Re: Compatibility between Debian amd64 and other distributions

2006-09-26 Thread Andreas Jochens
Hello Frans, Frans Pop wrote: > Andreas Jochens wrote: > > The proposed glibc patch will break the installer. The installer does > > not have the symlink from /usr/lib64 to /usr/lib. (This is not by > > accident. It has been decided following some discussion.) > > The

Re: Compatibility between Debian amd64 and other distributions

2006-09-25 Thread Andreas Jochens
/usr/lib. Many packages rely on this fact. Many things, especially during the build process, will break if the native libraries are not in /usr/lib. It would be a _lot_ of work to change the whole distribution to use /usr/lib64 instead of /usr/lib as the location of the native libraries. Regar

Re: Bug#367962: Please don't ship a /lib64 symlink in the package on amd64

2006-05-19 Thread Andreas Jochens
On 06-May-19 11:02, Goswin von Brederlow wrote: > Andreas Jochens <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > Anything which makes it easier to violate this simple policy > > will lead to a mixed usage of /usr/lib and /usr/lib64 and consequently > > to problems which could be dif

Re: Bug#367962: Please don't ship a /lib64 symlink in the package on amd64

2006-05-18 Thread Andreas Jochens
ll packages to install native amd64 libraries in /usr/lib is simple and sane. This should not be changed. Anything which makes it easier to violate this simple policy will lead to a mixed usage of /usr/lib and /usr/lib64 and consequently to problems which could be difficult to disentangle later. Thi

Re: Bug#365203: rootskel: Please support the ppc64 architecture

2006-04-30 Thread Andreas Jochens
uests for the addition of 'ppc64' to the architecture line in debian/control as 'wontfix'. Regards Andreas Jochens -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

The Debian package name for the ppc64 architecture is 'ppc64'

2005-09-23 Thread Andreas Jochens
architecture using that name. Please stop trying to change the package name 'ppc64'. Regards Andreas Jochens -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [Debian-ppc64-devel] You can't host a full Debian archive on Alioth

2005-09-20 Thread Andreas Jochens
On 05-Sep-20 19:01, Bastian Blank wrote: > On Tue, Sep 20, 2005 at 05:44:34PM +0200, Andreas Jochens wrote: > > I currently have no other place to host a public archive for the > > native 64-bit Debian-ppc64 port. Because of this, I did not yet > > delete the debian-ppc64 a

Re: [Debian-ppc64-devel] You can't host a full Debian archive on Alioth

2005-09-20 Thread Andreas Jochens
le reduce this to about 15 GB by dropping old package versions. Hopefully this will be acceptable. Regards Andreas Jochens -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Results of the meeting in Helsinki about the Vancouver proposal

2005-08-22 Thread Andreas Jochens
kernel package to add a small 8-line patch to support the native ppc64 port by reusing the kernel config files which are already available on the regular powerpc architecture. Regards Andreas Jochens -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Will the amd64 port be rejected because of the 98% rule?

2005-08-22 Thread Andreas Jochens
On 05-Aug-22 11:48, Andreas Barth wrote: > * Andreas Jochens ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [050822 11:36]: > > I understand that the amd64 port has to be recompiled for the > > final inclusion into the official archive because the current amd64 > > packages have not been built by DD

Will the amd64 port be rejected because of the 98% rule?

2005-08-22 Thread Andreas Jochens
stable' FTBFS. It will likely take many months, if not years, for amd64 to get anywhere near to the requested 98% mark again. Will the amd64 port be rejected if more than two percent of the unmodified source packages from 'unstable' fail to compile? If not, what does the 98%

Bug Squashing: List of remaining FTBFS bugs for amd64/sarge

2005-05-06 Thread Andreas Jochens
On 05-May-06 00:24, Steve Langasek wrote: > On Fri, May 06, 2005 at 08:58:27AM +0200, Andreas Jochens wrote: > A few things you might want to do with this list here: ... > - post it to debian-devel so people can poke through these for the BSP this > weekend The new list of FTBFS bug

Re: Bug#306254: axe: FTBFS: "Failed to satisfy Build-Depends dependency for axe: libxaw-dev"

2005-04-28 Thread Andreas Jochens
On 05-Apr-28 12:21, H. S. Teoh wrote: > On Mon, Apr 25, 2005 at 11:42:50AM +0200, Andreas Jochens wrote: > > E: Package libxaw-dev has no installation candidate > > E: Failed to satisfy Build-Depends dependency for axe: libxaw-dev > > > > The new version 6.1.2-14

Re: Bug#306639: batik: FTBFS: JAVA_HOME_DIRS incorrect

2005-04-28 Thread Andreas Jochens
g Build-Depends on 'junit'" or > > "'./debian_patch' not executable" > > > also appear on all arches including i386. I think those are 'serious' > > FTBFS bugs, even for packages in 'contrib'. What should be done with > >

Re: Bug#306639: batik: FTBFS: JAVA_HOME_DIRS incorrect

2005-04-28 Thread Andreas Jochens
i386. I think those are 'serious' FTBFS bugs, even for packages in 'contrib'. What should be done with those? > Any way, I leave all the bug you reported and will try to upload fixes > as soon as possible. Thank you for all the fixes to my reports which you already uploaded and for your work in general! Regards Andreas Jochens -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Sarge release for amd64 - Please help to fix the remaining bugs

2005-04-25 Thread Andreas Jochens
Andrew M.A. Cater wrote: > On Mon, Apr 25, 2005 at 11:32:25AM +0200, Andreas Jochens wrote: >> Debian sarge release for the amd64 architecture >> --- >> >> At the amd porters irc meeting on 2005-04-23 07:00 UTC, the amd64

