Re: Security updates for sarge?

2004-10-23 Thread Ingo Juergensmann
On Sat, Oct 23, 2004 at 05:10:26AM +0200, Sven Mueller wrote: > >>Because they have set up and maintain the buildd network. > >Yes, nice, well done, thank them for their initial work, but it seems as if > >it's up for others now to take over that job, because they obviously > >failing continuousl

Re: Security updates for sarge?

2004-10-23 Thread Ingo Juergensmann
On Sat, Oct 23, 2004 at 10:52:27PM +0200, Matthias Urlichs wrote: > "You want to help? Start by buying your own mips machine!" isn't going to > cut it. Besides, I already (and gladly) did that, for m68k. You don't need to do that. There're plenty of machines available - albeit outside the debian.

Re: Security updates for sarge?

2004-10-23 Thread Ingo Juergensmann
On Sun, Oct 24, 2004 at 12:01:46AM +0200, Matthias Urlichs wrote: > > You don't need to do that. There're plenty of machines available - albeit > > outside the debian.org domain... > Ingo, this is about the *security* autobuilders. There's a reason why > Debian cannot do that with machines it does

Re: Security updates for sarge?

2004-10-23 Thread Ingo Juergensmann
On Sun, Oct 24, 2004 at 12:21:28AM +0200, Matthias Urlichs wrote: > > Funny. Arrakis were used heavily in the past for security builds as > > well. Otherweise I have no idea where all those security team logins on > > arrakis come from? > I'd assume that there's a *slight* difference between "some

Re: Security updates for sarge?

2004-10-24 Thread Ingo Juergensmann
On Sun, Oct 24, 2004 at 03:29:35AM +0100, Matthew Garrett wrote: > > But I think you're right... it's not about getting work done, it's about > > politics and a orwellian "all users are equal, DDs are more equal" nonsense. > > With every day passing by, it seems even more clearly to me that Debian

Re: Security updates for sarge?

2004-10-24 Thread Ingo Juergensmann
On Sun, Oct 24, 2004 at 01:14:25PM +0100, Matthew Garrett wrote: > > IIRC, you're one of those Ubuntus, right? No more to be said then... > I am not an employee of Canonical, and nor have I ever been. Ok, sorry then for that point. -- Ciao... // Ingo \X/

Re: Are mails sent to xxxx buildd.debian.org sent to /dev/null ?

2004-12-16 Thread Ingo Juergensmann
On Thu, Dec 16, 2004 at 05:04:49PM -0500, Jay Berkenbilt wrote: > > Josselin Mouette debian.org> writes: > > > One month ago, I asked the alpha and mips buildd maintainers to > > > reschedule h5utils, which failed to build because of a missing build for > > > dependency. Was this email ev

Re: Are mails sent to xxxx buildd.debian.org sent to /dev/null ?

2004-12-17 Thread Ingo Juergensmann
On Thu, Dec 16, 2004 at 04:59:15PM -0600, Dirk Eddelbuettel wrote: > On Thu, Dec 16, 2004 at 11:34:55PM +0100, Ingo Juergensmann wrote: > > Although the problem is well known and the solution is obvious, nobody seems > > to have the guts to make a change (or even to speak about it).

Re: Are mails sent to xxxx buildd.debian.org sent to /dev/null ?

2004-12-17 Thread Ingo Juergensmann
On Thu, Dec 16, 2004 at 11:10:15PM -0500, Joey Hess wrote: > Jay Berkenbilt wrote: > > I've sent messages to various [EMAIL PROTECTED] addresses many > > times for various reasons, and they have all always been ignored. > Me too, for values of ignored that include "may have resulted in some > actio

Re: Are mails sent to xxxx buildd.debian.org sent to /dev/null ?

2004-12-17 Thread Ingo Juergensmann
On Fri, Dec 17, 2004 at 08:51:52AM +0100, Petter Reinholdtsen wrote: > [Ingo Juergensmann] > > Why? To make it public what buildd admins are the worst? > To make public the requests made regarding the autobuilders (others > can see existing requests, and do not have to send ide

Re: Ignoring the truth or Hiding problems? (was: Are mails sent to xxxx buildd.debian.org sent to /dev/null ?)

2005-01-04 Thread Ingo Juergensmann
On Tue, Jan 04, 2005 at 10:22:41PM +0100, Josselin Mouette wrote: > Le mardi 21 décembre 2004 à 12:18 +0100, Ingo Juergensmann a écrit : > > > FWIW: With your attitude and persistent accusations you're driving > > > away even those who partially agree with you. > &g

Re: Ignoring the truth or Hiding problems? (was: Are mails sent to xxxx buildd.debian.org sent to /dev/null ?)

