Bug#657598: freebsd-libs: FTBFS on kfreebsd-i386

2012-01-27 Thread Niels Thykier
Package: freebsd-libs Version: 8.3~svn229725-3 Severity: serious Hi, Log from the buildd[1]: """ Warning: Object directory not changed from original /build/buildd-freebsd-libs_8.3~svn229725-3-kfreebsd-i386-AkvhUR/freebsd-libs-8.3~svn229725/lib/libcam cc -Wall -g -pipe -fPIC -I. -I/build/build

Re: libbatik-java change led to uninstallables on kfreebsd

2012-06-23 Thread Niels Thykier
Package: libbatik-java Version: 1.7+dfsg-2 Severity: serious On Jun 22, 2012 22:50 "Steven Chamberlain" wrote: > Hi, > Hi, > libbatik-java's dependencies were changed recently like so: > > > Package: libbatik-java > > Architecture: all > > -Depends: openjdk-6-jre-headless | java2-runtime-h

Please build test libsysactivity 0.5.4-5 on x86 BSD machine with > 4 GB RAM

2010-09-10 Thread Niels Thykier
; test, which causes build +failures due to false positives. + + -- Niels Thykier Fri, 10 Sep 2010 12:11:25 +0200 + libsysactivity (0.5.4-4) unstable; urgency=low * Applied patch from upstream to fix an issue with calculating memory diff --git a/debian/patches/disable-cpu-idle-test.pa

Roll call for porters of architectures in sid and testing

2013-09-01 Thread Niels Thykier
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 Hi, As we announced in [LAST-BITS], we would like to get a better idea of that status of the ports, to make an informed decision about which port can be released with jessie. One of the steps is to get an overview of which of the porters are (still

Re: Roll call for porters of architectures in sid and testing (Status update)

2013-09-19 Thread Niels Thykier
On 2013-09-01 09:33, Niels Thykier wrote: > Hi, > > As we announced in [LAST-BITS], we would like to get a better idea of > that status of the ports, to make an informed decision about which > port can be released with jessie. One of the steps is to get an > overview of which

Results of the porter roll call (Was: Roll call for porters of architectures in sid and testing)

2013-10-02 Thread Niels Thykier
Hi, The final results are in: Summary table: Arch || DDs || NMs/DMs || Other || Total ---++-++-++---++-- armel || 3 || 0 || 1 ||4 armhf || 3 || 1 || 2 ||6 hurd-i386 || 5 || 0 || 3 ||8

Re: Bits from the Release Team (Jessie freeze info)

2013-10-21 Thread Niels Thykier
On 2013-10-19 16:38, Jeremiah C. Foster wrote: > Hello, > > On Sun, Oct 13, 2013 at 05:01:31PM +0200, Niels Thykier wrote: > > [snip freeze policy] > Hi, I s/-arm/-ports/'ed the CC, since I figured the rest of the porters would find the answer equally interesting. &g

Re: Bits from the Release Team (Jessie freeze info)

2013-10-29 Thread Niels Thykier
On 2013-10-29 16:05, Ian Jackson wrote: > Niels Thykier writes ("Bits from the Release Team (Jessie freeze info)"): >> Results of porter roll-call >> === > ... >> Summary table: >> Arch

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

2013-11-03 Thread Niels Thykier
On 2013-10-29 17:48, Ian Jackson wrote: > Niels Thykier writes ("Re: Bits from the Release Team (Jessie freeze info)"): >> [...] >> As mentioned we are debating whether the "5 DDs" requirement still makes >> sense. Would you say that we should abolish the

Re: Potential issues for most ports

2013-11-03 Thread Niels Thykier
On 2013-11-03 15:49, Thorsten Glaser wrote: > Niels Thykier dixit: > >> [...] >> Until we have a clear definition of "actively maintained ports", I would >> recommend porters to err on the side of being verbose over being silent. > > I’ve held off on the

Re: Potential issues for most ports

2013-11-03 Thread Niels Thykier
On 2013-11-03 16:54, Niels Thykier wrote: > On 2013-11-03 15:49, Thorsten Glaser wrote: >> > Niels Thykier dixit: >> > >>> >> [...] >>> >> Until we have a clear definition of "actively maintained ports", I would >>> >

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

2013-11-04 Thread Niels Thykier
On 2013-11-03 16:03, Steven Chamberlain wrote: > On 03/11/13 10:54, Niels Thykier wrote: >> Come to think of it; maybe we should have a BTS page for each of the >> ports (e.g. a pseudo package in the BTS). > > We've had this on kfreebsd, due it to having been

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

2013-11-04 Thread Niels Thykier
On 2013-11-03 23:04, Steve Langasek wrote: > On Sun, Nov 03, 2013 at 11:54:34AM +0100, Niels Thykier wrote: >> [...] > >> I suppose a "sponsor-only" DD could be sufficient, provided that the >> sponsor knows the porters well enough to be willing to sign off on

