Re: Accepted valknut 0.3.7-1 (i386 source)

2005-03-19 Thread Pasi Savilaakso
Kirjoitit viestissäsi (lähetysaika lauantai, 19. maaliskuuta 2005 02:53): > Hi Pasi, > > On Friday, 18 Mar 2005, you wrote: > > Changes: > > valknut (0.3.7-1) unstable; urgency=high > > . > >* New upstream release (Closes: #289643, #269952, #265284, #270096, > > #286234) > > is there any reas

Re: Debian DPL Debate Comments

2005-03-19 Thread Adrian von Bidder
[cc to you - I don't know if you read the list] On Friday 18 March 2005 17.22, Ritesh Raj Sarraf wrote: > As for example, it's been now around 7 years for me now using Linux and I > do have a fair amount of knowledge now. It would be great if DD's here > could harness the skills in "wannabe contr

Re: Bits (Nybbles?) from the Vancouver release team meeting

2005-03-19 Thread Andrew M.A. Cater
On Fri, Mar 18, 2005 at 03:23:18AM -0800, Michael K. Edwards wrote: > Just because a full Debian doesn't usually > fit today's embedded footprint doesn't mean it won't fit tomorrow's, > and in the meantime Debian's toolchain, kernel, and initrd-tools are > probably the best embedded Linux developm

Re: Bits (Nybbles?) from the Vancouver release team meeting

2005-03-19 Thread Steve Langasek
Hi Greg, On Tue, Mar 15, 2005 at 02:10:47PM -0500, Greg Folkert wrote: > > > BTW, I am not sure this is really a good way to measure the use of an > > > architecture, mainly because users could use a local mirror if they have > > > a lot of machines of the same architecture. How about using popc

Re: Accepted valknut 0.3.7-1 (i386 source)

2005-03-19 Thread Steve Langasek
On Sat, Mar 19, 2005 at 06:34:26AM +0200, Pasi Savilaakso wrote: > Kirjoitit viestissäsi (lähetysaika lauantai, 19. maaliskuuta 2005 02:53): > > Hi Pasi, > > On Friday, 18 Mar 2005, you wrote: > > > Changes: > > > valknut (0.3.7-1) unstable; urgency=high > > > . > > >* New upstream release (

Re: my thoughts on the Vancouver Prospectus

2005-03-19 Thread Bill Allombert
On Sat, Mar 19, 2005 at 09:13:07AM +0100, Karsten Merker wrote: > On Fri, Mar 18, 2005 at 06:44:46PM -0800, Steve Langasek wrote: > > [cc:ed back to -devel, since these are technical questions being raised and > > answered] > > > > * Why is the permitted number of buildds for an architecture restr

Re: Emulated buildds (for SCC architectures)?

2005-03-19 Thread Reinhard Tartler
On 18 Mar 2005 18:58:50 -0800, Thomas Bushnell BSG <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > A much faster solution would be to use distcc or scratchbox for > > crosscompiling. > > Debian packages cannot be reliably built with a cross-compiler, > because they very frequently need to execute the compiled bin

Re: Bits (Nybbles?) from the Vancouver release team meeting

2005-03-19 Thread Marco d'Itri
On Mar 19, Thomas Bushnell BSG <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > There would definitely be duplication of arch:all between ftp.debian.org > > > and ports.debian.org (let's call it ports), as well as duplication of the > > > source. > > As a mirror operator, I think that this sucks. Badly. > So don'

Re: my thoughts on the Vancouver Prospectus

2005-03-19 Thread Jose Carlos Garcia Sogo
El sÃb, 19-03-2005 a las 04:13 -0600, Bill Allombert escribiÃ: > On Sat, Mar 19, 2005 at 09:13:07AM +0100, Karsten Merker wrote: > > On Fri, Mar 18, 2005 at 06:44:46PM -0800, Steve Langasek wrote: > > > [cc:ed back to -devel, since these are technical questions being raised > > > and > > > answere

Re: Buildd redundancy (was Re: Bits (Nybbles?) from the Vancouver...)

2005-03-19 Thread Steve Langasek
On Wed, Mar 16, 2005 at 12:20:34AM -0800, Blars Blarson wrote: > In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > >- the release architecture must have N+1 buildds where N is the number > > required to keep up with the volume of uploaded packages > If we are going to require redundancy,

Re: Bits (Nybbles?) from the Vancouver release team meeting

2005-03-19 Thread Steve Langasek
On Fri, Mar 18, 2005 at 05:43:26PM +0100, Adrian Bunk wrote: > On Thu, Mar 17, 2005 at 09:47:42PM -0800, Steve Langasek wrote: > > On Mon, Mar 14, 2005 at 07:59:43PM +, Alastair McKinstry wrote: > > > > AFAI can tell, anybody can host an archive of packages built from > > > > stable > > > > s

Re: Emulated buildds (for SCC architectures)?