2005-01-04 Thread Ingo Juergensmann
On Tue, Jan 04, 2005 at 09:55:21PM +, Matthew Garrett wrote: > > If you want answers, mail me your questions privately. BTW: the questions I > > asked within the thread are still unanswered as well. :) > If you can't play politely, other people will not be inclined to play > with you. Your con

Re: Ignoring the truth or Hiding problems? (was: Are mails sent to xxxx buildd.debian.org sent to /dev/null ?)

2005-01-05 Thread Ingo Juergensmann
On Tue, Jan 04, 2005 at 02:59:29PM -0800, Steve Langasek wrote: > > Please note that year 2005 has come to an end and > > the year 2005 is now - even in my mail address! > Does the new address bring with it a more constructive attitude towards > volunteers who have contributed countless hours o

Re: Ignoring the truth or Hiding problems? (was: Are mails sent to xxxx buildd.debian.org sent to /dev/null ?)

2005-01-05 Thread Ingo Juergensmann
On Wed, Jan 05, 2005 at 06:39:23AM +, Matthew Garrett wrote: > >> Does the new address bring with it a more constructive attitude towards > >> volunteers who have contributed countless hours over the years to keeping > >> this project running, or should I plan to killfile this one as well? > >

Re: Ignoring the truth or Hiding problems? (was: Are mails sent to xxxx buildd.debian.org sent to /dev/null ?)

2005-01-05 Thread Ingo Juergensmann
On Wed, Jan 05, 2005 at 12:06:53AM -0800, Steve Langasek wrote: > > > > Please note that year 2005 has come to an end and > > > > the year 2005 is now - even in my mail address! > > > Does the new address bring with it a more constructive attitude towards > > > volunteers who have contributed c

Re: Ignoring the truth or Hiding problems? (was: Are mails sent to xxxx buildd.debian.org sent to /dev/null ?)

2005-01-05 Thread Ingo Juergensmann
On Wed, Jan 05, 2005 at 09:42:00AM -, Adam D. Barratt wrote: > On Wednesday, January 05, 2005 8:42 AM, Ingo Juergensmann > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Regarding James Troup... > [...] > > I still believe that it would be better for the project when he would >

Re: Ignoring the truth or Hiding problems? (was: Are mails sent to xxxx buildd.debian.org sent to /dev/null ?)

2005-01-05 Thread Ingo Juergensmann
On Wed, Jan 05, 2005 at 10:59:31AM +0100, Andreas Barth wrote: > I don't understand why you try to make as many developers opposed to you > as possible. I don't try it, it's not my intention, but I say what I mean and think. Of course this is sometimes not the same with what the audience might w

Re: Ignoring the truth or Hiding problems? (was: Are mails sent to xxxx buildd.debian.org sent to /dev/null ?)

2005-01-05 Thread Ingo Juergensmann
On Wed, Jan 05, 2005 at 12:15:43PM +0100, Wouter Verhelst wrote: > > Ohno, it's not my game, trust me. I've better things to do than playing such > > a game. Maybe I'm the one who complains most loudly, but there are DDs that > > agree with me in some (sometimes most or all) points, > Yes, there a

Re: Ignoring the truth or Hiding problems? (was: Are mails sent to xxxx buildd.debian.org sent to /dev/null ?)

2005-01-05 Thread Ingo Juergensmann
On Wed, Jan 05, 2005 at 01:11:49PM +0100, Wouter Verhelst wrote: > > And now you joined the other side? Attacking instead of defending? Does that > > help the m68k port better? I doubt that seriously. > I'm not attacking anyone. Usually this is what "attackers" believe. The attacked party feels

Re: Ignoring the truth or Hiding problems? (was: Are mails sent to xxxx buildd.debian.org sent to /dev/null ?)

2005-01-06 Thread Ingo Juergensmann
On Thu, Jan 06, 2005 at 09:01:07AM +0100, Marc Haber wrote: > On Wed, 5 Jan 2005 11:05:01 +0100, Ingo Juergensmann > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >When Joerg Jaspert is already doing the dirty daily work, why does James > >still needs in place then? (Except he just stay

Re: pwc-source headed for unstable this weekend

2005-02-17 Thread Ingo Juergensmann
On Thu, Feb 17, 2005 at 01:53:01PM -0500, sean finney wrote: > i've been using this new pwc driver for a while now and have not had > any problems with it, tested on i386 and amd64 boxen. The compiled source from saillard.org works fine here for my PowerPC system as well... (tested with 2.6.8 t

Re: Let's remove mips, mipsel, s390, ... (Was: [Fwd: Re: GTK+2.0 2.6.2-3 and buildds running out of space])

2005-02-20 Thread Ingo Juergensmann
On Sun, Feb 20, 2005 at 10:57:47PM +, Dirk Eddelbuettel wrote: > Our chances of actually releasing one day could only increase if we dropped > arches such as mipsel, s390, m68k, ... and concentrated on those that > actually > mattered: i386, powerpc, amd64 -- and I'll gladly add a few more.

