Re: Debian i386 architecture now requires a 686-class processor

2016-05-14 Thread Hideki Yamane
On Thu, 12 May 2016 07:36:44 +0200 Marc Haber wrote: > I would ask the maintainers to do so. I think that only a small > fraction of NEWS.Debian actually needs to be in the "release notes". How about add notes for release notes? http://henrich-on-debian.blogspot.jp/2015/03/just-idea-automated-

Re: EOL of fglrx-driver

2016-05-14 Thread Hideki Yamane
On Wed, 4 May 2016 22:23:36 +0200 Patrick Matthäi wrote: > I would like to announce the end of life of the non-free fglrx-driver in > Debian! Fine, it should be noted to release note :) -- Regards, Hideki Yamane henrich @ debian.or.jp/org http://wiki.debian.org/HidekiYamane

Re: Time to reevaluate the cost of -fPIC?

2016-05-14 Thread Dimitri John Ledkov
On 14 May 2016 at 21:12, Niels Thykier wrote: > Marco d'Itri: >> On May 03, Josh Triplett wrote: >> >>> While this doesn't make PIC absolutely free, it does eliminate almost >>> all of the cost, to the point that it no longer seems worthwhile to >>> build without -fPIC. Apart from that, building

Torrent file for netinst non-free firmware doesn't work

2016-05-14 Thread Albin Otterhäll
The torrent for the 8.4.0 64-bit netinst CD image[1] doesn't work. I haven't tested the torrents other architecture. [1] http://cdimage.debian.org/cdimage/unofficial/non-free/cd-including-firmware/8.4.0/amd64/bt-cd/ -- Regards, Albin

Bug#824365: ITP: golang-github-aelsabbahy-gonetstat -- Netstat implementation in Go

2016-05-14 Thread Andrew Starr-Bochicchio
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Andrew Starr-Bochicchio * Package name: golang-github-aelsabbahy-gonetstat Version : 0.0~git20160428.0.edf89f7-1 Upstream Author : Ahmed Elsabbahy * URL : https://github.com/aelsabbahy/GOnetstat * License : Expat Progra

Bug#824360: ITP: r-cran-hexbin -- GNU R hexagonal binning routines

2016-05-14 Thread Andreas Tille
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Andreas Tille * Package name: r-cran-hexbin Version : 1.27.1 Upstream Author : Edzer Pebesma * URL : http://cran.r-project.org/web/packages/hexbin/ * License : GPL Programming Lang: GNU R Description : GNU R hexa

Bug#824358: ITP: freerdp2 -- RDP client/server for Windows Terminal Services

2016-05-14 Thread Mike Gabriel
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Mike Gabriel * Package name: freerdp2 Version : 2.x (Git snapshot) Upstream Author : Marc André Moreau * URL : http://www.freerdp.com * License : Apache-2.0 Programming Lang: C Description : RDP client/server for

Bug#824354: ITP: smarty-lexer -- Smarty lexer/parser generator

2016-05-14 Thread Mike Gabriel
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Mike Gabriel * Package name: smarty-lexer Version : 3.1.28 Upstream Author : Gregory Beaver * URL : https://github.com/smarty-php/smarty-lexer/ * License : BSD-3-clause Programming Lang: PHP Description : Smarty

Re: Time to reevaluate the cost of -fPIC?

2016-05-14 Thread Niels Thykier
Marco d'Itri: > On May 03, Josh Triplett wrote: > >> While this doesn't make PIC absolutely free, it does eliminate almost >> all of the cost, to the point that it no longer seems worthwhile to >> build without -fPIC. Apart from that, building *all* code with -fPIC >> (including both programs an

Re: Bug#823465: dpkg: Won't run at all on i586 Pentium MMX due to illegal instruction

2016-05-14 Thread Theodore Ts'o
On Thu, May 12, 2016 at 02:10:17AM +0100, Ben Hutchings wrote: > > If you discover that the package hoses your system then to rollback, > > shutdown the system to single-user mode, and remount the file system > > to be read-only, and then use the command lvconvert --merge to restore > > your file s

Re: Debian i386 architecture now requires a 686-class processor

2016-05-14 Thread Adam D. Barratt
On Sat, 2016-05-14 at 10:01 +, Niels Thykier wrote: > For future reference, we updated the release-notes after the Jessie > release. Examples include: > > * > https://www.debian.org/releases/jessie/amd64/release-notes/ch-information.en.html#systemd-sigkill-regression >- Discovered post J

Re: Debian i386 architecture now requires a 686-class processor

2016-05-14 Thread Niels Thykier
Christoph Biedl: > Niels Thykier wrote... > >> I appreciate it was (hopefully) not your intention. But with that >> remark you make me feel like I have wasted my time and effort trying to >> the write the Jessie release notes. > > Niels, > > offending you was certainly the least of my interests

Bug#824258: ITP: wlc -- Weblate command line client

2016-05-14 Thread Michal Čihař
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: "Michal Čihař" -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 * Package name: wlc Version : 0.2 Upstream Author : Michal Čihař * URL : https://pypi.python.org/pypi/wlc * License : GPLv3+ Programming Lang: Python De

Re: Debian i386 architecture now requires a 686-class processor

2016-05-14 Thread Niels Thykier
Marc Haber: > On Mon, 9 May 2016 18:42:52 +, Niels Thykier > wrote: >> [...] > > Maybe we should introduce a BTS tag "release notes" so that (1) bug > reports of such gotchas can be flagged appropriately and (2) it is > easily possible to track such reports and thus checklist the release > no