Re: Bit from the Release Team: I think I feel a song coming on... Yodel-ay-hee-hoo!

2013-05-04 Thread Partha P. Mukherjee
"Adam D. Barratt" writes: > Hi, > > As you may already know, we've passed responsibility for Wheezy to the > Stable Release Managers; in other words, we've released! > (snip) > > That's it for now; it's time for the celebrations to begin, whether at a > Release Party[PARTY] or otherwise. :-) > >

Re: OCaml and running shipped binaries (was Re: multiarch and interpreters/runtimes)

2013-05-04 Thread Stéphane Glondu
Le 05/05/2013 03:50, Adam Borowski a écrit : > On Sun, May 05, 2013 at 12:08:06AM +0200, Stéphane Glondu wrote: >> As far as bootstrapping is concerned, the OCaml sources include >> precompiled (bytecode) executables that are used in a first stage of the >> build process (i.e. ocaml doesn't build-d

Re: 2013 sometimes still feels like 2003 or 1993 (Re: NEW processing during freezes

2013-05-04 Thread Bob Proulx
Andrey Rahmatullin wrote: > Michael Gilbert wrote: > > >> We've always treated "FTBFS if built twice in a row" bugs as important: > > >> http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/pkgreport.cgi?users=debian...@lists.debian.org;tag=qa-doublebuild > > > > > > The real question is whether or not there is a consen

Re: Git checkout/clean and double-buildability.

2013-05-04 Thread Lucas Nussbaum
On 05/05/13 at 03:06 +0200, Adam Borowski wrote: > On Sun, May 05, 2013 at 10:00:07AM +0900, Charles Plessy wrote: > > Anyway, given that our infrastructure builds binary packages from a fresh > > unpacked source package, I would prefer if we keep the compromise that > > imperfect "clean" targets a

Re: 2013 sometimes still feels like 2003 or 1993 (Re: NEW processing during freezes

2013-05-04 Thread Lucas Nussbaum
On 04/05/13 at 12:27 -0400, Michael Gilbert wrote: > On Sat, May 4, 2013 at 12:14 PM, Andrey Rahmatullin wrote: > > On Sat, May 04, 2013 at 12:05:06PM -0400, Michael Gilbert wrote: > >> Again, as Thijs argued somewhat eloquently already earlier in this > >> thread, computational time is not the sca

Re: Bug:#700917: desktop-file-utils: call for (co-)maintainership [ITA]

2013-05-04 Thread Dmitry Smirnov
Dear colleagues, I'm quite concerned that `desktop-file-validate` utility (provided by "desktop-file-utils" package) is checking .desktop files against outdated specification. On some occasions such "validation" recommend changes conflicting with the current specification (see more in #690279). S

OCaml and running shipped binaries (was Re: multiarch and interpreters/runtimes)

2013-05-04 Thread Adam Borowski
On Sun, May 05, 2013 at 12:08:06AM +0200, Stéphane Glondu wrote: > As far as bootstrapping is concerned, the OCaml sources include > precompiled (bytecode) executables that are used in a first stage of the > build process (i.e. ocaml doesn't build-depend on itself). So no need > for cross-compilati

Re: Git checkout/clean and double-buildability.

2013-05-04 Thread Adam Borowski
On Sun, May 05, 2013 at 10:00:07AM +0900, Charles Plessy wrote: > Anyway, given that our infrastructure builds binary packages from a fresh > unpacked source package, I would prefer if we keep the compromise that > imperfect "clean" targets are not release-critical problems. Note that for a big ma

Git checkout/clean and double-buildability.

2013-05-04 Thread Charles Plessy
Le Sat, May 04, 2013 at 03:25:34PM +0200, Lucas Nussbaum a écrit : > > Now, I'm not so sure that we should spend developer time to (1) find > those issues and file bugs; (2) fix those issues. I personally find it > easier to create a temporary git repository and to use git clean / git > checkout t

Bug#705879: general: wheezy don't boot on ext4 with external-journal

2013-05-04 Thread Calvin Owens
I encountered a similar problem in Gentoo - e2fsck 1.42.5 can't check read-only mounted FS with an external journal. Ted Ts'o just wrote a fix: http://www.spinics.net/lists/linux-ext4/msg38096.html That fixes the problem for me; it should for you as well. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-dev

Re: 2013 sometimes still feels like 2003 or 1993 (Re: NEW processing during freezes

2013-05-04 Thread Roger Leigh
On Sun, May 05, 2013 at 12:18:44AM +0100, Wookey wrote: > +++ Julian Taylor [2013-05-04 11:48 +0200]: > > On 04.05.2013 11:10, Wookey wrote: > > > > > > I am huge fan of both building in clean environments _and_ being able > > > to build twice. I don't think there is any solution to this other tha

