Re: Debian Project mourns the loss of ...

2011-04-28 Thread jidanni
> "BB" == Bastian Blank writes: BB> Before demanding private information from others, you could fix your MUA BB> to include a name of your own. Well you could first help by not using a "Blank" surname! :-) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject o

Re: Bits from the Release Team - Kicking off Wheezy

2011-04-28 Thread Ben Finney
Lucas Nussbaum writes: > On 28/04/11 at 18:04 +0200, Mehdi Dogguy wrote: > > > I agree that it's a problem. However: > > > - we are likely to get more "rolling"+"unstable" users than the current > > > "testing"+"sid" users, so "rolling" release will get more testing > > > until the freeze. >

Re: [Pkg-xen-devel] xen-qemu-dm does not build with backported xen-4.1

2011-04-28 Thread Thomas Goirand
On 04/29/2011 01:02 AM, Niccolò Belli wrote: > Il 28/04/2011 16:55, Thomas Goirand ha scritto: >> Bastian, I just saw you did an upload, does this include the above fix >> (eg, inclusion of xentoollog.h)? Should I write a bug report? > > I fear you wasted your time trying to fix qemu-dm :| Not *t

Re: Bits from the Release Team - Kicking off Wheezy

2011-04-28 Thread gregor herrmann
On Thu, 28 Apr 2011 22:16:27 +0200, Raphael Hertzog wrote: > On Thu, 28 Apr 2011, sean finney wrote: > > If the latter case, I think the best thing to do would be to formalize > > the proposal (DEP maybe?), set up the test archives/autobuilds, and get > > right to it. > I'd be glad to help you dri

Re: Bits from the Release Team - Kicking off Wheezy

2011-04-28 Thread gregor herrmann
On Thu, 28 Apr 2011 18:54:32 +0200, Mehdi Dogguy wrote: > You want a constantly usable testing, but are you working these days on > fixing RC bugs affecting testing? Don't get me wrong. I'm not > finger-printing. I didn't find time to do that myself. But, if we all try > to do that, things will be

Re: Bits from the Release Team - Kicking off Wheezy

2011-04-28 Thread gregor herrmann
On Thu, 28 Apr 2011 22:55:01 +, Philipp Kern wrote: > At least if > they're wired up to at least get announcements if something's screwing > up systems gravely. That channel seems to be missing, though. apt-listbugs? Not very widely known, IME ... Cheers, gregor -- .''`. Homepage: htt

Re: Bits from the Release Team - Kicking off Wheezy

2011-04-28 Thread Philipp Kern
On 2011-04-28, Raphael Hertzog wrote: > But I don't plan to work on any of those if the project does not agree to > promote testing to something that can be advertised as usable by end-users > and as something that we strive to support on a best-effort basis. The usual troll of "everything in Deb

Re: Bits from the Release Team - Kicking off Wheezy

2011-04-28 Thread Mehdi Dogguy
On 04/28/2011 07:15 PM, Lucas Nussbaum wrote: Could we try to stay on focus and constructive, and avoid bringing poneys in the discussion? Yes. I'm sorry! I always write a first stupid version and then change it to something reasonable (or drop it), but I forgot to change that sentence. It wa

Re: limits for package name and version (MBF alert: ... .deb filenames)

2011-04-28 Thread Uoti Urpala
Henrique de Moraes Holschuh debian.org> writes: > I do think you misunderstood my point in the hash issue. My point is not > that a full hash will not collide. The point is that the full hash as seen > in a tree received from the upstream DVCS should not see colisions, because > the collision wo

Bug#624490: ITP: tnat64 -- IPv4 to NAT64 redirector

2011-04-28 Thread Andrew O. Shadoura
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: "Andrew O. Shadoura" * Package name: tnat64 Version : 0.01 Upstream Author : Andrew O. Shadoura * URL : https://bitbucket.org/andrew_shadoura/tnat64/ * License : GPL-2+ Programming Lang: C Description : IPv4 to N

