Re: GNOME 2.8 on ia64 completely hosed?

2004-12-05 Thread Sven Luther
On Sun, Dec 05, 2004 at 02:03:13PM -0500, Adam C Powell IV wrote: > On Tue, 2004-11-30 at 21:17, Sven Luther wrote: > > On Tue, Nov 30, 2004 at 01:03:59PM -0700, Al Stone wrote: > > > Hmmm. 'apt-get upgrade' this morning seems to have fixed it > > > all -- s

Re: Question for candidate Towns [Was, Re: DPL election IRC Debate - Call for questions]

2005-03-09 Thread Sven Luther
On Tue, Mar 08, 2005 at 03:11:02PM -0800, Steve Langasek wrote: > On Tue, Mar 08, 2005 at 04:54:34PM +0100, Sven Luther wrote: > > On Tue, Mar 08, 2005 at 06:12:03AM -0800, Anthony Towns wrote: > > > Sven Luther wrote: > > > >>It's hard to take this sort of d

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

2005-03-14 Thread Sven Luther
architectures except the main 4" or something such soon. Friendly, Sven Luther -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

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

2005-03-14 Thread Sven Luther
c, and /debian-devel or something such. Is it really a physical problem fro ftp-master to held all these roles ? What is it exactly that ftp-masters want to drop all these arches for ? Mirrors could then chose to go with 1) only (most of them will), or also mirror 2) and/or 3). Friendly, Sven Luther -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

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

2005-03-14 Thread Sven Luther
delay will drop if we drop arches. I also remember that ia64 was one of the most problematic to autobuild the ocaml packages in august or so, and it was worse off than m68k, mips or arm if i remember well. Friendly, Sven Luther -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

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

2005-03-14 Thread Sven Luther
ebian.org automagically points to the right place and such, and should be transparent. But again, i feel that the announcement was one thing, but that it lacks much information about the reason which pushed the decision, and the individual technical problems to be overcome. Are the minutes of

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

2005-03-14 Thread Sven Luther
existing testing scripts > into something that will make reasonable package selections for you. So, why don't you do snapshoting for testing ? Do you not think handling all those thousands of packages manually without the automated testing thinhy would be not an over-burden for those guys ?

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

2005-03-14 Thread Sven Luther
ers and other third parties more difficult to focus. Friendly, Sven Luther -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

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

2005-03-14 Thread Sven Luther
le the fact that most of those told us recently on debian-vote that they believed that dropping an architecture will not help with the delay of the release ? And giving the times of the posts, they probably knew about this plan previously to replying that, especially those of the scud team. Pure demagogy then ? Friendly, Sven Luther -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

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

2005-03-14 Thread Sven Luther
n, popularity-contest installation per default was dropped for debian-installer rc3, so ... Friendly, Sven Luther -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: mplayer 1.0pre6a-4 for i386 and PowerPC and sparc

2005-03-14 Thread Sven Luther
ow working for ubuntu. Friendly, Sven Luther -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

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

2005-03-14 Thread Sven Luther
On Mon, Mar 14, 2005 at 02:12:48AM -0800, Thomas Bushnell BSG wrote: > Sven Luther <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > BTW, how much of the human intervention needed for buildd signing > > plays in the delays you see, and did you discuss the possibiliity of > > a

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

2005-03-14 Thread Sven Luther
truction set to start with). One could add per-subarch optimized builds and mirrors too though. Friendly, Sven Luther -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

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

2005-03-14 Thread Sven Luther
On Mon, Mar 14, 2005 at 11:26:07AM +0100, Andreas Barth wrote: > * Sven Luther ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [050314 11:20]: > > On Mon, Mar 14, 2005 at 10:39:24AM +0100, Robert Millan wrote: > > > On Sun, Mar 13, 2005 at 08:45:09PM -0800, Steve Langasek wrote: > > > > - the p

