Re: DD's, Debian Mentors needs you!

2024-07-07 Thread Niels Thykier
Soren Stoutner: After reading a number of comments to the email below, I thought I would provide a bit of context for this email and Phil’s excellent work on Mentors. Recently Phil has taken it upon himself to triage every package that requests sponsorship on mentors.debian.net. Here is an exam

Re: Produce extra build artifacts during package builds

2024-08-02 Thread Niels Thykier
Simon McVittie: On Fri, 02 Aug 2024 at 16:40:15 +0900, Mattia Rizzolo wrote: [...] * decide on a directory name (`./debian/export_artifacts/`?) * the build process will dump any files that could be interesting to export in there (no decision if/how to define the structure within t

Re: Produce extra build artifacts during package builds

2024-08-02 Thread Niels Thykier
Simon McVittie: On Fri, 02 Aug 2024 at 18:17:52 +0200, Niels Thykier wrote: Simon McVittie: In the design that I prototyped, it's declarative, loosely inspired by the equivalent Gitlab-CI feature: - the maintainer can write patterns into debian/build-artifacts for package-specific q

Machine readable contributor information (was: Re: Request for feedback on draft: DEP-18: Enable true open collaboration on all Debian packages)

2024-08-05 Thread Niels Thykier
Fabio Fantoni: Il 05/08/2024 03:14, Andrey Rakhmatullin ha scritto: [...] Thanks for reply, what I mean is precisely a standard field that points to a file, inside the package or even an url as already explained can be very useful in most cases) that contains all the useful information for c

Re: Removing more packages from unstable

2024-08-20 Thread Niels Thykier
Helmut Grohne: Hi fellow developers, (modified resend, as first attempt didn't arrive) please allow me to open a can of worms. Package removal from unstable. Deciding when it is time to remove a package from unstable is difficult. There may be users still and it is unclear whether keeping the p

Re: DEP5 and spdx shortname of license

2024-09-08 Thread Niels Thykier
Jonas Smedegaard: [...] DEP5 already encourages (but does not require) use of SPDX shortnames, except where Debian and SPDX disagree on sensible naming. See https://www.debian.org/doc/packaging-manuals/copyright-format/1.0/#spdx and the historical notes at https://wiki.debian.org/Proposals/Copy

Re: Automatic ITP closing.

2009-09-21 Thread Niels Thykier
Charles Plessy wrote: > Dear David, > > In 2005 you started an effort to close old WNPP bugs that do not get resolved: > http://lists.debian.org/msgid-search/1127503245.4308.5.ca...@cerdita > > Apparently, this was stopped in 2008. Can you confirm that it is intentional > or > did it just get un

Bug#551965: ITP: eclipse-rse -- Eclipse Remote System Explorer (RSE)

2009-10-21 Thread Niels Thykier
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Niels Thykier * Package name: eclipse-rse Version : 3.1 Upstream Author : DSDP TM Development Team * URL : http://www.eclipse.org/dsdp/tm/ * License : Eclipse Public License Version 1.0 ("EPL") Programming

Re: Team uploads.

2010-03-07 Thread Niels Thykier
Charles Plessy wrote: > Dear all, > > It was proposed in 2009 to formalise "Team uploads" in analogy to the "QA > uploads", as a special case of NMU, where most conventions are relaxed. > > http://lists.debian.org/e13a36b30904052052g73850787vcc8b2035640d7...@mail.gmail.com > > While there was in

Re: Team uploads.

2010-03-08 Thread Niels Thykier
Jan Hauke Rahm wrote: > Hi Charles, > > On Mon, Mar 08, 2010 at 10:40:47PM +0900, Charles Plessy wrote: >> Are there other persons interested? Shall I go ahead and submit a patch to >> Lintian and the Developers Reference (plus perhaps the Policy to include a >> footnote containing the special cha

Re: About new source formats for packages without patches

2010-03-31 Thread Niels Thykier
Josselin Mouette wrote: > Le mercredi 31 mars 2010 à 08:18 +0200, Raphael Hertzog a écrit : >>> I agree. dpkg-dev should not be depending on any VCS and it should not >>> promote any particular VCS either. I know that git is the new black (oh, >>> wait, that was something else), but I personally d

Re: About new source formats for packages without patches

2010-03-31 Thread Niels Thykier
Steve Langasek wrote: > On Thu, Mar 25, 2010 at 02:03:09PM +0100, Raphael Hertzog wrote: >>[...] >> In the general case, switching is a small effort for sure, but in the case >> pointed out by Neil (he won't convert packages with no patches because he >> doesn't see the benefit) the effort is almos

Bug#578421: virtual-packages: Retire java-compiler, java2-compiler and java-virtual-machine

2010-04-19 Thread Niels Thykier
Package: debian-policy Version: 3.8.4.0 Severity: wishlist Justification: Policy §3.6 X-Debbugs-CC: debian-devel@lists.debian.org -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi As of today[1], the Java Policy retired the use of the virtual packages mentioned in the subject line, which brings

Re: proper edit-build-install-test cycle with v3 source packages?