Re: Bits from the Release Team - Kicking off Wheezy

2011-04-28 Thread Adam D. Barratt
On Thu, April 28, 2011 19:03, Lucas Nussbaum wrote: > On 28/04/11 at 12:05 -0400, Joey Hess wrote: >> And at the same time, having a non-frozen rolling release available >> during freeze time could easily distract people from working on >> testing/frozen at all, because a shiny rolling release that

Re: Bits from the Release Team - Kicking off Wheezy

2011-04-28 Thread Raphael Hertzog
On Thu, 28 Apr 2011, Joey Hess wrote: > Another problem is that testing can be frozen in stages, which allows > development from unstable on eg, leaf package to continue on filter into > testing until relatively close to the release. Rolling could disrupt > that, since uploads to unstable targeted

Re: Bits from the Release Team - Kicking off Wheezy

2011-04-28 Thread Raphael Hertzog
On Thu, 28 Apr 2011, sean finney wrote: > On Thu, Apr 28, 2011 at 02:55:31PM +0200, Raphael Hertzog wrote: > > Good. I just want to point out that "frozen" built on top on rolling > > (which is what we're proposing here) is different from "frozen" built on > > top of unstable (which is what we had

Re: Bits from the Release Team - Kicking off Wheezy

2011-04-28 Thread Lucas Nussbaum
On 28/04/11 at 20:45 +0200, Bernhard R. Link wrote: > * Lucas Nussbaum [110428 20:21]: > > On 28/04/11 at 12:05 -0400, Joey Hess wrote: > > > And at the same time, having a non-frozen rolling release available > > > during freeze time could easily distract people from working on > > > testing/froz

Re: Bits from the Release Team - Kicking off Wheezy

2011-04-28 Thread Didier Raboud
Philipp Kern wrote: > Improvement to update testing more quickly by easing the pain of > transitions, like rebuilding everything in a self-contained way > to avoid entanglements, would be well appreciated. As it's not the first time I see this mentionned (but still fail to understand it fully),

Re: Bits from the Release Team - Kicking off Wheezy

2011-04-28 Thread sean finney
Hi guys, On Wed, Apr 27, 2011 at 08:23:33PM +, Philipp Kern wrote: > >* RM's can still choose to migrate packages from (not frozen) testing as > > long as it's practical to do so. > >* When deps/transitions/etc prevent testing migration, "release N > > proposed updates" is us

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Re: Bits from the Release Team - Kicking off Wheezy

2011-04-28 Thread Bernhard R. Link
* Lucas Nussbaum [110428 20:21]: > On 28/04/11 at 12:05 -0400, Joey Hess wrote: > > And at the same time, having a non-frozen rolling release available > > during freeze time could easily distract people from working on > > testing/frozen at all, because a shiny rolling release that they and > > s

Re: Bits from the Release Team - Kicking off Wheezy

2011-04-28 Thread Lucas Nussbaum
On 28/04/11 at 18:54 +0200, Mehdi Dogguy wrote: > You want a constantly usable testing, but are you working these days on > fixing RC bugs affecting testing? Don't get me wrong. I'm not > finger-printing. I didn't find time to do that myself. But, if we all try > to do that, things will be much mor

Re: Bits from the Release Team - Kicking off Wheezy

2011-04-28 Thread Lucas Nussbaum
On 28/04/11 at 12:05 -0400, Joey Hess wrote: > And at the same time, having a non-frozen rolling release available > during freeze time could easily distract people from working on > testing/frozen at all, because a shiny rolling release that they and > some users can use is still available. I am u

Re: Bits from the Release Team - Kicking off Wheezy

2011-04-28 Thread Lucas Nussbaum
On 28/04/11 at 18:04 +0200, Mehdi Dogguy wrote: > On 28/04/2011 17:25, Lucas Nussbaum wrote: > > On 28/04/11 at 16:52 +0200, Mehdi Dogguy wrote: > >> > >> 1) At the beginning of the developement cycle, (with the new plan) you > >> start from testing, and not the new stable. So, you don't start with