2005-03-19 Thread Peter 'p2' De Schrijver
On Fri, Mar 18, 2005 at 06:58:50PM -0800, Thomas Bushnell BSG wrote: > Peter 'p2' De Schrijver <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > A much faster solution would be to use distcc or scratchbox for > > crosscompiling. > > Debian packages cannot be reliably built with a cross-compiler, > because they v

Re: Emulated buildds (for SCC architectures)?

2005-03-19 Thread Peter 'p2' De Schrijver
> Yes, but the argument against cross-compiling has always been stronger > - If you are compiling under an emulator, you can at least test the > produced binaries under that same emulator, and you have a high degree > of confidence that they work reliably (this is, if an emulator bug > leads to gcc

Re: The 98% and N<=2 criteria (was: Vancouver meeting - clarifications)

2005-03-19 Thread David Weinehall
On Fri, Mar 18, 2005 at 11:32:08PM -0800, Steve Langasek wrote: [snip] > As pointed out in a recent thread, most of the core hardware portability > issues are picked up just by building on "the big three" -- i386, powerpc, > amd64. If we know the software isn't going to be used, is it actually > u

Re: Accepted valknut 0.3.7-1 (i386 source)

2005-03-19 Thread Matthias Urlichs
Hi, Pasi Savilaakso wrote: > There is nothing else changed in > package than new source so I don't really know what else I could say. You could say * New Upstream release (Closes:#12345) - No more frobnication (Closes:#23456) - Fix random typos (Closes: #34567) - Fix random data los

Re: Release sarge now, or discuss etch issues? (was: Bits (Nybbles?)from the Vancouver release team meeting)

2005-03-19 Thread Gunnar Wolf
Ola Lundqvist dijo [Tue, Mar 15, 2005 at 09:19:45PM +0100]: > > And would a larger discussion at debconf'05 not have been more appropriate > > than handing done a couple of taken decision disguised as proposal ? > > > > It is not too late for this yet, but there needs to be a real discussion > >

Re: procmail and Large File Support

2005-03-19 Thread Gunnar Wolf
Ola Lundqvist dijo [Wed, Mar 16, 2005 at 09:18:33PM +0100]: > Hello > > On Fri, Feb 25, 2005 at 07:45:47PM -0600, Ron Johnson wrote: > > On Sat, 2005-02-26 at 00:53 +0100, Santiago Vila wrote: > > > Hello. > > > > > > I have several reports saying procmail does not support mbox folders > > > larg

Re: Buildd redundancy (was Re: Bits (Nybbles?) from the Vancouver...)

2005-03-19 Thread Matthias Urlichs
Hi, Steve Langasek wrote: >> This allows the buildd administrator to take vacations, etc. > > This is at odds with what I've heard from some buildd maintainers that > having multiple buildd maintainers makes it hard to avoid stepping on one > another's feet, I assume that that's a problem if the

Re: Required firewall support

2005-03-19 Thread Matthias Urlichs
Hi, Steve Greenland wrote: > On 18-Mar-05, 03:28 (CST), Blars Blarson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> >Linux fails this. Even with forwarding disabled, it will accept packets >> >for an address on interface A via interface B. >> >> Enable rp_filter and it does reject such packets. >> >> echo 1 >/p

Re: Relaxing testing requirements (was: summarising answers toVancouver critique)

2005-03-19 Thread Gunnar Wolf
martin f krafft dijo [Fri, Mar 18, 2005 at 12:57:54PM +0100]: > > The security team is under-staffed *now*, AFAICT; and you want to increase > > their workload for etch on the assumption that nothing bad will come of it? > > No, I said we should stock the security team, which I meant to read > as:

Re: The 98% and N<=2 criteria (was: Vancouver meeting - clarifications)

2005-03-19 Thread Gunnar Wolf
Steve Langasek dijo [Fri, Mar 18, 2005 at 11:32:08PM -0800]: > > There are packages we recognize will be of little use in certain > > architectures - say, KDE on m68k, qemu on a !i386, etc. They should be > > built anyway on all architectures where expected to run be buildable, > > anyway, as a QA