Re: mplayer 1.0pre6a-4 for i386 and PowerPC and sparc

2005-03-14 Thread Sven Luther
On Mon, Mar 14, 2005 at 11:26:27AM +0100, A Mennucc wrote: > On Mon, Mar 14, 2005 at 11:09:27AM +0100, Sven Luther wrote: > > On Mon, Mar 14, 2005 at 10:40:55AM +0100, A Mennucc wrote: > > > you may find source, i386 and powerpc and sparc binaries > > > of mplayer 1

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

2005-03-14 Thread Sven Luther
On Mon, Mar 14, 2005 at 11:28:08AM +0100, Andreas Schuldei wrote: > On Mon, Mar 14, 2005 at 11:05:16AM +0100, Sven Luther wrote: > > And how do you reconcile the fact that most of those told us recently on > > debian-vote that they believed that dropping an architecture will not he

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

2005-03-14 Thread Sven Luther
On Mon, Mar 14, 2005 at 11:38:57AM +0100, Andreas Barth wrote: > * Sven Luther ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [050314 11:35]: > > Well, but wouldn't reenabling the popularity-contest by default for sarge > > help > > a lot on that ? > > There was a technical reason why i

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

2005-03-14 Thread Sven Luther
ary step to put the load on those people who want to use the arch > instead of those who maintain central infrastructure. Like the arm autobuilders for example ? Mmm, but then the arm buildd maintainer is also our main ftp-master, right ? Friendly, Sven luther -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, em

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

2005-03-14 Thread Sven Luther
decision. > > I always thought those who do the work, also get to make the decisions. Not really, unless you want to fork the whole debian infrastructure that is. Friendly, Sven Luther -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

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

2005-03-14 Thread Sven Luther
On Mon, Mar 14, 2005 at 01:02:34PM +0100, David Schmitt wrote: > On Monday 14 March 2005 11:00, Sven Luther wrote: > > On Mon, Mar 14, 2005 at 01:14:47AM -0800, Steve Langasek wrote: > > > There are a few problems with trying to run testing for architectures > > > tha

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

2005-03-14 Thread Sven Luther
it to my page[2] > > I believe Sven was referring to the Linux Weekly News interview with the > DPL candidates. It can be found here: Yep, probably. I believe it should have been posted to debian-vote too though. Friendly, Sven Luther -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

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

2005-03-14 Thread Sven Luther
On Mon, Mar 14, 2005 at 06:23:50AM -0500, Joey Hess wrote: > Sven Luther wrote: > > Yes, it asked one question during the install, wasn't it ? One potentially > > confusing question to the poor user. > > That's almost as innacurate as your earlier statement that &

Re: Edge and multi-arch (was Re: Bits (Nybbles?) from the Vancouver release team meeting)

2005-03-14 Thread Sven Luther
ious to me. In particular, I see > no consensus among ftpmaster/archive people, release people, toolchain > people, porters, and basically everyone else that this is the way to Well, there is no clear consensus about what debian is and should be in the future among these people to st

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

2005-03-14 Thread Sven Luther
On Mon, Mar 14, 2005 at 12:36:45PM +0100, Roland Mas wrote: > Sven Luther, 2005-03-14 10:50:13 +0100 : > > > I don't see how having the in-devel arches be hosted on alioth > > instead on the official debian ftp server would cause a problem. > > The amd64 archive on

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

2005-03-14 Thread Sven Luther
ng hands is just plain > stupid. The user is the one who will suffer from that "decision". Notice that one of the main arch having problem some time back was arm, and the buildd where maintained by who ? elmo. Friendly, Sven Luther -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

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

2005-03-14 Thread Sven Luther
those architectures won't influence testing and they > won't be officially released. So, there are no stable release to be running and be sure you have no problems, and no testing to be sure some random developer who doesn't think past x86 break your upgrade on a random basis.