Re: Bits from the Release Team - Kicking off Wheezy

2011-04-28 Thread Philipp Kern
Joey, nice to see you agreeing. :) On 2011-04-28, Joey Hess wrote: > To most users of testing, a 5 month period when it doesn't update as > much, but is also more constantly usable is mostly a draw; that period > is when testing has the most new users. That's also my observation. Users switch

Re: limits for package name and version (MBF alert: ... .deb filenames)

2011-04-28 Thread Gunnar Wolf
Osamu Aoki dijo [Thu, Apr 28, 2011 at 11:55:48PM +0900]: > (...) > 1.2.10~YYMMDD for prerelease of version 1.2.10 > 1.2.10~rcYMMDD for prerelease of version 1.2.10 (alternative format) >this last 2 are mostly used in unstable/testing only. So length is >less of problem. Remember that w

Re: [RFC] Changing APT to pre-depend on ${shlibs:Depends}

2011-04-28 Thread Julian Andres Klode
On Do, 2011-04-28 at 08:41 -0700, Steve Langasek wrote: > On Wed, Apr 27, 2011 at 01:46:50PM -0500, Peter Samuelson wrote: > > [Eugene V. Lyubimkin] > > > Second, why the APT's ability to upgrade is broken under these > > > conditions? Unless I'm missing something, the upgrade cannot be > > > start

Re: Bits from the Release Team - Kicking off Wheezy

2011-04-28 Thread Mehdi Dogguy
On 28/04/2011 17:30, Raphael Hertzog wrote: > On Thu, 28 Apr 2011, Mehdi Dogguy wrote: >> 1) At the beginning of the developement cycle, (with the new plan) you >> start from testing, and not the new stable. So, you don't start with a >> base that's rc-bug free, or at least, as polished as the new

Re: Bits from the Release Team - Kicking off Wheezy

2011-04-28 Thread Joey Hess
Raphael Hertzog wrote: > There are other possible changes but I want to discuss them separately > because even without those changes, the testing without freeze is a > worthwhile goal in itself. > > Still, since you seem to insist, here are ideas I'd like to investigate: > > - reduce the set of a

Re: Bits from the Release Team - Kicking off Wheezy

2011-04-28 Thread Mehdi Dogguy
On 28/04/2011 17:25, Lucas Nussbaum wrote: > On 28/04/11 at 16:52 +0200, Mehdi Dogguy wrote: >> >> 1) At the beginning of the developement cycle, (with the new plan) you >> start from testing, and not the new stable. So, you don't start with a >> base that's rc-bug free, or at least, as polished as

Re: Bits from the Release Team - Kicking off Wheezy

2011-04-28 Thread Joey Hess
Mehdi Dogguy wrote: > There are other issues I want to mention here (you may judge them as > minor, but let's see): > > 1) At the beginning of the developement cycle, (with the new plan) you > start from testing, and not the new stable. So, you don't start with a > base that's rc-bug free, or at l

Re: [RFC] Changing APT to pre-depend on ${shlibs:Depends}

2011-04-28 Thread Michael Vogt
On Wed, Apr 27, 2011 at 02:53:26PM +0200, Julian Andres Klode wrote: > Hi, > > I hereby request comments on changing APT to pre-depend on > ${shlibs:Depends}. The reason is simple: > > When we upload a new version of APT, depending on a newer > library version (due to new symbols,

Bug#624458: ITP: ruby-taglib2 -- ruby-taglib2 is a Ruby interface to TagLib, the audio meta-data library.

