Re: Build logs from local builds

2009-11-11 Thread Luk Claes
Michal Čihař wrote: > Hi > > Dne Wed, 11 Nov 2009 09:39:38 +0100 > Sandro Tosi napsal(a): > >> As a personal note, as one of those unlucky people with a very slow >> network connection: if binary packages built by maintainer have to be >> discarded, than *please* allow a way to actually not uplo

Re: Build logs from local builds

2009-11-11 Thread Luk Claes
Mike Hommey wrote: > On Wed, Nov 11, 2009 at 09:39:38AM +0100, Sandro Tosi wrote: >> On Wed, Nov 11, 2009 at 08:30, Adam Majer wrote: >>> On Mon, Oct 26, 2009 at 02:58:19PM -0500, Manoj Srivastava wrote: On Mon, Oct 26 2009, Adam Majer wrote: > Or here's a radical idea - allow source only

Re: Build logs from local builds

2009-11-11 Thread Luk Claes
Sandro Tosi wrote: > On Wed, Nov 11, 2009 at 09:42, Michal Čihař wrote: >> Hi >> >> Dne Wed, 11 Nov 2009 09:39:38 +0100 >> Sandro Tosi napsal(a): >> >>> As a personal note, as one of those unlucky people with a very slow >>> network connection: if binary packages built by maintainer have to be >>

Re: Build logs from local builds

2009-11-11 Thread Luk Claes
Charles Plessy wrote: > Le Wed, Nov 11, 2009 at 10:45:57AM +0100, Stefano Zacchiroli a écrit : >> Personally, I think that the extreme trade-off of making source upload >> the default (which seems to be what you are arguing for) would be too >> risky in term of degraded package quality. Look for th

Re: GR proposal: the AGPL does not meet the DFSG (take 2)

2009-11-11 Thread Luk Claes
Bill Allombert wrote: > 13. Remote Network Interaction; Use with the GNU General Public License. > > Notwithstanding any other provision of this License, if you modify the > Program, your modified version must prominently offer all users interacting > with it remotely through a computer

Re: xulrunner, poppler, gnome and gupnp transitions

2009-11-14 Thread Luk Claes
for instance. Thanks for looking at the listed issues though. > Le dimanche 08 novembre 2009 à 12:48 +0100, Luk Claes a écrit : >> - anjuta not yet built on all arches > > This is a consequence of the subversion FTBFS on said architectures. It > can be given-back once svn

Re: Bits from the FTPMaster meeting

2009-11-16 Thread Luk Claes
Simon Richter wrote: > Hi, > > On Mon, Nov 16, 2009 at 09:38:38AM -0600, Steve Langasek wrote: > >> requiring binary uploads ensures that the package has been build-tested >> *somewhere* prior to upload, and avoids clogging up the buildds with >> preventable failures (some of which will happen on

Re: Bits from the FTPMaster meeting

2009-11-16 Thread Luk Claes
Goswin von Brederlow wrote: > Philipp Kern writes: > >> On 2009-11-16, Simon Huggins wrote: >>> If you throw away the binaries, a DD can upload a binary package with a >>> sole binary that prints out banana and a source package that builds the >>> right thing presumably. Are there any checks to

Re: Bits from the FTPMaster meeting

2009-11-17 Thread Luk Claes
Charles Plessy wrote: > Le Tue, Nov 17, 2009 at 08:27:22AM +0100, Yves-Alexis Perez a écrit : >> Unless your proposal is just for unstable but doesn't want to change the >> policy for testing migration? > > Hi, > > Testing migration works the way it should: if a package is never built on an > arc

Re: Bits from the FTPMaster meeting

2009-11-18 Thread Luk Claes
Andreas Tille wrote: > On Wed, Nov 18, 2009 at 07:41:51AM +0100, Luk Claes wrote: >> I think one would be surprised how many packages get used on 'exotic' >> architectures. Most users don't specifically search for a piece of >> software, they want to hav

Re: Bits from the FTPMaster meeting

2009-11-18 Thread Luk Claes
Clint Adams wrote: > On Wed, Nov 18, 2009 at 07:41:51AM +0100, Luk Claes wrote: >> I don't think it's good to waste buildd time on failing to build packages. >> I also don't think anyone is stopped from setting up a service that >> allows source-only uploads a

Re: Bits from the FTPMaster meeting

2009-11-18 Thread Luk Claes
Gerfried Fuchs wrote: > Hi! > > First of all, thanks for this great roundup. There are just some few > questions that popped up in my mind that I hope haven't asked yet > (wasn't able to check all the responses completely ...). Sorry if there > are duplications, a reference to the answer fo