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

2005-03-14 Thread Sven Luther
On Mon, Mar 14, 2005 at 02:38:01PM +0100, Aurélien Jarno wrote: > Sven Luther a écrit : > > - Not having slower arches hold up testing. > Slower arches don't hold up testing. Arches with buildd not well managed do. Ok, drop this argument, but what do you think of the res

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

2005-03-14 Thread Sven Luther
On Mon, Mar 14, 2005 at 02:57:54PM +0100, Frank Küster wrote: > Sven Luther <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > They don't scale well, and have passed the past couple of year insisting > > that > > there is no problem apart from the waste majority of DDs likeing to

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

2005-03-14 Thread Sven Luther
On Mon, Mar 14, 2005 at 01:49:24PM +, Colin Watson wrote: > On Mon, Mar 14, 2005 at 11:11:55AM +0100, Sven Luther wrote: > > On Mon, Mar 14, 2005 at 02:12:48AM -0800, Thomas Bushnell BSG wrote: > > > Where human delay did come into play was in getting the xfree86 mess > &

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

2005-03-14 Thread Sven Luther
act I strongly suggest switching to source-only after Sarge is > released. seconded, and ubuntu has proven that it is possible. Friendly, Sven Luther -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

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

2005-03-14 Thread Sven Luther
lease architectures from scc.d.o, which is a > good thing ... That means that only x86 and amd64 are going to be tier one arches ? That is worse that what was even in the announcement, and i hope i misunderstood this. Friendly, Sven Luther -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] wi

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

2005-03-14 Thread Sven Luther
On Mon, Mar 14, 2005 at 04:44:27PM +0100, David Schmitt wrote: > On Monday 14 March 2005 14:29, Sven Luther wrote: > > Obviously the aim is to have the tier 2 > > arches dropped from the main ftp-servers of debian (do we still run some of > > those on sun-donated sparc ma

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

2005-03-14 Thread Sven Luther
On Mon, Mar 14, 2005 at 03:24:06PM +0100, Aurélien Jarno wrote: > Sven Luther a écrit : > >On Mon, Mar 14, 2005 at 02:38:01PM +0100, Aurélien Jarno wrote: > > > >>Sven Luther a écrit : > >> > >>>- Not having slower arches hold up testing. > >>

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

2005-03-14 Thread Sven Luther
r security ? Was this not why woody was delayed 3 month ? > The problems extend beyond the mirrors and the buildds. But which problems ? there has not been a concise description of said problems, nor of which of those will be solved with the drastic steps preconised. Friendly, Sven Luther

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

2005-03-14 Thread Sven Luther
r s390 or ... Friendly, Sven Luther -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

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

2005-03-14 Thread Sven Luther
On Mon, Mar 14, 2005 at 04:17:45PM +0100, Matthias Urlichs wrote: > Hi, Sven Luther wrote: > > > What about building the scc (or tier 2 as i would say) arches from testing > > and > > not unstable ? > > That would negate one of the main points of having Testing, i.

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

2005-03-14 Thread Sven Luther
simply cutting of the porter's effort like a dead limb, a more constructive approach should have been taken. Friendly, Sven Luther -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

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

2005-03-14 Thread Sven Luther
On Mon, Mar 14, 2005 at 03:56:34PM +, Scott James Remnant wrote: > On Mon, 2005-03-14 at 11:13 +0100, Sven Luther wrote: > > > On Mon, Mar 14, 2005 at 10:16:20AM +, Martin Michlmayr wrote: > > > * Aurélien Jarno <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2005-03-14 10:56]: > >

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

2005-03-14 Thread Sven Luther
itectures" should instead split off in their own little corner instead :), since i believe that one thing that defines debian is his multiple arch support wait a minute, we already have ubuntu who split of into his main-arch-support only corner :) Friendly, Sven Luther -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

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

2005-03-14 Thread Sven Luther
So, if there is too much work for a small group, then open it out. But it is not by insulting the people you need the help from that things will get forward. Friendly, Sven Luther -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

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

2005-03-14 Thread Sven Luther
> You seem top have an axe to grind here with somebody, friend, so why not > just name names and be done with it? Sniping from the back row never > helps anything. Go look at the mailing list archives, there where enough threads about this in the past few years. Friendly, Sven Luther -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