Re: Let's remove mips, mipsel, s390, ... (Was: [Fwd: Re: GTK+2.0 2.6.2-3 and buildds running out of space])

2005-02-21 Thread Ingo Juergensmann
On Tue, Feb 22, 2005 at 03:15:58AM +, Dirk Eddelbuettel wrote: > But to the best of my knowledge, Marco's (blog) post from a few months > ago which showed download from ftp.it.debian.org by architecture stands > undisputed: essentially all users are on i386 clearly dominating all other > a

Re: Let's remove mips, mipsel, s390, ...

2005-02-21 Thread Ingo Juergensmann
On Tue, Feb 22, 2005 at 02:29:33PM +1100, Hamish Moffatt wrote: > On Mon, Feb 21, 2005 at 03:53:44PM +0100, Goswin von Brederlow wrote: > > What would help save many hours on slow systems is having a script > > automatically set "Dep-Wait: libbfoo (>> 1.2-3)" for all new sources > > according to Bu

Re: Let's remove mips, mipsel, s390, ... (Was: [Fwd: Re: GTK+2.0 2.6.2-3 and buildds running out of space])

2005-02-21 Thread Ingo Juergensmann
On Tue, Feb 22, 2005 at 05:24:28AM +, Dirk Eddelbuettel wrote: > Matthew Palmer debian.org> writes: > [ a lot of stuff but omitting one critical argument of mine ] > Thanks for cutting and completely ignoring the part where I demonstrated > the lack of usage beyond i386 and maybe four or five

Re: Let's remove mips, mipsel, s390, ...

2005-02-22 Thread Ingo Juergensmann
On Tue, Feb 22, 2005 at 10:44:42PM +1100, Hamish Moffatt wrote: > > Bastian Blank worked on a database that handles all these build-deps on the > > central wanna-build replacement. The idea is to give out just those packages > Even that sounds too complicated. Really, each buildd can work this out

Re: Let's remove mips, mipsel, s390, ...

2005-02-22 Thread Ingo Juergensmann
On Tue, Feb 22, 2005 at 11:22:37PM +1100, Hamish Moffatt wrote: > > "Can" and "should" are different stories. > > When there's a missing build-dep on one arch, it might make sense to stop > > that package from being distributed for other archs, so they don't waste > > their time on that. > > You

Re: the ongoing xfree86 buildd saga

2005-02-23 Thread Ingo Juergensmann
On Wed, Feb 23, 2005 at 12:13:42PM -0800, Thomas Bushnell BSG wrote: > Do the buildd people read this list? How do we get this cleaned up? As far as I can tell you: the m68k buildd people will have noticed that problem much earlier than you. Furthermore, I don't know if that's a problem of the

Re: the ongoing xfree86 buildd saga

2005-02-23 Thread Ingo Juergensmann
On Wed, Feb 23, 2005 at 12:35:50PM -0800, Thomas Bushnell BSG wrote: > I'm not complaining about the slow archs, and the m68k buildd failure > will surely be noticed. It has not, however, been retried. Why? Because the buildds are currently doing other stuff? > I'm asking for *information*. H

Re: the ongoing xfree86 buildd saga

2005-02-23 Thread Ingo Juergensmann
On Wed, Feb 23, 2005 at 12:36:34PM -0800, Thomas Bushnell BSG wrote: > > I'm not trying to grind an axe or complain, I'm seeking information > > and to move the process along expeditiously because it's blocking a > > lot more than just an xfree86 upgrade. > For example, once this is fixed, how do

Re: the ongoing xfree86 buildd saga

2005-02-23 Thread Ingo Juergensmann
On Wed, Feb 23, 2005 at 12:57:25PM -0800, Thomas Bushnell BSG wrote: > > See why the current buildd system is obsolete? > I've never disagreed with the fact that the current buildd system is > creaking. > What would it take for multibuild to succeed? or something else? People who care and have

Re: the ongoing xfree86 buildd saga

2005-02-23 Thread Ingo Juergensmann
On Wed, Feb 23, 2005 at 10:56:06PM +0100, Petter Reinholdtsen wrote: > > or mail the appropriate buildd admin listed on http://buildd.net/ - > > maybe the addresses are not uptodate anymore, but that's because not > > all buildd admins cooperate... > Why not list this address at the end of each ar

Re: the ongoing xfree86 buildd saga

2005-02-24 Thread Ingo Juergensmann
On Thu, Feb 24, 2005 at 08:44:04PM -0800, Thomas Bushnell BSG wrote: > For example, if even *one* buildd maintainer doesn't requeue with some > kind of promptness, then the only way to deal with it will be to make > a new upload, which will force a recompile everywhere. This is only valid on arch

Re: Let's remove mips, mipsel, s390, ... (Was: [Fwd: Re: GTK+2.0 2.6.2-3 and buildds running out of space])

2005-02-26 Thread Ingo Juergensmann
On Sat, Feb 26, 2005 at 05:27:48PM -0800, Steve Langasek wrote: > and if we relax this to only require "within 10 days of any source upload, > assuming the source isn't buggy, there must be a binary upload for this > security bug", we would be kicking out > alpha arm mips mipsel powerpc sparc I