2011-04-28 Thread Vincent Carmona
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Vincent Carmona * Package name: ruby-taglib2 Version : 0.1.3 Upstream Author : Vincent Carmona * URL : http://zik.rubyforge.org/ruby-taglib2/ * License : GPL (v2+) Programming Lang: C, ruby Description : ruby-ta

Re: [RFC] Changing APT to pre-depend on ${shlibs:Depends}

2011-04-28 Thread Steve Langasek
On Wed, Apr 27, 2011 at 01:46:50PM -0500, Peter Samuelson wrote: > [Eugene V. Lyubimkin] > > Second, why the APT's ability to upgrade is broken under these > > conditions? Unless I'm missing something, the upgrade cannot be > > started in the middle of another upgrade [1]. > > [1] If we count the

Re: Crypto consolidation in debian ?

2011-04-28 Thread Clint Adams
On Thu, Apr 28, 2011 at 10:37:37AM +0200, Bastien ROUCARIES wrote: > So, could we document we different pitfall of crypto library on the > debian wiki ? You could use http://curl.haxx.se/docs/ssl-compared.html and http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_TLS_Implementations as starting points.

Re: Bits from the Release Team - Kicking off Wheezy

2011-04-28 Thread Mehdi Dogguy
On 28/04/2011 17:30, Raphael Hertzog wrote: > > See > http://raphaelhertzog.com/2011/04/28/no-freeze-of-debian-development-what-does-it-entail/ > for a more detailed answer and related suggestions to limit this problem. > I'm still reading and thinking… so, don't have an answer yet. But, it you

Re: Bits from the Release Team - Kicking off Wheezy

2011-04-28 Thread Raphael Hertzog
On Thu, 28 Apr 2011, Mehdi Dogguy wrote: > 1) At the beginning of the developement cycle, (with the new plan) you > start from testing, and not the new stable. So, you don't start with a > base that's rc-bug free, or at least, as polished as the new stable is. First, the beginning of the developme

Re: Bits from the Release Team - Kicking off Wheezy

2011-04-28 Thread Lucas Nussbaum
On 28/04/11 at 16:52 +0200, Mehdi Dogguy wrote: > On 28/04/2011 15:52, Raphael Hertzog wrote: > > On Thu, 28 Apr 2011, Mehdi Dogguy wrote: > >> | before| during | release | freeze| freeze > >> | day+1 | dev period | | > >> —

Re: How to add "quilt" to an existing package?

2011-04-28 Thread Osamu Aoki
On Mon, Apr 25, 2011 at 05:56:24PM +0900, Charles Plessy wrote: > Le Sat, Apr 23, 2011 at 12:20:33AM +0900, Osamu Aoki a écrit : > > > > New URLs: > > > > http://www.debian.org/doc/maint-guide/index.en.html (this is the same) > > http://www.debian.org/doc/maint-guide/modify.en.html#quiltrc > >

Bug#624456: ITP: cfflib -- Multi-modal connectome and metadata management and integration

2011-04-28 Thread Yaroslav Halchenko
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Stephan Gerhard * Package name: cfflib Version : 2.0.2 Upstream Author : Stephan Gerhard * URL : http://cmtk.org/cfflib * License : BSD Programming Lang: Python Description : Multi-modal connectome and metadata m

Re: limits for package name and version (MBF alert: ... .deb filenames)

2011-04-28 Thread Osamu Aoki
Hi, On Wed, Apr 27, 2011 at 03:11:14PM -0300, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote: > On Tue, 26 Apr 2011, Uoti Urpala wrote: ... > It is still not a good reason to waste part of a draconian 30 chars of space > with hash information. I agree. Anyway, I think 30 should be the absolute upper limit fo

Re: Bits from the Release Team - Kicking off Wheezy

2011-04-28 Thread Mehdi Dogguy
On 28/04/2011 15:52, Raphael Hertzog wrote: > On Thu, 28 Apr 2011, Mehdi Dogguy wrote: >> | before| during | release | freeze| freeze >> | day+1 | dev period | | >> ——— |sid >> |sid

