Re: Parallellizing the boot in Debian Squeeze - ready for wider testing

2010-05-08 Thread Luk Claes
On 05/08/2010 11:47 AM, Julien Cristau wrote: On Fri, May 7, 2010 at 19:27:54 +0200, Stefano Zacchiroli wrote: (Beside the nitpick on "we want" vs "we possibly want") I'd argue that it's because we want a faster boot from our users ASAP. As far as I'm concerned, "faster boot" is irrelevant.

Re: Bug#580814: Parallellizing the boot in Debian Squeeze - ready for wider testing

2010-05-11 Thread Luk Claes
On 05/11/2010 01:09 PM, Julian Andres Klode wrote: On Tue, May 11, 2010 at 12:49:46PM +0200, Julien Cristau wrote: On Tue, May 11, 2010 at 12:37:56 +0200, Julian Andres Klode wrote: On Sun, May 09, 2010 at 05:25:16PM +0200, Tollef Fog Heen wrote: Is it really a good idea to have init depend

Re: RFH: bashisms in configure script

2010-05-25 Thread Luk Claes
On 05/26/2010 08:05 AM, Lucas Nussbaum wrote: > Hi, > > I'm still feeling uneasy about this whole bash->dash thing. We sacrified > a lot of usability in the name of POSIX compliance (only a minority of > users care) and a few seconds spared during boot (who cares? I only boot > my laptop for kerne

Re: same UIDs across multiple systems

2010-05-30 Thread Luk Claes
On 05/30/2010 07:57 PM, C. Gatzemeier wrote: > Am Sun, 30 May 2010 15:02:41 +0100 > schrieb Stephen Gran : > >> There are already well understood mechanisms for ensuring that uids >> are the same across multiple systems. I don't think adduser is the >> place for that. I guess you should have a d

Re: all twitter client should support OAuth before they will drop Basic Auth in August

2010-06-28 Thread Luk Claes
On 06/28/2010 04:40 PM, Hideki Yamane wrote: > Hi, > > As I reported in Bug#587420, all twitter client should support OAuth since > twitter > will discard basic auth. If they not, we should drop them from Squeeze > release. Will they also not be usable anymore with identi.ca and similar twitt

Closing non-bugs (a.k.a. fixed version is same as found version)

2010-08-15 Thread Luk Claes
Hi When I go through RC bugs I see more and more bugs which are both found and fixed with the same version. This does NOT work: these bugs are treated as if they are not fixed at all. Please do not version bug closures when there were no changes to the source package to get the bug fixed! Note

Re: Closing non-bugs (a.k.a. fixed version is same as found version)

2010-08-15 Thread Luk Claes
On 08/15/2010 04:41 PM, Guus Sliepen wrote: > On Sun, Aug 15, 2010 at 04:25:19PM +0200, Luk Claes wrote: > >> When I go through RC bugs I see more and more bugs which are both found >> and fixed with the same version. >> >> This does NOT work: these bugs are treat

Re: Closing non-bugs (a.k.a. fixed version is same as found version)

2010-08-15 Thread Luk Claes
On 08/15/2010 06:17 PM, Guus Sliepen wrote: > On Sun, Aug 15, 2010 at 04:57:40PM +0200, Luk Claes wrote: >> It's very strange that you think it's ok to mark a bug as fixed in a >> specific version even if there was nothing changed in the package to get >> the bug

Re: Summary of CUT discussions (Was: unstable/testing/[pending/frozen/]stable)

2010-09-23 Thread Luk Claes
On 09/23/2010 09:00 AM, Lucas Nussbaum wrote: > On 22/09/10 at 15:01 +0200, Raphael Hertzog wrote: >> Hi all, >> >> On Tue, 21 Sep 2010, Yaroslav Halchenko wrote: >>> CUT discussions at debconf10 and recent news of the birth of Linux Mint >> >> discussions on CUT have continued after debconf on the

Re: Summary of CUT discussions (Was: unstable/testing/[pending/frozen/]stable)

2010-09-26 Thread Luk Claes
Hi Raphael On 09/23/2010 02:30 PM, Raphael Hertzog wrote: > On Thu, 23 Sep 2010, Luk Claes wrote: >>> Raphael's article is now published, and is probably a good basis for >>> discussing CUT on -de...@. >>> Free link: http://lwn.net/SubscriberLink/406301/bd522a

Re: Summary of CUT discussions (Was: unstable/testing/[pending/frozen/]stable)

2010-09-26 Thread Luk Claes
On 09/26/2010 04:40 PM, Lucas Nussbaum wrote: > Hi Luk, Hi Lucas Note that this is my personal opinion and does not represent the opinion of the Release Team perse. > On 26/09/10 at 15:55 +0200, Luk Claes wrote: >> I think this is completely the wrong question, we'd better as

Re: Summary of CUT discussions (Was: unstable/testing/[pending/frozen/]stable)

