Re: Thinking about a "jessie and a half" release

2016-07-05 Thread Steve McIntyre
On Tue, Jul 05, 2016 at 06:11:24PM +, Holger Levsen wrote: >On Mon, Jul 04, 2016 at 04:01:10PM -0400, Nicholas D Steeves wrote: >> I still wonder if a fork of the last linux:src=4.4, updated to bring >> it to linux-4.4.14 would be a lower support burden? I'm still finding >> that there are a f

Re: Thinking about a "jessie and a half" release

2016-07-05 Thread Steve McIntyre
On Tue, Jul 05, 2016 at 04:15:36PM -0300, Breno Leitao wrote: >Steve, > >On 07/04/2016 10:01 AM, Steve McIntyre wrote: >>A lot of arm64 machine users would benefit from this, and maybe owners >>of very recent amd64 machines too. > >ppc64el port would take benefit from it also, since, there were man

Re: Thinking about a "jessie and a half" release

2016-07-05 Thread Steve McIntyre
On Tue, Jul 05, 2016 at 02:37:06PM +0200, Martin Zobel-Helas wrote: >Hi Steve, > >On Mon Jul 04, 2016 at 14:01:03 +0100, Steve McIntyre wrote: >> A lot of arm64 machine users would benefit from this, and maybe owners >> of very recent amd64 machines too, with better support for things on >> the Sk

Re: Thinking about a "jessie and a half" release

2016-07-05 Thread Steve McIntyre
On Mon, Jul 04, 2016 at 07:05:42PM +0200, Ben Hutchings wrote: >On Mon, 2016-07-04 at 14:01 +0100, Steve McIntyre wrote: >> Hey folks, >> >> There's something I've been pondering for a while, along with some >> other folks - it might be useful to do a "jessie and a half" release, >> similarly to w

Re: Thinking about a "jessie and a half" release

2016-07-05 Thread Breno Leitao
Steve, On 07/04/2016 10:01 AM, Steve McIntyre wrote: A lot of arm64 machine users would benefit from this, and maybe owners of very recent amd64 machines too. ppc64el port would take benefit from it also, since, there were many new kernel features that made linux after 3.16.

Re: Thinking about a "jessie and a half" release

2016-07-05 Thread Cyril Brulebois
Holger Levsen (2016-07-05): > On Mon, Jul 04, 2016 at 04:01:10PM -0400, Nicholas D Steeves wrote: > > I still wonder if a fork of the last linux:src=4.4, updated to bring > > it to linux-4.4.14 would be a lower support burden? I'm still finding > > that there are a fair number of issues reported

Re: Thinking about a "jessie and a half" release

2016-07-05 Thread Holger Levsen
On Mon, Jul 04, 2016 at 04:01:10PM -0400, Nicholas D Steeves wrote: > I still wonder if a fork of the last linux:src=4.4, updated to bring > it to linux-4.4.14 would be a lower support burden? I'm still finding > that there are a fair number of issues reported with 4.5.x and 4.6.x > on various mai

Re: Thinking about a "jessie and a half" release

2016-07-05 Thread Ben Hutchings
On Tue, 2016-07-05 at 08:25 +0100, Rebecca N. Palmer wrote: > Would it be possible/reasonable (at least for stretch) to have the  > installer detect this and ask "your hardware appears to be too new for  > this release, would you like to enable -backports?" It might be, but it's going to be hard t

Bug#829716: advancecomp: crashes when using zopfli under armel

2016-07-05 Thread Rogério Theodoro de Brito
Package: advancecomp Version: 1.20-1 Severity: normal Hi. (I'm CC'ing the arm list, in case others have seen this problem). I am using an armel system (some details you can see below) and I'm having problems recompressing gzipped files with advdef. In particular, advdef works perfectly when I us

Re: Thinking about a "jessie and a half" release

2016-07-05 Thread Samuel Henrique
2016-07-05 7:43 GMT-03:00 Jose R R : > > Why would you call it "Jessie + 1/2"? Wouldn't it be a better idea > Well IBM set a precedent for that: OS/2. > Accordingly, Jessie BP could be called Jessie/2 ;-) ​Well, that would be a half Jessie, not Jessie and a half, right?​ We could use 3Jessie/2 o