Re: Bits from the FTPMaster meeting

2009-11-18 Thread Luk Claes
Charles Plessy wrote: > Le Wed, Nov 18, 2009 at 10:54:18AM +, Philipp Kern a écrit : > >> there might not be clusters of arm yet but I saw offers for clusters of mips. > > Hi Philipp > > I also saw this cluster and got quite curious until I realised that most > programs I package are not par

Re: Bits from the FTPMaster meeting

2009-11-18 Thread Luk Claes
Goswin von Brederlow wrote: > Sune Vuorela writes: > >> On 2009-11-18, Gerfried Fuchs wrote: >>> I am a bit confused with respect to how buildd autosigning is required >>> for this. It makes it sound somehow like it would affect porter binary >> Basicalyl, the turnaround time is too long if we

Re: Bits from the FTPMaster meeting

2009-11-19 Thread Luk Claes
Goswin von Brederlow wrote: > Philipp Kern writes: > >> On 2009-11-19, Luk Claes wrote: >>> This could only work if the built package is needed on the same buildd >>> it was built. >> That depends on the assumptions. If the assumption is that the bui

Re: NMU question

2009-11-22 Thread Luk Claes
Nikita V. Youshchenko wrote: > Hi Hi > I've just met an uninstallable package with 3-week-old RC bug, caused by > soname change of one of dependences. This bug could be fixed by a simple > rebuild - I've checked if package builds against today's sid - yes it > does. > > I've never done an NMU

gnat-4.4 is blocking most big transitions atm

2009-11-28 Thread Luk Claes
Hi gnat-4.4 FTBFS on mipsel which is blocking gcc-defaults from migrating to testing which is blocking at least the poppler and gnome related transitions. xulrunner was reuploaded again and needs to be built everywhere first before we can reconsider forcing it in. cmake and xulrunner had some str

Re: gnat-4.4 is blocking most big transitions atm

2009-11-28 Thread Luk Claes
Andreas Marschke wrote: > On Saturday 28 November 2009 09:46:51 Luk Claes wrote: >> gnat-4.4 FTBFS on mipsel which is blocking gcc-defaults from migrating >> to testing which is blocking at least the poppler and gnome related >> transitions. xulrunner was reuploaded again

Re: gnat-4.4 is blocking most big transitions atm

2009-11-28 Thread Luk Claes
Mike Hommey wrote: > On Sat, Nov 28, 2009 at 09:46:51AM +0100, Luk Claes wrote: >> Hi >> >> gnat-4.4 FTBFS on mipsel which is blocking gcc-defaults from migrating >> to testing which is blocking at least the poppler and gnome related >> transitions. xulrunner was

Re: Not-For-Us state

2009-12-02 Thread Luk Claes
Matthijs Mohlmann wrote: > I'm the maintainer of pdns-recursor. This program uses swapcontext which is > not available on all platforms. > > Recently the mips, mipsel and sparc architecture got support for those calls. > So I sent a mail to @buildd.debian.org > for enabling this. But until now I

Re: Has Debian abandoned Python?

2009-12-03 Thread Luk Claes
Frans Pop wrote: > Martin Michlmayr wrote: >> * Frans Pop [2009-12-03 14:11]: >>> [1] IMO this question is fair since Matthias is listed as sole >>> maintainer for Python packages. >> I agree it's a fair question but you guys should really CC Matthias >> since -devel is not a required list. > > I

Debian as open project

2009-12-03 Thread Luk Claes
Joey Hess wrote: > So, Debian is no longer an open project? Why would having pointless discussions and flames on the lists and because of that private discussions to get real solutions mean that Debian is not an open project anymore? The problems are known and are on the lists, the start of discu

Re: Has Debian abandoned Python?

2009-12-03 Thread Luk Claes
Joey Hess wrote: > Steve Langasek wrote: >> The question of whether someone is doing an adequate job of maintaining a >> package is a legitimate one. The identity of their employer is immaterial >> to an objective examination of this question. > > I think this argument only makes sense if the dis

Re: Debian as open project

2009-12-03 Thread Luk Claes
Stefano Zacchiroli wrote: > On Thu, Dec 03, 2009 at 07:45:30PM +0100, Luk Claes wrote: >> Unfortunately Debian does not seem to be able to also have real >> constructive discussion about complex issues on the lists. So for these >> issues we usually have real discussions on

Re: Has Debian abandoned Python?

