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

2013-11-29 Thread Aurelien Jarno
Some precision about the MIPS machines: On Thu, Nov 28, 2013 at 09:04:56PM +0100, Niels Thykier wrote: > * [mips, mipsel] buildds/porterboxes run on hardware which is very old or > has known defects: >- mips octeon is unstable Better me more precise there, Octeon machines in general are ver

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

2013-11-29 Thread Aurelien Jarno
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.html that you are concerned by the fact s390x is s

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

2013-11-29 Thread Josselin Mouette
Le jeudi 28 novembre 2013 à 21:04 +0100, Niels Thykier a écrit : > We have stopped considering ia64 as a blocker for testing > migration. > The architectures sparc, mips and mipsel also cause concern: > kFreeBSD was a technology preview, and has not generated enough user > interest to bring in

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

2013-11-29 Thread John Paul Adrian Glaubitz
On 11/29/2013 09:48 AM, Josselin Mouette wrote: >> s390 and Hurd will not be release architectures for Jessie. > > Two words: THANK. YOU. However, m68k will be. *preparing to run as fast as I can* -- .''`. John Paul Adrian Glaubitz : :' : Debian Developer - glaub...@debian.org `. `' Freie

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

2013-11-29 Thread Stéphane Glondu
Le 28/11/2013 21:52, Niels Thykier a écrit : >> I've found the builds on the less used architectures have been useful >> for flushing out unusual bugs, particularly when the code ships with >> many test cases and it exposes problems for big endian machines, etc. >> >> Also, kFreeBSD and HURD are bo

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

2013-11-29 Thread Svante Signell
On Thu, 2013-11-28 at 21:04 +0100, Niels Thykier wrote: > In this new and exciting update from your Debian Release Team... > kFreeBSD was a technology preview, and has not generated enough user > interest to bring in sufficient install base to continue in this > state. > > We will review this sit

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

2013-11-29 Thread Faidon Liambotis
On 11/29/13 10:22, Aurelien Jarno wrote: On Thu, Nov 28, 2013 at 09:04:56PM +0100, Niels Thykier wrote: * [mips, mipsel] buildds/porterboxes run on hardware which is very old or has known defects: - mips octeon is unstable Better me more precise there, Octeon machines in general are ver

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

2013-11-29 Thread Lucas Nussbaum
On 28/11/13 at 21:04 +0100, Niels Thykier wrote: > Release Goals > = > > We discussed release goals in some depth at the recent sprint. > > The general consensus was that, whilst release goals have been useful > in the past to introduce archive-wide changes, we should review > whether

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

2013-11-29 Thread Ben Hutchings
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 wrote: > > * [mips, mipsel] buildds/porterboxes run on hardware which is very old or > > has known defects: > >- mips octeon is unsta

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

2013-11-29 Thread Aurelien Jarno
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 wrote: > > > * [mips, mipsel] buildds/porterboxes run on hardware w

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

2013-11-29 Thread Andreas Beckmann
On 2013-11-28 21:04, Niels Thykier wrote: > In this new and exciting update from your Debian Release Team... Thanks for the updates! > Architecture Status > === > > ia64 causes us concern for the following reasons: > We have stopped considering ia64 as a blocker for testing > mi

Bug#730785: ITP: libcatalyst-actionrole-queryparameter-perl -- Dispatch rules using query parameters

2013-11-29 Thread CPAN/PAUSE
Package: wnpp Owner: Lars Dɪᴇᴄᴋᴏᴡ 迪拉斯 (CPAN/PAUSE) Severity: wishlist X-Debbugs-CC: debian-devel@lists.debian.org,debian-p...@lists.debian.org * Package name: libcatalyst-actionrole-queryparameter-perl Version : 0.04 Upstream Author : John Napiorkowski * URL : https

Bug#730786: ITP: libcatalyst-actionrole-checktrailingslash-perl -- Test URI path for trailing slash and redirect if needed

