Re: debconf as a registry

2013-11-30 Thread Thomas Goirand
On 11/28/2013 09:56 PM, Ian Jackson wrote: > Jakub Wilk writes ("Re: debconf as a registry"): >> I suggest the following test instead: >> >> 1) DEBIAN_FRONTEND=noninteractive apt-get install $package >> 2) rm -rf /var/cache/debconf >> 3) DEBIAN_PRIORITY=low apt-get install --reinstall $package >> >

Re: Role of Release Goals (Was: Release sprint results - team changes, auto-rm and arch status)

2013-11-30 Thread Steve Langasek
On Sat, Nov 30, 2013 at 05:40:35PM +0100, Jakub Wilk wrote: > * Steve Langasek , 2013-11-29, 12:01: > >What do you propose as a mechanism for agreeing to a reduced NMU > >delay for archive-wide changes? > My proposal is to realize that reduced delay for archive-wide > changes is not needed. > Ser

Bug#731014: ITP: hershey-fonts -- Hershey vector fonts library, tools, and glyph data

2013-11-30 Thread Kamal Mostafa
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Kamal Mostafa * Package name: hershey-fonts Version : 0.1 Upstream Author : Kamal Mostafa * URL : http://www.whence.com/hershey-fonts/ * License : GPL Programming Lang: C Description : Hershey vector fonts librar

Re: Release sprint results - team changes, auto-rm and arch status

2013-11-30 Thread Ben Hutchings
On Fri, 2013-11-29 at 15:12 +0100, Aurelien Jarno wrote: > On Fri, Nov 29, 2013 at 01:57:39PM +, Ben Hutchings wrote: > > On Fri, 2013-11-29 at 09:22 +0100, Aurelien Jarno wrote: > > > Some precision about the MIPS machines: > > > > > > On Thu, Nov 28, 2013 at 09:04:56PM +0100, Niels Thykier w

Bug#731008: ITP: libhtml-prettyprinter-perl -- module that generates nice HTML files from HTML syntax trees

2013-11-30 Thread Radu-Bogdan Croitoru
Package: wnpp Owner: Radu-Bogdan Croitoru Severity: wishlist X-Debbugs-CC: debian-devel@lists.debian.org,debian-p...@lists.debian.org * Package name: libhtml-prettyprinter-perl Version : 0.03 Upstream Author : Claus Schotten * URL : https://metacpan.org/release/HTML-P

Re: Release sprint results - team changes, auto-rm and arch status

2013-11-30 Thread Russ Allbery
Ian Jackson writes: > I've heard it observed that it's rather odd that a developer doing an > upload can only reduce the delay from the default, and not increase it. > I found this a moderately convincing line of reasoning but arguably it > should be accompanied by a change to the migration time

Bug#730871: marked as done (general: Filesystem? Some problems with sizes of files.)

2013-11-30 Thread Debian Bug Tracking System
Your message dated Sat, 30 Nov 2013 22:31:55 +0100 with message-id <20131130213155.gn6...@jadzia.comodo.priv.at> and subject line Re: Bug#730871: general: Filesystem? Some problems with sizes of files. has caused the Debian Bug report #730871, regarding general: Filesystem? Some problems with size

Re: Release sprint results - team changes, auto-rm and arch status

2013-11-30 Thread Niels Thykier
On 2013-11-29 09:22, Aurelien Jarno wrote: > On Thu, Nov 28, 2013 at 09:04:56PM +0100, Niels Thykier wrote: >> Note that s390x and powerpc could also do with more porters, but at >> this time we are not giving an official warning for them. > > I see on http://release.debian.org/jessie/arch_qualify

Re: Release sprint results - team changes, auto-rm and arch status

2013-11-30 Thread Ian Jackson
Joey Hess writes ("Re: Release sprint results - team changes, auto-rm and arch status"): > Reducing the upload urgency to medium by default both seems to have hard > to quantify risks in reducing the quality of testing, and undercuts the > motivation for this proposal. So I'm curious why this resu