2010-09-26 Thread Luk Claes
On 09/26/2010 05:02 PM, Fernando Lemos wrote: > On Sun, Sep 26, 2010 at 10:55 AM, Luk Claes wrote: >>> Why would non-frequent snapshots help more than frequent snapshots? >> >> Because in that case they could really be used and supported for >> installing, better us

Re: Summary of CUT discussions (Was: unstable/testing/[pending/frozen/]stable)

2010-09-26 Thread Luk Claes
Hi Raphael On 09/26/2010 08:40 PM, Raphael Hertzog wrote: > On Sun, 26 Sep 2010, Luk Claes wrote: >> Of course there are multiple reasons. Though I think one of the most >> obvious ones is that we as a project don't do a genuine stable release >> often so sometimes del

Re: [MBF proposal] Empty packages in the archive

2010-10-17 Thread Luk Claes
On 10/17/2010 04:47 PM, Samuel Thibault wrote: > Luca Falavigna, le Sun 17 Oct 2010 16:41:31 +0200, a écrit : >> Julien Danjou >> XCB Developers >> Jamey Sharp >> Josh Triplett >>libpthread-stubs0 (U) > > That's expected on linux ports. Why an empty package instead of no binary package on

Re: Oops: I broke the lenny --> squeeze update

2010-11-22 Thread Luk Claes
On 11/22/2010 11:11 AM, Philipp Kern wrote: > On 2010-11-22, Raphael Hertzog wrote: >> On Mon, 22 Nov 2010, Steve M. Robbins wrote: >>> The rtupdate script has since been changed (in unstable) to avoid this >>> problem, but I'm not sure what can be done for stable users other than >>> recommending

Re: Modifying a file from another package (rather than replacing it)

2010-12-26 Thread Luk Claes
On 12/26/2010 02:10 PM, Malte Forkel wrote: > Am 25.12.2010 20:18, schrieb Michael Banck: >> >> Why can't this be part of pbuilder itself? Did your patches got >> rejected by the pbuilder author and if so, what was his rationale? >> Maybe if he thinks they should not be part of pbuilder, they shou

Re: using perl in preinst script

2010-12-27 Thread Luk Claes
On 12/27/2010 01:45 PM, Neil Williams wrote: > On Mon, 27 Dec 2010 13:19:57 +0100 > Tollef Fog Heen wrote: > >> ]] Rahul Amaram >> >> >> | I am the maintainer for calendarserver. I have a query reg. preinst >> | script. I need to perform some action during preinst before the >> | upgrade of cale

Re: kernel-wedge does not work as expected.

2011-01-23 Thread Luk Claes
On 01/23/2011 03:06 PM, Magicloud Magiclouds wrote: > Hi, > I am trying to make a custom debian-installer cd. I have done this > before, things worked fine. But this time, I got a problem. > My running kernel installed from > linux-image-2.6.36.3i686_bfs363.reiser4_i386.deb. It contains a namin

Sourceful uploads [Re: Upcoming FTPMaster meeting]

2011-02-13 Thread Luk Claes
On 02/13/2011 07:00 PM, Lars Wirzenius wrote: > On su, 2011-02-13 at 18:49 +0100, Bernd Zeimetz wrote: >> I don;t think that is a good idea, there are way too many people not building >> and testing their packages properly already, we don't want to give that work >> to >> the buildd-admins... > >

Re: Upcoming FTPMaster meeting

2011-02-14 Thread Luk Claes
On 02/14/2011 08:39 AM, Raphael Hertzog wrote: > On Sat, 12 Feb 2011, Guillem Jover wrote: >> Hi! >> >> On Fri, 2011-02-11 at 11:33:10 +0800, Paul Wise wrote: >>> On Fri, Feb 11, 2011 at 5:58 AM, Ben Hutchings wrote: Since there is no support for auto-building arch-independent binaries >>> >>

Re: Kernel legacy

2009-02-01 Thread Luk Claes
Klaus Ethgen wrote: > Just to bring that back to discussion: > > With lenny the provided glibc seems to be incompatible to kernel 2.4. > There are many systems out there still running with kernel 2.4 cause > stability. (My servers which needs to be stable all run Kernel 2.4.) s/lenny/etch/ > Is

Re: Release update: deep freeze, planned dates, and remaining bugs

2009-02-07 Thread Luk Claes
Daniel Baumann wrote: > Adeodato Simó wrote: >> The weekend of February 14th is going to be our tentative target for >> release. We've checked with all the involved teams (which are many!), >> and the date works for all of them. Just to clarify: we've checked with key people if the date would be o

Re: About the current state of the Yum package in Lenny

2009-02-14 Thread Luk Claes
Thomas Goirand wrote: > Hi, > > Even though Debian is not RPM based, it's very important to have a > working Yum package in Debian, just to be able to setup all sorts of yum > based distribution in a chroot for setting-up VMs. Indeed. > Unfortunately, it seems that the current maintainer of Yum

Re: About the current state of the Yum package in Lenny

2009-02-14 Thread Luk Claes
Thomas Goirand wrote: > I forgot to add... > > The current maintainer of yum AND rpm (Anibal Monsalve Salazar > ) has been unactive for quite a long time now, there > are outstanding very serious bugs without even any reply from him since > 2006. We really need something to be done for rpm as well