2010-04-22 Thread Niels Thykier
Timo Juhani Lindfors wrote: > If I hit a bug in a v1 source package I often do > > apt-get source foo > cd foo-* > DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS="noopt debug nostrip" dpkg-buildpackage -rfakeroot -us -uc > sudo debi ../foo*.changes > > and then run the program inside M-x gdb RET of emacs. If I want to > test

Re: bindv6only again

2010-05-08 Thread Niels Thykier
Marco d'Itri wrote: > On May 05, Vincent Danjean wrote: > >> the bugs in applications. I would find very strange if we release sqeeze >> with a broken sun's java (even if it is non-free) and no good replacement. > Me too, but I still hope that it could be fixed. > Maybe the maintainer could provi

Bug#581422: ITP: eclipse-mylyn -- Task support for Eclipse

2010-05-12 Thread Niels Thykier
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Niels Thykier Owner: Niels Thykier * Package name: eclipse-mylyn Version : 3.2.1 * URL : http://www.eclipse.org/mylyn * License : EPL v1.0 Programming Lang: Java Description : Task support for Eclipse Mylyn

Re: .deb package for a library generation

2010-08-08 Thread Niels Thykier
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 On 2010-08-08 15:45, Zvi Dubitzky wrote: > I need to generate a Debian package for a library > As an exercise I tried it with libvirt . > I am running a Ubuntu 8.10 . and use the libvirt.0.6.1 tar.gz > Hi, Thanks for your interest in Debian,

Re: debuild + xvfb-run + Eclipse

2010-09-27 Thread Niels Thykier
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 On 2010-09-27 20:40, Josh Kelley wrote: > I'm trying turn an Eclipse CDT (C/C++ Developer Tools) managed build project > into a Debian package and am having a lot of trouble. Since it's a managed > build project, I can't simply run make. Eclipse ca

Bug#600171: ITP: eclipse-jgit -- pure Java implementation of the GIT VCS

2010-10-14 Thread Niels Thykier
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Niels Thykier -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 * Package name: eclipse-jgit Version : 0.9.3 Upstream Author : Eclipse Development Team * URL : http://eclipse.org/jgit/ * License : BSD-like Programming

Re: binNMU for Arch: all packages.

2011-01-15 Thread Niels Thykier
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 On 2011-01-14 22:22, Yves-Alexis Perez wrote: > On ven., 2011-01-14 at 18:05 -0200, Marco Silva wrote: >> This documentation is generated automatically >> from the source code, using a documentation generator called haddock. >> Haddock >> is part o

Bug#612358: ITP: lpg-generator-java -- Java Runtime support for the LPG parser

2011-02-07 Thread Niels Thykier
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Niels Thykier -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 * Package name: lpg-generator-java Version : 2.0.20 Upstream Author : Philippe Charles * URL : http://lpg.sourceforge.net/ * License : EPL-1.0 Programming

Re: Best practice for cleaning autotools-generated files?

2011-03-16 Thread Niels Thykier
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 On 2011-03-15 23:55, Neil Williams wrote: > Using autotools with Debian native packages can be a real PITA and > source format 3.0 just gets it wrong mostly. Most other tools also get > it wrong, even svn-buildpackage. If I knew how to fix it reliabl

Re: libjpeg-turbo transition

2014-07-09 Thread Niels Thykier
On 2014-07-09 18:51, Mike Gabriel wrote: > Hi all, > > short notice from my side... (defacto / so far libjpeg-turbo package > maintainer)... > > I can start working on the libjpeg-turbo transition at the beginning of > August. First step is, I guess, providing libjpeg-turbo with libjpeg > compat

Re: New dash in experimental

2014-10-01 Thread Niels Thykier
On 2014-10-01 16:04, Gerrit Pape wrote: > Hi, I uploaded a new version of dash (0.5.8-1) to experimental, please > help testing it. If no critical issues arise, I plan to put this > version into unstable in about two weeks. > > Regards, Gerrit. > > Hi, Have you tried rebuilding the archive wi