Re: Bits from the Release Team - Kicking off Wheezy

2011-04-28 Thread Lucas Nussbaum
On 28/04/11 at 15:04 +0200, Abou Al Montacir wrote: > On Thu, 2011-04-28 at 13:01 +0200, Mehdi Dogguy wrote: > > > On 28/04/2011 11:48, Simon McVittie wrote: > > > On Thu, 28 Apr 2011 at 11:29:28 +0200, Raphael Hertzog wrote: > > >> - at freeze time, instead of freezing rolling, we make a snapshot

Re: Bits from the Release Team - Kicking off Wheezy

2011-04-28 Thread Lucas Nussbaum
On 28/04/11 at 15:12 +0200, Mehdi Dogguy wrote: > How's rolling different from testing? (except that testing freezes > from time to time… yes, I know, that's the main point of the proposal, > but still, I want to know if there are other changes). Note that being frozen about 25% of the time is a s

Re: Bits from the Release Team - Kicking off Wheezy

2011-04-28 Thread Stefano Zacchiroli
On Thu, Apr 28, 2011 at 01:10:54PM +0200, Mehdi Dogguy wrote: > Except that it's lying to our users to name it "rolling" because packages > from rolling won't be rc-bug free. For this reason, I think that "testing" > is a very well choosen name, more honest about its state. If people think > that "

Bug#624448: O: webkitkde -- KDE bindings for WebKit / WebKit KPart

2011-04-28 Thread Axel Beckert
Package: wnpp Severity: normal Adrian von Bidder, the maintainer of the webkitkde package unfortunately died on 17th of April 2011 [1]. [1] http://www.debian.org/News/2011/20110423 Therefore, I orphan this package now. If you want to be the new maintainer, please take it. See http://www.debi

Bug#624446: O: libxml-writer-simple-perl -- simple API to create XML files

2011-04-28 Thread Axel Beckert
Package: wnpp Severity: normal Adrian von Bidder, the maintainer of the libxml-writer-simple-perl package unfortunately died on 17th of April 2011 [1]. [1] http://www.debian.org/News/2011/20110423 Therefore, I orphan this package now. If you want to be the new maintainer, please take it. See

Bug#624445: O: libxml-dtdparser-perl -- quick and dirty DTD parser

2011-04-28 Thread Axel Beckert
Package: wnpp Severity: normal Adrian von Bidder, the maintainer of the libxml-dtdparser-perl package unfortunately died on 17th of April 2011 [1]. [1] http://www.debian.org/News/2011/20110423 Therefore, I orphan this package now. If you want to be the new maintainer, please take it. See htt

Bug#624444: O: libtext-levenshteinxs-perl -- An XS implementation of the Levenshtein edit distance

2011-04-28 Thread Axel Beckert
Package: wnpp Severity: normal Adrian von Bidder, the maintainer of the libtext-levenshteinxs-perl package unfortunately died on 17th of April 2011 [1]. [1] http://www.debian.org/News/2011/20110423 Therefore, I orphan this package now. If you want to be the new maintainer, please take it. Se

Re: Bits from the Release Team - Kicking off Wheezy

2011-04-28 Thread Raphael Hertzog
On Thu, 28 Apr 2011, Mehdi Dogguy wrote: >| before| during | release >| freeze| freeze | day+1 >| dev period | | > ——— >|sid |sid |

Re: Bits from the Release Team - Kicking off Wheezy

2011-04-28 Thread Abou Al Montacir
On Thu, 2011-04-28 at 13:01 +0200, Mehdi Dogguy wrote: > On 28/04/2011 11:48, Simon McVittie wrote: > > On Thu, 28 Apr 2011 at 11:29:28 +0200, Raphael Hertzog wrote: > >> - at freeze time, instead of freezing rolling, we make a snapshot of > >> rolling (I call it testing) and this is where we do

Re: Crypto consolidation in debian ?