Re: About the current state of the Yum package in Lenny

2009-02-14 Thread Luk Claes
Thomas Goirand wrote: > Luk Claes wrote: >> Why is the python-iniparse also needed? That's not clear from the bug >> report. > > Very simple: yum crashes with a not-so-nice error message when I try to > boostrap a CentOS complaining about the iniparse python modul

Re: About the current state of the Yum package in Lenny

2009-02-16 Thread Luk Claes
Thomas Goirand wrote: > Vincent Danjean wrote: >> 3) perhaps, try to push what is available in lenny backport into a >> point-release >>of lenny. This will depends on how many bug fix are present, how intrusive >>the changes are, the release maintainers opinion, ... >> >> For me, 3 is not

Re: Post-Lenny discussion on packages with external (potentially non-free) dependencies

2009-02-16 Thread Luk Claes
Michael S. Gilbert wrote: > Summary of the problem: Some packages such as foo2zjs, pciutils, > ttf-mathematica4.1, etc. have components that download files external > to the Debian archives (from the internet) at runtime, which is > problematic in many ways. If possible, the to be downloaded data

Re: lenny-backports started

2009-02-20 Thread Luk Claes
Alexander Wirt wrote: > Thanks to the unoffical buildd network we are also able to provide autobuild > packages for the following architectures: arm, armel, amd64, ppc, i386, ia64 > und alpha. Possibly mips and sparc will follow. You can find more > informations about the buildstatus of a package

Re: Post-Lenny discussion on packages with external (potentially non-free) dependencies

2009-02-22 Thread Luk Claes
Josselin Mouette wrote: > Le mardi 17 février 2009 à 00:31 -0500, Michael S. Gilbert a écrit : >> 2. Components of the package may stop working in the midst of a >> stable release's lifetime > > This is a problem that affects much more than this kind of packages. All > packages relying on an exte

Re: Support of new source packages in squeeze

2009-03-05 Thread Luk Claes
Raphael Hertzog wrote: > Hello, Hi > as announced earlier during the lenny dev cycle, I would like to switch to > the new source package formats ("3.0 (quilt)" and "3.0 (native)") during > the squeeze cycle so that we can benefit from the numerous improvements. > For this kind of important change

Re: inetd's status in Debian

2009-03-09 Thread Luk Claes
Steve Langasek wrote: > On Mon, Mar 09, 2009 at 08:06:16PM +0100, Pierre Habouzit wrote: >> I'm wondering if making super servers become optionnal wouldn't be a worthy >> goal for squeeze. > > Why? If it ain't broke, don't fix it. Having a superserver installed isn't > broken. Why should every

Re: toolame: remove from unstable, update in stable

2009-03-15 Thread Luk Claes
Fabian Greffrath wrote: > However, I think the toolame package in stable may stay both for the > convenience of our users and because it's not *that* bad after all. I > have prepared a package targeted at Lenny that fixes two portability > bugs and some minor lintian warnings. It can be found at

Re: net-tools future

2009-03-20 Thread Luk Claes
Martín Ferrari wrote: > Hi, Hi In our call to move away from net-tools, I want to first start with identifying the packages that still use it: > * ifconfig, route: the most difficult ones, both can be replaced by > calls to "ip", maybe except for some obscure options. > * netstat : sstat provi

Re: experimental buildds using too much of experimental ?

2009-03-20 Thread Luk Claes
Mike Hommey wrote: > Hi, > > I noticed that the autobuilt webkit on amd64 depends on the sqlite > library package from experimental. This sounds pretty unfortunate, as > webkit doesn't require a specific version of libsqlite, and would work > fine with the unstable one. On the other hand, as a use

Re: net-tools future

2009-03-21 Thread Luk Claes
Holger Levsen wrote: > Hi Luk, > > On Freitag, 20. März 2009, Luk Claes wrote: >> Below a list of packages/maintainers that use ifconfig/route/netstat: > > How did you create that list? You seem to be missing a few.. By looking at dependency relations with the net-tools

Re: net-tools future

2009-03-21 Thread Luk Claes
Holger Levsen wrote: > Hi Luk, Hi Holger > On Samstag, 21. März 2009, Luk Claes wrote: >>>> Below a list of packages/maintainers that use ifconfig/route/netstat: >>> How did you create that list? You seem to be missing a few.. >> By looking at dependency relati

Re: net-tools future

2009-03-21 Thread Luk Claes
Manoj Srivastava wrote: > On Sat, Mar 21 2009, Holger Levsen wrote: > > >>> netstat >>> --- >> munin > > Err, isn't munin a hugely complex beasty, that has to be > configured for the network, and usually lives on a signle machine and > polls others? and does alerting and graphing a