Bug#765076: general: No way to have a clean chroot for building packages

2014-10-13 Thread Niels Thykier
On 2014-10-13 13:12, Santiago Vila wrote: > Package: general > > Before systemd arrived, it was possible to have a chroot free from > init packages (not needed to build packages). > > [...] > > In either case, the end result is that I'm forced to install init > packages in a chroot which is used

Re: Packages using old dpkg tools paths

2014-11-03 Thread Niels Thykier
On 2014-11-03 11:23, Guillem Jover wrote: > Hi! > > [...] > I'm planning on starting to file bug reports for the source packages > below (BCCed). I've not checked (yet) how severe the dpkg-statoverride > ones are, but if most of them do not get fixed, I might consider > reintroducing the compat sy

Re: Jessie Freeze -> What is the next release name? (jessie+1)

2014-11-08 Thread Niels Thykier
On 2014-11-08 18:06, Osamu Aoki wrote: > Hi, > > On Wed, Nov 05, 2014 at 11:56:49PM +, Jonathan Wiltshire wrote: >> The release team is pleased to announce that Debian 8.0 "Jessie" is frozen. >> Further updates to this release will be restricted to bug fixes only. > ... > > I thought usually

Re: debootstrap loading both libept1 AND libept1.4.12, .. and fails!

2012-04-17 Thread Niels Thykier
On 2012-04-18 08:06, Mike Gabriel wrote: > Package: libept1.4.12 > Version: 1.0.6.1 > Severity: Important > > Hi Oliver, hi Enrico, hi all, > Hi, I am closing this bug #669203 as not a bug, because ... > On Di 17 Apr 2012 17:29:53 CEST olivier sallou wrote: > > [...] > > libept1 depends on l

Candidates for removal from testing

2012-05-13 Thread Niels Thykier
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 Hi, 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. The bugs that put them on this list can be found in the removals.txt file (also

Re: udeb and data.tar.xz files?

2012-05-14 Thread Niels Thykier
On 2012-05-14 21:16, Theodore Ts'o wrote: > I'm very confused about what the status is regarding udeb and > data.tar.xz. Are they allowed or not? It seems at the moment that > dh_builddeb is creating them by default, and lintian is complaining that > this is an error. > > I've done a search thro

Re: udeb and data.tar.xz files?

2012-05-14 Thread Niels Thykier
On 2012-05-14 22:01, Ted Ts'o wrote: > On Mon, May 14, 2012 at 09:51:43PM +0200, Niels Thykier wrote: >> >> Lintian is outdated (#664600) and the fix has been commited to the git >> repository[1] > > I saw a bug report requesting that packages that failed the l

Re: tech-ctte help needed: main dependencies on non-free/contrib

2012-07-17 Thread Niels Thykier
On 2012-07-17 19:35, Russ Allbery wrote: > Hello all, > > [...] > > It would also be quite interesting, although much harder to determine, > whether there are any scenarios where such a dependency would result in a > non-free package being installed by default. If, for example, there's a > depen

Re: Some doubts about patching

2012-07-28 Thread Niels Thykier
On 2012-07-28 11:41, Jose Antonio wrote: > Hi all, > > I've been checking the website of "Release-critical bugs status" at > http://bugs.debian.org/release-critical/debian/all.html. And I have several > questions: > > * I have installed Wheezy but not Sid nor Squeeze: Can I filter the bugs to > f

Re: packages with E: md5sum-mismatch in the archive

2012-09-20 Thread Niels Thykier
On 2012-09-20 18:52, Andreas Beckmann wrote: > On 2012-09-18 09:30, Andreas Beckmann wrote: >> Just to give a short impression what we can find here: > >> guile-1.6-dev_1.6.8-10.1 >> /usr/lib/libguile-ltdl.la >> /usr/lib/libguile.la >> /usr/lib/libguile-srfi-srfi-13-14-v-1.la >> /usr/lib/l

Re: packages with E: md5sum-mismatch in the archive

2012-09-23 Thread Niels Thykier
On 2012-09-20 21:03, Niels Thykier wrote: > On 2012-09-20 18:52, Andreas Beckmann wrote: >> On 2012-09-18 09:30, Andreas Beckmann wrote: >>> Just to give a short impression what we can find here: >> >>> guile-1.6-dev_1.6.8-10.1 >>> /usr/lib/libguile-ltd

Candidates for removal from testing (2013-06-04)

2013-06-04 Thread Niels Thykier
Hi, Our automated tools for finding RC buggy leaf packages in testing have found 79 potential candidates (see attached files). The packages have been selected based on the following criteria: * The package had at least one RC bug without activity for the past 14 days. * If a bug is assigned

Re: How should we do for font-adobe-copyrighted-fragment error?