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

2005-03-14 Thread Sven Luther
es > demand a lot, but the burden has to go somewhere, and the people currently > carrying large portions of it are saying they can't do this any more. Notice too that the exact same people whose help is needed are those that are pissed by this proposal, and whose help has been repeteadly

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

2005-03-14 Thread Sven Luther
in a timely manner. Not, since sarge will now be delayed a couple of month as we all degenerate in intestine flamewar, and future debian will have lost his sould in this, so it will not really be debian, the universal OS, as we know it anymore. Friendly, Sven Luther -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMA

Re: COUNT(buildd) IN (2,3) (was: Re: Bits (Nybbles?) from the Vancouver release team meeting)

2005-03-14 Thread Sven Luther
ty response > time). Therefore the N<=2 requirement is only needed for tier-1 arches but > not for the tier-2 which will not officially release a stable. What is the detailed reasoning for this requirement anyway ? And would a ten-way redundant distcc cluster count as one machine ?

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

2005-03-14 Thread Sven Luther
e porters could do their own release if they wished. Maybe the porters could then also upload the packages they maintain only for their pet arch then ? Do you have an idea how many of our 900+ maintainers are from not-mainstream arches ? i bet it may well be around 10% in both maintainers and amount of packages concerned. Friendly, Sven Luther -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

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

2005-03-14 Thread Sven Luther
ined packages on behalf of porters? The amd64 crew seems to > be getting along ok w/out having their FTBFS bugs considered RC.. Because there is a big commercial interest in getting amd64 support, not counting ubuntu being based on debian and doing amd64 work. Not to mention that they employ many who vetoed amd64-in-sarge in that sad story all those days ago. Friendly, Sven Luther -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: ports.debian.org (Re: Bits (Nybbles?) from the Vancouver release team meeting)

2005-03-14 Thread Sven Luther
life? > Is "second class port" be a better name? (scp.d.o)? Or "non-releaseable > ports", nrp.d.o? I have proposed tier-1 ports for the main arches, tier-2 ports for the other ready ports but dropped from official support, and tier-3 ports for in-development ports. Friendly, Sven Luther -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

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

2005-03-14 Thread Sven Luther
ke the ubuntu kernel does, so this will be a moot point in the future, and the new kernel-team is rather fit and responsive, and welcoming of help. Friendly, Sven Luther -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

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

2005-03-14 Thread Sven Luther
supported, and not really considered as a technical solution. Friendly, Sven Luther -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: mplayer 1.0pre6a-4 for i386 and PowerPC and sparc

2005-03-14 Thread Sven Luther
On Mon, Mar 14, 2005 at 09:53:38AM -0800, Matt Zimmerman wrote: > On Mon, Mar 14, 2005 at 11:17:55AM +0100, Sven Luther wrote: > > > Like said, since ubuntu has mplayer, there is really no reason to stale it > > for > > debian now. > > I cannot speak for anyone

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

2005-03-14 Thread Sven Luther
On Mon, Mar 14, 2005 at 06:20:23PM +0100, Goswin von Brederlow wrote: > Sven Luther <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > I don't really understand that point though, since the plan is to drop > > mirror > > support for all minor arches, what does it cost to

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

2005-03-14 Thread Sven Luther
On Mon, Mar 14, 2005 at 06:43:21PM +0100, Goswin von Brederlow wrote: > Sven Luther <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > >> Where human delay did come into play was in getting the xfree86 mess > >> cleaned; in theory it should have taken one or two days, but in > &

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

2005-03-14 Thread Sven Luther
or network, yes, you may be right, but the proposal is to drop from stable/testing altogether, isn't it ? Friendly, Sven Luther -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Vision for the future (was: Re: COUNT(buildd) IN (2,3))

2005-03-14 Thread Sven Luther
d > eventually we will have timely Debian stable releases people can trust their > jobs on and Debian stable-with-security-updates-after-two-weeks releases for Which end done doing less because they have to duplicate all the architecture already in place for tier1, no ? Friendly, Sven Luther -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: COUNT(buildd) IN (2,3) (was: Re: Bits (Nybbles?) from the Vancouver release team meeting)