Bug#300409: ITP: gruler -- a customizable screen ruler for GNOME

2005-03-19 Thread Maykel Moya
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Maykel Moya <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * Package name: gruler Version : 0.6 Upstream Author : Ian McIntosh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * URL : http://linuxadvocate.org/projects/gruler * License : GPL Description : a customizable sc

Bug#300406: ITP: ruby-zoom -- Ruby ZOOM API for the Z39.50 book information retrieval protocol

2005-03-19 Thread Dafydd Harries
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Dafydd Harries <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * Package name: ruby-zoom Version : 0.1.0 Upstream Author : Laurent Sansonetti <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * URL : http://ruby-zoom.rubyforge.org/ * License : LGPL Description : Ruby ZOOM A

Re: Bits (Nybbles?) from the Vancouver release team meeting

2005-03-19 Thread Daniel Kobras
On Sat, Mar 19, 2005 at 01:21:15AM +0100, Marco d'Itri wrote: > On Mar 18, Steve Langasek <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > There would definitely be duplication of arch:all between ftp.debian.org > > and ports.debian.org (let's call it ports), as well as duplication of the > > source. > As a mirro

Re: Bits (Nybbles?) from the Vancouver release team meeting

2005-03-19 Thread Thiemo Seufer
Anthony Towns wrote: [snip] > So, I'd just like to re-emphasise this, because I still haven't seen > anything that counts as useful. I'm thinking something like "We use s390 > to host 6231 scientific users on Debian in a manner compatible to the > workstations they use; the software we use is ..

Re: Bits (Nybbles?) from the Vancouver release team meeting

2005-03-19 Thread Marco d'Itri
On Mar 19, Daniel Kobras <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > What's wrong with splitting into ftp-full-monty.d.o, carrying all archs, > including the popular ones, and ftp.d.o, carrying only the most popular > subset? This way, there's no need to mirror from both of them, and > duplication is kept to a m

Security work in Debian (Was: Relaxing testing requirements)

2005-03-19 Thread Petter Reinholdtsen
[Gunnar Wolf] > The answer is simple: For every problem there is a simple and obvious answer which just happen to be wrong. I believe you ran into one of those. :) > Not everybody can become a security team member, the required > technical skills are quite high. There is a VERY high commitment

orphaning packages

2005-03-19 Thread Sergio Rua
Hello, My GPG was compromissed before Xmas and since then, I was unable to get a new key. Two of my packages are getting full of bugs which I can fix and close so I decided to orphan them and if I'm be able to get new key in the future, I'll find new packages to mantain. They are: openwe

Re: orphaning packages

2005-03-19 Thread Laszlo Boszormenyi
Hi, On Sat, 2005-03-19 at 18:55 +0100, Sergio Rua wrote: > My GPG was compromissed before Xmas and since then, I was unable to get > a new key. Bad thing. :( Hope you will get a new one soon. > Two of my packages are getting full of bugs which I can fix and > close so I decided to orphan them a

Re: Bits (Nybbles?) from the Vancouver release team meeting

2005-03-19 Thread Henning Makholm
Scripsit Daniel Kobras <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > On Sat, Mar 19, 2005 at 01:21:15AM +0100, Marco d'Itri wrote: >> On Mar 18, Steve Langasek <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> > There would definitely be duplication of arch:all between ftp.debian.org >> > and ports.debian.org (let's call it ports), as well

Re: Bits (Nybbles?) from the Vancouver release team meeting

2005-03-19 Thread Henning Makholm
Scripsit Anthony Towns > Henning Makholm wrote: >> The question is whether the *porters* think they have a sufficiently >> good reason to do the work of maintaining a separate testing-esque >> suite. If the porters want to do the work they should be allowed to do >> it. > If they don't need any

Re: automake/autoconf in build-dependencies

2005-03-19 Thread Henning Makholm
Scripsit Junichi Uekawa <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >> > To a certain degree, those would have been fixed if people >> > build-depended on auto*, as they would have picked up fixed versions >> > of the .m4 files. >> But that has to be offset against the huge number of bugs that would >> occur if we ran a

Re: procmail and Large File Support

2005-03-19 Thread Henning Makholm
Scripsit Gunnar Wolf <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >> Some people tend to have really large inboxes. I have had a number of >> customers that have several GB inbox. They tend to get quite a lot >> of attachments (reports etc) and do not have the time to delete mail. >> It will grow quite fast. > Ummm... An

where to look to understand the big picture (was: Question for candidate Towns)