2013-06-10 Thread Niels Thykier
On 2013-06-10 09:29, Atsuhito Kohda wrote: > On Fri, 7 Jun 2013 17:07:09 +0200, Bastien ROUCARIES wrote: > >> Le 7 juin 2013 09:28, "Atsuhito Kohda" a >> écrit : >>> >>> Yes, but it looks to me there is not practical information. >> >> Did you see the wiki? > > Sorry for late reply. > If you mea

Re: Mass bug filing for shared library broken symlinks detected by piuparts

2013-06-30 Thread Niels Thykier
On 2013-06-30 17:30, Dave Steele wrote: > [...] Thanks for working on improving Debian. > Debian Orbital Alignment Team > eclipse-platform-data : eclipse > > /usr/lib/eclipse/plugins/org.apache.ant_1.8.3.v20120321-1730/lib/ant-apache-resolver.jar Looks like a false positive for thi

Candidates for removal from testing (2013-06-30)

2013-06-30 Thread Niels Thykier
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 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. The packages have been selected based on the following criteria: - The package ha

Re: Candidates for removal from testing (2013-06-30)

2013-07-01 Thread Niels Thykier
On 2013-07-01 09:05, Mathieu Malaterre wrote: > On Sun, Jun 30, 2013 at 11:32 PM, Niels Thykier wrote: >> #678383 [pixelmed]: pixelmed: FTBFS with Java7 (uses internal Java API) > > Would it be possible to filter out (in the future?) any bugs that are > marked as pending ? I

Re: Candidates for removal from testing (2013-06-30)

2013-07-01 Thread Niels Thykier
On 2013-07-01 08:21, Lucas Nussbaum wrote: > Hi, > > Thanks a lot for this work. > > On 30/06/13 at 23:32 +0200, Niels Thykier wrote: >> We are considering removing the following packages from testing as >> they have unfixed RC bugs filed against them. The pack

Re: Candidates for removal from testing (2013-06-30) [Results]

2013-07-07 Thread Niels Thykier
I have just activated 77 removal hints - attached is a dd-list of the packages with a removal hint now. The list was filtered by rechecking the severity and whether the bug still affected sid by using UDD (with a hanful of them was manually checked as well). Should your package still be listed de

Re: Candidates for removal from testing (2013-06-30) [Results]

2013-07-07 Thread Niels Thykier
On 2013-07-08 01:34, Andreas Tille wrote: > Hi, > > On Mon, Jul 08, 2013 at 01:10:51AM +0200, Niels Thykier wrote: >> >> Andreas Tille >>camitk (U) > > A fixed version is since two days in >http://ftp-master.debian.org/new.html > > >

Re: UTF-8 in jessie

2013-08-12 Thread Niels Thykier
On 2013-08-12 04:18, Charles Plessy wrote: > Le Mon, Aug 12, 2013 at 02:51:52AM +0200, Adam Borowski a écrit : >> >> I would like to propose full UTF-8 support. I don't mean here full >> support for all of Unicode's finer points, merely complete eradication of >> mojibake. > > Hi Adam, > Hi, >

Re: Introducing dgit - git integration with the Debian archive

2013-08-23 Thread Niels Thykier
On 2013-08-23 19:17, Ian Jackson wrote: > Ian Jackson writes ("Re: Introducing dgit - git integration with the Debian > archive"): > ... >> If I have understood you, dgit won't work properly if you make the >> "wrong" kind of change, so I need to either have this fixed, or (more >> likely) to work

Roll call for porters of architectures in sid and testing

2013-09-01 Thread Niels Thykier
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 Hi, As we announced in [LAST-BITS], we would like to get a better idea of that status of the ports, to make an informed decision about which port can be released with jessie. One of the steps is to get an overview of which of the porters are (still

Re: Less dinstall FTW?

2013-09-06 Thread Niels Thykier
On 2013-09-06 15:02, Helmut Grohne wrote: > Thanks for your explanations! > > On Thu, Aug 29, 2013 at 02:39:09PM +0200, Ansgar Burchardt wrote: >> As this suite is much smaller than the full archive, updating it can be >> done with much less overhead and is done with every cron.unchecked >> run. P

Re: detecting autopkgtest

2013-09-16 Thread Niels Thykier
On 2013-09-16 10:38, Enrico Tassi wrote: > Hello, is checking for the environment variable ADTTMP the recommended > way to test if a test is being run by adt-run? It seems to work, but > I'd like to know if there is a better way or not. > > I've many packages with a decent "test" target already,

Re: Roll call for porters of architectures in sid and testing (Status update)