Re: NEW processing

2009-03-25 Thread Luk Claes
Michael Meskes wrote: > On Wed, Mar 25, 2009 at 04:24:59PM +0100, Cyril Brulebois wrote: >> Mike O'Connor (25/03/2009): >>> Yes, there have definately been times when packages are rejected from >>> NEW that only got there becuase of a package addition. I'd say its >> ... >> And while the new pack

Re: Architecture usertags

2009-03-25 Thread Luk Claes
Wouter Verhelst wrote: > Hi, Hi > I thought I'd sent out this mail, but apparently I did that when I had > just reinstalled my laptop and the mailsetup wasn't working yet. Sorry > about that. > > Now almost a month ago, I asked Don Armstrong to create architecture > tags in the BTS. I've always

Re: Architecture usertags

2009-03-25 Thread Luk Claes
Bastien ROUCARIES wrote: > On Wed, Mar 25, 2009 at 7:03 PM, Luk Claes wrote: >> Wouter Verhelst wrote: >>> Hi, >> Hi >> >>> I thought I'd sent out this mail, but apparently I did that when I had >>> just reinstalled my laptop and the mailsetup

Re: How to depend on 32bit libs on amd64? (and what to do with ia32-libs)

2009-03-30 Thread Luk Claes
Goswin von Brederlow wrote: > Adeodato Simó writes: > >> * Goswin von Brederlow [Mon, 30 Mar 2009 14:33:32 +0200]: >> Mark Hymers has talked about providing a mechanism to ensure source >> packages stay on the pool when other stuff has been built from them (eg. >> kernel module packages). With

Re: How to depend on 32bit libs on amd64? (and what to do with ia32-libs)

2009-03-31 Thread Luk Claes
Goswin von Brederlow wrote: > Luk Claes writes: > >> Goswin von Brederlow wrote: >>> Adeodato Simó writes: >>> >>>> * Goswin von Brederlow [Mon, 30 Mar 2009 14:33:32 +0200]: >>>> Mark Hymers has talked about providing a mechanism to ensure

Re: New architectures

2009-04-05 Thread Luk Claes
Vincent Bernat wrote: > OoO Lors de la soirée naissante du dimanche 05 avril 2009, vers 17:53, > Paul Wise disait : > >>> How packages that run on Linux only should handle those new architectures? > >> Same as for stuff that only runs on i386; port them to kFreeBSD or >> restrict them to linux

Upcoming point releases for oldstable (Etch) and stable (Lenny)

2009-04-08 Thread Luk Claes
Hi This is just to inform you that there will be soon a point release of Etch: 4.0r8 tomorrow and Lenny: 5.0.1 on Saturday. In a point release packages in oldstable or stable will get updated. Most of these packages will already be in the security archive, though some of them are fixes for major

Re: base-files changed /etc/debian_version in stable

2009-04-14 Thread Luk Claes
Josselin Mouette wrote: > Hi, Hi Josselin > the point release of lenny contains a change to /etc/debian_version. > This was done without any kind of warning, despite the fact that some > packages rely on the contents of this file. There were warnings since December 2007 [1], though you're right

Re: base-files changed /etc/debian_version in stable

2009-04-14 Thread Luk Claes
Luk Claes wrote: > Josselin Mouette wrote: >> Hi, > > Hi Josselin > >> the point release of lenny contains a change to /etc/debian_version. >> This was done without any kind of warning, despite the fact that some >> packages rely on the contents of this

Re: About the current state of the Yum package in Lenny

2009-04-16 Thread Luk Claes
Thomas Goirand wrote: > Hi, > > I'm sorry that it took us so much time to make a working yum package, > but we were quite overloaded with our work, taking over all the > customers of another web hosting company (taking all our time doing > support). Anyway, I could today take the time to upload a

Re: Should we still purge GConf schemas from the old directory?

2009-04-26 Thread Luk Claes
Josselin Mouette wrote: > Hi, > > a long time ago, packages using GConf used to ship schemas > in /etc/gconf/schemas. Now, they are moved to /usr/share/gconf/schemas. > However, during upgrades, dpkg would let the old file in place since it > was a conffile. This is why dh_gconf still adds, in the

Re: Outdated config.{sub,guess} package list

2009-04-26 Thread Luk Claes
Simon Josefsson wrote: > Michal Čihař writes: > >> Dne Sat, 25 Apr 2009 07:10:24 +0300 >> Peter Eisentraut napsal(a): >> >>> Like lintian, your list falsely includes packages that use cdbs to build, >>> which automatically updates config.{sub,guess}. >> If you don't build depend on autotools-de

Re: Misc developer news (#15)

2009-05-01 Thread Luk Claes
Paul Wise wrote: On Fri, May 1, 2009 at 2:51 PM, David Paleino wrote: Also, seems like lists.alioth.debian.org doesn't have the same functionality. Is there any plan for this? Due to the way pipermail works, removing messages from the archives would break all the URLs. Options for working ar

postfix as default-mta? [Re: Bug#508644: new release goal default-mta?]