2009-12-03 Thread Luk Claes
Lucas Nussbaum wrote: > On 03/12/09 at 23:55 -0600, Manoj Srivastava wrote: >> On Thu, Dec 03 2009, Piotr Ożarowski wrote: >> >>> Right now we're working on updating the Debian Python Policy. Once we'll >>> be happy with the first set of patches, we'll send them to debian-python >>> mailing list. I

Re: [MBF] Handling python2.4 removal

2009-12-24 Thread Luk Claes
Luca Falavigna wrote: > Il giorno Tue, 15 Dec 2009 23:11:18 +0100 > Luca Falavigna ha scritto: > Here's a follow-up to include some more packages, and to remove those > which were already fixed in the meantime. > -- > PACKAGES TO BE REMOVED > -- > > These

Re: apt is no longer in base system created by debootstrap? (Re: Bug#562143: fails on cowbuilder --create)

2009-12-26 Thread Luk Claes
Junichi Uekawa wrote: > > It seems like apt is not installed with debootstrap anymore. > And it seems to be staying like this. > > I'm not sure when this happened, but apt used to be > build-essential=yes but now it's not. Are you saying that build-essential=yes was still in use? It also look

Re: apt is no longer in base system created by debootstrap? (Re: Bug#562143: fails on cowbuilder --create)

2009-12-26 Thread Luk Claes
Julien Cristau wrote: > On Sat, Dec 26, 2009 at 23:43:44 +0100, Luk Claes wrote: > >> Junichi Uekawa wrote: >>> It seems like apt is not installed with debootstrap anymore. >>> And it seems to be staying like this. >>> >>> I'm not sure when

Re: Where did Bacula 1.38.11-7+b1 come from?

2007-02-22 Thread Luk Claes
age not being binNMUable is also a bug that should be fixed ofcourse... and which is RC after being binNMUed ;-) Cheers Luk -- Luk Claes - http://people.debian.org/~luk - GPG key 1024D/9B7C328D Fingerprint: D5AF 25FB 316B 53BB 08E7 F999 E544 DE07 9B7C 328D signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Re: binNMUs and version dpkg-dev dependency

2007-05-12 Thread Luk Claes
Daniel Leidert wrote: > Hi, Hi > The thread about the binNMU for pure-ftpd brought up a question for me: > Is it still necessary/suggested/recommended to use a versioned > build-dependency dpkg-dev (>= 1.13.19) when using ${binary:Version} or > ${source:Version}? Etch, Lenny and Sid all have the

Re: [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED]

2007-05-12 Thread Luk Claes
Manoj Srivastava wrote: > Hi, > > I would like to backport SELinux related packages to Etch, and > thus would like to get my key into the backports key ring.What do I > need to do to enable that? Send a message to the Subject you used :-) Cheers Luk -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMA

Re: Bug Squashing Party -- May 17th - 20th

2007-05-15 Thread Luk Claes
David Claughton wrote: > Martin Zobel-Helas wrote: > >> where to find available RC bugs: >> http://bts.turmzimmer.net/details.php?ignore=sid&ignnew=on&new=5 > > I'm just curious - the "ignore=sid" part means exclude bugs that only > affect sid, correct? Which means bugs which affect lenny but

Re: Two proposals for a better Lenny (testing related).

2007-06-12 Thread Luk Claes
Gustavo Franco wrote: Let me outline the 'testing' pros and cons from my point of view: cons - * testing metric is too simple, packages are allowed to enter testing only after a certain period of time has passed no matter if much people tested it before that and just when they don't have

Re: Two proposals for a better Lenny (testing related).

2007-06-12 Thread Luk Claes
Gustavo Franco wrote: On 6/12/07, Joey Hess <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Gustavo Franco wrote: > Do you think that the numbers are positive in terms of testing usage, > really? I see the numbers even if not that reliable as proof of my > argument that just a few (almost half if compared with unsta

Re: Two proposals for a better Lenny (testing related).

2007-06-12 Thread Luk Claes
Gustavo Franco wrote: On 6/12/07, Luk Claes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Gustavo Franco wrote: > On 6/12/07, Joey Hess <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> Gustavo Franco wrote: I don't get it at all why removing experimental would bring us anything but a more experimental

Re: Two proposals for a better Lenny (testing related).

2007-06-12 Thread Luk Claes
Gustavo Franco wrote: Hi Luk, On 6/12/07, Luk Claes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Gustavo Franco wrote: (...) > * Switch unstable (release) for not automatic updates They are only automatic as far as the Release Team wants them to be as explained earlier... I'm not writing ab

Re: Two proposals for a better Lenny (testing related).

2007-06-12 Thread Luk Claes
Gustavo Franco wrote: On 6/12/07, Luk Claes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Gustavo Franco wrote: > Hi Luk, > > On 6/12/07, Luk Claes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> Gustavo Franco wrote: >> >> > The benefit of the approach above from a RM point of view

Re: Automated mails to maintainers of packages with serious problems

2007-06-21 Thread Luk Claes
Lucas Nussbaum wrote: > Hi, Hi Lucas > The main problem is with packages that have dummy RC bugs to prevent > them from migrating to testing (see #395332 for example). Such > packages are difficult to detect, and, for packages that have been in > that case for a long time, one might question if t

Re: Intend to orphan pscan.

