release arch for etch; status in testing, future plans?

2006-09-17 Thread Steve Langasek
a port as possible for etch+1? Please let the release team know how we can be of assistance to you in setting and meeting goals for an m68k release, be it for a separate etch release or for a re-integrated etch+1 release. -- Steve Langasek Give me a lever long enough and a Free O

Re: [buildd] binNMU libavahi-client-dev?

2006-09-10 Thread Steve Langasek
might not be thinking too clearly: if that makes > sense to someone else please schedule a binNMU or agree with the message > and I'll get it tomorrow. BinNMU just scheduled on all archs, along with about 90 other packages depending on dbus. Cheers, -- Steve Langasek

Re: [buildd] help with gmp

2006-07-09 Thread Steve Langasek
On Sun, Jul 09, 2006 at 08:29:39PM -0500, Stephen R Marenka wrote: > On Sun, Jul 09, 2006 at 01:25:48PM -0700, Steve Langasek wrote: > > I'd guess the root bug here is that /usr/lib/libc_nonshared.a is being used > > instead of /lib/libc.so.6? > Is this due to a change in

Re: [buildd] help with gmp

2006-07-09 Thread Steve Langasek
efined reference to `__fini_array_end' > | collect2: ld returned 1 exit status I'd guess the root bug here is that /usr/lib/libc_nonshared.a is being used instead of /lib/libc.so.6? Cheers, -- Steve Langasek Give me a lever long enough and a Free OS Debian Developer to set it on, and I can move the world. [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.debian.org/

bug tracking for non-RC architectures

2005-12-27 Thread Steve Langasek
chitecture that they can be working on in between getting things back in line with the release arch standards. As always, porter NMUs are encouraged -- you don't need an RC bug as an excuse to fix a package for your architecture! Wouldn't it be great to have zero bugs on that page

Re: Checking package builds on hppa/arm/m68k?

2005-12-19 Thread Steve Langasek
bly fast) build machine is probably quicker than having the maintainer do two (sponsored) uploads if it turns out not to be fixed for this case. Cheers, -- Steve Langasek Give me a lever long enough and a Free OS Debian Developer to set it on,

Re: beta status

2005-11-06 Thread Steve Langasek
is to try to upload it ? My advice would be to discuss it with a member of the ftp team... -- Steve Langasek Give me a lever long enough and a Free OS Debian Developer to set it on, and I can move the world. [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: beta status

2005-11-05 Thread Steve Langasek
sounds terribly irresponsible to me. If you can't come to an agreement with the ftp-masters that these files are distributable, then you shouldn't be distributing them from p.d.o either. -- Steve Langasek Give me a lever long enough and a Free OS Debian Deve

Re: beta status

2005-11-04 Thread Steve Langasek
le.debian.org. FWIW, I think that asserting that "we" are distributing miboot from people.debian.org is nothing more than an invitation for someone to ask you to remove the binaries. But is there actually any reason why miboot can't be distributed in non-free? If there is, then that

m68k: being ignored for testing propagation

2005-10-08 Thread Steve Langasek
iated. The release team will continue to monitor the progress of the m68k port. If you have any questions about where to go from here, please ask us. Thanks, -- Steve Langasek Give me a lever long enough and a Free OS Debian Developer to set

Re: Bug#324030: swt-gtk: FTBFS on 64 bit arches: error: cast from 'void*' to 'jint' loses precision

2005-09-13 Thread Steve Langasek
ternally defined, or is there some other reason that you can't typedef it to a long instead of to an int? -- Steve Langasek Give me a lever long enough and a Free OS Debian Developer to set it on, and I can move the world. [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Bug#319328: [m68k] ICE: Segmentation fault with g++-4.0 -O2

2005-07-21 Thread Steve Langasek
Package: g++-4.0 Version: 4.0.1-2 Severity: important jigdo is failing to build with g++-4.0 on m68k with the following error: g++ $cxx -c util/rsyncsum.cc -o util/rsyncsum.o /usr/lib/gcc/m68k-linux-gnu/4.0.1/../../../../include/c++/4.0.1/bits/stl_bvector.h: In member function 'std::_Bit_type*

Re: Bug#264174: xslideshow (unstable/non-free) needs build on m68k

2005-05-15 Thread Steve Langasek
On Mon, May 16, 2005 at 11:07:17AM +0900, Kenshi Muto wrote: > At Sun, 15 May 2005 18:26:54 -0700, > Steve Langasek wrote: > > It looks like an m68k build of xslideshow 3.1-7 is needed to fix RC bug > > #264174 in sarge. Would anyone here care to do the honors? > I just

xslideshow (unstable/non-free) needs build on m68k

2005-05-15 Thread Steve Langasek
Hi folks, It looks like an m68k build of xslideshow 3.1-7 is needed to fix RC bug #264174 in sarge. Would anyone here care to do the honors? Thanks, -- Steve Langasek postmodern programmer signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: Bug#306254: axe: FTBFS: "Failed to satisfy Build-Depends dependency for axe: libxaw-dev"