2011-04-28 Thread Roger Leigh
On Thu, Apr 28, 2011 at 03:09:48PM +0200, Simon Josefsson wrote: > Roger Leigh writes: > > > libgcrypt has some horrendous bugs which upstream refuse to fix, > > for example the broken behaviour relating to setuid binaries > > discussed previously here, and the hard coded behaviour which > > make

Re: Crypto consolidation in debian ?

2011-04-28 Thread Simon Josefsson
m...@linux.it (Marco d'Itri) writes: > On Apr 27, Bastian Blank wrote: > >> On Tue, Apr 26, 2011 at 07:20:55PM +0200, Marco d'Itri wrote: >> > The reason is that the kind of entities which require FIPS 140 probably >> > also tend to require corporate vendor support, which we do not provide. >> Wh

Re: Crypto consolidation in debian ?

2011-04-28 Thread Simon Josefsson
Roger Leigh writes: > On Wed, Apr 27, 2011 at 09:30:05AM -0700, Russ Allbery wrote: >> Bastien ROUCARIES writes: >> >> >> Patches to WebAuth to support NSS are welcome, but I'm sure not going to >> >> bother.  Seems like a waste of time to me.  If I were going to port to any >> >> other crypto

Bug#624435: ITP: raxml -- Randomized Axelerated Maximum Likelihood of phylogenetic trees

2011-04-28 Thread Andreas Tille
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Andreas Tille * Package name: raxml Version : 7.2.6 Upstream Author : Alexandros Stamatakis * URL : http://wwwkramer.in.tum.de/exelixis/software.html * License : GPL Programming Lang: C Description : Randomized A

Re: Bits from the Release Team - Kicking off Wheezy

2011-04-28 Thread Mehdi Dogguy
On 28/04/2011 11:29, Raphael Hertzog wrote: > On Wed, 27 Apr 2011, Mehdi Dogguy wrote: >> For example: What would be Rolling's content right after a release? >> (comparing to testing, which starts from the stable just released). >> I > > Rolling doesn't magically change after a release. It's sti

Re: Bits from the Release Team - Kicking off Wheezy

2011-04-28 Thread Lucas Nussbaum
On 28/04/11 at 13:10 +0200, Mehdi Dogguy wrote: > On 28/04/2011 12:03, Raphael Hertzog wrote: > > Might be, except that I don't want to keep the name "testing" due > > to its connotation that doesn't reflect well the goal of something > > that's constantly usable. > > > > Except that it's lying t

Re: Bits from the Release Team - Kicking off Wheezy

2011-04-28 Thread Raphael Hertzog
Hi, thank you all for your feedback! On Thu, 28 Apr 2011, Mehdi Dogguy wrote: > > So your "testing" is essentially the pre-2000 "frozen" distribution [1], and > > your "rolling" is basically the current "testing" without the need to > > freeze? > > If that's the case, calling the distributions u

A New Article Site In The Market

2011-04-28 Thread Aman Bhatia
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Bug#624430: ITP: glance -- glance

2011-04-28 Thread Thomas Goirand
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Thomas Goirand * Package name: glance Version : 2011.2 Upstream Author : Openstack maintainers * URL : http://www.openstack.org/ * License : Apache-2 Programming Lang: Python Description : OpenStack Image Registr

Re: Bits from the Release Team - Kicking off Wheezy

2011-04-28 Thread Mehdi Dogguy
On 28/04/2011 12:03, Raphael Hertzog wrote: > On Thu, 28 Apr 2011, Simon McVittie wrote: >> On Thu, 28 Apr 2011 at 11:29:28 +0200, Raphael Hertzog wrote: >>> - at freeze time, instead of freezing rolling, we make a snapshot of >>> rolling (I call it testing) and this is where we do the work left