Re: mipsel drop / buildd situation Was: [Fwd: Re: GTK+2.0 2.6.2-3 and buildds running out of space]

2005-03-08 Thread Ingo Juergensmann
On Tue, Mar 08, 2005 at 10:22:33PM +0100, Wouter Verhelst wrote: > Op di, 08-03-2005 te 10:33 -0800, schreef Clint Byrum: > > How much would it help with the current problems if we just picked 3 > > arches(mipsel, s390, ???) > This argument has been brought up so many times by now that I'm amazed

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

2005-03-12 Thread Ingo Juergensmann
On Sat, Mar 12, 2005 at 02:06:24PM +0100, Martin Zobel-Helas wrote: > As it has been said earlier, the machines are back, but just need to > catch up. So just waiting might be the easiest thing to do. More machines can catch up faster than few can do. When one machine out of a dozen machines is

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

2005-03-12 Thread Ingo Juergensmann
On Sat, Mar 12, 2005 at 02:26:43PM +0100, Martin Zobel-Helas wrote: > > > As it has been said earlier, the machines are back, but just need to > > > catch up. So just waiting might be the easiest thing to do. > > More machines can catch up faster than few can do. > > When one machine out of a doz

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

2005-03-13 Thread Ingo Juergensmann
On Sun, Mar 13, 2005 at 11:25:33PM +0100, Andreas Barth wrote: > > More machines can catch up faster than few can do. > > When one machine out of a dozen machines is unavailable, it has less impact > > than one machine failure out of two machines, although the chances will > > raise that a machin

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

2005-03-13 Thread Ingo Juergensmann
On Mon, Mar 14, 2005 at 11:49:34AM +1100, Hamish Moffatt wrote: > Given how low hamradio (and the like) are prioritised, I suggest that we > get smarter about 'tesing' and omit some sections on some architectures. > Frankly there are not likely to be any users for hamradio on s390, mips* > arm, or

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

2005-03-14 Thread Ingo Juergensmann
On Mon, Mar 14, 2005 at 07:37:51AM +0100, Andreas Tille wrote: > In general I would like to say that supporting a lot of architectures was > an important difference between Debian and other distributions. I know the In fact it was one of the 2 main reasons for my choice. apt-get was the other ma

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

2005-03-14 Thread Ingo Juergensmann
On Mon, Mar 14, 2005 at 08:50:15PM +1100, Hamish Moffatt wrote: > How about geda-gschem? Waiting on arm for a couple of weeks now. > Holding up migration of all of geda* on all architectures. > I couldn't work out where wanna-build CVS is hosted so I couldn't > actually check the order to see wher

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

2005-03-14 Thread Ingo Juergensmann
On Mon, Mar 14, 2005 at 10:50:41AM +0100, Sven Luther wrote: > > IMHO scc.d.o will result in focussing on those archs, making it worse and > > worse for the other archs. Implementing scc.d.o is equally to dropping those > > older archs in my eyes. It's just another wording. > Notice, that there i

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

2005-03-14 Thread Ingo Juergensmann
On Mon, Mar 14, 2005 at 10:49:20AM +0100, Thijs Kinkhorst wrote: > On Mon, March 14, 2005 10:10, Ingo Juergensmann said: > > It would be better when the project would be honest and state that it want > > to become a x86-compatible only distribution (with the small tribute to &g

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

2005-03-14 Thread Ingo Juergensmann
On Mon, Mar 14, 2005 at 10:56:51AM +0100, Aurélien Jarno wrote: > That let me raise a problem I see with such an infrastructure. Imagine > an FTBFS on an SCC architecture (let's say arch X needs an autotools > update). If it is not possible to have a high severity for this bug > (because it is

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

2005-03-14 Thread Ingo Juergensmann
On Mon, Mar 14, 2005 at 12:25:13PM +0100, Andreas Tille wrote: > >Sorry for using "stupid", "braindead" and others. But there are no other > >words for crap like this, imho. > Hmm, while I'm in principle share your point of keeping the architectures > it does not sound very sane to be that harsh.