2007-06-30 Thread Luk Claes
Charles Plessy wrote: > Dear debian-devel, > > I am maintaining a package that shares binary names with three others, > cons, hsffig and pscan. I contacted their developpers in private, > via debian-devel, and then through the BTS. I got an answer from the > maintainer of cons, but the maintainers

Re: Considerations for 'xmms' removal from Debian

2007-07-08 Thread Luk Claes
Kapil Hari Paranjape wrote: > Hello, Hi >> The maintainers of the xmms package in Debian are proposing the removal >> of the aforementioned package. Please read on. > > The rationale given does not seem to clarify why the proposal is > for removal instead of the maintainers just orphaning the pa

Re: Considerations for 'xmms' removal from Debian

2007-07-08 Thread Luk Claes
Neil Williams wrote: > On Sun, 08 Jul 2007 11:48:39 +0100 > Roger Leigh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> Kapil Hari Paranjape <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: [...] > Such a minimal port is hardly worth doing. It is possible to migrate > from glib1 to glib2 in such a way (see #359299) but it is much har

Re: NMU's for non RC bugs

2007-07-17 Thread Luk Claes
Neil Williams wrote: > In the process of fixing one RC bug (#359299) in order to fix another > (#289668) I am testing a possible fix for two other related bugs in the > first package (g-wrap) : 428800 and 383049 (just merged). > > The related bug is currently only normal severity: > "g-wrap binary

Re: Changes detected by lintian on rebuilt packages

2008-07-13 Thread Luk Claes
Raphael Geissert wrote: > Hi all, Hi > * MBF based on the issues found (when lintian reports more issues on the > rebuilt package) [1] . No MBF shouldn't be done for lintian warnings/errors unless the particular warning/error is discussed on d-devel and the consensus is that it's worth to MBF

Re: [Pkg-xen-devel] Xen status in lenny?

2008-07-14 Thread Luk Claes
Paul van der Vlis wrote: > Steve Langasek schreef: > >> If the Debian security team is unwilling or unable to provide support for a >> 2.6.18 kernel over the lifetime of lenny, I'm happy to see us let dom0 be >> Somebody Else's Problem. I'm certainly happier with that than having us >> /claim/ to

Re: Standard way to disable services

2008-07-26 Thread Luk Claes
Steve Langasek wrote: > On Sat, Jul 26, 2008 at 02:11:26PM +0200, Josselin Mouette wrote: >> Le samedi 26 juillet 2008 à 13:18 +0200, Harald Braumann a écrit : >>> quite often I just want to disable a service in /etc/init.d. But there >>> doesn't seem to be a standard way to do that. > >> The stan

Re: Lenny frozen

2008-07-28 Thread Luk Claes
Olivier Berger wrote: > Hi. > > Can you provide a link to policy documents explaining the freeze process > in more details ? > > In particular, I'm not sure I understand the last paragraph quoted > bellow, the "only when this can be done via unstable" : That means that you shouldn't try to fix

Re: Packages getting marked not-for-us

2008-08-07 Thread Luk Claes
Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote: On Thu, 07 Aug 2008, Goswin von Brederlow wrote: Petter Reinholdtsen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: [Matthew Johnson] Or at least didn't block testing migration. I'm happy if porters decide my package isn't for them, as long as it doesn't stop it being for anyon

Bug#495643: Catalan DDTP issues

2008-08-19 Thread Luk Claes
Michael Bramer wrote: > On Tue, Aug 19, 2008 at 08:57:30AM -0700, Steve Langasek wrote: >> On Tue, Aug 19, 2008 at 10:28:21AM +, Michael Bramer wrote: >> >>> see bug #495643 >> Why has this been filed on "general"? > > see #388212 > > The bug is about the i18n debian infrastructure... Don ask

Re: packages up for adoption

2008-08-26 Thread Luk Claes
James Troup wrote: > * quinn-diff I would like to take this one. Cheers Luk -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Release Update: freeze guidelines, testing, BSP, rc bug fixes

2008-09-01 Thread Luk Claes
Daniel Burrows wrote: > On Mon, Sep 01, 2008 at 08:01:29AM +0200, Luk Claes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> was > heard to say: >> Release notes >> ~ >> There is still quite a lot of work to be done on the lenny release notes. >> Coordination for this

[Fwd: Re: document procedure to recover from "/dev/hda became /dev/sda" boot failure]

2008-10-04 Thread Luk Claes
Original Message Subject: Re: document procedure to recover from "/dev/hda became /dev/sda" boot failure Date: Sat, 04 Oct 2008 15:40:20 + From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Posting to this list is only allowed to subscribers. --- Begin Message --- Hi Can some