Re: Bits from the Release Team - Kicking off Wheezy

2011-04-28 Thread Mehdi Dogguy
On 28/04/2011 09:06, Stefano Zacchiroli wrote: > On Wed, Apr 27, 2011 at 05:58:46PM +0200, Mehdi Dogguy wrote: >> Funny… reading your recent blogpost, > > (FWIW, the blog post Mehdi is referring to is, I guess, at [1]) > >> you seem to not understand yet what you want to put into Rolling (and >>

Re: Bits from the Release Team - Kicking off Wheezy

2011-04-28 Thread Mehdi Dogguy
On 28/04/2011 11:48, Simon McVittie wrote: > On Thu, 28 Apr 2011 at 11:29:28 +0200, Raphael Hertzog wrote: >> - at freeze time, instead of freezing rolling, we make a snapshot of >> rolling (I call it testing) and this is where we do the work left >> to make it ready for release > > So your "t

Re: Bits from the Release Team - Kicking off Wheezy

2011-04-28 Thread Philipp Kern
On 2011-04-28, Raphael Hertzog wrote: > Might be, except that I don't want to keep the name "testing" due > to its connotation that doesn't reflect well the goal of something > that's constantly usable. Oh it is mostly constantly usable. Yes, sometimes an arch has to suffer but I don't think it

Re: Bits from the Release Team - Kicking off Wheezy

2011-04-28 Thread Raphael Hertzog
On Thu, 28 Apr 2011, Simon McVittie wrote: > On Thu, 28 Apr 2011 at 11:29:28 +0200, Raphael Hertzog wrote: > > - at freeze time, instead of freezing rolling, we make a snapshot of > > rolling (I call it testing) and this is where we do the work left > > to make it ready for release > > So your

Re: [RFC] Changing APT to pre-depend on ${shlibs:Depends}

2011-04-28 Thread David Kalnischkies
On Thu, Apr 28, 2011 at 04:55, Peter Samuelson wrote: >> As discussed elsewhere in this thread, anyone relying on apt for >> upgrades would be using apt to upgrade apt, so an alternative to >> consider would be making apt fake the pre-depends internally. > > Is it feasible for apt to fake the pre-

Re: [RFC] Changing APT to pre-depend on ${shlibs:Depends}

2011-04-28 Thread David Kalnischkies
On Wed, Apr 27, 2011 at 20:46, Peter Samuelson wrote: > Also, what if apt wants to call one of its auxilliary binaries during > the install/upgrade?  I imagine it's not implemented that way _now_, > but a Pre-Depends would make such a thing a lot safer if they want it. In theory this could happen

Re: Bits from the Release Team - Kicking off Wheezy

2011-04-28 Thread Raphael Hertzog
On Thu, 28 Apr 2011, Raphael Hertzog wrote: > - testing is really a temporary distribution that has a purpose only > during freeze, if you use "testing" when there's no freeze you're > just using "stable" because the testing symlink is still pointing > to the distribution that has been releas

Re: Bits from the Release Team - Kicking off Wheezy

2011-04-28 Thread Simon McVittie
On Thu, 28 Apr 2011 at 11:29:28 +0200, Raphael Hertzog wrote: > - at freeze time, instead of freezing rolling, we make a snapshot of > rolling (I call it testing) and this is where we do the work left > to make it ready for release So your "testing" is essentially the pre-2000 "frozen" distrib

Re: [RFC] Changing APT to pre-depend on ${shlibs:Depends}

2011-04-28 Thread Raphael Hertzog
On Thu, 28 Apr 2011, Julian Andres Klode wrote: > On Do, 2011-04-28 at 09:42 +0200, Julien Cristau wrote: > > On Thu, Apr 28, 2011 at 09:18:05 +0200, Julian Andres Klode wrote: > > > > > We do count situations like > > > http://lists.debian.org/deity/2011/04/msg00154.html > > > > > > <676992.8107

Re: Bits from the Release Team - Kicking off Wheezy

2011-04-28 Thread Raphael Hertzog
On Thu, 28 Apr 2011, Stefano Zacchiroli wrote: > We might disagree with the process Raphael is proposing, but my reading > of [1] is that he is asking for comments on the *goals* that, in his > opinion, "rolling" is supposed to fulfill. We can discuss whether those > goals are worthwhile or not eve

Re: Crypto consolidation in debian ?