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

2005-03-14 Thread Ingo Juergensmann
On Mon, Mar 14, 2005 at 12:47:20PM +0100, David Schmitt wrote: > On Monday 14 March 2005 12:21, Ingo Juergensmann wrote: > [...] > > but in fact this is already a decission being > > made by just a handful of people without asking those who will be affected > > by that deci

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

2005-03-14 Thread Ingo Juergensmann
On Mon, Mar 14, 2005 at 11:00:22PM +1100, Hamish Moffatt wrote: > On Mon, Mar 14, 2005 at 10:10:32AM +0100, Ingo Juergensmann wrote: > > All the work and support over all those years by all those users and porters > > will be vanished with that stupid idea, imho. > Ingo, obviou

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

2005-03-14 Thread Ingo Juergensmann
On Mon, Mar 14, 2005 at 12:47:58PM +0100, Julien BLACHE wrote: > Basically, you're just leaving a number of Debian users out in the > cold. Users who choose Debian because we were the only distribution > out of there to provide serious support for the architectures they > care for, for various rea

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

2005-03-14 Thread Ingo Juergensmann
On Mon, Mar 14, 2005 at 02:38:01PM +0100, Aurélien Jarno wrote: > Sven Luther a écrit : > > - Not having slower arches hold up testing. > Slower arches don't hold up testing. Arches with buildd not well managed do. > If you look at the current needs-build graph [1], m68k the slowest arch > we s

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

2005-03-14 Thread Ingo Juergensmann
On Mon, Mar 14, 2005 at 02:44:52PM +0100, Sven Luther wrote: > > There were offers of help in man power and machines for archs that had > > problems in keeping up. Those were rejected. Punishing those archs for the > > mistakes of those buildd admins rejecting helping hands is just plain > > stupi

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

2005-03-14 Thread Ingo Juergensmann
On Mon, Mar 14, 2005 at 02:53:53PM +0100, Sven Luther wrote: > And arm as a badly buildd-maintained one ? :) Yes, when it's rejecting machine offers or other help. -- Ciao... // Ingo \X/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscrib

Re: status of buildds?

2005-03-14 Thread Ingo Juergensmann
On Mon, Mar 14, 2005 at 08:43:40PM -0800, Thomas Bushnell BSG wrote: > For s390 and sparc, it appears that only one machine is in place > building these archs. As Bastian Blank said yesterday on IRC, w-b admins are idly refusing to add a new buildd for s390 to the ACLs. So, blame neuro and/or elm

Re: status of buildds?

2005-03-14 Thread Ingo Juergensmann
On Mon, Mar 14, 2005 at 11:37:31PM -0800, Thomas Bushnell BSG wrote: > > >The s390 porting team can perfectly well do what the hurd-i386 porting > > >team does: build them themselves. I mean, umm, you don't have to be > > >hooked into w-b to upload packages. > > Why are some architectures refused

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

2005-03-15 Thread Ingo Juergensmann
On Tue, Mar 15, 2005 at 10:45:59AM +0100, Julien BLACHE wrote: > >> I hereby ask the people involved in this proposal to step down > >> immediately from their positions in the Project. You've violated a > >> couple of rules already, and you've violated the spirit of this Project. > > *blink*. Are

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

2005-03-15 Thread Ingo Juergensmann
On Tue, Mar 15, 2005 at 10:51:24AM +0100, Julien BLACHE wrote: > > You do know that m68k is the only architecture still carrying around > > 2.*2* kernels in sarge? > Yes. But there are 2.4 kernels available too, don't forget to mention > that fact. No 2.6, though, but that's not a problem right no

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

2005-03-15 Thread Ingo Juergensmann
On Tue, Mar 15, 2005 at 12:59:43PM +0100, Sven Luther wrote: > > With the new proposal of de facto dropping m68k support, I'm this -><- close > > to recommend to Roman, that he better should invest his time into other > > projects, because Debian wouldn't appreciate his work to bring up another >

Re: status of buildds?

2005-03-15 Thread Ingo Juergensmann
On Tue, Mar 15, 2005 at 11:34:58PM +1100, Hamish Moffatt wrote: > On Tue, Mar 15, 2005 at 10:41:12AM +0100, Goswin von Brederlow wrote: > > Thomas Bushnell BSG <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > If the s390 team is unhappy with w-b, they can simply set up their own > > > autobuilding and do it thems

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

2005-03-15 Thread Ingo Juergensmann
On Tue, Mar 15, 2005 at 12:45:13PM +, Mark Brown wrote: > > If you wanted to make the decision _with_ the input of developers, why > > did all the powers that be vehemently deny that the number of > > architectures was a problem for the release schedule, right until > > everyone turned on a pl

Re: status of buildds?

2005-03-15 Thread Ingo Juergensmann
On Tue, Mar 15, 2005 at 02:38:44PM +0100, Tollef Fog Heen wrote: > | So, you call me not trustworthy, although it was *me* to first help out m68k > | when kullervo was unable to keep up with package building? > You are not a DD, so Debian does not have a trust relationship with > you. It has not

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

2005-03-15 Thread Ingo Juergensmann
On Tue, Mar 15, 2005 at 03:22:44PM +0100, Matthias Urlichs wrote: > > Has the kernel team made any advances to the m68k kernel team for a closer > > cooperation? Or did they just yelled "Hey! We are now taking over the kernel > > development, no matter if more capable people are outside of the pro

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

2005-03-15 Thread Ingo Juergensmann
On Tue, Mar 15, 2005 at 02:44:10PM +, Steve McIntyre wrote: > *yawn* Ingo, please go away. I'm asking you nicely. Don't come back > until you have something constructive to say - at the moment you're > not helping anyone. My dearest, beloved Steve, although I understand that not everyone lik