2013-11-29 Thread CPAN/PAUSE
Package: wnpp Owner: Lars Dɪᴇᴄᴋᴏᴡ 迪拉斯 (CPAN/PAUSE) Severity: wishlist X-Debbugs-CC: debian-devel@lists.debian.org,debian-p...@lists.debian.org * Package name: libcatalyst-actionrole-checktrailingslash-perl Version : 0.01 Upstream Author : Anatoliy Lapitskiy * URL :

Bug#730787: ITP: libjson-multivalueordered-perl -- handle JSON like {"a":1, "a":2}

2013-11-29 Thread CPAN/PAUSE
Package: wnpp Owner: Lars Dɪᴇᴄᴋᴏᴡ 迪拉斯 (CPAN/PAUSE) Severity: wishlist X-Debbugs-CC: debian-devel@lists.debian.org,debian-p...@lists.debian.org * Package name: libjson-multivalueordered-perl Version : 0.004 Upstream Author : Toby Inkster * URL : https://metacpan.org/re

Bug#730791: ITP: libjson-pointer-perl -- Perl implementation of JSON Pointer

2013-11-29 Thread CPAN/PAUSE
Package: wnpp Owner: Lars Dɪᴇᴄᴋᴏᴡ 迪拉斯 (CPAN/PAUSE) Severity: wishlist X-Debbugs-CC: debian-devel@lists.debian.org,debian-p...@lists.debian.org * Package name: libjson-pointer-perl Version : 0.01 Upstream Author : Toru Yamaguchi * URL : https://metacpan.org/release/JSO

Bug#730790: ITP: libcatalyst-actionrole-requiressl-perl -- Force an action to be secure only.

2013-11-29 Thread CPAN/PAUSE
Package: wnpp Owner: Lars Dɪᴇᴄᴋᴏᴡ 迪拉斯 (CPAN/PAUSE) Severity: wishlist X-Debbugs-CC: debian-devel@lists.debian.org,debian-p...@lists.debian.org * Package name: libcatalyst-actionrole-requiressl-perl Version : 0.07 Upstream Author : Simon Elliott * URL : https://metac

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

2013-11-29 Thread Daniel Pocock
On 29/11/13 04:14, Steve Langasek wrote: > Hi Niels, > > On Thu, Nov 28, 2013 at 09:04:56PM +0100, Niels Thykier wrote: >> kFreeBSD was a technology preview, and has not generated enough user >> interest to bring in sufficient install base to continue in this >> state. > I wonder, how is the releas

Bug#730794: ITP: libcatalyst-plugin-enablemiddleware-perl -- Enable Plack Middleware via Configuration

2013-11-29 Thread CPAN/PAUSE
Package: wnpp Owner: Lars Dɪᴇᴄᴋᴏᴡ 迪拉斯 (CPAN/PAUSE) Severity: wishlist X-Debbugs-CC: debian-devel@lists.debian.org,debian-p...@lists.debian.org * Package name: libcatalyst-plugin-enablemiddleware-perl Version : 0.006 Upstream Author : John Napiorkowski * URL : https:

Bug#730793: ITP: libdigest-sha3-perl -- Perl extension for SHA-3

2013-11-29 Thread CPAN/PAUSE
Package: wnpp Owner: Lars Dɪᴇᴄᴋᴏᴡ 迪拉斯 (CPAN/PAUSE) Severity: wishlist X-Debbugs-CC: debian-devel@lists.debian.org,debian-p...@lists.debian.org * Package name: libdigest-sha3-perl Version : 0.08 Upstream Author : Mark Shelor, mshe...@cpan.org * URL : https://metacpan.or

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

2013-11-29 Thread Ian Jackson
Daniel Pocock writes ("Re: Release sprint results - team changes, auto-rm and arch status"): > I have had unusual issues on kFreeBSD with reSIProcate although that is > partly because the unit tests are so exhaustive that they expose obscure > bugs, e.g. > http://list.resiprocate.org/archive/res