2011-04-28 Thread Bastien ROUCARIES
On Wed, Apr 27, 2011 at 6:46 PM, Roger Leigh wrote: > On Wed, Apr 27, 2011 at 09:30:05AM -0700, Russ Allbery wrote: >> Bastien ROUCARIES writes: >> >> >> Patches to WebAuth to support NSS are welcome, but I'm sure not going to >> >> bother.  Seems like a waste of time to me.  If I were going to p

Bug#624412: ITP: libscythestat -- Scythe Statistical C++ Library

2011-04-28 Thread Steffen Moeller
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Steffen Moeller * Package name: libscythestat Version : 1.0.2 * URL : http://scythe.wustl.edu/ * License : GPL Programming Lang: C++ Description : Scythe Statistical C++ Library >From their home page: The Scythe St

Re: [RFC] Changing APT to pre-depend on ${shlibs:Depends}

2011-04-28 Thread Julian Andres Klode
On Do, 2011-04-28 at 09:42 +0200, Julien Cristau wrote: > On Thu, Apr 28, 2011 at 09:18:05 +0200, Julian Andres Klode wrote: > > > We do count situations like > > http://lists.debian.org/deity/2011/04/msg00154.html > > > > <676992.81078...@web26502.mail.ukl.yahoo.com> > > > That seems silly. Th

Re: Bug#624402: ITP: xen-qemu-dm-4.1 -- Xen Qemu Device Model virtual machine hardware emulator

2011-04-28 Thread Julien Cristau
On Thu, Apr 28, 2011 at 15:20:00 +0800, Thomas Goirand wrote: > This is an updated package for version 4.1 of Xen. > Updated packages don't need ITPs. Cheers, Julien -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@

Re: [RFC] Changing APT to pre-depend on ${shlibs:Depends}

2011-04-28 Thread Julien Cristau
On Thu, Apr 28, 2011 at 09:18:05 +0200, Julian Andres Klode wrote: > We do count situations like > http://lists.debian.org/deity/2011/04/msg00154.html > > <676992.81078...@web26502.mail.ukl.yahoo.com> > That seems silly. They broke their system using dpkg -i, they can fix it with dpkg -i. Chee

Re: [RFC] Changing APT to pre-depend on ${shlibs:Depends}

2011-04-28 Thread Julian Andres Klode
On Mi, 2011-04-27 at 19:34 +0300, Eugene V. Lyubimkin wrote: > Hi, > > On 2011-04-27 14:53, Julian Andres Klode wrote: > > I hereby request comments on changing APT to pre-depend on > > ${shlibs:Depends}. > > > When we upload a new version of APT, depending on a newer > > library

Bug#624402: ITP: xen-qemu-dm-4.1 -- Xen Qemu Device Model virtual machine hardware emulator

2011-04-28 Thread Thomas Goirand
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Thomas Goirand * Package name: xen-qemu-dm-4.1 Version : 4.1.0 Upstream Author : Fabrice Bellard, Xen team, and others * URL : http://www.xen.org/ * License : BSD, GPL, GPL v2 or later, LGPL-2 Programming Lang: C De

Re: Bits from the Release Team - Kicking off Wheezy

2011-04-28 Thread Stefano Zacchiroli
On Wed, Apr 27, 2011 at 05:58:46PM +0200, Mehdi Dogguy wrote: > Funny… reading your recent blogpost, (FWIW, the blog post Mehdi is referring to is, I guess, at [1]) > you seem to not understand yet what you want to put into Rolling (and > how). So, how can we comment on something that's not set o