2009-05-06 Thread Luk Claes
Steve Langasek wrote: > On Tue, May 05, 2009 at 05:06:26PM +0200, martin f krafft wrote: >> also sprach Carsten Hey [2009.05.05.1645 +0200]: >> FWIW, Ubuntu did what I consider the right thing: > >> http://launchpadlibrarian.net/21235281/mdadm_2.6.7.1-1ubuntu4_2.6.7.1-1ubuntu5.diff.gz > > Well,

Re: postfix as default-mta? [Re: Bug#508644: new release goal default-mta?]

2009-05-06 Thread Luk Claes
Josselin Mouette wrote: > Le mercredi 06 mai 2009 à 23:29 +0200, Luk Claes a écrit : >> Maybe we should also consider changing the default MTA to postfix? > > Given that the default configuration is extremely simplistic and doesn’t > use a percent of either exim or postfix

Re: i386.changes vs source.changes

2009-05-13 Thread Luk Claes
Malte Forkel wrote: > Hi, > > I recently noticed that when I'm packaging software sometimes a > i386.changes file gets created, and sometimes a source.changes file gets > created. > > I couldn't find an explanation in the New Maintainer's Guide or in the > Policy Manual. I guess its something to

Re: Bug#531581: Critical problems on hppa and ia64 buildds

2009-06-03 Thread Luk Claes
Frank Küster wrote: > [a failed build was wrongly assigned as a RC bug of texlive-base, and > since the reason was a problem on the buildd, I assigned it to > buildd.debian.org] > > Luk Claes wrote: > >> buildd.d.o is not the place to reassign bugs for particular bui

Re: Bug#531581: Critical problems on hppa and ia64 buildds

2009-06-03 Thread Luk Claes
Frank Küster wrote: > Luk Claes wrote: > >>> And what should one do with a bug like this? At the moment it's quite >>> irrelevant whether one of our packages has a bogus RC bug. But what if >>> that happens when I'm hoping for a transition to testin

Re: Bug#531581: Critical problems on hppa and ia64 buildds

2009-06-04 Thread Luk Claes
Frank Küster wrote: > Luk Claes wrote: > >>> That doesn't solve my problem: Should I >>> - make sure that the porters, buildd admins etc. are aware of the >>> problem and simply close the bug? >> You might want to downgrade the bug and only close

Re: Bug#531581: Critical problems on hppa and ia64 buildds

2009-06-04 Thread Luk Claes
Frank Küster wrote: > Luk Claes wrote: > >> Fine, though taking the trouble to talk to the porters might still be >> worthwile. > > Yes, but definitely not after I've spend hours of my little Debian > arguing about non-bugs with people who don't read what

Re: Bug#531581: Critical problems on hppa and ia64 buildds

2009-06-04 Thread Luk Claes
Frank Küster wrote: > Frank Küster wrote: > >> Luk Claes wrote: >> >>> Fine, though taking the trouble to talk to the porters might still be >>> worthwile. >> Yes, but definitely not

Re: Bug#531581: Critical problems on hppa and ia64 buildds

2009-06-04 Thread Luk Claes
Norbert Preining wrote: > On Do, 04 Jun 2009, Luk Claes wrote: >> Except for arguing, mixing (non?) bugs and resisting to upload an easy >> workaround might have made things worse btw... > > And that easy workaround would be??? To only conditionaly use a command that s

Re: Bug#531581: Critical problems on hppa and ia64 buildds

2009-06-04 Thread Luk Claes
Don Armstrong wrote: > On Thu, 04 Jun 2009, Manoj Srivastava wrote: >> If it is not a bug in the package (in other words, no change made >> in the package would fix the issue), I see no point in keeping it >> open. It would be nice, however, is a psuedo-package were created >> for the buildds (

Re: Bug#531581: Critical problems on hppa and ia64 buildds

2009-06-05 Thread Luk Claes
Frank Küster wrote: > Luk Claes wrote: > >> Norbert Preining wrote: >>> On Do, 04 Jun 2009, Luk Claes wrote: >>>> Except for arguing, mixing (non?) bugs and resisting to upload an easy >>>> workaround might have made things worse btw... >&g

Re: Bug#531581: Critical problems on hppa and ia64 buildds

2009-06-05 Thread Luk Claes
Frank Küster wrote: > retitle 530832 maintainer scripts created by tex-common may not assume > tex-common to be present in "postrm remove" > thanks > > ia64, I assume that you have moved the broken remains of texlive-base > away manually? He's called Lamont btw... oh right, that's the bugsubmitt

Re: Switching the default /bin/sh to dash

2009-06-24 Thread Luk Claes
Mike Hommey wrote: > On Thu, Jun 25, 2009 at 06:47:07AM +0200, Hendrik Sattler wrote: >> Am Donnerstag 25 Juni 2009 05:21:45 schrieb Raphael Geissert: >>> I just noticed I forgot to say something: What won't change: * Bash will still be used as the default interactive shells for users >>>