Re: Release sprint results - team changes, auto-rm and arch status

2013-12-15 Thread Niels Thykier
On 2013-11-30 11:46, Robert Millan wrote: > On 28/11/2013 21:49, Steven Chamberlain wrote: >> On 28/11/13 20:04, Niels Thykier wrote: >>> kFreeBSD was a technology preview, and has not generated enough >>> user interest to bring in sufficient install base to continue >

Re: Release sprint results - team changes, auto-rm and arch status

2014-01-05 Thread Niels Thykier
On 2013-12-16 23:32, Robert Millan wrote: > On 15/12/2013 13:34, Niels Thykier wrote: >> It would probably be good if you (i.e. the BSD porters) could start a >> dialogue with the GNOME maintainers and figure out exactly where GNOME >> is on kFreeBSD (vs. where it is supposed

Re: Release sprint results - team changes, auto-rm and arch status

2014-01-11 Thread Niels Thykier
On 2014-01-05 12:22, Robert Millan wrote: > On 05/01/2014 10:30, Niels Thykier wrote: >> On 2013-12-16 23:32, Robert Millan wrote: >>> On 15/12/2013 13:34, Niels Thykier wrote: >>>> It would probably be good if you (i.e. the BSD porters) could start a >>>&g

Re: Release sprint results - team changes, auto-rm and arch status

2014-01-12 Thread Niels Thykier
On 2014-01-11 23:10, Robert Millan wrote: > On 11/01/2014 21:32, Niels Thykier wrote: >>> As for #712848, the latest comment sent by Petr suggested that the test >>> might be >>> incorrect when applied to kqueue. >>> >> >> I

Re: gdm3

2014-01-12 Thread Niels Thykier
On 2014-01-12 00:01, Robert Millan wrote: > On 11/01/2014 22:54, Robert Millan wrote: >>> Do you have an idea of the consequences of making it linux-only? If it >>> is just using (e.g.) xdm instead of and kFreeBSD losing a couple of >>> packages, it will probably not be much of an issue. But then

Re: Bits from the Release Team: Architecture health check

2014-01-29 Thread Niels Thykier
On 2014-01-29 23:24, Steven Chamberlain wrote: > On 29/01/14 22:11, Robert Millan wrote: >> On 29/01/2014 19:41, Niels Thykier wrote: >>> * kfreebsd-amd64 and kfreebsd-i386 >>>- On one hand, we are unconvinced that kFreeBSD will be able >>> to be on

Re: Bits from the Release Team: Architecture health check

2014-02-12 Thread Niels Thykier
On 2014-01-30 16:23, Robert Millan wrote: > On 30/01/2014 00:03, Niels Thykier wrote: >> @Robert: Re your "Could you elaborate?". I haven't forgotten it, but I >> out of time - so I will get back to you on that. > > It's ok. > > I wanted more deta

Re: Bits from the Release Team: Architecture health check

2014-02-15 Thread Niels Thykier
On 2014-02-14 00:23, Steven Chamberlain wrote: > On 12/02/14 20:06, Niels Thykier wrote: >> kFreeBSD is just shy of 90%, whereas most other release architectures >> are at 96%[1]. Here kFreeBSD has increased in the past quarter from >> ~89.5% to "almost, but not qui

Re: Bits from the Release Team: Architecture health check

2014-02-16 Thread Niels Thykier
On 2014-02-14 00:32, brunomaxi...@openmailbox.org wrote: >>> Secondly, there are cases like GDM, where a single unsupported package >>> have rather "long reaching" consequences. In the concrete example, >>> GNOME (via gnome-core) strictly depends on gdm3, meaning that if gdm3 >>> goes, (more or le

Re: Bits from the Release Team: Architecture health check

2014-03-12 Thread Niels Thykier
On 2014-02-19 17:32, Robert Millan wrote: > On 29/01/2014 23:03, Niels Thykier wrote: >> I believe this is a first for us (as well) - at the very least, I won't >> claim to have all the answers. Anyhow, as I see it, we want you to >> choose a set of supported packages,

system hangs when building gcc on kfreebsd-amd64

2014-04-23 Thread Niels Thykier
Dear BSD porters, Do you have any news on this bug? It is severely affecting *all* GCC versions and prevents new versions of them from migrating to testing. ~Niels -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bsd-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists

Re: Bug#778366: unblock: kfreebsd-10/10.1~svn274115-2

2015-02-17 Thread Niels Thykier
Control: tags -1 d-i On 2015-02-14 04:22, Michael Gilbert wrote: > Package: release.debian.org > User: release.debian@packages.debian.org > Usertags: unblock > Severity: normal > x-debbugs-cc: debian-b...@lists.debian.org > > Please consider unblocking kfreebsd-10. It fixes 2 security issues