Re: dists/etch/Release.gpg missing from DVD images

2008-10-04 Thread Luk Claes
Hi Is it still the case that one needs to manually add an (gpg checking) exception for DVD images for upgrades from etch to lenny? If so, can someone please provide a text (license: GPL v2) for inclusion in the release notes? Thanks already. Luk -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] w

Re: dists/etch/Release.gpg missing from DVD images

2008-10-04 Thread Luk Claes
Jens Seidel wrote: > On Sat, Oct 04, 2008 at 05:53:22PM +0200, Luk Claes wrote: >> Is it still the case that one needs to manually add an (gpg checking) >> exception for DVD images for upgrades from etch to lenny? If so, can >> someone please provide a text (license: GPL v2)

Re: What you can do for "Lenny"

2008-10-06 Thread Luk Claes
Russell Coker wrote: > On Tuesday 07 October 2008 03:44, Alexander Reichle-Schmehl > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> Oh, and if you could refrain from upload new upstream versions of >> packages to "Sid", you would make all our lives easier. Some reasons: >> >> * New packages won't reach "Lenny" any

Re: What you can do for "Lenny"

2008-10-06 Thread Luk Claes
Russell Coker wrote: > On Tuesday 07 October 2008 07:25, Luk Claes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >>> Is there any plan to fix things to allow separate uploads to testing and >>> unstable for Lenny+1? >> It's already existing, but we like packages to be

Re: List of RC-buggy source packages by maintainer/uploader

2008-10-06 Thread Luk Claes
Felipe Sateler wrote: > Lucas Nussbaum wrote: > > >> Guenter Geiger (Debian/GNU) <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >>gem > > This was fixed by an NMU, but can't transition to testing due to dependency on > libquicktime 2:1.0.3+debian-2. What to do in cases like this? Contact the release team to see if it

Re: List of RC-buggy source packages by maintainer/uploader

2008-10-07 Thread Luk Claes
Emilio Pozuelo Monfort wrote: >> Debian GNOME Maintainers <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >>libgda3 (U) > > libgda3 has been fixed in unstable with high urgency. Needs unblocking. unblocked >> Debian Python Modules Team <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >>matplotlib > > Seems to be fixed in t-p-u, but hasn't mig

Re: Bug reports of DFSG violations are tagged 'lenny-ignore'?

2008-10-20 Thread Luk Claes
Manoj Srivastava wrote: > On Mon, Oct 20 2008, Stefano Zacchiroli wrote: > >> On Mon, Oct 20, 2008 at 09:38:00PM +0200, Adeodato Simó wrote: >> ... and if it is *not* different, why should be the release managers >> be considered responsible for it? They "just" decide (and kudos for >> all their

Re: Bug reports of DFSG violations are tagged 'lenny-ignore'?

2008-10-20 Thread Luk Claes
Manoj Srivastava wrote: > On Tue, Oct 21 2008, Luk Claes wrote: > >> Manoj Srivastava wrote: >>> On Mon, Oct 20 2008, Stefano Zacchiroli wrote: >>> >>>> On Mon, Oct 20, 2008 at 09:38:00PM +0200, Adeodato Simó wrote: >>>> ... and if it is *not*

Re: qmail and related packages in NEW

2008-12-01 Thread Luk Claes
David Kaufman wrote: > Hi Moritz, > >> Neil Williams wrote: >>> It isn't just about choosing not to install it, it causes work for the >>> various teams in Debian - security, release, QA. >> We've discussed this at the Security Team meeting in Essen and we don't >> have a problem with qmail being

Re: Packages still depending on GTK+ 1.2

2008-12-05 Thread Luk Claes
Russ Allbery wrote: > Josselin Mouette <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > >> Russ Allbery <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >>gtimer >> => hamster-applet, gnotime > > My intention is to request removal of gtimer when there's a consensus that > GTK+ 1.2 is going away. The package has been RFA for years without

Re: Problem with bts2ldap and therefore bts.turmzimmer.net ?

2008-12-11 Thread Luk Claes
Neil Williams wrote: > On Thu, 11 Dec 2008 11:32:47 + > Neil Williams wrote: > >> The graph on the Unofficial RC bugs count page has been flat for 7 >> days: http://bts.turmzimmer.net/graph-small.png > > Now working again - thanks to whoever fixed it. > ;-) It was a problem in the interacti

Re: Problem with bts2ldap and therefore bts.turmzimmer.net ?

