Re: MBF alert: packages with very long source / .deb filenames

Andreas Metzler writes: > In gmane.linux.debian.devel.general Joey Hess wrote: >> Steve McIntyre wrote: >>> There are uses I've heard about, including (apparently quite common) >>> using CDs and DVDs to seed a mirror on a Windows server. > >> If I had to chose between that working, and not needi

Re: Debian 6.0.1 ia64 DVD release looks strange

On Wed, Mar 23, 2011 at 12:00:53AM +1100, Andrew McGlashan wrote: >Hi Steve, > >Steve McIntyre wrote: >>Apologies, you've just found a bug in the CD/DVD creation run from >>last weekend. I'm working on it now, expect a new release (6.0.1a) >>shortly. > >How about an announcement for this when it is

FWD: Fixed ISO images for Debian 6.0.1 released

[ Reply-To: set to debian-cd in case people want to ask for more information... ] As promised, here's an update about the 6.0.1 CD builds. The Debian Projecthttp://www.debian.org/ Fixed ISO

Re: MBF alert: packages with very long source / .deb filenames

On Sat, Mar 26, 2011 at 08:56:14AM +0100, Raphael Hertzog wrote: >On Fri, 25 Mar 2011, Steve McIntyre wrote: >> On Fri, Mar 25, 2011 at 12:28:54PM -0400, Joey Hess wrote: >> >Steve McIntyre wrote: >> >> There are uses I've heard about, including (apparently quite common) >> >> using CDs and DVDs to

Re: MBF alert: packages with very long source / .deb filenames

On Sat, Mar 26, 2011 at 03:18:12PM +0100, gregor herrmann wrote: >On Sat, 26 Mar 2011 08:56:14 +0100, Raphael Hertzog wrote: > >> > We already have arbitrary limits on filename length (~200 bytes or so >> > on RockRidge), even before this. I'm just proposing to lower them for >> > a common use case

Bug#619211: debian-cd: Add hurd-i386 support

tags 619211 +pending thanks On Mon, Mar 28, 2011 at 11:45:02PM +0200, Samuel Thibault wrote: >Samuel Thibault, le Tue 22 Mar 2011 02:08:09 +0100, a écrit : >> The attached patch adds hurd-i386 support to debian-cd, could you please >> apply it? > >and please don't forget to > >chmod +x tools/boot/

Processed: Re: Bug#619211: debian-cd: Add hurd-i386 support

Processing commands for cont...@bugs.debian.org: > tags 619211 +pending Bug #619211 [debian-cd] debian-cd: Add hurd-i386 support Added tag(s) pending. > thanks Stopping processing here. Please contact me if you need assistance. -- 619211: http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=619211 D

Bug#619211: debian-cd: Add hurd-i386 support

On Wed, Mar 30, 2011 at 01:21:40PM +0200, Samuel Thibault wrote: >Steve McIntyre, le Wed 30 Mar 2011 11:30:43 +0100, a écrit : >> On Mon, Mar 28, 2011 at 11:45:02PM +0200, Samuel Thibault wrote: >> >Samuel Thibault, le Tue 22 Mar 2011 02:08:09 +0100, a écrit : >> >> The attached patch adds hurd-i38

Bug#619211: debian-cd: Add hurd-i386 support

Steve McIntyre, le Wed 30 Mar 2011 11:30:43 +0100, a écrit : > On Mon, Mar 28, 2011 at 11:45:02PM +0200, Samuel Thibault wrote: > >Samuel Thibault, le Tue 22 Mar 2011 02:08:09 +0100, a écrit : > >> The attached patch adds hurd-i386 support to debian-cd, could you please > >> apply it? > > > >and pl

Re: MBF alert: packages with very long source / .deb filenames

On Wed, 30 Mar 2011, Steve McIntyre wrote: > >I think so. The package with long names tend to follow a naming policy > >that sort of imposes the long name... so if we put a too-short limit > >then we're asking them to make an exception in the naming policy. > > So what's a reasonable name length l

Re: MBF alert: packages with very long source / .deb filenames

On Wed, 30 Mar 2011 11:56:22 +0100, Steve McIntyre wrote: > >Right, that's certainly true for the lib.*-perl packages, and I > >wouldn't know how we should rename them in a sane way. > In the worst case that I'm looking at, I'm a little surprised by the > names here on two fronts: > libcgi-applica

Splitting large game data packages?

Hi, I've been considering splitting up openarena-data (currently 314MB source, 345MB binary) into multiple source packages. openarena would still have to depend on all of them (you need the complete set for network compatibility), but they'd be easier to fit on CDs, and I wouldn't have to upload so

Bug#619691: Provide lists of CD etc. contents

On Sat, Mar 26, 2011 at 04:19:12AM +, Ben Hutchings wrote: >Package: cdimage.debian.org >Severity: wishlist > >Richard Atterer no longer maintains Jigdo or the search engine for >files on Debian CDs. Please provide content lists in some form that >can be linked from