Re: Switching the default /bin/sh to dash

2009-06-25 Thread Luk Claes
Stefano Zacchiroli wrote: > On Thu, Jun 25, 2009 at 12:10:46AM -0500, Raphael Geissert wrote: >>> And so that all users that upgrade do not benefit from the goal of this >>> change? Even better. >> This is to avoid causing undesirable effects when upgrading. People have >> always been concerned abo

Bug#674904: ITP: libsiw -- user space library for SoftiWARP device

2012-05-28 Thread Luk Claes
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Luk Claes * Package name: libsiw Version : 0.9? Upstream Author : Bernard Metzler * URL : https://gitorious.org/softiwarp/userlib * License : GPL-2 or BSD Programming Lang: C Description : user space library for

Bug#674905: ITP: softiwarp-kernel -- Soft-iWARP kernel module implementing iWARP on top of tcp kernel sockets

2012-05-28 Thread Luk Claes
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Luk Claes * Package name: softiwarp-kernel Version : ?? Upstream Author : Bernard Metzler * URL : https://gitorious.org/softiwarp/kernel * License : GPL-2 or BSD Programming Lang: C Description : Soft-iWARP

Re: The future (or non-future) of ia32-libs

2012-06-22 Thread Luk Claes
On 06/22/2012 04:31 PM, Roger Leigh wrote: > On Fri, Jun 22, 2012 at 09:32:15PM +0800, Thomas Goirand wrote: >> On 06/22/2012 05:34 PM, Goswin von Brederlow wrote: >>> Step 1: upgrade/dist-upgrade with ia32-libs (wine, ...) held back >>> Step 2: dpkg --add-architecture i386 && apt-get update >>> St

Getting packages to testing

2012-06-24 Thread Luk Claes
Hi When you want the unstable version of your package in the release, it needs to be ready to migrate when it has aged enough in unstable. Reasons why it can not be ready: * RC bugs against the version in unstable that are not present in the version in testing (according to the BTS). If the RC b

Re: "Hijacking packages for fun and profit" BoF at DebConf

2012-07-21 Thread Luk Claes
> Other than all the above, I have read interesting ideas on objective criteria > in Steve McIntyre's report. Basically my point of this e-mail is that I > welcome a debate on changing the MIA and NMU procedures to introduce objective > criteria with short periods of time so that it becomes easie

Re: Modified http://wiki.debian.org/DebianDeveloper to mention non-packagers (Re: [CTTE #614907] Resolution of node/nodejs conflict)

2012-07-26 Thread Luk Claes
On 07/26/2012 03:29 PM, Ian Jackson wrote: > Developer, DD > As per the constitution; includes non-uploading DDs. > New Maintainer needs to be renamed to New Developer. > > [Non-]Uploading Developer > To distinguish where necessary, but usually we can use > Sponsor instea

Re: "unblock" vs "freeze exception" usertags [Was: Bits from the nippy Release Team]

2012-07-27 Thread Luk Claes
On 07/27/2012 11:08 PM, Adam D. Barratt wrote: > On Fri, 2012-07-27 at 15:42 -0400, Yaroslav Halchenko wrote: >> On Fri, 27 Jul 2012, Adam D. Barratt wrote: >>> bug - "reportbug release.debian.org" and selecting the "unblock" option >>> will set the correct usertags for you. >> >> what is the diffe

Re: Move all to /usr

2011-10-13 Thread Luk Claes
On 10/13/2011 05:12 PM, Steve McIntyre wrote: > Marco wrote: >> On Oct 13, Salvo Tomaselli wrote: >>> Some systems have quite a small /boot partition, I've had some problems >>> with a >> /boot partitions nowadays are mostly useless, unless e.g. you are doing >> something stupid like a RAID 5 ro

Re: Possible mass bug filling for package depending on "menu".

2011-11-01 Thread Luk Claes
On 11/01/2011 08:58 AM, Josselin Mouette wrote: > Le lundi 31 octobre 2011 à 13:10 +, Jonathan Wiltshire a écrit : >> On Sat, Oct 29, 2011 at 08:49:01PM +0200, Frank lin Piat wrote: >>> Specious "depends" relationship [AFAICT]: >>> backintime-gnome - GNOME front-end for backintime >>>

Re: Bug#645656: network-manager in Gnome

2011-11-01 Thread Luk Claes
On 11/01/2011 01:31 PM, Ian Jackson wrote: > Josselin Mouette writes ("Bug#645656: network-manager in Gnome"): >> Le lundi 31 octobre 2011 à 16:37 +, Ian Jackson a écrit : >>> I agree with the original submitter of this bug that network-manager >>> needs to be optional. In particular, gnome-c

Re: Possible mass bug filling for package depending on "menu".

