Re: Draft GR for permitting private discussion

2012-07-18 Thread Stefano Zacchiroli
On Tue, Jul 17, 2012 at 10:17:34AM -0700, Russ Allbery wrote: > I probably should save this for the main discussion in -vote or -project, Let's do that, and sorry for dropping this here, but having mentioned it to Ian before, I didn't want for any of you to wait indefinitely for my comment. So fee

Bug#681687: missing mime entry

2012-07-18 Thread Neil McGovern
Hi, On Tue, Jul 17, 2012 at 11:45:42PM +0200, Michael Biebl wrote: > If a missing mime file would mean an RC bug, this would instantly make > 514 packages RC buggy. > Interestingly, the particular section in the Debian policy is a should > directive, not a must, so I don't understand the reasons f

Re: Bug#681834: network-manager, gnome, Recommends vs Depends

2012-07-18 Thread Philipp Kern
On Wed, Jul 18, 2012 at 01:55:03AM +0100, Ian Jackson wrote: > Experiemnts reported on debian-devel show that this `tight coupling' > is more a matter of doctrine than an actual hard functional > dependency. > > Indeed on two of our platorms network-manager isn't even supported, so > it is just le

Re: Bug#681419: Alternative dependencies on non-free packages in main

2012-07-18 Thread Goswin von Brederlow
On Tue, Jul 17, 2012 at 12:22:13PM +0100, Ian Jackson wrote: > Goswin von Brederlow writes ("Re: Bug#681419: Alternative dependencies on > non-free packages in main"): > > On Fri, Jul 13, 2012 at 09:59:33PM +0100, Ian Jackson wrote: > > > How about instead we think about what the real issue is. T

Bug#614907: [Pkg-mediawiki-devel] [Pkg-javascript-devel] Bug#680080: Invalidated by dependency: Excuse for mediawiki-extensions

2012-07-18 Thread Thorsten Glaser
On Tue, 10 Jul 2012, Thorsten Glaser wrote: > > Right now I am waiting for the judgement of the tech-ctte regarding > > nodejs. See bug#614907. > > Ah. Luckily, that’s almost resolved. It has been resolved for days now, would please someone implement the solution? I can, as offered previously,

Bug#614907: [Pkg-mediawiki-devel] [Pkg-javascript-devel] Bug#680080: Invalidated by dependency: Excuse for mediawiki-extensions

2012-07-18 Thread Ian Jackson
Thorsten Glaser writes ("Bug#614907: [Pkg-mediawiki-devel] [Pkg-javascript-devel] Bug#680080: Invalidated by dependency: Excuse for mediawiki-extensions"): > On Tue, 10 Jul 2012, Thorsten Glaser wrote: > > Ah. Luckily, that’s almost resolved. > > It has been resolved for days now, would please s

Re: Draft GR for permitting private discussion

2012-07-18 Thread Kurt Roeckx
On Wed, Jul 18, 2012 at 10:31:15AM +0200, Stefano Zacchiroli wrote: > > The current wording, read literally, means that if I happened to run into > > Steve Langasek, say, at a social occasion, I am not permitted to mention > > network-manager and GNOME to him, because that conversation isn't public

Bug#682010: [mumble] Communication failures due to CELT codec library removal

2012-07-18 Thread Chris Knadle
Package: tech-ctte Severity: normal Greetings to the technical committee. This refers to Bug #675971 (which is severity grave, and currently closed) against the Mumble VoIP package, which is also affected by Bug #674650 concerning the removal of the CELT library. This evening we also just disco

Re: Draft GR for permitting private discussion

2012-07-18 Thread Michael Gilbert
On Wed, Jul 18, 2012 at 12:24 PM, Kurt Roeckx wrote: > On Wed, Jul 18, 2012 at 10:31:15AM +0200, Stefano Zacchiroli wrote: >> > The current wording, read literally, means that if I happened to run into >> > Steve Langasek, say, at a social occasion, I am not permitted to mention >> > network-manage

Re: Draft GR for permitting private discussion

2012-07-18 Thread Russ Allbery
Kurt Roeckx writes: > On Wed, Jul 18, 2012 at 10:31:15AM +0200, Stefano Zacchiroli wrote: >> I would agree that if yours here is the common interpretation of the >> current wording of the Constitution, then we have a problem. (It is not >> *my* reading, but that's meaningless.) I don't think that

Re: Draft GR for permitting private discussion

2012-07-18 Thread Steve Langasek
On Wed, Jul 18, 2012 at 01:18:27PM -0400, Michael Gilbert wrote: > On Wed, Jul 18, 2012 at 12:24 PM, Kurt Roeckx wrote: > > On Wed, Jul 18, 2012 at 10:31:15AM +0200, Stefano Zacchiroli wrote: > >> > The current wording, read literally, means that if I happened to run into > >> > Steve Langasek, say

Bug#681834: network-manager, gnome, Recommends vs Depends

2012-07-18 Thread Steve Langasek
On Wed, Jul 18, 2012 at 01:48:01AM +0100, Ian Jackson wrote: > Michael Biebl writes ("Bug#681834: network-manager, gnome, Recommends vs > Depends"): > > We thus tried a compromise, where the network-manager postinst script > > automatically comments out dhcp-type connections in /e/n/i (and restore