Re: Thinking about a "jessie and a half" release

2016-07-05 Thread Martin Zobel-Helas
Hi Steve, On Mon Jul 04, 2016 at 14:01:03 +0100, Steve McIntyre wrote: > A lot of arm64 machine users would benefit from this, and maybe owners > of very recent amd64 machines too, with better support for things on > the Skylake platform. Those are the only two architectures I'm > thinking of sup

Re: Thinking about a "jessie and a half" release

2016-07-05 Thread Jose R R
On Tue, Jul 5, 2016 at 2:01 AM, Christian Seiler wrote: > > On 07/04/2016 03:01 PM, Steve McIntyre wrote: > > There's something I've been pondering for a while, along with some > > other folks - it might be useful to do a "jessie and a half" release, > > similarly to what we did in the etch days.

Re: Thinking about a "jessie and a half" release

2016-07-05 Thread Mark Brown
On Tue, Jul 05, 2016 at 10:52:37AM +0200, Ben Hutchings wrote: > On Tue, 2016-07-05 at 10:07 +0200, Mark Brown wrote: > > We're getting to the point where there's a fairly pressing need for > > arm64 - the more useful hardware is starting to get a wider distribution > > and we don't really have an

Re: Thinking about a "jessie and a half" release

2016-07-05 Thread Christian Seiler
On 07/04/2016 03:01 PM, Steve McIntyre wrote: > There's something I've been pondering for a while, along with some > other folks - it might be useful to do a "jessie and a half" release, > similarly to what we did in the etch days. That's *basically* just > like a normal jessie release, but with a

Re: Thinking about a "jessie and a half" release

2016-07-05 Thread Ben Hutchings
On Tue, 2016-07-05 at 10:07 +0200, Mark Brown wrote: > On Mon, Jul 04, 2016 at 07:05:42PM +0200, Ben Hutchings wrote: > > On Mon, 2016-07-04 at 14:01 +0100, Steve McIntyre wrote: > > > > A lot of arm64 machine users would benefit from this, and maybe owners > > > of very recent amd64 machines too,

Re: Thinking about a "jessie and a half" release

2016-07-05 Thread Steve McIntyre
On Mon, Jul 04, 2016 at 04:01:10PM -0400, Nicholas D Steeves wrote: >>> >>> Is anybody else interested in helping? Thoughts/comments? > >Yes, it's a project I'm already working on ;-) Is this project a >candidate for a new Debian Team? I guess so, yes. :-) >> 2. Does it have to be called "jessi

Re: Thinking about a "jessie and a half" release

2016-07-05 Thread Mark Brown
On Mon, Jul 04, 2016 at 07:05:42PM +0200, Ben Hutchings wrote: > On Mon, 2016-07-04 at 14:01 +0100, Steve McIntyre wrote: > > A lot of arm64 machine users would benefit from this, and maybe owners > > of very recent amd64 machines too, with better support for things on > > the Skylake platform. Th

Re: Thinking about a "jessie and a half" release

2016-07-05 Thread Steve McIntyre
On Mon, Jul 04, 2016 at 03:12:34PM +0200, Cyril Brulebois wrote: >Hi, > >Steve McIntyre (2016-07-04): >> There's something I've been pondering for a while, along with some >> other folks - it might be useful to do a "jessie and a half" release, >> similarly to what we did in the etch days. That's

Re: Thinking about a "jessie and a half" release

2016-07-05 Thread Russell Stuart
On Tue, 2016-07-05 at 08:25 +0100, Rebecca N. Palmer wrote: > Have you reported this bug (with the full warnings)?  If not, please > do so. I haven't.  If I got a response at all to "My monitor doesn't work" it looks to me it would be: compile latest source with instrumentation turned on and send

Re: Thinking about a "jessie and a half" release

2016-07-05 Thread Rebecca N. Palmer
Would it be possible/reasonable (at least for stretch) to have the installer detect this and ask "your hardware appears to be too new for this release, would you like to enable -backports?" On 04/07/16 23:38, Ben Hutchings wrote: As I understand it, xserver-xorg-video-modesetting should be use