Re: [PROPOSAL] Debian Release Plan

2003-08-02 Thread Matthew Palmer
On Sat, Aug 02, 2003 at 01:21:52PM -0500, Thomas Smith wrote: > architecture combination) release would be like at any time. It becomes more > complicated when dealing with RC bugs than it is with the buildds, because > they don't have architecture tags (some of them have [subject prefixes] but

Re: [PROPOSAL] Debian Release Plan

2003-08-02 Thread Chris Cheney
On Sat, Aug 02, 2003 at 01:15:53PM -0400, Nathanael Nerode wrote: > Matt Zimmerman said: > >I disagree. If I'm not mistaken, this is the definition of an RC bug. > >If > >the package has an RC bug, it is not releasable. If there is an RC bug > >which does not imply that the package is unreleasa

Re: [PROPOSAL] Debian Release Plan

2003-08-02 Thread Thomas Smith
On Saturday 02 August 2003 12:15, Nathanael Nerode wrote: > Perhaps the time has come to reconsider the requirement that, to be > releaseable, all packages must be release-ready on all 11 > previously-released architectures, and in sync on all 11 architectures. > That's a lot to keep in sync, espec

Re: [PROPOSAL] Debian Release Plan

2003-08-02 Thread Colin Watson
On Sat, Aug 02, 2003 at 01:15:53PM -0400, Nathanael Nerode wrote: > So you're saying bug #196564 should be downgraded then? I don't think > that *possibly* causing a segfault in another package (it's not clear > that it still does), on *one* architecture (m68k), when it's *probably* > a toolcha

Re: [PROPOSAL] Debian Release Plan

2003-08-02 Thread Nathanael Nerode
Matt Zimmerman said: >I disagree. If I'm not mistaken, this is the definition of an RC bug. >If >the package has an RC bug, it is not releasable. If there is an RC bug >which does not imply that the package is unreleasable, it has been >assigned >the wrong severity. So you're saying bug #1965

Re: [PROPOSAL] Debian Release Plan

2003-08-02 Thread Matt Zimmerman
On Fri, Aug 01, 2003 at 11:43:15PM -0700, Thomas Zimmerman wrote: > On Sat, 2 Aug 2003 01:25:51 -0400 > Matt Zimmerman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > If something has been in unstable for a year and hasn't managed to > > have few enough bugs to make it into testing, then I don't care to > > have i

Re: [PROPOSAL] Debian Release Plan [was: Re: Future releases of Debian]

2003-08-02 Thread Luca - De Whiskey's - De Vitis
On Sat, Aug 02, 2003 at 06:01:51AM -0500, Luca - De Whiskey's - De Vitis wrote: > What we need, is a task management system almost like our bug tracking system. > A way we can express task that have to be done before next relese or any other tasks > goal we wants to achive. A

Re: [PROPOSAL] Debian Release Plan [was: Re: Future releases of Debian]

2003-08-02 Thread Luca - De Whiskey's - De Vitis
On Fri, Aug 01, 2003 at 07:03:46PM +0200, Arnaud Vandyck wrote: > Adrian Bunk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > [...] > > [3] http://www.fs.tum.de/~bunk/Debian/freeze > > Reading the whole "Future releases of Debian" thread, I thought that > the main idea was that Debian need a more 'readable' stat

Re: [PROPOSAL] Debian Release Plan

2003-08-02 Thread Mike Hommey
On Saturday 02 August 2003 09:01, Alastair McKinstry wrote: > Secondly, we need to signal to upstream to fix up _their_ act, too. If > we can't ship, for example the latest gcc because glibc isn't ISO C > compliant and working with gcc-3.3 (see other thread), then others need > to act: glibc mainta

Re: [PROPOSAL] Debian Release Plan

2003-08-02 Thread Josef Spillner
On Saturday 02 August 2003 09:01, Alastair McKinstry wrote: > I disagree. We should ship ASAP despite, or even because of, older > milestones. With RC bugs and d-i (as is) fixed, Sarge would still be an > improvement on current stable, woody: the longer between releases the > less useful the distro

Re: [PROPOSAL] Debian Release Plan

2003-08-02 Thread Alastair McKinstry
On Sat, 2003-08-02 at 04:51, Nathanael Nerode wrote: > Matt Zimmerman said: > > I do not think that version number milestones are important for a > > release. I think that having a well-integrated, high-quality > > distribution is important for a release, and this is not so easil

Re: [PROPOSAL] Debian Release Plan

2003-08-02 Thread Thomas Zimmerman
On Sat, 2 Aug 2003 01:25:51 -0400 Matt Zimmerman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > If something has been in unstable for a year and hasn't managed to > have few enough bugs to make it into testing, then I don't care to > have it in the release (either the older or newer version). But this is software t

Re: [PROPOSAL] Debian Release Plan

2003-08-02 Thread Matt Zimmerman
On Fri, Aug 01, 2003 at 11:51:10PM -0400, Nathanael Nerode wrote: > Matt Zimmerman said: > > I do not think that version number milestones are important for a > > release. I think that having a well-integrated, high-quality > > distribution is important for a release, and this is

Re: [PROPOSAL] Debian Release Plan

2003-08-01 Thread Nathanael Nerode
Matt Zimmerman said: > I do not think that version number milestones are important for a > release. I think that having a well-integrated, high-quality > distribution is important for a release, and this is not so easily > monitored. Releasing with KDE 2.2, GNOME 1, and a defaul

