Re: Bits from the Release Team: What should go into squeeze?

2010-03-14 Thread Nikita V. Youshchenko
> > From a current point of view squeeze will release with kernel 2.6.32 This is not very good, since .32 is skipped by -rt people, so us who need realtime kernel, won't be able just to add a patch to distribution kernel, but instead will have to use different upstream version. -- To UNSUBSCR

Bug#573929: ITP: libcatalyst-devel-perl -- collection of development tools for Catalyst

2010-03-14 Thread Jonathan Yu
Package: wnpp Owner: Jonathan Yu Severity: wishlist X-Debbugs-CC: debian-devel@lists.debian.org,debian-p...@lists.debian.org * Package name: libcatalyst-devel-perl Version : 1.27 Upstream Author : Catalyst Contributors, see Catalyst.pm * URL : http://search.cpan.org/di

Re: Bug#572986: Acknowledgement (radvd will not accept an interface name with a capital letter, like ethLAN or ethEXT)

2010-03-14 Thread tabris
On 03/14/2010 01:58 PM, tabris wrote: > This bug has been open a week w/o any updates, and squeeze release is > looming. > > Any thoughts? > I just tested patching scanner.l and it does fix my issue I'm using the following note the last line, 'string' which allows something like eLAN or eLAN0 o

Re: Bits from the Release Team: What should go into squeeze?

2010-03-14 Thread Yves-Alexis Perez
On dim., 2010-03-14 at 21:42 +0100, Philipp Kern wrote: > Dear fellow developers, […] > > It would be great if every team on track could send us a short mail to > debian-rele...@lists.debian.org and if every team that still faces work > could write up a corresponding bug report filed against relea

Re: Is Robert Millan MIA?

2010-03-14 Thread Jan Hauke Rahm
Hi Karl, On Mon, Mar 15, 2010 at 04:34:16AM +1030, Karl Goetz wrote: > Hi all, > > cc gNewSense volunteer managers, and Paul O'Malley [project founder]) > > I've not seen any life out of Robert since the middle of Febuary. I'm > aware of several attempts to reach Robert, via Email or IRC [1]. Al

Re: Bits from the Release Team: What should go into squeeze?

2010-03-14 Thread Ben Hutchings
On Sun, 2010-03-14 at 21:57 +0100, Mikael Djurfeldt wrote: > On Sun, Mar 14, 2010 at 21:42, Philipp Kern wrote: > > From a current point of view squeeze will release with kernel 2.6.32 > > Would it be possible to, instead, release with kernel 2.6.33? Not a chance. > I see at least two improveme

Re: Bits from the Release Team: What should go into squeeze?

2010-03-14 Thread Joerg Jaspert
>> From a current point of view squeeze will release with kernel 2.6.32 > Would it be possible to, instead, release with kernel 2.6.33? Thats a kernel team decision. And they have .32, as that is (IIRC) supported not only by Debian but by many other distributions too. (and at some point you just

Re: Essential and Packages files vs /etc/.

2010-03-14 Thread Neil Williams
On Sun, 14 Mar 2010 20:54:18 +0100 Sven Joachim wrote: > >> On Sun, Mar 14, 2010 at 06:04:16PM +, Neil Williams wrote: > >> > Personally, I'm not that fussed about Essential anymore - Emdebian just > >> > removes the tag from any and every package automatically. No ill effects > >> > have bee

Re: Bits from the Release Team: What should go into squeeze?

2010-03-14 Thread Martin Zobel-Helas
Hi, On Sun Mar 14, 2010 at 21:57:49 +0100, Mikael Djurfeldt wrote: > On Sun, Mar 14, 2010 at 21:42, Philipp Kern wrote: > > From a current point of view squeeze will release with kernel 2.6.32 > > Would it be possible to, instead, release with kernel 2.6.33? > > I see at least two improvements

Re: Bug#572986: Acknowledgement (radvd will not accept an interface name with a capital letter, like ethLAN or ethEXT)

2010-03-14 Thread tabris
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Re: Bits from the Release Team: What should go into squeeze?

2010-03-14 Thread Mikael Djurfeldt
On Sun, Mar 14, 2010 at 21:42, Philipp Kern wrote: > From a current point of view squeeze will release with kernel 2.6.32 Would it be possible to, instead, release with kernel 2.6.33? I see at least two improvements from 2.6.32 to 2.6.33 that will matter a lot to certain subsets of users: * The

Re: e2fsprogs not esential anymore?

2010-03-14 Thread Sven Joachim
On 2010-03-14 20:34 +0100, Neil Williams wrote: > On Sun, 14 Mar 2010 11:25:08 -0700 > Steve Langasek wrote: > >> On Sun, Mar 14, 2010 at 06:04:16PM +, Neil Williams wrote: >> > Personally, I'm not that fussed about Essential anymore - Emdebian just >> > removes the tag from any and every pac

Re: e2fsprogs not esential anymore?