Re: Release sprint results - team changes, auto-rm and arch status

2013-11-30 Thread Joey Hess
At DebConf there was an interesting proposal by Colin and Steve to reduce testing migration times for packages that have an succeeding autopkgtest. This would increase motivation for adding autopkgtests to packages. More importantly, it would speed up testing propigation, without a sacrifice in tes

Re: Release sprint results - team changes, auto-rm and arch status

2013-11-30 Thread Sven Hoexter
On Sat, Nov 30, 2013 at 05:56:51PM +0100, Jakub Wilk wrote: > * Niels Thykier , 2013-11-28, 21:04: Hi, > >We believe that it should be acceptable for most uploads to > >unstable to be uploaded with medium urgency, to reduce the delay > >for testing migrations. > > Huh. §5.6.7 says that Urgency “

Re: Release sprint results - team changes, auto-rm and arch status

2013-11-30 Thread Jakub Wilk
* Niels Thykier , 2013-11-28, 21:04: Starting today, all non-key packages with RC bugs in Jessie for more than 15 days will be considered for auto-removal, even if they have reverse dependencies. This also means that the removal of these packages will cause the removal of all their reverse depe

Bug#730871: general: Filesystem? Some problems with sizes of files.

2013-11-30 Thread Konstantin Khomoutov
On Sun, 01 Dec 2013 00:13:06 +0800 Thomas Goirand wrote: > If it was FAT32, then it wouldn't even accept files bigger than 2GB. > That is by the way an information which we miss here: what kind of > filesystem is on that flash medium? Oh, by the way, the OP had this observation after copying fai

Re: Role of Release Goals (Was: Release sprint results - team changes, auto-rm and arch status)

2013-11-30 Thread Jakub Wilk
* Steve Langasek , 2013-11-29, 12:01: What do you propose as a mechanism for agreeing to a reduced NMU delay for archive-wide changes? My proposal is to realize that reduced delay for archive-wide changes is not needed. Seriously, such changes will take months or years anyway, so what does r

Bug#730871: general: Filesystem? Some problems with sizes of files.

2013-11-30 Thread Konstantin Khomoutov
On Sun, 01 Dec 2013 00:13:06 +0800 Thomas Goirand wrote: > > May be the file you're trying to copy is sparse [1]? GNU tar does > > support this. Flash drives typically contain FAT32 on them which > > doesn't support sparse files, so when copying such a file from a > > "real" file system to FAT3

Bug#730871: general: Filesystem? Some problems with sizes of files.

2013-11-30 Thread Thomas Goirand
On 11/30/2013 11:56 PM, Konstantin Khomoutov wrote: > May be the file you're trying to copy is sparse [1]? GNU tar does > support this. Flash drives typically contain FAT32 on them which > doesn't support sparse files, so when copying such a file from a "real" > file system to FAT32 the kernel's

Bug#730871: general: Filesystem? Some problems with sizes of files.

2013-11-30 Thread Konstantin Khomoutov
On Sat, 30 Nov 2013 19:37:41 +0400 Евгений Просветов wrote: > When I copied 15.2G file to free 64G flash, I've encountered the next > error: > > root@home-desktop:~# cp backup272291.tar /media/84D0-F52A/ > cp: запись «/media/84D0-F52A/backup272291.tar»: Файл слишком > велик > cp: не удалось расш

Bug#730871: general: Filesystem? Some problems with sizes of files.

2013-11-30 Thread Евгений Просветов
Package: general Severity: important Dear Maintainer, When I copied 15.2G file to free 64G flash, I've encountered the next error: root@home-desktop:~# cp backup272291.tar /media/84D0-F52A/ cp: запись «/media/84D0-F52A/backup272291.tar»: Файл слишком велик cp: не удалось расширить «/media/84D0-F

Bug#730851: ITP: ruby-rspec-puppet -- RSpec tests for your Puppet manifests

2013-11-30 Thread Thomas Bechtold
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Thomas Bechtold * Package name: ruby-rspec-puppet Version : 0.1.6 Upstream Author : Tim Sharpe * URL : https://rubygems.org/gems/rspec-puppet * License : Expat Programming Lang: Ruby Description : RSpec tests for