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

2005-03-15 Thread Ingo Juergensmann
On Tue, Mar 15, 2005 at 05:14:54PM +0100, Wouter Verhelst wrote: > > And I could still do - but I'm not allowed anymore. Great Job, Mr. > > Troup! > Oh, come on, this isn't fair. > You're not allowed to anymore because you stubbornly refused to pledge > you would not compromise Debian's security u

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

2005-03-15 Thread Ingo Juergensmann
On Tue, Mar 15, 2005 at 05:14:54PM +0100, Wouter Verhelst wrote: > When he declined (after seriously considering the option), and, because > he didn't receive a pledge from you (and thus couldn't in any reasonable > way trust you) locked you out of Debian hardware, you rambled on and > screamed th

Re: status of buildds?

2005-03-15 Thread Ingo Juergensmann
On Tue, Mar 15, 2005 at 09:07:46AM -0800, Thomas Bushnell BSG wrote: > > It's the job of w-b admins to add new buildds in a timely manner. If they > > don't do that, they simply fail (one significant part of) their job. > > This not only happens to s390 now but already happened in the past to m68

Re: status of buildds?

2005-03-15 Thread Ingo Juergensmann
On Tue, Mar 15, 2005 at 10:44:03AM -0800, Thomas Bushnell BSG wrote: > > > > It's the job of w-b admins to add new buildds in a timely manner. If > > > > they > > > > don't do that, they simply fail (one significant part of) their job. > > > > This not only happens to s390 now but already happen

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

2005-03-15 Thread Ingo Juergensmann
On Tue, Mar 15, 2005 at 06:31:03PM +, Henning Makholm wrote: > > If his job is keeping him from working on Debian, he should step down > > from his post. > My job is keeping me from working on Debian as much as I'd like. > Should I resign as a DD? > Do you think that only people who are either

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

2005-03-15 Thread Ingo Juergensmann
On Tue, Mar 15, 2005 at 07:34:16PM +, Matthew Garrett wrote: > > Again, without a proper communication there's no chance of cooperation. > > Otherwise those kinds of "I've heard that you've done..."-stories would have > > happen again and again... > Ingo, stop being such a cock. Even if you'd

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

2005-03-15 Thread Ingo Juergensmann
On Tue, Mar 15, 2005 at 11:54:31PM +0100, Adrian Bunk wrote: > > What will happen is something like this: > > A: "Oh, let's see what we got here a nice Alpha server..." > > B: "Let us install Debian on it!" > > *browsing the web* > > A: "Oh, no release of Debian for Alpha... it's unsupported.

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

2005-03-16 Thread Ingo Juergensmann
On Wed, Mar 16, 2005 at 12:20:34AM -0800, Blars Blarson wrote: > If we are going to require redundancy, I think we should do it better > and add: > - at least two buildd administrators *nod* > - systems located in at least two different facilities (different > cities and backbones if at all po

Re: status of buildds?

2005-03-16 Thread Ingo Juergensmann
On Thu, Mar 17, 2005 at 12:09:28AM +1100, Hamish Moffatt wrote: > > So, you call me not trustworthy, [...] > No. I said you aren't trusted, not that you aren't trustworthy. > Those are quite different things. As I am not the DAM, I don't > decide whether or not to trust you on behalf of Debian. I

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

2005-03-16 Thread Ingo Juergensmann
On Wed, Mar 16, 2005 at 12:50:31PM +0100, Martin Schulze wrote: > Done. Well said. -- Ciao... // Ingo \X/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

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

2005-03-16 Thread Ingo Juergensmann
On Wed, Mar 16, 2005 at 01:55:47PM +0100, Wouter Verhelst wrote: > I can understand these concerns, and they are valid; but there are > better ways to tackle them. Requiring that the machines are owned and > hosted by Debian Developers, rather than random non-developers, for > example, could be a

Re: status of buildds?

2005-03-16 Thread Ingo Juergensmann
On Wed, Mar 16, 2005 at 04:14:22PM +0100, Wouter Verhelst wrote: > The step for you to become trusted is easy: apply for NM. A few years > ago, I would've happily become your advocate. This /must/ mean you're > trustworthy, even though you're not trusted yet. After all, trustworthy > means 'deserv

Re: status of buildds?