2013-09-19 Thread Niels Thykier
On 2013-09-01 09:33, Niels Thykier wrote: > Hi, > > As we announced in [LAST-BITS], we would like to get a better idea of > that status of the ports, to make an informed decision about which > port can be released with jessie. One of the steps is to get an > overview of which

Re: Upcoming changes in Tcl/Tk packaging

2013-09-25 Thread Niels Thykier
On 2013-09-25 11:38, Cyril Brulebois wrote: >> > 3. Renaming tcl-dev and tk-dev into libtcl-dev and libtk-dev. Since >> > too many packages have versioned build-dependencies on tcl-dev or >> > tk-dev, I chose to retain tcl-dev and tk-dev packages (as >> > meta-packages which depend on libtcl-dev an

Re: Bits from the Release

2013-09-25 Thread Niels Thykier
On 2013-09-03 13:49, Stefano Zacchiroli wrote: > On Sun, Aug 25, 2013 at 05:09:22PM +0200, Niels Thykier wrote: >> How you can help (NEW-TEST-HELP) >> >> >> Add tests to your packages. The full specification for these >> tests

Re: Automatic removal of packages from testing

2013-09-30 Thread Niels Thykier
On 2013-09-30 17:33, Tshepang Lekhonkhobe wrote: > On Mon, Sep 30, 2013 at 5:13 PM, Joey Hess wrote: >> Niels Thykier wrote: >>> [KEY-PACKAGES] >>> http://udd.debian.org/cgi-bin/key_packages.yaml.cgi >> >> If you're curious, as I was, how this list is

Re: automake transition breakages

2013-09-30 Thread Niels Thykier
On 2013-09-30 20:38, Eric Dorland wrote: > * Russ Allbery (r...@debian.org) wrote: >> Cyril Brulebois writes: >>> Julian Taylor (2013-09-30): >> At minimum the packages using Werror should be test rebuilt before each new upload: http://codesearch.debian.net/search?q=AM_INIT_AUTOMAK

Results of the porter roll call (Was: Roll call for porters of architectures in sid and testing)

2013-10-02 Thread Niels Thykier
Hi, The final results are in: Summary table: Arch || DDs || NMs/DMs || Other || Total ---++-++-++---++-- armel || 3 || 0 || 1 ||4 armhf || 3 || 1 || 2 ||6 hurd-i386 || 5 || 0 || 3 ||8

First autoremovals happen in about 8 days

2013-10-06 Thread Niels Thykier
Hi, This is a friendly reminder. If you are listed below, then the listed packages of yours will be automatically removed from testing within 15 days. The "first batch" of automatic removals will happen in about 8 days. Please remember that "fixing" your RC bug(s) can sometimes be as simple as

Re: First autoremovals happen in about 8 days

2013-10-06 Thread Niels Thykier
On 2013-10-06 13:09, Steven Chamberlain wrote: > Hi, > > On 06/10/13 08:52, Niels Thykier wrote: >>kfreebsd-8: bugs 720470,717959,720476, flagged for removal in 14.7 days > > Not sure why that's appearing in this list because: > 1. the package was removed from te

Re: First autoremovals happen in about 8 days

2013-10-09 Thread Niels Thykier
On 2013-10-08 00:04, Bill Allombert wrote: > [...] > > So while it is possible that the _maintainer_ is not needing a friendly > remainder, other interested third-party might. > > Cheers, > Bill. > > Hi, I, genuinely, hope that these removals-warnings will make people fix bugs pro-actively ra

Re: Bits from the Release Team (Jessie freeze info)

2013-10-13 Thread Niels Thykier
On 2013-10-13 19:24, Thomas Goirand wrote: > Hi Niels, > Hi, > First of all, thanks a lot for planning this well in advance. Much > appreciated. This changes a lot compared to what happened in NYC! :) > You are welcome, :) > On 10/13/2013 11:01 PM, Niels Thykier wrote: >

Re: Bits from the Release Team (Jessie freeze info)

2013-10-13 Thread Niels Thykier
On 2013-10-13 19:41, Bernd Zeimetz wrote: > Hi, > >> We are happy to announce that we will freeze Jessie at 23:59 UTC on the 5th >> of November 2014. > > thanks for annoucing that early and for your work! > You are welcome. :) >> [...] * Proactive automated removals 3 months into the freeze.