2005-03-14 Thread Sven Luther
On Mon, Mar 14, 2005 at 11:54:32AM -0500, Stephen Gran wrote: > This one time, at band camp, Sven Luther said: > > On Mon, Mar 14, 2005 at 05:03:30PM +0100, David Schmitt wrote: > > > > > > Thus the problem is less in the development and more in the support > &g

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

2005-03-14 Thread Sven Luther
On Mon, Mar 14, 2005 at 08:07:03PM +0100, Wouter Verhelst wrote: > Op ma, 14-03-2005 te 19:15 +0100, schreef Sven Luther: > > so the buildd admin really examine all the packages for deviation that a > > compromised buildd could have incorporated before signing them ? Or that > &

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

2005-03-14 Thread Sven Luther
On Mon, Mar 14, 2005 at 10:21:13PM +0100, Joerg Jaspert wrote: > Sven Luther wrote: > > >> In fact I strongly suggest switching to source-only after Sarge is > >> released. > >seconded, and ubuntu has proven that it is possible. > > "Ubuntu this, ubun

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

2005-03-14 Thread Sven Luther
On Mon, Mar 14, 2005 at 09:08:15PM +0100, Goswin von Brederlow wrote: > Sven Luther <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > On Mon, Mar 14, 2005 at 10:16:20AM +, Martin Michlmayr wrote: > >> * Aurélien Jarno <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2005-03-14 10:56]: > >> >

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

2005-03-14 Thread Sven Luther
On Mon, Mar 14, 2005 at 11:34:19AM -0500, Stephen Gran wrote: > This one time, at band camp, Sven Luther said: > > On Mon, Mar 14, 2005 at 09:27:25AM -0500, Stephen Gran wrote: > > > This one time, at band camp, Ingo Juergensmann said: > > > > On Mon, Mar 14, 20

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

2005-03-14 Thread Sven Luther
buters and had a hard time > releasing before Ubuntu existed. Oh, do you know when ubuntu started hiring debian devels ? I think it is at least one year ago, but they may have started earlier than that. Not saying that means anything, but i do believe that ubuntu already existed at the time wh

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

2005-03-14 Thread Sven Luther
On Mon, Mar 14, 2005 at 04:10:23PM -0300, Humberto Massa wrote: > Sven Luther wrote: > >>incremental building supported? And finally, why isn't it considered a > >>technical solution? > >> > >> > > > >Because it is not needed for the f

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

2005-03-14 Thread Sven Luther
es the "make clean" between builds. Therefore (c) you can't assume > that your fixed source will result in fixed binaries. This is a security > fix, so it's especially important that the binaries get fixed. BTW, what about ccache ? Friendly, Sven Luther -- To UNSU

Re: mplayer 1.0pre6a-4 for i386 and PowerPC and sparc

2005-03-14 Thread Sven Luther
On Mon, Mar 14, 2005 at 10:40:01AM -0800, Matt Zimmerman wrote: > On Mon, Mar 14, 2005 at 07:06:15PM +0100, Sven Luther wrote: > > > Yeah, ok, but mplayer was rejected, and is now in many-year-NEW-limbo, for > > licencing reasons, which i believe are the same for ubuntu

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

2005-03-14 Thread Sven Luther
On Mon, Mar 14, 2005 at 08:04:53PM +0100, Marc Haber wrote: > On Mon, 14 Mar 2005 19:11:01 +0100, Sven Luther > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >Well, it just calls for smarther mirroring tricks. > > Do not expect mirror admins to run Debian, and to be willing to pull > sm

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

2005-03-14 Thread Sven Luther
topics and maybe just say something about it > also:) > > Anyway, I take this opportunity to thank the involved people for their > time and work as well as their commitment to the project. Yep, but even on the d-i team, it seems the work of all those non-first-tier arches was

Re: Security Support and other reasoning (was: Re: Bits (Nybbles?) from the Vancouver release team meeting)