2008-12-11 Thread Luk Claes
Olivier Berger wrote: > Hi. > > Le jeudi 11 décembre 2008 à 19:24 +0100, Luk Claes a écrit : >> Neil Williams wrote: >>> On Thu, 11 Dec 2008 11:32:47 + >>> Neil Williams wrote: >>> >>>> The graph on the Unofficial RC bugs count page ha

Re: First call for votes for the Lenny release GR

2008-12-17 Thread Luk Claes
Manoj Srivastava wrote: > On Sun, Dec 14 2008, Pierre Habouzit wrote: > >> On Sun, Dec 14, 2008 at 03:02:17AM +, Debian Project Secretary wrote: >> And FWIW I still believe this vote is an horrible mix-up of really >> different things, is completely confusing, and I've no clue how to vote. >>

Help needed with the GPG Key Signing Coordination page

2009-01-05 Thread Luk Claes
Hi Ralf Treinen and I are looking for help with the GPG Key Signing Coordination page. The GPG key signing coordination page at http://nm.debian.org/gpg.php is primarily aimed at prospective contributors to find existing Debian developers who can sign their key for the ID part of the NM maintaine

Re: open bugs against removed packages still in stable

2007-07-24 Thread Luk Claes
Neil Williams wrote: > When a package is removed (gchangepass, printtool), the removal > message asks for the open bugs to be closed or re-assigned. These two > packages still exist in stable and/or oldstable. It isn't appropriate > to reassign any of these bugs, the question is should the bugs sti

Re: Considerations for 'xmms' removal from Debian

2007-08-12 Thread Luk Claes
On Sun, Aug 12, 2007 at 10:13:45AM +, William Pitcock wrote: > Josselin Mouette debian.org> writes: > > > > > Le dimanche 12 août 2007 à 09:34 +, William Pitcock a écrit : > > I wonder what kind of crack you are on. Your website shows the 1.3.0 > > release date as being 2 march 2007. Th

Re: Debian's Linux kernel continues to regress on freedom

2007-09-12 Thread Luk Claes
Ron Johnson wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 09/12/07 03:57, Miriam Ruiz wrote: 2007/9/12, John Kelly <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: On Wed, 12 Sep 2007 08:41:29 + (UTC), Sune Vuorela <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On 2007-09-12, John Kelly <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: "Distribut

OT: modifying licenses (Re: Debian's Linux kernel continues to regress on freedom)

2007-09-13 Thread Luk Claes
in wording and not mention GNU (though the actual procedure you describe may be similar). http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-faq.html#ModifyGPL Paraphrasing Luk Claes: besides we as Debian only want our users the freedom to be able to if they wanted it, to willy-nilly modify the

Re: seemingly random SATA disk lockup with ICH5: amazing way to ask for more info on the BTS

2007-09-14 Thread Luk Claes
Mathieu Roy wrote: Package: linux-image-2.6.21-2-686 Version: 2.6.21-6 Severity: important stopped reading at that point, there is newer linux images in the archive install them directly from unstable. The version specified is the version in testing... Amazing. Tell me, are your trying to tu

Re: volatile.debian.org: Does Debian still support it?

2007-09-26 Thread Luk Claes
Piotr Roszatycki wrote: 2007/9/26, Martin Zobel-Helas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: Accepted now. Thank you very much. For the future: i would have been much easier, if you would have said: be warned, the patch is huge, but if you don't look at the compiled version of it, it is these number of lines.

Re: Debian Menu transition status

2007-10-09 Thread Luk Claes
On Tue, Oct 09, 2007 at 06:12:33PM +0200, Bill Allombert wrote: > This is a status update for the Debian Menu transition. > 2) Some common mistakes to avoid: > > - Do not put menu entries _directly_ under Applications/Science, > Applications/System and Applications/Network, but in one of >

Re: why MIA database restricted only for DDs

2007-10-16 Thread Luk Claes
On Tue, Oct 16, 2007 at 05:26:41PM +0200, Miriam Ruiz wrote: > 2007/10/16, Ana Guerrero <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > > I guess I'm being a bit the advocate of the Devil here, but isn't that > > > as invasive of their privacy as having direct access to the MIA > > > database? :P XD > > > > > > > No, a m

Re: 0-day NMUs, DELAYED/n uploads

2007-10-17 Thread Luk Claes
On Wed, Oct 17, 2007 at 06:03:14PM +0200, Lucas Nussbaum wrote: > Hi, Hi > This thread started on [EMAIL PROTECTED] The process that should be followed > for > 0-day NMUs is being discussed. (reminder: it's allowed to do 0-day NMUs > for RC bugs and release goals, for bugs older than 7 days). >

Orphaned packages with quite some users

2007-10-31 Thread Luk Claes
Hi Below you'll find a list of longtime orphaned packages with quite some users. It would be great if people could adopt packages that are still usefull and give alternatives and/or migration plans for packages that are rather obsolete or not really usefull anymore. Cheers Luk http://packa