Re: Bits from the Release Team (Jessie freeze info)

2013-10-13 Thread Niels Thykier
On 2013-10-13 17:01, Niels Thykier wrote: > > Freeze date and Freeze Policy for Jessie > > > We are happy to announce that we will freeze Jessie at 23:59 UTC on > the 5th of November 2014. > > To avoid any confusion around exactl

Re: First autoremovals happen in about 8 days

2013-10-15 Thread Niels Thykier
On 2013-10-15 15:35, Andreas Tille wrote: > Hi Niels, > > [sorry for the late reply I was on vac] > Hi, No worries. > On Sun, Oct 06, 2013 at 09:52:17AM +0200, Niels Thykier wrote: >> >> Andreas Tille >>gdpc: bugs 713652, flagged for removal in 8

Re: Bits from the Release Team (Jessie freeze info)

2013-10-21 Thread Niels Thykier
On 2013-10-19 16:38, Jeremiah C. Foster wrote: > Hello, > > On Sun, Oct 13, 2013 at 05:01:31PM +0200, Niels Thykier wrote: > > [snip freeze policy] > Hi, I s/-arm/-ports/'ed the CC, since I figured the rest of the porters would find the answer equally interesting. &g

Re: Bits from the Release Team (Jessie freeze info)

2013-10-29 Thread Niels Thykier
On 2013-10-29 16:05, Ian Jackson wrote: > Niels Thykier writes ("Bits from the Release Team (Jessie freeze info)"): >> Results of porter roll-call >> === > ... >> Summary table: >> Arch

Re: [Question] lin-guider: block ITP 727532 by RFS 727618

2013-10-29 Thread Niels Thykier
On 2013-10-30 07:19, James Lukash wrote: > Hello all. I received a message about my ITP bug: > === >> block 727532 by 727618 > Bug #727532 [wnpp] ITP: lin-guider -- Astronomical autoguiding program > 727532 was not blocked by any bugs. > 727532 was not blocking any bugs. > Added blocking bug(s) of

Potential issues for most ports (Was: Re: Bits from the Release Team (Jessie freeze info))

2013-11-03 Thread Niels Thykier
On 2013-10-29 17:48, Ian Jackson wrote: > Niels Thykier writes ("Re: Bits from the Release Team (Jessie freeze info)"): >> [...] >> As mentioned we are debating whether the "5 DDs" requirement still makes >> sense. Would you say that we should abolish the

Re: Potential issues for most ports

2013-11-03 Thread Niels Thykier
On 2013-11-03 15:49, Thorsten Glaser wrote: > Niels Thykier dixit: > >> [...] >> Until we have a clear definition of "actively maintained ports", I would >> recommend porters to err on the side of being verbose over being silent. > > I’ve held off on the

Re: Potential issues for most ports

2013-11-03 Thread Niels Thykier
On 2013-11-03 16:54, Niels Thykier wrote: > On 2013-11-03 15:49, Thorsten Glaser wrote: >> > Niels Thykier dixit: >> > >>> >> [...] >>> >> Until we have a clear definition of "actively maintained ports", I would >>> >

Re: Potential issues for most ports (Was: Re: Bits from the Release Team (Jessie freeze info))

2013-11-04 Thread Niels Thykier
On 2013-11-03 16:03, Steven Chamberlain wrote: > On 03/11/13 10:54, Niels Thykier wrote: >> Come to think of it; maybe we should have a BTS page for each of the >> ports (e.g. a pseudo package in the BTS). > > We've had this on kfreebsd, due it to having been

Re: Potential issues for most ports (Was: Re: Bits from the Release Team (Jessie freeze info))

2013-11-04 Thread Niels Thykier
On 2013-11-03 23:04, Steve Langasek wrote: > On Sun, Nov 03, 2013 at 11:54:34AM +0100, Niels Thykier wrote: >> [...] > >> I suppose a "sponsor-only" DD could be sufficient, provided that the >> sponsor knows the porters well enough to be willing to sign off on

Re: release goal proposal: enable hardening build flags

2011-10-19 Thread Niels Thykier
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 On 2011-09-14 00:38, Kees Cook wrote: > Hi, > > I would like to propose a release goal of enabling hardening build flags[1] > for all C/C++ packages in the archive[2]. For Wheezy, specific sub-goals are > being chosen. > > The default flags are alm

Re: Debian unstable/expirental missing some bnx2 firmwares

2011-10-30 Thread Niels Thykier
On 2011-10-30 10:26, Sébastien Riccio wrote: > Hi, > > I don't know much where to write about this, but i'll try here. Sorry if > it's the wrong place! > > I updated a squeeze box to unstable/experimental in order to try out the > xapi (project kronos) port on Debian, but got into this on my test

Orphaning lprfax

2011-11-05 Thread Niels Thykier
severity 645793 normal reassign 645793 wnpp retitle 645793 O: lprfax - Utility to allow printing to a fax modem thanks Hi, I am orphaning lprfax[1] on behalf of Camm Maguire (see #645793). Due to its RC bugs and its very low popcon I intend to request the removal of this package in about 14 day