2005-03-14 Thread Sven Luther
On Tue, Mar 15, 2005 at 09:09:10AM +1100, Hamish Moffatt wrote: > On Mon, Mar 14, 2005 at 06:27:04PM +0100, David Schmitt wrote: > > On Monday 14 March 2005 14:06, Sven Luther wrote: > > > There was no comment from the security team about this new plan, we don't > >

Re: mplayer 1.0pre6a-4 for i386 and PowerPC and sparc

2005-03-14 Thread Sven Luther
On Mon, Mar 14, 2005 at 02:11:35PM -0800, Matt Zimmerman wrote: > On Mon, Mar 14, 2005 at 10:50:42PM +0100, Sven Luther wrote: > > > On Mon, Mar 14, 2005 at 10:40:01AM -0800, Matt Zimmerman wrote: > > > I don't know who rejected mplayer, so I can't answer

Re: Questions for the DPL candidates

2005-03-14 Thread Sven Luther
the security team for it ? The whole problem is that there is nothing constructive offered the dropped arches porters, just that they are left to work out their stuff alone. I wonder also, do we still not have some sun donated sparc box running part of our infrastructure ? How will that stay if we drop sparc support ? Friendly, Sven Luther -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Release sarge now, or discuss etch issues? (was: Bits (Nybbles?) from the Vancouver release team meeting)

2005-03-14 Thread Sven Luther
by one to two *years*. > The rest follows from that. And would a larger discussion at debconf'05 not have been more appropriate than handing done a couple of taken decision disguised as proposal ? It is not too late for this yet, but there needs to be a real discussion with real facts, and n

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

2005-03-14 Thread Sven Luther
On Mon, Mar 14, 2005 at 07:44:03PM -0300, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote: > On Mon, 14 Mar 2005, Sven Luther wrote: > > Yes, but the utherly arrogant and despreciating way in how this announcement > > Chill out. It was a RFC, and it was labelled as such. It may not be perfect,

Re: mplayer 1.0pre6a-4 for i386 and PowerPC and sparc

2005-03-14 Thread Sven Luther
On Mon, Mar 14, 2005 at 02:30:03PM -0800, Matt Zimmerman wrote: > On Mon, Mar 14, 2005 at 11:02:40PM +0100, Sven Luther wrote: > > > Ok, so why doesn't mplayer get's accepted in debian now ? > > I have no idea, nor is it my responsibility to know. I can only say t

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

2005-03-14 Thread Sven Luther
On Tue, Mar 15, 2005 at 12:45:14AM +0100, Wouter Verhelst wrote: > On Mon, Mar 14, 2005 at 10:20:00PM +0100, Sven Luther wrote: > > But you would notice all this just the same if the signing where automated, > > don't you ? > > Possibly; however, it wouldn't buy us

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

2005-03-14 Thread Sven Luther
d BTW, despite my repeated call for help, i have not yet found anybody with x86 experience to help me comaintain the parted package, as thus i propose we should drop x86 from tier-1 arches instead of letting it eat up our users data without warning :) Friendly, Sven Luther -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

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

2005-03-14 Thread Sven Luther
are a lot of security fixes in Debian > kernels that were brought to my attention by either Fabio or Martin. Because they are in the security-announce-loop and we are not though, right ? Friendly, Sven Luther -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

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

2005-03-14 Thread Sven Luther
On Mon, Mar 14, 2005 at 09:12:42PM -0300, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote: > On Tue, 15 Mar 2005, Sven Luther wrote: > > Where are the minutes of the discussion, where are detailed explanation of > > the > > problems trying to be sovled ? Where is a call to alternative

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

2005-03-14 Thread Sven Luther
On Tue, Mar 15, 2005 at 07:32:12AM +0100, Marc Haber wrote: > On Mon, 14 Mar 2005 22:51:40 +0100, Sven Luther > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >On Mon, Mar 14, 2005 at 08:04:53PM +0100, Marc Haber wrote: > >> On Mon, 14 Mar 2005 19:11:01 +0100, Sven Luther > >> &