2005-03-16 Thread Ingo Juergensmann
On Wed, Mar 16, 2005 at 10:00:15AM -0800, Thomas Bushnell BSG wrote: > > Either you trust me as a person or you trust some kind of software snippet, > > aka gpg key. > I don't know who you are. The snippet tells me who you are. even with that snippet you don't know me. You just know, that there

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

2005-03-16 Thread Ingo Juergensmann
On Wed, Mar 16, 2005 at 04:37:13PM -0500, Roberto C. Sanchez wrote: > >For example both public debian m68k machines are located on the same window > >sill at the Univ. of Duesseldorf. IMHO not the best place to position > >important infrastructure. > I agree. A sturdy table, or even a shelf or se

New features on buildd.net

2005-11-18 Thread Ingo Juergensmann
Hi! After buildd.net is fully working again, I thought it might be worthwhile to let you know and write a small mail about its new features: * buildd.net now supports unstable, non-free, sarge-volatile, experimental and etch-secure targets * after the inclusion of armeb, hurd-i386, kfreebsd

Re: buildd administration

2005-12-08 Thread Ingo Juergensmann
On Thu, Dec 08, 2005 at 01:39:27PM +0100, Frank Küster wrote: > > What problems are there today with buildd administration, please? > One obvious problem is that there is no documented contact address (just > search for "buildd" on http://www.debian.org/intro/organization). One > has to know by s

Re: buildd administration

2005-12-08 Thread Ingo Juergensmann
On Thu, Dec 08, 2005 at 04:35:14PM +0100, Frank Küster wrote: > >> > What problems are there today with buildd administration, please? > >> One obvious problem is that there is no documented contact address (just > >> search for "buildd" on http://www.debian.org/intro/organization). One > >> has

Re: buildd administration

2005-12-08 Thread Ingo Juergensmann
On Thu, Dec 08, 2005 at 06:45:09PM +0100, Frank Küster wrote: > >> http://bugs.debian.org/342548 > >> Why hasn't that been done before? Where else should this be documented? > > Well, Steve wrote lately about the [EMAIL PROTECTED] mails: > > "AIUI, the @buildd.debian.org addresses have a ridicul

Re: buildd administration

2005-12-08 Thread Ingo Juergensmann
On Thu, Dec 08, 2005 at 10:32:40PM +0100, Frank Küster wrote: > > Feature requests and other things are always welcome! I can't know what you > > want until you tell it to me. ;) > Nothing - these the questions I was mainly interested in regarding > buildd's: > - is my package already built everyw

Re: buildd administration

2005-12-09 Thread Ingo Juergensmann
On Fri, Dec 09, 2005 at 04:08:55PM -0500, Erinn Clark wrote: > > Where is the buildd.net software located? I poked around on the site but > > I couldn't find it except for the update-buildd.net script. > (Replying to myself after getting an answer on IRC from Ingo...) > The short summary to my ans

Re: buildd administration

2005-12-10 Thread Ingo Juergensmann
On Sat, Dec 10, 2005 at 08:22:24AM +0100, Bernd Eckenfels wrote: > In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> you wrote: > > If a package is failing to build or to function on some architecture, > > your job as that package's maintainer is see if it can be fixed (talking > > to porters and/or upstream if it's

Re: buildd administration

2005-12-10 Thread Ingo Juergensmann
On Sat, Dec 10, 2005 at 06:29:03PM -0500, Nathanael Nerode wrote: > I would like to note that I have made a practical and *new* suggestion > for dealing with some of these problems > (contrary to suggestions that I'm just flaming), because nobody's picked > up on my idea. Well, it's hard to sug

Re: Sparc build failure analysis (was Re: StrongARM tactics)

2005-12-11 Thread Ingo Juergensmann
On Sun, Dec 11, 2005 at 05:30:24AM -0500, Kevin Mark wrote: > has anyone every considered a check in the buildd infrastructure to > alert someone (buildd admin and/or others) if a build is taking too long > (eg openoffice usually takes between 2-3 hours to build and the current > build has been bu

Re: buildd administration

2005-12-12 Thread Ingo Juergensmann
On Mon, Dec 12, 2005 at 10:46:10AM -0800, Russ Allbery wrote: > Even if the current software isn't publically available for whatever > reason (personally, I'm putting my money on "hacked into place over time > and not particularly easy to massage into a form someone else could run," That's one pa

Re: buildd.debian.org (was Re: buildd administration

2005-12-16 Thread Ingo Juergensmann
On Fri, Dec 16, 2005 at 04:02:01PM +0100, Goswin von Brederlow wrote: > > (The contact addresses and machine up/down statuses are a valuable part of > > buildd.net which *isn't* there, but that's another matter entirely, which > > requires different and additional work.) > The graphs are also no

Re: buildd administration

2005-12-21 Thread Ingo Juergensmann
free, regardless of what > theoretical license is attached to the theoretical source that no one has > access to. http://www.buildd.net/index.html - at the end of the page it states: "This service is donated to the Developers of the Debian Project by Ingo Juergensmann." It's a service,

Re: HPPA, Arm, or M68k with g++ >= 4:4.0.2-2 ?