Release goal proposal: Archive-wide build-arch and build-indep support

2011-11-05 Thread Niels Thykier
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 Hi, I would like to propose the goal of getting archive-wide support for the optional debian/rules targets "build-arch" and "build-indep". The intention is to finally solve issues like #619284 and the goal is related to #629385. According to Linti

Re: Release goal proposal: Archive-wide build-arch and build-indep support

2011-11-06 Thread Niels Thykier
On 2011-11-05 21:22, Niels Thykier wrote: > > Hi, > > I would like to propose the goal of getting archive-wide support for > the optional debian/rules targets "build-arch" and "build-indep". > The intention is to finally solve issues like #61928

Orphaning mlview

2011-11-07 Thread Niels Thykier
reassign 555034 wnpp retitle 555034 O: mlview - xml editor for GNOME environment thanks Hi, I am hereby orphaning mlview[1] on behalf of Sebastian Bacher. As it is RC buggy and has a very low popcon, I intend to RM within 14 days unless someone picks it up. ~Niels [1] Package: mlview Version

Re: Release goal proposal: Archive-wide build-arch and build-indep support

2011-11-16 Thread Niels Thykier
On 2011-11-16 11:14, Goswin von Brederlow wrote: > Niels Thykier writes: > >> On 2011-11-05 21:22, Niels Thykier wrote: >>> >>> Hi, >>> >>> I would like to propose the goal of getting archive-wide support for >>> the optional debian/rules

Orphaning emile

2011-12-08 Thread Niels Thykier
reassign 648933 wnpp retitle 648933 O: emile -- the Early Mac Image LoadEr severity 648933 normal thanks I am here by orphaning emile on behalf of the maintainers. The description of emile is: """ the Early Mac Image LoadEr EMILE provides a way to natively boot Macintosh computers which normal

Orphaning genesis -- general-purpose neural simulator

2011-12-08 Thread Niels Thykier
reassign 648645 wnpp retitle 648645 O: genesis -- general-purpose neural simulator severity 648645 normal thanks I am hereby orphaning genesis on behalf of its maintainer. The description of genesis is: """ general-purpose neural simulator GENESIS is a general purpose simulation platform which

Candidates for removal from testing

2012-01-25 Thread Niels Thykier
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 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]). The packages have been selected based on the following criteria: - The

Re: Candidates for removal from testing

2012-01-27 Thread Niels Thykier
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 testing as >>> they have unfixed RC bugs filed against the

Re: Use of the first person in messages from the computer

2012-02-09 Thread Niels Thykier
On 2012-02-09 13:20, Ian Jackson wrote: > I have just received a review by a l10n team of a package of mine. > > The reviewer seems to be under the impression that there is something > wrong with the computer speaking to the user in the first person. For > example: > >> [...] I suspect devref 6

Re: Multiarch file overlap summary and proposal

2012-02-14 Thread Niels Thykier
On 2012-02-14 07:43, Russ Allbery wrote: > [...] > > * Lintian should recognize arch-qualified override files, and multiarch: > same packages must arch-qualify their override files. debhelper > assistance is desired for this. > > [...] I have no problem with Lintian accepting arch-qualified

Re: Comments+blank line in debian/control: Clarification in policy or MBF?

2012-10-03 Thread Niels Thykier
On 2012-10-03 11:01, Michael Tautschnig wrote: > [...] > > But then either all build infrastructure (and also lintian) don't use > debian/control, or all these tools tolerate that blank line (with the > exception > of pbuilder). > > Best, > Michael > Lintian's parser ignores empty lines before

Re: Comments+blank line in debian/control: Clarification in policy or MBF?

2012-10-03 Thread Niels Thykier
On 2012-10-03 12:02, Michael Tautschnig wrote: >> On 2012-10-03 11:01, Michael Tautschnig wrote: >>> [...] >>> >>> But then either all build infrastructure (and also lintian) don't use >>> debian/control, or all these tools tolerate that blank line (with the >>> exception >>> of pbuilder). >>> >>>

Candidates for removal from testing

2012-10-18 Thread Niels Thykier
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 Hi, 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. The bugs that put them on this list can be found in the removals file (also at

Re: Candidates for removal from testing

2012-10-19 Thread Niels Thykier
On 2012-10-19 17:43, Wouter Verhelst wrote: > On Thu, Oct 18, 2012 at 10:32:39AM +0200, 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

Re: Candidates for removal from testing (results)