2011-11-03 Thread Luk Claes
On 11/03/2011 07:20 AM, Christian PERRIER wrote: > Quoting Bill Allombert (bill.allomb...@math.u-bordeaux1.fr): > >>> What about moving the su-to-root binary to a different binary package ? >>> Bill what's your PoV about spliting it ? >> >> I am not very keen creating a new Debian package for a 3k

Re: Two groups of users, one distro in the middle

2011-11-16 Thread Luk Claes
On 11/16/2011 05:23 PM, Nick Leverton wrote: > On Wed, Nov 16, 2011 at 06:48:02PM +0800, Paul Wise wrote: >> >> There is no one way to deal with this, we should only deal with this >> on a case-by-case basis and use a number of strategies. ... > >> encourage our upstreams to rename and or work

Perl transition blockers: candidates for testing removal

2011-11-18 Thread Luk Claes
Hi The following packages block the perl transition and will become testing removal candidates soon unless the bugs get fixed: * ifeffit (#648839) * uwsgi (#640347) * libdbd-interbase-perl (#648857) * libcrypt-gcrypt-perl (#634598) * prima (#628500) * nginx (#649061) * libsignatures-perl (#636132

Re: Lintian ERROR saying dpatch is obsolete

2011-11-27 Thread Luk Claes
On 11/27/2011 06:22 PM, Margarita Manterola wrote: > Hey, Hi Marga > Recently [1], dpatch's maintainer uploaded a new version indicating > that dpatch is now deprecated. Following that, he filed a bug [2] so > that lintian might warn that dpatch's makefile has been deprecated > since 2003, and t

Re: zram Usage as Default in Debian (?)

2012-01-08 Thread Luk Claes
On 01/08/2012 04:22 AM, Paul Wise wrote: > On Sun, Jan 8, 2012 at 1:48 AM, Rainer Dorsch wrote: > >> I recently setup zram (for compressed swap space in RAM) on an older low RAM >> machine. I was quite happy with the result and started now to do the same >> setup also on my other machines. I am wo

Re: Candidates for removal from testing

2012-01-25 Thread Luk Claes
On 01/25/2012 01:24 PM, Niels Thykier wrote: > > We are considering removing the following packages from testing as > they have unfixed RC bugs filed against them. The packages can be > found in the attached dd-list (or at [0]). For anyone who is not online the list of 10 packages is: David A

Re: Candidates for removal from testing

2012-01-27 Thread Luk Claes
On 01/27/2012 12:54 PM, Niels Thykier wrote: > On 2012-01-26 02:45, Paul Wise wrote: >> On Thu, Jan 26, 2012 at 2:41 AM, Luk Claes wrote: >>> On 01/25/2012 01:24 PM, Niels Thykier wrote: >>>> >>>> We are considering removing the following packages from

Re: mass bug filing of 'ucf: command not found' errors detected by piuparts

2012-01-31 Thread Luk Claes
On 01/31/2012 08:01 PM, Michael Biebl wrote: > On 31.01.2012 18:14, Andreas Beckmann wrote: >> Hi, >> >> I'm planning to file bugs against all packages that currently >> fail the piuparts test with a 'ucf: command not found' error in >> wheezy and sid. Currently 22 binary packages from 16 source >

Re: debian-multimedia.org considered harmful

2012-03-11 Thread Luk Claes
On 03/11/2012 09:37 AM, Mike Hommey wrote: > On Sun, Mar 11, 2012 at 09:16:47AM +0100, Adam Borowski wrote: >> On Sun, Mar 11, 2012 at 03:53:18AM +, brian m. carlson wrote: >>> On Sun, Mar 11, 2012 at 01:39:13AM +0100, Adam Borowski wrote: On Sun, Mar 11, 2012 at 11:00:30AM +1100, Ben Finn

Re: Bug#619820: either bash or dash should be enough

2011-03-28 Thread Luk Claes
On 03/28/2011 12:05 PM, Holger Levsen wrote: > reassign 619820 dash,bash > block 619820 by 540512 > thanks > > On Sonntag, 27. März 2011, Jonathan Nieder wrote: >> # which packages are essential affects the entire distribution >> reassign 619820 general > > For the distro we have solved^wdecided

Re: Bits from the Release Team - Kicking off Wheezy

2011-03-30 Thread Luk Claes
also e-mail us to propose a new goal, including > a description of the goal and an indication of how progress on the issues may be tracked > (e.g. a pointer to a set of appropriate user-tagged bugs). # bootperformance Advocate: Petter Reinholdsen and Luk Claes State: confirmed Wiki: ht

Moving bash from essential/required to important?

2011-04-04 Thread Luk Claes
Hi bash is not the default system shell anymore. It's now only the default user shell. As such it is not required for a sysadmin to boot and install software. Besides that some users would like to get rid of bash in their environment which is obviously not easily done atm. The most obvious reason

Re: Moving bash from essential/required to important?

2011-04-04 Thread Luk Claes
On 04/04/2011 09:32 PM, Lars Wirzenius wrote: > On ma, 2011-04-04 at 19:43 +0100, Roger Leigh wrote: >> However, there have got to be hundreds of packages using bash >> without a dependency. Do we have any information on the >> affected packages (i.e. all those with a #!/bin/bash shebang in any >

Re: Moving bash from essential/required to important?