2005-04-28 Thread Steve Langasek
* must meet all policy requirements presented in this manual that it is possible for them to meet. [1] [1] It is possible that there are policy requirements which the package is unable to meet, for example, if the source is unavailable. These situations will need to be handled on a ca

Re: Bug#306308: xearth: FTBFS: Missing Build-Depends on 'xutils'

2005-04-25 Thread Steve Langasek
build > dh_testdir > # Add here commands to configure the package. > xmkmf > make: xmkmf: Command not found > make: *** [configure-stamp] Error 127 > The new version in sid fixes this by adding the missing Build-Depends > on xutils in debian/control. Non-free package, needs manual

Re: Bug#306026: pgplot5: FTBFS: dh_dhelp: Command not found

2005-04-24 Thread Steve Langasek
On Sun, Apr 24, 2005 at 12:39:35PM +0200, Christian T. Steigies wrote: > On Sat, Apr 23, 2005 at 09:42:12PM -0700, Steve Langasek wrote: > > The newer version of this non-free package is held out of testing by missing > > m68k and s390. Anyone care to build & upload? > Bu

Re: Bug#306026: pgplot5: FTBFS: dh_dhelp: Command not found

2005-04-23 Thread Steve Langasek
> dh_link -a > dh_dhelp > make: dh_dhelp: Command not found > make: *** [binary-arch] Error 127 > The newer version in 'unstable' does not have this problem. The newer version of this non-free package is held out of testing by missing m68k and s390. Anyone care to

Re: missing evolution-data-server build on m68k (zot)

2005-03-31 Thread Steve Langasek
On Thu, Mar 31, 2005 at 06:33:51PM +0200, Wouter Verhelst wrote: > On Fri, Mar 25, 2005 at 04:10:58PM -0800, Steve Langasek wrote: > > Hey folks, > > buildd.debian.org lists evolution-data-server as building on m68k since Mar > > 16: > > gnome/evolution-data-

missing evolution-data-server build on m68k (zot)

2005-03-25 Thread Steve Langasek
building (unlikely, since zot has picked up more packages for building since then), and give it back if not? This missing build is currently blocking most GNOME updates that are currently needed. Thanks, -- Steve Langasek postmodern programmer signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: libsndfile: build error on m68k

2004-12-18 Thread Steve Langasek
On Sat, Dec 18, 2004 at 11:19:33AM -0800, Rick Younie wrote: > Steve Langasek wrote: > > Would someone on this list be willing to take a look at bug #280003 and help > > sort out the cause of this build failure on m68k? > Uploading. So the build failure was a transient build

Re: libsndfile: build error on m68k

2004-12-18 Thread Steve Langasek
Hello, Would someone on this list be willing to take a look at bug #280003 and help sort out the cause of this build failure on m68k? Thanks, -- Steve Langasek postmodern programmer signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: openh323 picked before pwlib by buildd

2004-09-13 Thread Steve Langasek
daemons; you want to contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] instead. -- Steve Langasek postmodern programmer signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: qt-x11-free 3.3.3-3 needs build

2004-08-18 Thread Steve Langasek
ers any/all skew has finally been fixed with the 3.3.3 packages, but until there's *some* version >= 3:3.3.3-1 in the archive for m68k, all qt-related packages are unbuildable there because of the pre-existing skew. -- Steve Langasek postmodern programmer signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: logrotate 3.7-2 and m68k

2004-08-02 Thread Steve Langasek
On Tue, Aug 03, 2004 at 12:06:33AM +0200, Wouter Verhelst wrote: > On Mon, Aug 02, 2004 at 02:52:41PM -0700, Steve Langasek wrote: > > This issue warrants opening an RC bug against logrotate, that should be > > addressed before sarge. There will probably be someone on debian-68k

Re: logrotate 3.7-2 and m68k

2004-08-02 Thread Steve Langasek
someone on debian-68k (cc:ed) who can verify for us whether logrotate does build with gcc-3.4, leaving only the task of uploading a package to testing-proposed-updates that does build from source. (For the record, gcc-3.4 will not be a default compiler on any arch for sarge, so you will need to add

Re: gworldclock FTBFS: po-file problems

2003-10-07 Thread Steve Langasek
l other architectures, I suspect it might > be some non-reproducible temporary problem. Is it possible to trigger the > buildd machine to have another go? The buildd in question has a stale version of gettext installed. This bug was fixed in NMU several months ago, but kullervo has apparentl

Re: Quadra 950 install problems

2002-11-01 Thread Steve Langasek
get your system to boot by removing the rtc.o module from somewhere in /lib/modules// -- but I don't remember which rtc module is which... Steve Langasek postmodern programmer pgpJp2mYlO4sb.pgp Description: PGP signature