2006-01-12 Thread Ingo Juergensmann
On Thu, Jan 12, 2006 at 09:41:28PM +0100, Ionut Georgescu wrote: > On Wednesday 14 December 2005 19:25, Adeodato Simó wrote: > > * Jens Peter Secher [Wed, 14 Dec 2005 18:50:26 +0100]: > > > I need to test that a package can be built with g++ >= 4:4.0.2-2 on > > > HPPA, Arm, or M68k. Is there a DD

Re: Preparing the m68k port for the future.

2006-01-13 Thread Ingo Juergensmann
On Fri, Jan 13, 2006 at 02:09:19PM +0100, Wouter Verhelst wrote: > Additionally, Ingo told me when the mail about that meeting had come out > that he'd already tried such a setup in the past (I didn't know that > when we were in Helsinki, but it was before that), and that his setup, > IIRC, was in

Buildd.Net Update - New Features and Archs

2006-03-11 Thread Ingo Juergensmann
Hi! Since my last update on Buildd.Net [0] features here [1] many new features were added to Buildd.Net. I'll try to some them up: * a new design - the layout and structure of Buildd.Net changed. * devel systems - to support developers in their porting work, Buildd.Net donates accounts on s

Re: apply to NM? ha!

2005-01-24 Thread Ingo Juergensmann
On Tue, Jan 25, 2005 at 12:26:13AM +, Helen Faulkner wrote: > Based on comments made to me by a number of women who are interested in > contributing more to Debian, the level of agressiveness on some of the > mailing lists and IRC channels is a problem. It is preventing people > (women an

Re: apply to NM? ha!

2005-01-25 Thread Ingo Juergensmann
On Tue, Jan 25, 2005 at 09:17:32AM +0100, Goswin von Brederlow wrote: > > I wish more women would join Debian and the lists. My experience is that > > usually there's not that much aggressiveness when there are women around. > That usualy only works if you recognise them as females and can lead >

Re: Emulated buildds (for SCC architectures)?

2005-03-22 Thread Ingo Juergensmann
On Tue, Mar 22, 2005 at 08:58:41PM -0800, Steve Langasek wrote: > > Now, if we face dropping one or more of our architectures (i.e. m68k) > > because new hardware can not be found anymore (the Vancouver proposal > > mentions that "the release architecture must be publicly available to > > buy new"

Re: Debian as living system

2005-05-18 Thread Ingo Juergensmann
On Wed, May 18, 2005 at 04:25:02PM +0200, Benjamin Mesing wrote: > > You would rather have silence than know why you are being ignored? > > Then silence you shall have. > Well, its the tone that makes the music we use to say here in Germany. > Certainly there would have been ways to tell Bluefutur

Re: Canonical and Debian

2005-06-06 Thread Ingo Juergensmann
On Mon, Jun 06, 2005 at 04:50:35PM +0200, Wouter Verhelst wrote: > On Mon, Jun 06, 2005 at 02:00:47PM +0200, Josselin Mouette wrote: > > Then what do you mean? There are several architectures with porters > > ready to do huge amounts of porting work. For example, would you dare to > > say m68k is l

Re: package building problems (was Re: Canonical and Debian)

2005-06-07 Thread Ingo Juergensmann
On Tue, Jun 07, 2005 at 03:27:42PM -0700, Blars Blarson wrote: > It looks like this software could use some redesign to put less work > on the buildd maintainers and scale better to more buildds. There was one in the make, but it got stuck for some unknown reasons (mostly because involved people

Re: How should we deal with 'pointless-on-this-arch' packages?

2006-10-14 Thread Ingo Juergensmann
On Sat, Oct 14, 2006 at 02:30:14AM +0100, Wookey wrote: > In general debian builds everything for every architecture. This is a > very good plan and finds a lot of bugs. Agreed. > However there are some packages which are clearly not sensible on some > arches. Numerical analysis software in gene

Re: How should we deal with 'pointless-on-this-arch' packages?

2006-10-14 Thread Ingo Juergensmann
On Sat, Oct 14, 2006 at 12:21:35PM +0200, Toni Mueller wrote: > I agree with most of what Wookey and you said, but would like some > clarification on this: > On Sat, 14.10.2006 at 12:06:20 +0200, Ingo Juergensmann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > wrote: > > But sadly, I have very

Re: How should we deal with 'pointless-on-this-arch' packages?

2006-10-15 Thread Ingo Juergensmann
On Sat, Oct 14, 2006 at 11:51:49AM +0100, Wookey wrote: > On 2006-10-14 12:06 +0200, Ingo Juergensmann wrote: > > It doesn't make much sense to build all Desktop related packages for an arch > > that is mainly used remotely or as an embedded device. I don't think that &

Re: How should we deal with 'pointless-on-this-arch' packages?

2006-10-15 Thread Ingo Juergensmann
On Sat, Oct 14, 2006 at 07:30:15PM +0200, Holger Levsen wrote: > On Saturday 14 October 2006 12:51, Wookey wrote: > > Nevertheless I think it is clear that we do need mechanisms to keep > > the load and package set appropriate for slower arches. If we design > > the mechanism properly I would hope

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