2010-03-14 Thread Neil Williams
On Sun, 14 Mar 2010 11:25:08 -0700 Steve Langasek wrote: > On Sun, Mar 14, 2010 at 06:04:16PM +, Neil Williams wrote: > > Personally, I'm not that fussed about Essential anymore - Emdebian just > > removes the tag from any and every package automatically. No ill effects > > have been identifi

Bug#573886: ITP: ambdec -- Ambisonic decoder for first and second order

2010-03-14 Thread Alessio Treglia
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Alessio Treglia * Package name: ambdec Version : 0.4.2 Upstream Author : Fons Adriaensen * URL : http://www.kokkinizita.net/linuxaudio/index.html * License : GPL Programming Lang: C++ Description : Ambisonic deco

Is Robert Millan MIA?

2010-03-14 Thread Karl Goetz
Hi all, cc gNewSense volunteer managers, and Paul O'Malley [project founder]) I've not seen any life out of Robert since the middle of Febuary. I'm aware of several attempts to reach Robert, via Email or IRC [1]. All of these have been unsuccessful. Does someone have contact with Robert IRL? I'm

Re: e2fsprogs not esential anymore?

2010-03-14 Thread Steve Langasek
On Sun, Mar 14, 2010 at 06:04:16PM +, Neil Williams wrote: > Personally, I'm not that fussed about Essential anymore - Emdebian just > removes the tag from any and every package automatically. No ill effects > have been identified so far. Sometimes I wonder if Debian actually > needs Essential

Re: e2fsprogs not esential anymore?

2010-03-14 Thread Neil Williams
On Sun, 14 Mar 2010 18:10:03 +0100 m...@linux.it (Marco d'Itri) wrote: > On Feb 07, Luk Claes wrote: > > > The whole archive needs to be scanned to see if no functionality of > > e2fsprogs is used without (build) dependency. Dropping the flag itself > > is just uploading e2fsprogs AFAICS. > Sinc

Bug#573880: ITP: icinga -- A host/service/network monitoring and management system

2010-03-14 Thread Alexander Wirt
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Alexander Wirt * Package name: icinga Version : 1.0.1 Upstream Author : Icinga Team * URL : http://www.icinga.lorg/ * License : GPL Programming Lang: C Description : A host/service/network monitoring and managem

Re: e2fsprogs not esential anymore?

2010-03-14 Thread Marco d'Itri
On Feb 07, Luk Claes wrote: > The whole archive needs to be scanned to see if no functionality of > e2fsprogs is used without (build) dependency. Dropping the flag itself > is just uploading e2fsprogs AFAICS. Since Luk is on vacation, does anybody else have any ideas about how to do this? -- ci

Bug#573874: ITP: compass-susy-plugin -- Susy is a elastic grid framework for Compass

2010-03-14 Thread Micah Anderson
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Micah Anderson * Package name: compass-susy-plugin Version : 0.6.3 Upstream Author : Eric Meyer * URL : http://www.oddbird.net/susy/ * License : MIT Programming Lang: Ruby Description : Susy is a elastic grid fra

Re: Running Debian Test version via VM Ware Player

2010-03-14 Thread The Fungi
On Sun, Mar 14, 2010 at 09:35:07AM +0100, Xavier Vello wrote: [...] > The proper way would be to use a live-CD, but I can't think of an > official one based on squeeze. [...] Daniel Baumann mentioned on debian-live a little over a month ago that it's in the works: http://lists.debian.org/debian-l

Processed: Re: Processed: Re: Bug#573791: apt-get update in Debian 5.04 (lenny) failing since updates of 2010-03-11

2010-03-14 Thread Debian Bug Tracking System
Processing commands for cont...@bugs.debian.org: > reassign 573791 cdimage.debian.org Bug #573791 [general] apt-get update in Debian 5.04 (lenny) failing since updates of 2010-03-11 Bug reassigned from package 'general' to 'cdimage.debian.org'. > thanks Stopping processing here. Please contact m

Re: Invite to join the Release Team

2010-03-14 Thread Luk Claes
Bernd Zeimetz wrote: > Luk Claes wrote: >> Hi Clint >> >> You seem to send the message that you can judge from the sideline how >> things should be run, so I hereby invite you to join the Release Team >> and do a proper job. >> >> If you don't take the challenge I'll interpret that as you being a >

