Re: Bug#688251: #688251: Built-Using description too aggressive

2013-10-13 Thread Charles Plessy
Le Sun, Oct 06, 2013 at 05:30:12PM +0900, Charles Plessy a écrit : > > The attached patch is a third attempt, which underlines that the Built-Using > field is particularly useful when a given package, contributing contents > included in another package, can not be replaced by a later version. It

Re: Bits from the Release Team (Jessie freeze info)

2013-10-13 Thread Paul Wise
On Mon, Oct 14, 2013 at 9:18 AM, Paul Wise wrote: > In an effort to spread the word to our upstreams and users, I posted a > link to your mail to LWN, Slashdot and Hacker News, here are the > submission links: I didn't submit it but here is one more: http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_it

Re: Bits from the Release Team (Jessie freeze info)

2013-10-13 Thread Paul Wise
On Sun, Oct 13, 2013 at 11:01 PM, Niels Thykier wrote: > We are happy to announce that we will freeze Jessie at 23:59 UTC on > the 5th of November 2014. Thanks for announcing the freeze so early! In an effort to spread the word to our upstreams and users, I posted a link to your mail to LWN, Sla

Re: Debian XDG basedir compliance

2013-10-13 Thread Paul Wise
On Mon, Oct 14, 2013 at 12:22 AM, Emilio Pozuelo Monfort wrote: > GLib has a nice set of functions for this, see > https://developer.gnome.org/glib/stable/glib-Miscellaneous-Utility-Functions.html#g-get-user-cache-dir Thanks for the pointer and to Jon Dowland for adding a link to the page. -- b

Re: Bits from the Release Team (Jessie freeze info)

2013-10-13 Thread Niels Thykier
On 2013-10-13 17:01, Niels Thykier wrote: > > Freeze date and Freeze Policy for Jessie > > > We are happy to announce that we will freeze Jessie at 23:59 UTC on > the 5th of November 2014. > > To avoid any confusion around exactly how we will freeze, we h

Re: Bits from the Release Team (Jessie freeze info)

2013-10-13 Thread Jonathan Dowland
On 13/10/13 19:47, Niels Thykier wrote: > (Not sure of the origins of the rime; I remember it being used in "V > from Vendetta" though.) As a Brit I guess I'm as surprised by people not knowing this as some US folks are when I don't have plans for the 4th July. The pleasures of an international pr

Re: Bits from the Release Team (Jessie freeze info)

2013-10-13 Thread Niels Thykier
On 2013-10-13 19:41, Bernd Zeimetz wrote: > Hi, > >> We are happy to announce that we will freeze Jessie at 23:59 UTC on the 5th >> of November 2014. > > thanks for annoucing that early and for your work! > You are welcome. :) >> [...] * Proactive automated removals 3 months into the freeze.

Re: Bits from the Release Team (Jessie freeze info)

2013-10-13 Thread Simon McVittie
On 13/10/13 19:47, Niels Thykier wrote: > We picked the 5th over another date in November because it was believed > the 5th would be easier to remember[1]. ... > (Not sure of the origins of the rime; I remember it being used in "V > from Vendetta" though.)

Re: Bits from the Release Team (Jessie freeze info)

2013-10-13 Thread Niels Thykier
On 2013-10-13 19:24, Thomas Goirand wrote: > Hi Niels, > Hi, > First of all, thanks a lot for planning this well in advance. Much > appreciated. This changes a lot compared to what happened in NYC! :) > You are welcome, :) > On 10/13/2013 11:01 PM, Niels Thykier wrote: >> >> Freeze date and F

Re: Compatibility of libs for Berkeley DB (libdb5.1-dev or libdb4.8-dev)

2013-10-13 Thread Jean-Michel Vourgère
On Tuesday 08 October 2013 09:14:36 Просветов Евгений wrote: > I'm going to install Bitcoin daemon on Debian wheezy. bitcoin has been in sid since a very long time. I'm using it without problem. The maintainers refuse to let it migrate to testing because it _might_ contain an unknow bug. See #718

Re: Insufficient RAM on build-machines (was Bug#726009: yade: FTBFS on i386 (and others))

2013-10-13 Thread Bernd Zeimetz
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 On 10/12/2013 07:43 PM, Anton Gladky wrote: > Thanks all, guys, for recommendations and explanations. I will try to split > some large cpp-files as Dmitrijs mentioned (there are a couple of them, > which are failing reliably on weak archs), remove so

Re: Bits from the Release Team (Jessie freeze info)

2013-10-13 Thread Bernd Zeimetz
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 Hi, > We are happy to announce that we will freeze Jessie at 23:59 UTC on the 5th > of November 2014. thanks for annoucing that early and for your work! > [...] * Proactive automated removals 3 months into the freeze. - Note that > bug-free packag

Re: Bits from the Release Team (Jessie freeze info)

2013-10-13 Thread Carlo
However, I think that we are also entitled to expect jessie release at 8/9 July 2015 maybe. This expectation resulting from my wheezy analysis of last freeze is in line with it. 2013/10/13 Thomas Goirand : > Hi Niels, > > First of all, thanks a lot for planning this well in advance. Much > appre

Re: Bits from the Release Team (Jessie freeze info)

2013-10-13 Thread Thomas Goirand
Hi Niels, First of all, thanks a lot for planning this well in advance. Much appreciated. This changes a lot compared to what happened in NYC! :) On 10/13/2013 11:01 PM, Niels Thykier wrote: > > Freeze date and Freeze Policy for Jessie > > > We are happy

Re: Debian XDG basedir compliance

2013-10-13 Thread Emilio Pozuelo Monfort
On 12/10/13 00:52, Paul Wise wrote: > On Sat, Oct 12, 2013 at 8:26 AM, Charles Plessy wrote: > >> I think that this would be more suitable for the Upstream Guide >> (https://wiki.debian.org/UpstreamGuide). The Debian Policy focuses on how to >> integrate works in Debian, so if being XDG-compliant