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

2013-11-29 Thread Simon McVittie
On 29/11/13 16:36, Ian Jackson wrote: > It seems likely to me that that bug is, at root, a race of some kind. > And it just so happens that the race is lost on kFreeBSD - sometimes. > > Detecting such a race is valuable to the project; it's certainly not a > disbenefit. After all, a race that hap

Re: Technical committee appointment

2013-11-29 Thread Keith Packard
Lucas Nussbaum writes: > Keith, welcome to our Technical Committee! Thanks, Lucas, and all of the rest of the Debian Tech Committee for your support. I look forward to serving the Debian project in this additional role to the best of my ability. -- keith.pack...@intel.com pgpWC0RklOgW2.pgp D

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

2013-11-29 Thread Steve Langasek
On Fri, Nov 29, 2013 at 11:02:55AM +0100, Lucas Nussbaum wrote: > On 28/11/13 at 21:04 +0100, Niels Thykier wrote: > > Release Goals > > = > > > > We discussed release goals in some depth at the recent sprint. > > > > The general consensus was that, whilst release goals have been usef

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

2013-11-29 Thread Felipe Sateler
On Fri, 29 Nov 2013 12:01:31 -0600, Steve Langasek wrote: > On Fri, Nov 29, 2013 at 11:02:55AM +0100, Lucas Nussbaum wrote: > >> - Release Goals kind-of define Debian's technical agenda. However, one >> could >>   question whether it's really the role of the release team to decide >>   on this, r

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

2013-11-29 Thread Daniel Pocock
On 29/11/13 18:23, Simon McVittie wrote: > On 29/11/13 16:36, Ian Jackson wrote: >> It seems likely to me that that bug is, at root, a race of some kind. >> And it just so happens that the race is lost on kFreeBSD - sometimes. >> >> Detecting such a race is valuable to the project; it's certainly

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

2013-11-29 Thread Aron Xu
On Friday, November 29, 2013, Aurelien Jarno wrote: > Some precision about the MIPS machines: > > On Thu, Nov 28, 2013 at 09:04:56PM +0100, Niels Thykier wrote: > > * [mips, mipsel] buildds/porterboxes run on hardware which is very old > or has known defects: >- mips octeon is unstable > > B

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

2013-11-29 Thread Aron Xu
(Re-posting, pressed send accidentally.) On Friday, November 29, 2013, Aurelien Jarno wrote: > Some precision about the MIPS machines: > > On Thu, Nov 28, 2013 at 09:04:56PM +0100, Niels Thykier wrote: > > * [mips, mipsel] buildds/porterboxes run on hardware which is very old > or has known defe

git-cache-proxy (in chiark-scripts 4.3.0)

2013-11-29 Thread Ian Jackson
chiark-scripts now contains a program called "git-cache-proxy", which does what its name suggests. I thought people might find this useful enough that it would be worth plugging it here. The doc comment follows. Sadly there is no manpage yet, and it isn't suitable for exposing to completely untr

Bug#730827: ITP: light-locker -- simple screen locker for LightDM display manager

2013-11-29 Thread Yves-Alexis Perez
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: pkg-xfce-de...@lists.alioth.debian.org * Package name: light-locker Version : 1.1.0-1 Upstream Author : William Jon McCann, Peter de Ridder, Simon Steinbeiß * URL : https://github.com/the-cavalry/light-locker/ * License :

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

2013-11-29 Thread Charles Plessy
Le Fri, Nov 29, 2013 at 04:45:10PM +0100, Daniel Pocock a écrit : > > It could be argued that the "cost" of these other architectures is not a > one-sided equation - their presence contributes in some way to the > overall quality of the software that people include in Debian. So the > net cost ma

Bug#730843: ITP: ruby-puppetlabs-spec-helper/ -- contains rake tasks and a standard spec helper for running spec tests on puppet modules

2013-11-29 Thread Thomas Bechtold
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Thomas Bechtold * Package name: ruby-puppetlabs-spec-helper/ Version : 0.4.1 Upstream Author : Puppet Labs * URL : https://rubygems.org/gems/puppetlabs_spec_helper * License : Apache-2.0 Programming Lang: Ruby Descri