Re: 2013 sometimes still feels like 2003 or 1993 (Re: NEW processing during freezes

2013-05-04 Thread Wookey
+++ Julian Taylor [2013-05-04 11:48 +0200]: > On 04.05.2013 11:10, Wookey wrote: > > > > I am huge fan of both building in clean environments _and_ being able > > to build twice. I don't think there is any solution to this other than > > testing it in an automated fashion. An sbuild or pbuilder op

Re: multiarch and interpreters/runtimes

2013-05-04 Thread Stéphane Glondu
Le 18/04/2013 16:41, Matthias Klose a écrit : > So what is the status for some runtimes/interpreters (would like to see some > follow-up/corrections from package maintainers)? > [...] > - Lua, Ocaml, Haskell, Guile, ... ? First, let me explain a few notions that will be useful to grasp the situat

Bug#706784: ITP: libhttp-throwable-perl -- strongly-typed, PSGI-friendly HTTP 1.1 exception libraries

2013-05-04 Thread Jonas Smedegaard
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Jonas Smedegaard * Package name: libhttp-throwable-perl Version : 0.016 Upstream Author : Stevan Little , Ricardo Signes * URL : http://search.cpan.org/dist/HTTP-Throwable/ * License : Artistic or GPL

Re: 2013 sometimes still feels like 2003 or 1993 (Re: NEW processing during freezes

2013-05-04 Thread Jakub Wilk
* Ryan Kavanagh , 2013-05-04, 13:48: If Debian and its users trust developers with that kind of responsibility, it should also be able to trust developers to follow a basic guideline of "Please test-build your package and check the resulting binary before doing a source-only upload." No, that

Re: 2013 sometimes still feels like 2003 or 1993 (Re: NEW processing during freezes

2013-05-04 Thread Helmut Grohne
On Fri, May 03, 2013 at 04:53:59PM +0800, Thomas Goirand wrote: > I think there's a consensus, the problem is who's going > to do the work for automating dropping of binaries and > rebuild. Not implying that I am the one doing this work, I would like to learn more about what needs to be touched to

Bug#706780: ITP: libtest-tabledriven-perl -- write tests, not scripts that run them

2013-05-04 Thread Jonas Smedegaard
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Jonas Smedegaard * Package name: libtest-tabledriven-perl Version : 0.02 Upstream Author : Jonathan Rockway * URL : http://search.cpan.org/dist/Test-TableDriven/ * License : Artistic or GPL-1+ Programming Lang: Perl

Bug#706775: ITP: libmoosex-runnable-perl -- tag a class as a runnable application

2013-05-04 Thread Jonas Smedegaard
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Jonas Smedegaard * Package name: libmoosex-runnable-perl Version : 0.03 Upstream Author : Jonathan Rockway * URL : http://search.cpan.org/dist/MooseX-Runnable/ * License : Artistic or GPL-1+ Programming Lang: Perl De

Re: 2013 sometimes still feels like 2003 or 1993 (Re: NEW processing during freezes

2013-05-04 Thread Wouter Verhelst
On 04-05-13 17:53, Michael Gilbert wrote: > And/or on the technical side, make the buildds always build twice. Not Going To Happen[tm] on my buildd hosts. -- This end should point toward the ground if you want to go to space. If it starts pointing toward space you are having a bad problem and y

Bug#706773: ITP: libbread-board-perl -- solderless way to wire up your application components

2013-05-04 Thread Jonas Smedegaard
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Jonas Smedegaard * Package name: libbread-board-perl Version : 0.25 Upstream Author : Stevan Little * URL : http://search.cpan.org/dist/Bread-Board/ * License : Artistic or GPL-1+ Programming Lang: Perl Description

Re: 2013 sometimes still feels like 2003 or 1993 (Re: NEW processing during freezes

2013-05-04 Thread Ryan Kavanagh
On Fri, May 03, 2013 at 09:18:36AM +0800, Chow Loong Jin wrote: > While we're at it, can we also have source-only uploads? Uploading > potentially huge binary packages that just go to /dev/null seems like > a pointless waste of bandwidth to me, and the only for argument I've > heard (which I don't

Re: 2013 sometimes still feels like 2003 or 1993 (Re: NEW processing during freezes

2013-05-04 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Sb, 04 mai 13, 00:30:00, Ben Hutchings wrote: > > I assume you're concerned that there may be undeclared build- > conflicts. But testing in the maintainer's development system is not > a particularly good way to find those. Testing in a maximal > environment (everything with priority <= optio

Re: 2013 sometimes still feels like 2003 or 1993 (Re: NEW processing during freezes