Re: [PROPOSAL] Debian Release Plan

2003-08-01 Thread Colin Watson
On Fri, Aug 01, 2003 at 04:45:09PM -0600, Bruce Sass wrote: > The BTS needs to adopt a "package pool" like mentality, where bugs > are assigned to a particular version of a package instead of just the > package. Hey, man, we're working on it. -- Colin Watson [EMA

Re: [PROPOSAL] Debian Release Plan

2003-08-01 Thread Matt Zimmerman
On Fri, Aug 01, 2003 at 04:45:42PM -0500, Chris Cheney wrote: > On Fri, Aug 01, 2003 at 04:38:37PM -0400, Matt Zimmerman wrote: > > And what if the version in testing has an RC bug? "release-status-sarge" > > says everything is OK. > > Do we even know which packages in sarge have RC bugs? The la

Re: [PROPOSAL] Debian Release Plan

2003-08-01 Thread Colin Watson
On Fri, Aug 01, 2003 at 04:45:42PM -0500, Chris Cheney wrote: > On Fri, Aug 01, 2003 at 04:38:37PM -0400, Matt Zimmerman wrote: > > And what if the version in testing has an RC bug? "release-status-sarge" > > says everything is OK. > > Do we even know which packages in sarge have RC bugs? The las

Re: [PROPOSAL] Debian Release Plan

2003-08-01 Thread Bruce Sass
On Fri, 1 Aug 2003, Chris Cheney wrote: <...> > Do we even know which packages in sarge have RC bugs? The last time I > looked when you close a bug with an upload to sid it closes it entirely > still. So we don't really have a good idea of how many RC bugs exist in > sarge, only how many are in si

Re: [PROPOSAL] Debian Release Plan [was: Re: Future releases of Debian]

2003-08-01 Thread Bruce Sass
On Fri, 1 Aug 2003, Arnaud Vandyck wrote: > Adrian Bunk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > [...] > > [3] http://www.fs.tum.de/~bunk/Debian/freeze > > Reading the whole "Future releases of Debian" thread, I thought that > the main idea was that Debian need a more 'readable' status for the next > stab

Re: [PROPOSAL] Debian Release Plan

2003-08-01 Thread Chris Cheney
On Fri, Aug 01, 2003 at 04:38:37PM -0400, Matt Zimmerman wrote: > On Fri, Aug 01, 2003 at 10:06:39PM +0200, Arnaud Vandyck wrote: > > > Matt Zimmerman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > On Fri, Aug 01, 2003 at 07:50:15PM +0200, Arnaud Vandyck wrote: > > [...] > > > > If there are RC bugs to packages

Re: [PROPOSAL] Debian Release Plan

2003-08-01 Thread Arnaud Vandyck
Matt Zimmerman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Fri, Aug 01, 2003 at 10:06:39PM +0200, Arnaud Vandyck wrote: > > [...] > > It does not matter to know in which version the bug will be > > fixed. What I want for sarge is emacs21 ( >= 21.2 ) so if every RC > > bugs are closed with 21.3 or 21

Re: [PROPOSAL] Debian Release Plan

2003-08-01 Thread Matt Zimmerman
On Fri, Aug 01, 2003 at 10:06:39PM +0200, Arnaud Vandyck wrote: > Matt Zimmerman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Fri, Aug 01, 2003 at 07:50:15PM +0200, Arnaud Vandyck wrote: > [...] > > > If there are RC bugs to packages that 'release-status-sarge' depends > > > on, it won't go to testing... > >

Re: [PROPOSAL] Debian Release Plan

2003-08-01 Thread Arnaud Vandyck
Matt Zimmerman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Fri, Aug 01, 2003 at 07:50:15PM +0200, Arnaud Vandyck wrote: [...] > > If there are RC bugs to packages that 'release-status-sarge' depends > > on, it won't go to testing... > > Of course it would, unless it had a versioned dependency that could >

Re: [PROPOSAL] Debian Release Plan

2003-08-01 Thread Matt Zimmerman
On Fri, Aug 01, 2003 at 07:50:15PM +0200, Arnaud Vandyck wrote: > Matt Zimmerman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I don't think that the most important release goals can be expressed > > in terms of version numbers. For example, RC bug fixes. I don't find > > goals such as "we want version X of

Re: [PROPOSAL] Debian Release Plan

2003-08-01 Thread Arnaud Vandyck
Matt Zimmerman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Fri, Aug 01, 2003 at 07:03:46PM +0200, Arnaud Vandyck wrote: > > > I propose to create a meta-package called 'release-status-sarge' > > that depends on packages (with version number) that we want to see > > in sarge. > > I don't think that the

Re: [PROPOSAL] Debian Release Plan [was: Re: Future releases of Debian]

2003-08-01 Thread Matt Zimmerman
On Fri, Aug 01, 2003 at 07:03:46PM +0200, Arnaud Vandyck wrote: > I propose to create a meta-package called 'release-status-sarge' that > depends on packages (with version number) that we want to see in sarge. I don't think that the most important release goals can be expressed in terms of ve

[PROPOSAL] Debian Release Plan [was: Re: Future releases of Debian]

2003-08-01 Thread Arnaud Vandyck
Adrian Bunk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: [...] > [3] http://www.fs.tum.de/~bunk/Debian/freeze Reading the whole "Future releases of Debian" thread, I thought that the main idea was that Debian need a more 'readable' status for the next stable release. I propose to create a meta-package called