Re: Orphaned packages with quite some users

2007-10-31 Thread Luk Claes
Bernd Zeimetz wrote: >> http://packages.qa.debian.org/x/xmms-crossfade.html > > If I remember right gtk-1 is supposed to be removed from lenny, so xmms > will be gone, too. Yes, but this source package also builds audacious-crossfade which probably should stay? Cheers Luk -- To UNSUBSCRIBE,

Re: Orphaned packages with quite some users

2007-10-31 Thread Luk Claes
Michal Čihař wrote: > Hi > > Dne Wed, 31 Oct 2007 17:21:24 +0100 > Luk Claes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> napsal(a): > >> Below you'll find a list of longtime orphaned packages with quite some >> users. It would be great if people could adopt packages that are still

Re: Bug#438665: Orphaned packages with quite some users

2007-10-31 Thread Luk Claes
Bart Samwel wrote: > tag 438665 wontfix > merge 438665 445900 > thanks > > Clint Adams wrote: >> reopen 438665 >> quit >> >> On Wed, Oct 31, 2007 at 06:22:11PM +0100, Luk Claes wrote: >>> That sounds like the Dependens should be a Recommends, if s

Re: Orphaned packages with quite some users

2007-10-31 Thread Luk Claes
Thomas Viehmann wrote: > Luk Claes wrote: >> http://packages.qa.debian.org/a/autobook.html > Based on the submitter's observation in #328219, maybe we should remove > autobook? > If it's non-free and increasingly outdated and doesn't have anone > wanting t

Re: Orphaned packages with quite some users

2007-10-31 Thread Luk Claes
Ben Goodger wrote: > On 31/10/2007, Luk Claes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> http://packages.qa.debian.org/libg/libglade.html >> http://packages.qa.debian.org/libv/libvncserver.html > > > AFAIK these are unofficially or officially deprecated: > libglade is

Re: SPARC build failure of texlive-bin

2007-11-15 Thread Luk Claes
Norbert Preining wrote: > Dear all! > > The last build of texlive-bin didn't succeed, but it seems that the > build process was somehow interrupted or something else is strange: > dh_strip > dh_shlibdeps -L libkpathsea4 -l debian/libkpathsea4/usr/lib > make: *** [binary-arch] Terminated >

Re: About dpkg-shlibdeps checks

2007-11-23 Thread Luk Claes
Raphael Hertzog wrote: > On Fri, 23 Nov 2007, Sune Vuorela wrote: >> On 2007-11-23, Raphael Hertzog <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >>> Well, the d-d-a mail included a list of affected packages. So we had a >>> clue on how many packages are affected. The list has probably evolved >>> since september but

Re: Bits from the MIA team

2007-12-08 Thread Luk Claes
Nico Golde wrote: > Hi Mario, > * Mario Iseli <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2007-12-06 21:33]: > [...] >> Team maintenance >> >> If one package of the person is maintained in a team, at the step where we >> send >> the prod-mail we file a Bug of severity "serious" against the package, >>

Re: Bits from the MIA team

2007-12-08 Thread Luk Claes
Nico Golde wrote: > Hi Luk, > * Luk Claes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2007-12-08 18:21]: >> Nico Golde wrote: >>> Hi Mario, >>> * Mario Iseli <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2007-12-06 21:33]: > [...] >>> What is the purpose of this? If the package is well >

Re: Bits from the MIA team

2007-12-08 Thread Luk Claes
Steffen Joeris wrote: > On Sat, 8 Dec 2007 06:39:15 pm Raphael Hertzog wrote: >> On Sat, 08 Dec 2007, Nico Golde wrote: To make sure packages don't end up with only inactive (co-)maintainers. >>> That could be avoided if you check that every maintainer of >>> the package is MIA. >> A MIA-check

Re: Bits from the MIA team

2007-12-09 Thread Luk Claes
Michael Banck wrote: > On Sat, Dec 08, 2007 at 06:39:15PM +0100, Raphael Hertzog wrote: >> I don't agree with this. In a team, it's difficult to notice that one >> member disappeared. And lack of involvement in one package doesn't mean >> being completely MIA. As co-maintainer I wouldn't want to re

Re: Bits from the MIA team

2007-12-10 Thread Luk Claes
Michael Banck wrote: > On Sun, Dec 09, 2007 at 11:31:27PM +0100, Luk Claes wrote: >> Please don't answer when you don't have read the whole thread... It was >> already very clearly mentioned that the team decided to file with >> severity important instead... >