2013-05-04 Thread Tollef Fog Heen
]] Michael Gilbert > The one thing Debian is comfortable about spending money on is > hardware, so if we expect to see double build times, then there should > be an associated doubling-down on buildd hardware. One thing is the cost to buy the hardware. Other costs (monetary or otherwise) are ge

Re: 2013 sometimes still feels like 2003 or 1993 (Re: NEW processing during freezes

2013-05-04 Thread Michael Gilbert
On Sat, May 4, 2013 at 12:14 PM, Andrey Rahmatullin wrote: > On Sat, May 04, 2013 at 12:05:06PM -0400, Michael Gilbert wrote: >> Again, as Thijs argued somewhat eloquently already earlier in this >> thread, computational time is not the scarce resource to worry about; >> human time is. >> >> The on

Re: 2013 sometimes still feels like 2003 or 1993 (Re: NEW processing during freezes

2013-05-04 Thread Andrey Rahmatullin
On Sat, May 04, 2013 at 12:05:06PM -0400, Michael Gilbert wrote: > Again, as Thijs argued somewhat eloquently already earlier in this > thread, computational time is not the scarce resource to worry about; > human time is. > > The one thing Debian is comfortable about spending money on is > hardwa

Re: 2013 sometimes still feels like 2003 or 1993 (Re: NEW processing during freezes

2013-05-04 Thread Michael Gilbert
On Sat, May 4, 2013 at 11:58 AM, Andrey Rahmatullin wrote: > On Sat, May 04, 2013 at 11:53:04AM -0400, Michael Gilbert wrote: >> >> We've always treated "FTBFS if built twice in a row" bugs as important: >> >> http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/pkgreport.cgi?users=debian...@lists.debian.org;tag=qa-doub

Re: 2013 sometimes still feels like 2003 or 1993 (Re: NEW processing during freezes

2013-05-04 Thread Andrey Rahmatullin
On Sat, May 04, 2013 at 11:53:04AM -0400, Michael Gilbert wrote: > >> We've always treated "FTBFS if built twice in a row" bugs as important: > >> http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/pkgreport.cgi?users=debian...@lists.debian.org;tag=qa-doublebuild > > > > The real question is whether or not there is a

Re: 2013 sometimes still feels like 2003 or 1993 (Re: NEW processing during freezes

2013-05-04 Thread Michael Gilbert
On Sat, May 4, 2013 at 11:48 AM, Michael Gilbert wrote: > On Sat, May 4, 2013 at 6:09 AM, Jakub Wilk wrote: >> We've always treated "FTBFS if built twice in a row" bugs as important: >> http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/pkgreport.cgi?users=debian...@lists.debian.org;tag=qa-doublebuild > > The real que

Re: 2013 sometimes still feels like 2003 or 1993 (Re: NEW processing during freezes

2013-05-04 Thread Michael Gilbert
On Sat, May 4, 2013 at 6:09 AM, Jakub Wilk wrote: > We've always treated "FTBFS if built twice in a row" bugs as important: > http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/pkgreport.cgi?users=debian...@lists.debian.org;tag=qa-doublebuild The real question is whether or not there is a consensus within the project

Re: 2013 sometimes still feels like 2003 or 1993 (Re: NEW processing during freezes

2013-05-04 Thread Xavier Roche
Le 04/05/2013 15:37, Xavier Roche a écrit : > something that you can not detect unless you setup a complete chrooted > build environment, which is a bit cumbersome to do) Replying to myself - I should have pointed out that pbuilder was actually a really straightforward way to do that (sudo pbuilde

Re: Epoch usage conventions (was Re: R 3.0.0 and required rebuilds of all reverse Depends: of R)

2013-05-04 Thread Guillem Jover
On Fri, 2013-04-05 at 13:09:51 +0100, Ian Jackson wrote: > Guillem Jover writes ("Epoch usage conventions (was Re: R 3.0.0 and required > rebuilds of all reverse Depends: of R)"): > > Well, I strongly disagree that in general using epochs for packaging > > mistakes is a good practice (and I've tho

Re: multiarch and interpreters/runtimes

2013-05-04 Thread Guillem Jover
On Sat, 2013-05-04 at 06:36:31 +0200, Matthias Klose wrote: > Am 19.04.2013 00:33, schrieb Guillem Jover: > I think the full-multiarch support for python in > > experimental should really be reverted. > > No. This is backward, and the wrong way to go forward. Sorry, but the way to go forward is

Re: 2013 sometimes still feels like 2003 or 1993 (Re: NEW processing during freezes