2005-03-19 Thread martin f krafft
I am taking this to -devel. Please remove -vote from all replies. ... and sorry for the late reply. also sprach Martin Schulze <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2005.03.14.0826 +0100]: > When the code is public, rtfm is the proper answer. This answer seems logical to you and I. It is, however, not the didact

Re: The 98% and N<=2 criteria

2005-03-19 Thread Henning Makholm
Scripsit David Weinehall <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > That said, I'm a firm believer of the suggestion posed by Jesus > Climent[1], that we should have base set of software (where base is > probably a bit bigger than our current base) released for all > architectures that have a working installer, and th

Re: The 98% and N<=2 criteria

2005-03-19 Thread Thiemo Seufer
Henning Makholm wrote: > Scripsit David Weinehall <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > That said, I'm a firm believer of the suggestion posed by Jesus > > Climent[1], that we should have base set of software (where base is > > probably a bit bigger than our current base) released for all > > architectures th

Bug#300455: ITP: gwp -- GNOME War Pad (GWP) is a 'VGA Planets' strategy game client for GNOME.

2005-03-19 Thread Lucas Di Pentima
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Lucas Di Pentima <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * Package name: gwp Version : 0.3.6 Upstream Author : Lucas Di Pentima <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * URL : http://gwp.lunix.com.ar * License : GPL Description : GNOME War Pad (GWP) is a

Re: Bits (Nybbles?) from the Vancouver release team meeting

2005-03-19 Thread Adrian Bunk
On Sat, Mar 19, 2005 at 04:19:03AM -0800, Steve Langasek wrote: > > > Which delays are expected for etch, that are not only imposed by the > > usage of testing for release purposes? [1] > > > I do still doubt that testing actually is an improvement compared to the > > former method of freezing

Re: procmail and Large File Support

2005-03-19 Thread Ron Johnson
On Sat, 2005-03-19 at 09:54 -0600, Gunnar Wolf wrote: > Ola Lundqvist dijo [Wed, Mar 16, 2005 at 09:18:33PM +0100]: > > Hello > > > > On Fri, Feb 25, 2005 at 07:45:47PM -0600, Ron Johnson wrote: > > > On Sat, 2005-02-26 at 00:53 +0100, Santiago Vila wrote: > > > > Hello. > > > > > > > > I have se

Re: Buildd redundancy (was Re: Bits (Nybbles?) from the Vancouver...)

2005-03-19 Thread Steve Langasek
On Sat, Mar 19, 2005 at 04:37:05PM +0100, Matthias Urlichs wrote: > Hi, Steve Langasek wrote: > >> This allows the buildd administrator to take vacations, etc. > > This is at odds with what I've heard from some buildd maintainers that > > having multiple buildd maintainers makes it hard to avoid

Re: Security work in Debian (Was: Relaxing testing requirements)

2005-03-19 Thread Javier Fernández-Sanguino Peña
On Sat, Mar 19, 2005 at 07:03:07PM +0100, Petter Reinholdtsen wrote: > There are two security teams in effect now. The debian/stable team, > working to make sure the stable release of debian get security fixes > as soon as possible. They get security warnings before the issues > become public kno

Re: Buildd redundancy (was Re: Bits (Nybbles?) from the Vancouver...)

2005-03-19 Thread Matthias Urlichs
Hi, Steve Langasek wrote: >> TTBOMK, m68k has no such problem. > > TTBOMK, even m68k has one buildd admin per buildd -- the most they > generalley have in terms of buildd admin redundancy is that if the admin > for a machine that has built a certain package is unavailable, another > admin can was

Re: Bits (Nybbles?) from the Vancouver release team meeting

2005-03-19 Thread Matthias Urlichs
Hi, Marco d'Itri wrote: > On Mar 19, Daniel Kobras <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> What's wrong with splitting into ftp-full-monty.d.o, carrying all archs, >> including the popular ones, and ftp.d.o, carrying only the most popular >> subset? This way, there's no need to mirror from both of them,

Re: Bits (Nybbles?) from the Vancouver release team meeting

2005-03-19 Thread Darren Salt
I demand that Anthony Towns may or may not have written... > Michael K. Edwards wrote: [snip] >> I think Sarge on ARM has the potential to greatly reduce the learning >> curve for some kinds of embedded development, especially if Iyonix >> succeeds in its niche (long live the Acorn!). > So, I loo

Re: Do not make gratuitous source uploads just to provoke the buildds!