Bug#681834: network-manager, gnome, Recommends vs Depends

2012-07-18 Thread Ian Jackson
Steve Langasek writes ("Bug#681834: network-manager, gnome, Recommends vs Depends"): > I don't see how this follows. If n-m has been newly installed and is in > proper working order, and it sees that there's a trivially-configured > network interface in /e/n/i that it can take over, and it does s

Bug#681834: network-manager, gnome, Recommends vs Depends

2012-07-18 Thread Michael Biebl
On 18.07.2012 23:40, Ian Jackson wrote: > Secondly, it is possible for dhcp entries to be non-trivial. They may > specify interesting scripts to be run, dhcp options, bridging, etc. > It's not clear to me exactly which of these scenarious result in > what outcome. NM doesn't take over any such e

Re: Bug#681834: network-manager, gnome, Recommends vs Depends

2012-07-18 Thread Noel David Torres Taño
Hi ctte I just wanted to bring here an argument that came in debian-devel: the one that says that n-m does not play well with usb0 type network interfaces [1]. I have not tested this myself, since I do not use a laptop and do not need an USB network gadget on my desktop, so I can not confirm it

Re: duplicates in the archive

2012-07-18 Thread Ian Jackson
Josselin Mouette writes ("Re: duplicates in the archive"): > Le mardi 10 juillet 2012 à 17:38 +0900, Miles Bader a écrit : > > What's wrong with Recommends: in that case? It seems to perfectly > > match the "makes life easier for > XXX>" scenario you describe. > > Recommends is wrong for metapa

Re: duplicates in the archive

2012-07-18 Thread Ian Jackson
Ian Jackson writes ("Re: duplicates in the archive"): > Josselin Mouette writes ("Re: duplicates in the archive"): > > Le mardi 10 juillet 2012 à 17:38 +0900, Miles Bader a écrit : > > > What's wrong with Recommends: in that case? It seems to perfectly > > > match the "makes life easier for > >

Re: duplicates in the archive

2012-07-18 Thread Adam Borowski
On Tue, Jul 10, 2012 at 03:32:43PM +0200, Josselin Mouette wrote: > Le mardi 10 juillet 2012 à 17:38 +0900, Miles Bader a écrit : > > What's wrong with Recommends: in that case? It seems to perfectly > > match the "makes life easier for > XXX>" scenario you describe. > > Recommends is wrong for

mumble and celt, #682010, TC

2012-07-18 Thread Ian Jackson
(Please would others avoid CCing debian-release@ and security@, who are probably very busy and don't want to get tons of argument in their mailboxes.) The problem with mumble and the celt codec has been referred to the TC - see the bug mentioned above. I would be interested to hear from the secur

Bug#681687: Bug#658139: missing mime entry

2012-07-18 Thread Michael Biebl
On 18.07.2012 11:14, Neil McGovern wrote: > Hi, > > On Tue, Jul 17, 2012 at 11:45:42PM +0200, Michael Biebl wrote: >> If a missing mime file would mean an RC bug, this would instantly make >> 514 packages RC buggy. >> Interestingly, the particular section in the Debian policy is a should >> direct

Bug#682010: [mumble] Communication failures due to CELT codec library removal

2012-07-18 Thread Ian Jackson
Chris Knadle writes ("Bug#682010: [mumble] Communication failures due to CELT codec library removal"): > Package: tech-ctte > Severity: normal ... > This refers to Bug #675971 (which is severity grave, and currently closed) > against the Mumble VoIP package, which is also affected by Bug #674650 >

Bug#681687: missing mime entry

2012-07-18 Thread Ian Jackson
Neil McGovern writes ("Bug#681687: missing mime entry"): > As I understand it, there are still a number of issues with this > approach (.desktop files do not contain enough information to get > argument ordering correct in all cases, and it's far too late to start > using a new auto-generation syst

Processed: block 675971 by tech-ctte 682010

2012-07-18 Thread Debian Bug Tracking System
Processing commands for cont...@bugs.debian.org: > reopen 675971 Bug #675971 {Done: Ron } [mumble] Cannot communicate with the vast majority of Mumble servers due to lack of required baseline codec Bug reopened Ignoring request to alter fixed versions of bug #675971 to the same values previously

Re: Bug#682010: [mumble] Communication failures due to CELT codec library removal

2012-07-18 Thread Chris Knadle
On Wednesday, July 18, 2012 19:15:01, Ian Jackson wrote: > Chris Knadle writes ("Bug#682010: [mumble] Communication failures due to CELT codec library removal"): > > Package: tech-ctte > > Severity: normal > > ... > > > This refers to Bug #675971 (which is severity grave, and currently > > close

Bug#681783: Are Recommends really important (especially for metapackages)?

2012-07-18 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Ma, 17 iul 12, 12:35:20, Steve Langasek wrote: > > > 1. Is running a system with Recommends turned off a supported > > configuration? > > I don't think it's really useful for the Tech Ctte to try to declare whether > or not something is a "supported" configuration. What is supported is up to