Re: Bug#457353: gdome2-xslt: should not be a Debian-native package

2007-12-23 Thread Luk Claes
Neil Williams wrote: > Stefano Zacchiroli wrote: >> tags 457353 + wontfix >> thanks >> >> On Fri, Dec 21, 2007 at 07:20:57PM +, brian m. carlson wrote: >>> You're missing a .diff.gz, which means that this is a native package. This >>> package is in no way specific to Debian, which means that

Re: Bug#457353: gdome2-xslt: should not be a Debian-native package

2007-12-26 Thread Luk Claes
Wouter Verhelst wrote: > On Sun, Dec 23, 2007 at 07:17:16PM +, Neil Williams wrote: >> Luk Claes wrote: >>> Neil Williams wrote: >>>> i.e. native should be a last resort - used only when it is all but >>>> impossible for the package to be used outsid

Re: [proposal] Documenting which revision is installed

2007-12-26 Thread Luk Claes
Martin Zobel-Helas wrote: > Hi, Hi > i would like to propose that we change /etc/debian_version with > beginning of lenny to also show which revision of a release is > installed. Ack. > Rational: We do regular updates to stable releases (called point > releases) from time to time but you can't

Re: Opinions needed: reporting lintian overrides

2008-01-02 Thread Luk Claes
Hi Russ Russ Allbery wrote: > I'd really like to not have to make this decision myself. I'd like to get > opinions and see if a consensus emerges. I personally always run lintian > with -iI --show-overrides, so I'm clearly not the target audience for this > feature one way or the other. Here ar

Re: Availability of wanna-build sources

2008-01-05 Thread Luk Claes
Roger Leigh wrote: > Hi folks, Hi Roger > The wanna-build (sbuild, buildd) sources in use on the Project's > buildd infrastructure is maintained by Ryan Murray and is available > From an SVN repository at > > http://svn.cyberhqz.com/svn/wanna-build > > However, the version number (99.99) disp

Re: gnome 1.x removal

2008-01-15 Thread Luk Claes
Thomas Bushnell BSG wrote: > On Tue, 2008-01-15 at 13:39 +0100, Marc 'HE' Brockschmidt wrote: >> "cobaco (aka Bart Cornelis)" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >>> "As long as there's interest the software will stay alive" is one of the >>> main tenets of Free Software. Consequently, IMHO, as long as th

Re: Python 2.6

2010-01-03 Thread Luk Claes
Bastian Venthur wrote: > Hi all, > > I'm sorry to bring this topic up again, but what is the status of Python > 2.6 and Squeeze? I wrote a mail to doko on 2009-12-13 asking him what > his plans are and if he needs help but didn't receive an answer yet. Has > anyone more information? python 2.6 wi

Re: rebuild test of Debian packages with GCC trunk 20100107

2010-01-13 Thread Luk Claes
Kurt Roeckx wrote: > On Tue, Jan 12, 2010 at 10:20:38AM +0100, Holger Levsen wrote: >> Hi, >> >> On Dienstag, 12. Januar 2010, Raphael Geissert wrote: >>> Please don't forget to usertag the reports. Using the "ftbfs-gcc-4.5" >>> usertag should make it easier to track them (which would later make th

Re: upload lost ???

2010-02-01 Thread Luk Claes
Yves-Alexis Perez wrote: > On 02/02/2010 03:37, Norbert Preining wrote: >> Hi everyone, >> >> can someone explain me how to track down a lost upload? Yesterday I >> uploaded maildir-util 0.6-1 and got the email >> Uploaded successfully >> but since then nothing has happened, and I don't see it

Re: upload lost ???

2010-02-03 Thread Luk Claes
Norbert Preining wrote: > Dear Luk, dear Jörg, dear ftp-master, dear whoever, > > please help me with fixing that problem: > > Now I have the following problem: > - sending a dcut rm of the files I get: > Log of processing your commands file > /dcut.Norbert_Preining__preining_debian_org_.12651574

Re: e2fsprogs not esential anymore?

2010-02-07 Thread Luk Claes
Marco d'Itri wrote: > Now that /sbin/fsck is provided by util-linux it should be possible to > drop the Essential attribute from the e2fsprogs. How do we do this? The whole archive needs to be scanned to see if no functionality of e2fsprogs is used without (build) dependency. Dropping the flag its

Invite to join the Release Team

2010-03-13 Thread Luk Claes
Hi Clint You seem to send the message that you can judge from the sideline how things should be run, so I hereby invite you to join the Release Team and do a proper job. If you don't take the challenge I'll interpret that as you being a coward who does not deserve to be heard in the future. Plea

Re: Invite to join the Release Team

2010-03-14 Thread Luk Claes
Bernd Zeimetz wrote: > Luk Claes wrote: >> Hi Clint >> >> You seem to send the message that you can judge from the sideline how >> things should be run, so I hereby invite you to join the Release Team >> and do a proper job. >> >> If you don't tak

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