Bug#779074: kfreebsd-defaults: Please stop building on linux architectures

2015-02-23 Thread Niels Thykier
Source: kfreebsd-defaults Version: 10+1 Severity: serious Hi, The kfreebsd-10 package stopped building its binaries on linux architectures. However, kfreebsd-defaults still builds its binaries for linux and they depend on (now missing) linux version of the kfreebsd-10 binaries. The end result i

[Stretch] Status for architecture qualification

2016-06-05 Thread Niels Thykier
Hi members of DSA, Security, RT and all porters. While the freeze still seem far away, I think it is time to start with the architecture qualifications. For starters, here are the architectures we are aware of: * amd64, i386, armel, armhf, arm64, mips, mipsel, powerpc, ppc64el, s390x - *N

Re: [Stretch] Status for architecture qualification

2016-06-05 Thread Niels Thykier
John Paul Adrian Glaubitz: > Hi Niels! > > On 06/05/2016 12:01 PM, Niels Thykier wrote: >> Beyond mips64el, we are not aware of any new architectures for Stretch. >> >> I kindly ask you to: >> >> * Porters, please assert if your architecture is targeting St

Re: [Stretch] Status for architecture qualification

2016-06-05 Thread Niels Thykier
Steven Chamberlain: > Hi, > Hi, > John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote: >> I have invested lots of time and effort to get sparc64 into a usable state >> in Debian. >> We are close to 11.000 installed packages. Missing packages include Firefox, >> Thunderbird/Icedove, golang and LibreOffice to name t

Re: [Stretch] Status for architecture qualification

2016-06-13 Thread Niels Thykier
Philipp Kern: > On 2016-06-05 12:01, Niels Thykier wrote: >> * amd64, i386, armel, armhf, arm64, mips, mipsel, powerpc, ppc64el, >>s390x >>- *No* blockers at this time from RT, DSA nor security. >>- s390, ppc64el and all arm ports have DSA concerns. &

Re: Porter roll call for Debian Stretch

2016-08-17 Thread Niels Thykier
Martin Michlmayr: > * ni...@thykier.net [2016-08-17 22:05]: >> 2020), please respond with a signed email containing the following >> before Friday, the 9th of September: > > Can you please specify where to respond to? I don't think dozens of > emails to -ports and -devel make any sense. > Ah,

Re: Porter roll call for Debian Stretch

2016-08-20 Thread Niels Thykier
Kurt Roeckx: > On Wed, Aug 17, 2016 at 10:05:06PM +0200, ni...@thykier.net wrote: >> * If we were to enable -fPIE/-pie by default in GCC-6, should that change >>also apply to this port? [0] > > If -fPIE is the default will -fPIC override it? > > It will also default to tell the linker to use

Re: Porter roll call for Debian Stretch

2016-09-20 Thread Niels Thykier
ni...@thykier.net: > Hi, > > Like last release, we are doing a roll call for porters of all release > architectures. If you are an active porter behind one of the [release > architectures] for the entire lifetime of Debian Stretch (est. end of > 2020), please respond with a signed email containin

Re: Porter roll call for Debian Stretch

2016-09-30 Thread Niels Thykier
Mathieu Malaterre: > Hi all, > > [...] > > [Let's assume that we can't find a powerpc porter in time for Stretch.] > > 1. Will `powperpc` automatically be downgraded to simple port ? Or is > this also not automated and the port may simply be removed (eg. sparc) > ? > 2. Apart from loosing the au

Re: Porter roll call for Debian Stretch

2016-09-30 Thread Niels Thykier
John Paul Adrian Glaubitz: > On 09/30/2016 06:08 PM, Niels Thykier wrote: >> I strongly /suspect/ that "no porters" for powerpc will imply the >> removal of powerpc for Stretch. It may or may not be moved to ports >> (assuming someone is willing to support it there)

Re: Porter roll call for Debian Stretch

2016-09-30 Thread Niels Thykier
Niels Thykier: > [...] > > As for "porter qualification" > = > > We got burned during the Jessie release, where a person answered the > roll call for sparc and we kept sparc as a release architecture for > Jessie. However, we end

Re: Architecture qualification meeting, scheduling

2016-10-08 Thread Niels Thykier
Adrian Bunk: > [ fullquote adding -ports, for people not following -release or -devel ] > > [...] > > Is https://release.debian.org/stretch/arch_qualify.html the up-to-date > information available to you, and the "candidate" line how a decision > would look like based on the current information?

Re: Enabling PIE by default for Stretch

2016-10-09 Thread Niels Thykier
Niels Thykier: > Hi, > > As brought up on the meeting last night, I think we should try to go for > PIE by default in Stretch on all release architectures! > * It is a substantial hardening feature > * Upstream has vastly reduced the performance penalty for x86 > * The ma

Arch qualification for buster: call for DSA, Security, toolchain concerns

2018-06-27 Thread Niels Thykier
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