Re: Sarge release for amd64 - Please help to fix the remaining bugs

2005-04-25 Thread Andreas Jochens
Hello Kurt, thank you for the clarifications. On 05-Apr-25 19:49, Kurt Roeckx wrote: > On Mon, Apr 25, 2005 at 11:32:25AM +0200, Andreas Jochens wrote: > > gnustep-base - + does not build with gcc-3.3 (needs gcc >= 3.4) > It looks like it builds fine with gcc-3.3. But

Re: Sarge release for amd64 - Please help to fix the remaining bugs

2005-04-25 Thread Andreas Jochens
Steve Langasek wrote: >> portslave- "pppd.h: No such file or directory" > > Hmm, you may want to re-check this against current versions of ppp and > portslave. I just re-checked this again and now portslave builds fine in testing, thanks. Regards

Re: Sarge release for amd64 - Please help to fix the remaining bugs

2005-04-25 Thread Andreas Jochens
Because of this, portslave has a FTBFS problem in sarge now until the latest ppp makes it into sarge. Again, thanks for looking at my list of amd64 related FTBFS bugs. Regards Andreas Jochens -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Sarge release for amd64 - Please help to fix the remaining bugs

2005-04-25 Thread Andreas Jochens
is available which fixes the problem. Additionally, the following "Architecture: all" packages from Debian sarge fail to build from source on amd64: Package Bug No. Description --- --- libtool1.4 #247299 demo-nopic.test has to be skipped on amd64 ... [this table has to be completed] Last update: 2005-04-24 Andreas Jochens <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Status of 'sarge' for the amd64 architecture

2005-04-22 Thread Andreas Jochens
Hello Steve, thank you for your reply to my status report. Steve Langasek wrote: > Andreas Jochens wrote: >> It will only be necessary to describe the current situation >> in the official release documents and include pointers >> to the separate amd64 archive, which will b

Status of 'sarge' for the amd64 architecture

2005-04-22 Thread Andreas Jochens
the official release documents and include pointers to the separate amd64 archive, which will be provided by the amd64 porting team anyway. Regards Andreas Jochens P.S.: The above statements represent my personal view only. Other members of the amd64 porting team may view things differently, of course.

Re: [Webmin-maintainers] Bug#304208: usermin-contrib: FTBFS: FileManager.java:6: package netscape.javascript does not exist

2005-04-12 Thread Andreas Jochens
standard 'java-package' j2sdk1.4 packages preset? Thank you for your fast reply and sorry for the noise. Regards Andreas Jochens -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [Webmin-maintainers] Bug#304208: usermin-contrib: FTBFS: FileManager.java:6: package netscape.javascript does not exist

2005-04-12 Thread Andreas Jochens
On 05-Apr-12 09:30, Jaldhar H. Vyas wrote: > Andreas Jochens wrote: > > When building 'usermin-contrib' on i386/unstable with sun-j2sdk1.4, > > I get the following error: > > So don't do that then. The build depends is for j2sdk1.4 (i.e. Blackdown.) &#

Re: [Debian-ppc64-devel] Call For Help - Please support the ppc64 architecture

2005-03-17 Thread Andreas Jochens
ich are already in version 2.3.4 have been dropped for this. Only about 30 patches out of more than 100 had to be kept. The newer glibc version works quite well so far. Two other packages needed a small patch to properly run with glibc-2.3.4. Regards Andreas Jochens -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email

Re: Bug#263743: Call For Help - Please support the ppc64 architecture

2005-03-16 Thread Andreas Jochens
that deviating from the standard was a bad thing in this case. I did not yet hear a single vote for the package name 'powerpc64' from anybody who is actively involved in the p(ower)pc64 port. Regards Andreas Jochens -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Bug#263743: Call For Help - Please support the ppc64 architecture

2005-03-16 Thread Andreas Jochens
iled, you do not accept that decision. You are basically saying: "Take the name 'powerpc64' which I like best - or that architecture will not be supported." But you do not have any convincing reason for not accepting the choosen name. Regards Andreas Jochens -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [Debian-ppc64-devel] Call For Help - Please support the ppc64 architecture

2005-03-16 Thread Andreas Jochens
kernel build will soon > require this. The compiler in the current ppc64 archive is fully biarch, i.e. it can produce 64 bit and 32 bit binaries. There is also a 64 bit and a 32 bit glibc version in the archive. Regards Andreas Jochens -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with

Re: Bug#263743: Call For Help - Please support the ppc64 architecture

2005-03-16 Thread Andreas Jochens
On 05-Mar-16 22:01, Scott James Remnant wrote: > On Wed, 2005-03-16 at 22:48 +0100, Andreas Jochens wrote: > > > On 05-Mar-16 21:16, Scott James Remnant wrote: > > > On Wed, 2005-03-16 at 20:27 +0100, Andreas Jochens wrote: > > > > > > > This i

Re: Bug#263743: Call For Help - Please support the ppc64 architecture

2005-03-16 Thread Andreas Jochens
On 05-Mar-16 21:16, Scott James Remnant wrote: > On Wed, 2005-03-16 at 20:27 +0100, Andreas Jochens wrote: > > > This is a call for help from the 'ppc64' porters. > > > Which group? According to Sven Luther's e-mail to debian-devel there > are curren

Call For Help - Please support the ppc64 architecture

2005-03-16 Thread Andreas Jochens
ckages from the Debian unstable distribution compiled. That number is still (slowly) rising. Every help will be appreciated, of course. Please help the ppc64 port by including support for the ppc64 architecture in 'dpkg' and other packages. Many thanks to all package maintainers who