Re: Invite to join the Release Team

2010-03-14 Thread Clint Adams
[Adding and M-F-T-ing -project] On Sun, Mar 14, 2010 at 10:04:58AM +0100, Marc 'HE' Brockschmidt wrote: > I want to point out that Luk's mail was not in any way discussed in the > release team. I think it is horrible. > > I welcome everyone to critize the release team. I would prefer help, of > c

Re: Invite to join the Release Team

2010-03-14 Thread Jurij Smakov
On Sun, Mar 14, 2010 at 02:03:51PM +0100, Bernd Zeimetz wrote: > Luk Claes wrote: > > Hi Clint > > > > You seem to send the message that you can judge from the sideline how > > things should be run, so I hereby invite you to join the Release Team > > and do a proper job. > > > > If you don't take

Re: Invite to join the Release Team

2010-03-14 Thread Bernd Zeimetz
Luk Claes wrote: > Hi Clint > > You seem to send the message that you can judge from the sideline how > things should be run, so I hereby invite you to join the Release Team > and do a proper job. > > If you don't take the challenge I'll interpret that as you being a > coward who does not deserve

Re: Invite to join the Release Team

2010-03-14 Thread Karl Goetz
On Sun, 14 Mar 2010 15:59:11 +0300 Stanislav Maslovski wrote: > On Sun, Mar 14, 2010 at 10:45:26PM +1030, Karl Goetz wrote: > > On Sun, 14 Mar 2010 12:58:48 +0100 > > Frank Lin PIAT wrote: > > > > > Hi dear Teams, > > > > At the risk of getting involved... > > > Where was the criticism that s

Re: Invite to join the Release Team

2010-03-14 Thread Stanislav Maslovski
On Sun, Mar 14, 2010 at 10:45:26PM +1030, Karl Goetz wrote: > On Sun, 14 Mar 2010 12:58:48 +0100 > Frank Lin PIAT wrote: > > > Hi dear Teams, > > At the risk of getting involved... > Where was the criticism that started this thread posted to? I didn't > notice it pass on -devel. I think it was

Re: Debian Package

2010-03-14 Thread Arthur de Jong
On Tue, 2010-03-09 at 18:25 +, brian m. carlson wrote: > On Tue, Mar 09, 2010 at 12:52:31PM -0500, Jake wrote: > > I was creating a Debian package and after it install I would like it > > to prompt the user to reboot the computer, is there anyway to do > > this? > > Except in very limited circ

Re: Invite to join the Release Team

2010-03-14 Thread Karl Goetz
On Sun, 14 Mar 2010 12:58:48 +0100 Frank Lin PIAT wrote: > Hi dear Teams, At the risk of getting involved... > A few weeks ago, someone posted a link on planet.d.o, on how to > demotivate contributors (a wikipedia page)... unfortunately I can't > find the page anymore... > > On Sun, 2010-03-14

Re: Invite to join the Release Team

2010-03-14 Thread Nico Golde
Hey, * Joerg Jaspert [2010-03-14 00:08]: > On 12053 March 1977, Luk Claes wrote: > > > You seem to send the message that you can judge from the sideline how > > things should be run, so I hereby invite you to join the Release Team > > and do a proper job. > > > If you don't take the challenge I'

Re: Invite to join the Release Team

2010-03-14 Thread Frank Lin PIAT
Hi dear Teams, A few weeks ago, someone posted a link on planet.d.o, on how to demotivate contributors (a wikipedia page)... unfortunately I can't find the page anymore... On Sun, 2010-03-14 at 00:02 +0100, Joerg Jaspert wrote: > On 12053 March 1977, Luk Claes wrote: > > > You seem to send the m

Processed: Re: Bug#573791: apt-get update in Debian 5.04 (lenny) failing since updates of 2010-03-11

2010-03-14 Thread Debian Bug Tracking System
Processing commands for cont...@bugs.debian.org: > reassign 573791 general Bug #573791 [apt-get as installed from cd 1 iso of debian 5.04. also tried with] apt-get update in Debian 5.04 (lenny) failing since updates of 2010-03-11 Warning: Unknown package 'apt-get' Warning: Unknown package 'as' Wa

Re: Invite to join the Release Team

2010-03-14 Thread Marc 'HE' Brockschmidt
Luk Claes writes: > You seem to send the message that you can judge from the sideline how > things should be run, so I hereby invite you to join the Release Team > and do a proper job. > > If you don't take the challenge I'll interpret that as you being a > coward who does not deserve to be heard

Re: Running Debian Test version via VM Ware Player

2010-03-14 Thread Xavier Vello
Le Samedi 13 Mars 2010 00:11:23, Brett a écrit : > Hi, > I am not sure if this is the correct list to email, but the debian-testing > list seems to mostly consist of junk mail. I have installed Debian testing > on Ubuntu, through VM Ware Player. It seems to work fine, but I am not > sure if I would