2011-04-04 Thread Luk Claes
On 04/04/2011 10:42 PM, Steve Langasek wrote: > On Mon, Apr 04, 2011 at 08:32:50PM +0100, Lars Wirzenius wrote: >> On ma, 2011-04-04 at 19:43 +0100, Roger Leigh wrote: >>> Regarding the root shell issue, I wouldn't have an issue with it >>> being /bin/sh. The admin is always free to chsh it to the

Shipping /bin/sh [Re: Moving bash from essential/required to important?]

2011-04-05 Thread Luk Claes
On 04/05/2011 11:05 PM, Jonathan Nieder wrote: > Carsten Hey wrote: >> * Steve Langasek [2011-04-04 19:37 -0700]: >>> On Tue, Apr 05, 2011 at 02:00:36AM +0200, Carsten Hey wrote: > * Find a sane solution for managing /bin/sh. Currently diversions are used, which looks like the wrong

Re: Shipping /bin/sh [Re: Moving bash from essential/required to important?]

2011-04-05 Thread Luk Claes
On 04/06/2011 01:55 AM, Carsten Hey wrote: > * Luk Claes [2011-04-05 23:11 +0200]: >> On 04/05/2011 11:05 PM, Jonathan Nieder wrote: >>> Carsten Hey wrote: >>>> * Steve Langasek [2011-04-04 19:37 -0700]: >>>>> On Tue, Apr 05, 2011 at 02:00:36AM +0200,

.la file status and hint to clear the dependency_libs field

2011-05-25 Thread Luk Claes
Hi Just to remember people that one can follow the status of the .la file dependency_libs clearing goal at Andreas' overview page [1]. A package entry followed by nothing more than a colon (:) means that the package ships an .la file with a cleared dependency_libs field. A package entry that cont

Re: .la file status and hint to clear the dependency_libs field

2011-05-26 Thread Luk Claes
On 05/26/2011 11:55 AM, Michael Biebl wrote: > Am 26.05.2011 10:46, schrieb Simon McVittie: >> On Thu, 26 May 2011 at 08:47:06 +0200, Luk Claes wrote: >>> Comments welcome, but foremost I'd like a mass effort to clear the >>> remaining dependency_libs fields! :-) &

Re: .la file status and hint to clear the dependency_libs field

2011-05-26 Thread Luk Claes
On 05/26/2011 06:04 PM, Peter Samuelson wrote: > > [Michael Biebl] >> Clearing the dependency_libs is always safe, afaics, so I'd rather say it is >> something like >> >> if depended-on >> clear dependency_libs >> else >> remove *.la files > > Seems like the following would work instead

Multiarch bootstrapping

2011-05-28 Thread Luk Claes
Hi Currently there are still some outstanding issues before we can really start using multiarch. You can find the status at the wiki page [1]. It seems that the main blocker at the moment is bug #618288 in apt. Please help to fix the outstanding bugs for the build tools (pmake, freebsd-buildutil

Re: Multiarch bootstrapping

2011-05-28 Thread Luk Claes
On 05/28/2011 03:52 PM, Matthias Klose wrote: > On 05/28/2011 02:48 PM, Luk Claes wrote: >> Currently there are still some outstanding issues before we can really >> start using multiarch. You can find the status at the wiki page [1]. > >> [1] http://wiki.debian.org

Re: Multiarch bootstrapping

2011-05-28 Thread Luk Claes
On 05/28/2011 03:32 PM, David Kalnischkies wrote: > On Sat, May 28, 2011 at 14:48, Luk Claes wrote: >> It seems that the main blocker at the moment is bug #618288 in apt. > > Fixed in branch for a while, just not yet uploaded. [0] > > But it can't be a blocker as dpk

Re: Multiarch bootstrapping

2011-05-29 Thread Luk Claes
On 05/29/2011 05:02 PM, Andreas Metzler wrote: > Luk Claes wrote: >> Currently there are still some outstanding issues before we can really >> start using multiarch. You can find the status at the wiki page [1]. > >> It seems that the main blocker at the mome

Re: Lintian auto-rejects

2011-05-29 Thread Luk Claes
On 05/29/2011 05:31 PM, Michael Meskes wrote: > I received an auto-reject because of a lintian error message that, as my > system > says, is correctly overridden. Could anyone please tell me which lintian > version we use to determine auto-rejection and also which lintian version > we're > suppos

Re: throw away debs and source only uploads

2011-06-06 Thread Luk Claes
On 06/06/2011 10:16 AM, Guillem Jover wrote: > Hi! > > On Sun, 2011-04-17 at 11:20:07 +0200, Stefano Zacchiroli wrote: >> On Wed, Mar 30, 2011 at 04:18:34PM +0200, Stefano Zacchiroli wrote: The main decision which needs to be made is whether, as a project, we want source only uploads or

Re: packages in sid depending on packages in experimental

2011-07-03 Thread Luk Claes
On 07/03/2011 02:50 PM, Ralf Treinen wrote: > Hi, Hi Ralf > is it an RC bug when a package in unstable depends on packages in > eperimental (that is, can only be installed in unstable+experimental > but not in unstable alone)? I always thought so, but when looking into > policy I only found menti

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