2013-05-04 Thread Xavier Roche
Le 02/05/2013 20:12, Russ Allbery a écrit : > Yes, speaking as someone who has, on several occasions, uploaded arch: all > binary packages with source package problems and not discovered that until > months later via a FTBFS bug from an archive rebuild, I think we should > rebuild all arch: all pac

Re: 2013 sometimes still feels like 2003 or 1993 (Re: NEW processing during freezes

2013-05-04 Thread Lucas Nussbaum
Hi, On 04/05/13 at 10:10 +0100, Wookey wrote: > +++ brian m. carlson [2013-05-03 21:39 +]: > > On Sat, May 04, 2013 at 12:10:25AM +0300, Timo Juhani Lindfors wrote: > > > "Bernhard R. Link" writes: > > > > Once we drop that and only give people the right to modify the > > > > software we dist

Re: Re: git as a source package format?

2013-05-04 Thread V.Krishn
Some threads/links that I followed: http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/2013/04/msg00183.html http://danielpocock.com/autotools-project-distribution-and-packaging-on-debian http://joeyh.name/blog/entry/upstream_git_repositories/ http://danielpocock.com/sites/danielpocock.com/files/release-packagi

Bug#706760: ITP: libarchive-any-create-perl -- abstract API to create tar/tar.gz/zip archives

2013-05-04 Thread Oleg Gashev
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Oleg Gashev * Package name: libarchive-any-create-perl Version : 0.02 Upstream Author : Tatsuhiko Miyagawa * URL : https://metacpan.org/release/Archive-Any-Create/ * License : Artistic or GPL-1+ Programming Lang: Perl

Re: git as a source package format?

2013-05-04 Thread Andrey Rahmatullin
On Sat, May 04, 2013 at 12:04:09PM +0900, Charles Plessy wrote: > > > One thing not clear is whether people thought I was referring to using > > > upstream repositories or alioth repositories (only containing commits > > > from the maintainer) as the content of such source packages. Bernhard, > >

Re: 2013 sometimes still feels like 2003 or 1993 (Re: NEW processing during freezes

2013-05-04 Thread Jakub Wilk
* Wookey , 2013-05-04, 10:10: I am huge fan of both building in clean environments _and_ being able to build twice. I don't think there is any solution to this other than testing it in an automated fashion. An sbuild or pbuilder option for --build-twice would make testing a very simple matter.

Re: jpeg8 vs jpeg-turbo

2013-05-04 Thread Adam Borowski
On Sat, May 04, 2013 at 06:11:48AM +0200, Matthias Klose wrote: > Am 24.04.2013 11:23, schrieb Ondřej Surý: > > do you have some insight how openjpeg enters this game? apparently some > packages > already use openjpeg explicitly to support some jpeg2000 features. Irrelevant to this discussion, a

Re: 2013 sometimes still feels like 2003 or 1993 (Re: NEW processing during freezes

2013-05-04 Thread Julian Taylor
On 04.05.2013 11:10, Wookey wrote: > > I am huge fan of both building in clean environments _and_ being able > to build twice. I don't think there is any solution to this other than > testing it in an automated fashion. An sbuild or pbuilder option for > --build-twice would make testing a very sim

Bug#706737: marked as done (general: Laptop brightness completely on restart)

2013-05-04 Thread Debian Bug Tracking System
Your message dated Sat, 4 May 2013 11:11:01 +0200 with message-id <20130504.21659.hol...@layer-acht.org> and subject line Re: Bug#706737: general: Laptop brightness completely on restart has caused the Debian Bug report #706737, regarding general: Laptop brightness completely on restart to be

Re: 2013 sometimes still feels like 2003 or 1993 (Re: NEW processing during freezes

2013-05-04 Thread Wookey
+++ brian m. carlson [2013-05-03 21:39 +]: > On Sat, May 04, 2013 at 12:10:25AM +0300, Timo Juhani Lindfors wrote: > > "Bernhard R. Link" writes: > > > Once we drop that and only give people the right to modify the > > > software we distribute but no longer the possiblity to do so > > > on the

Re: 2013 sometimes still feels like 2003 or 1993 (Re: NEW processing during freezes

2013-05-04 Thread Arto Jantunen
Jakub Wilk writes: > * Arto Jantunen , 2013-05-03, 11:12: >> Source only uploads were banned many years ago, mainly due to problems with >> maintainers not even build testing their packages. > > [citation needed] Indeed. I was fairly certain that a policy decision about this was made at some poi

Re: git as a source package format?

2013-05-04 Thread Daniel Pocock
On 04/05/13 08:17, Wouter Verhelst wrote: > On 04-05-13 05:04, Charles Plessy wrote: >> In any case, please refrain passive-aggressive statements on other people's >> projects. > > Except that this time the "project" we're talking about was one person > asking another person "can you clarify wha