2005-03-19 Thread Steve Langasek
On Tue, Mar 15, 2005 at 09:56:10AM +0100, Goswin von Brederlow wrote: > >> I would like to see some stats showing on how many days in the last > >> year an arch reached 0 needs-build. I highly doubt that any arch > >> managed to do it every day troughout the last year. > > You know why goals are

Re: Bits (Nybbles?) from the Vancouver release team meeting

2005-03-19 Thread Henning Makholm
Scripsit Matthias Urlichs <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Hi, Marco d'Itri wrote: >> That on some servers I'd like to mirror both archives, and I'd rather not >> waste a few GB on duplicated files. > This may be a stupid question, but if you already mirror full-monty, what > would you gain by also mirrorin

Re: my thoughts on the Vancouver Prospectus

2005-03-19 Thread Peter 'p2' De Schrijver
> > * Why is the permitted number of buildds for an architecture restricted to > > 2 or 3? > > - Architectures which need more than 2 buildds to keep up with package > uploads on an ongoing basis are very slow indeed; while slower, > low-powered chips are indeed useful in certain application

Re: Bits (Nybbles?) from the Vancouver release team meeting

2005-03-19 Thread Anthony Towns
Darren Salt wrote: I demand that Anthony Towns may or may not have written... Put them behind a firewall on a trusted LAN, use them to develop software for arm chips, and then just follow unstable or run non-security-supported snapshots. Apart from writing software for embedded arm things, I can't

Re: my thoughts on the Vancouver Prospectus

2005-03-19 Thread Andreas Rottmann
Bill Allombert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Sat, Mar 19, 2005 at 09:13:07AM +0100, Karsten Merker wrote: >> On Fri, Mar 18, 2005 at 06:44:46PM -0800, Steve Langasek wrote: >> > [cc:ed back to -devel, since these are technical questions being >> > raised and answered] >> >> > > * Why is the pe

Re: Emulated buildds (for SCC architectures)?

2005-03-19 Thread Thomas Bushnell BSG
Karsten Merker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Fri, Mar 18, 2005 at 06:58:50PM -0800, Thomas Bushnell BSG wrote: > > Peter 'p2' De Schrijver <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > > > A much faster solution would be to use distcc or scratchbox for > > > crosscompiling. > > > > Debian packages cannot

Re: Bits (Nybbles?) from the Vancouver release team meeting

2005-03-19 Thread Thomas Bushnell BSG
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Marco d'Itri) writes: > That on some servers I'd like to mirror both archives, and I'd rather > not waste a few GB on duplicated files. So don't duplicate them and use fancier mirroring software. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe".

Re: Emulated buildds (for SCC architectures)?

2005-03-19 Thread Paul Hampson
On Sat, Mar 19, 2005 at 08:21:18PM -0800, Thomas Bushnell BSG wrote: > Karsten Merker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > On Fri, Mar 18, 2005 at 06:58:50PM -0800, Thomas Bushnell BSG wrote: > > > Peter 'p2' De Schrijver <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > > A much faster solution would be to use dis

Re: my thoughts on the Vancouver Prospectus

2005-03-19 Thread Anthony Towns
Matthew Garrett wrote: This, uh, sounds very much like "We need to drop architectures, and so we have come up with these criteria that will result in us dropping architectures". Which is a reasonable standpoint to take, but which also seems to imply that if 12 architectures manage to fulfil all the

Re: Emulated buildds (for SCC architectures)?

2005-03-19 Thread Thomas Bushnell BSG
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Paul Hampson) writes: > That'll work. _All_ distcc sends to the crosscompiler is preprocessed c > code to be compiled into object code. So the source-code building widget > is compiled remotely, run locally, and the results are sent to compile > remotely. Oh, I see now. I was

Re: Accepted valknut 0.3.7-1 (i386 source)

2005-03-19 Thread Pasi Savilaakso
> Bug #289643 was not a request for packaging the new upstream version: it > was a bug report complaining about the program failing to start. "New > upstream version" has nothing to do with why this bug was closed. Does valknut start now? Maybe new upstream version fixed that? I know changes in

Re: Accepted valknut 0.3.7-1 (i386 source)

2005-03-19 Thread Pasi Savilaakso
> You could say > * New Upstream release (Closes:#12345) > - No more frobnication (Closes:#23456) > - Fix random typos (Closes: #34567) > - Fix random data loss (urgent) (Closes: #45678) > Thanks, Matthias. I will remember this next time. This is the way critique should be given. No