2012-10-26 Thread Niels Thykier
On 2012-10-18 10:32, Niels Thykier wrote: > > Hi, > > [...] > > If the relevant RC bugs in the affected packages are not dealt with > /before/ Friday the 26th of Oct., the packages will be removed from > testing. Note that "dealt with" may also include downgr

Candidates for removal from testing (2012-10-30)

2012-10-30 Thread Niels Thykier
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 Hi, 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. The bugs that put them on this list can be found in the removals file (also atta

Re: Candidates for removal from testing (results)

2012-10-30 Thread Niels Thykier
On 2012-10-28 18:47, Stefano Zacchiroli wrote: > On Fri, Oct 26, 2012 at 12:37:38PM +0200, Niels Thykier wrote: >> ax25-apps, fabric, firmware-crystalhd, icewm-themes, ilisp, inguma, >> lustre, mingw-ocaml, noflushd, openvas-plugins-dfsg, php-crypt-gpg, >> phpgacl, python-

Re: Candidates for removal from testing (results)

2012-11-07 Thread Niels Thykier
On 2012-10-30 14:32, Niels Thykier wrote: > Hi, > > [...] > > If the relevant RC bugs in the affected packages are not dealt with > /before/ Wednesday the 7th of Nov.[1], the packages will be removed > from testing. Note that "dealt with" may also include downgradi

Candidates for removal from testing (2012-11-14)

2012-11-14 Thread Niels Thykier
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 Hi, 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. The bugs that put them on this list can be found in the removals file (also atta

Re: Candidates for removal from testing (2012-11-14)

2012-11-15 Thread Niels Thykier
On 2012-11-15 00:15, Emmanuel Bouthenot wrote: > Hi, > > On Wed, Nov 14, 2012 at 10:02:10PM +0100, Niels Thykier wrote: > [...] > >> Should you need a bit more time than given, please do not hesitate to >> contact us. It is also easier for us if we can avoid having

Re: Candidates for removal from testing (results)

2012-11-20 Thread Niels Thykier
On 2012-11-14 22:02, Niels Thykier wrote: > Hi, > > We are considering removing the following packages from testing as > they have unfixed RC bugs filed against them. [...] > ferm, apt-2p2 and mediawiki-math has been fixed in sid and by the looks of it all of them are al

Candidates for removal from testing (2012-11-30)

2012-11-30 Thread Niels Thykier
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 Hi, 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. The bugs that put them on this list can be found in the removals file (also atta

Re: Candidates for removal from testing (results)

2012-12-08 Thread Niels Thykier
On 2012-11-30 12:55, Niels Thykier wrote: > [...] > While slightly overdue; the results were 0 removals! \o/ > > --8<-- removals.txt --8<-- > # #668740/#668740 > remove dsc-statistics/201203250530-1 > Downgraded. > # #692623 > remove fossil/1:1.22.1-1 >

Re: Multiple source package entries in Sources file

2012-12-18 Thread Niels Thykier
On 2012-12-18 16:01, Simon Kainz wrote: > So whats the point in having multiple versions of the same source package? > I'm really interested in the background if this issue. > > Thanks in advance! > > Regards, > > Simon Besides build failures (as suggested by Roland and Stuart), there is also

Candidates for removal from testing (2013-01-24)

2013-01-24 Thread Niels Thykier
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 Hi, 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. The bugs that put them on this list can be found in the removals file (also atta

Re: Candidates for removal from testing results)

2013-01-31 Thread Niels Thykier
On 2013-01-24 15:47, Niels Thykier wrote: > [...] > # #697402 > remove bzr-gtk/0.103.0+bzr792-3 > Reassigned to python and downgraded. > # #694642 > remove glpi/0.83.31-1 > Fixed in sid and downgraded. > # #696816 > remove jenkins/1.447.2+dfsg-2 > Fixed

Re: openjdk maintenance for wheezy and squeeze

2013-02-18 Thread Niels Thykier
On 2013-02-18 13:08, Steven Chamberlain wrote: > [...] >> OpenJDK6 therefore should be considered obsolete when Wheezy is released. > > I wouldn't use the word 'obsolete' so long as there are packages that > *can* use it... I'd call it 'maintenance only'. > > > Before deciding the post-wheezy f

Re: Bug#688772: [CTTE #688772] Dependency of meta-gnome on network-manager

2013-02-27 Thread Niels Thykier
On 2013-02-27 13:39, Michael Biebl wrote: > On 27.02.2013 00:50, Chris Knadle wrote: >> When this was brought up in the bug report, the response was >> "network-manager >> can be installed, then disabled", but how to do that wasn't documented >> anywhere in the network-manager package. Instead

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