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

2005-03-15 Thread Sven Luther
ly. The uploads still all go through > ftp-master.debian.org, which is where the release action happens. Ok, that clarifies the above, and is more in touch with what was previously planned. But why didn't you clearly state that in the announcement ? And will mirrors be able to dec

Re: Vancouver meeting - clarifications

2005-03-15 Thread Sven Luther
learly that this is a wanted thing. > I hope that this mail is able to shed some light onto these issues. Please > accept my apologies for the missing information in the first mail. Thanks for the clarifications, Friendly, Sven Luther -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Discussion about tier-2 testing and how to achieve a release of tier-2 arches after all. (Re: Bits (Nybbles?) from the Vancouver release team meeting)

2005-03-15 Thread Sven Luther
On Mon, Mar 14, 2005 at 11:23:48PM -0800, Steve Langasek wrote: > On Mon, Mar 14, 2005 at 10:32:57AM +0100, Sven Luther wrote: > > On Mon, Mar 14, 2005 at 12:23:12AM -0800, Steve Langasek wrote: > > > On Sun, Mar 13, 2005 at 11:21:29PM -0800, Thomas Bushnell BSG wrote: >

debian/kernel security issues (Was: Re: Bits (Nybbles?) from the Vancouver release team meeting)

2005-03-15 Thread Sven Luther
On Mon, Mar 14, 2005 at 04:51:55PM -0800, Matt Zimmerman wrote: > On Tue, Mar 15, 2005 at 01:14:30AM +0100, Sven Luther wrote: > > > On Mon, Mar 14, 2005 at 06:10:30PM -0500, Andres Salomon wrote: > > > Yes, I would like to reiterate that coordination between Martin Pitt, th

Re: debian/kernel security issues (Was: Re: Bits (Nybbles?) from the Vancouver release team meeting)

2005-03-15 Thread Sven Luther
On Tue, Mar 15, 2005 at 04:21:21AM -0500, Joey Hess wrote: > Sven Luther wrote: > > There is this vendor-specific-security-announce-with-embargo thingy. > > > > The debian kernel team mostly handles the unstable and testing kernel, is > > not > > in the loop fo

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

2005-03-15 Thread Sven Luther
On Tue, Mar 15, 2005 at 01:21:59AM -0800, Steve Langasek wrote: > On Mon, Mar 14, 2005 at 11:00:12AM +0100, Sven Luther wrote: > > > > There are a few problems with trying to run testing for architectures > > > that aren't being kept in sync. First, if they'r

Re: Building tier-2 against testing (was: Re: Bits (Nybbles?) from the Vancouver release team meeting)

2005-03-15 Thread Sven Luther
On Tue, Mar 15, 2005 at 11:18:54AM +0100, David Schmitt wrote: > On Tuesday 15 March 2005 10:41, Sven Luther wrote: > > Could you be more clear about this ? which issues are those ? > > Sven, Steve is referring to the first part of his mail, where he says that > building from

Re: Security support for tier-2 (was: Re: Bits (Nybbles?) from the Vancouver release team meeting)

2005-03-15 Thread Sven Luther
On Tue, Mar 15, 2005 at 12:22:34PM +0100, David Schmitt wrote: > On Monday 14 March 2005 17:18, Sven Luther wrote: > > On Mon, Mar 14, 2005 at 11:12:29AM -0500, David Nusinow wrote: > > > On Mon, Mar 14, 2005 at 09:54:49AM -0600, John Goerzen wrote: > > > > It i

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

2005-03-15 Thread Sven Luther
right now. Might > become a problem for etch, I agree. There is 2.6 work on m68k, just not all subarches are ready for it though. > m68k folks, is there anything in the works for 2.6 ? Yep, runs since a couple of month last time i was informed for that, at least on the amiga arch. Fri

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

2005-03-15 Thread Sven Luther
gt; public m68k machine. Notice that m68k doesn't actively participate in the kernel-team, and package their stuff in their own corner though, which may be the reason for this perceived problem. Friendly, Sven Luther -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: ports.debian.org (Re: Bits (Nybbles?) from the Vancouver release team meeting)

2005-03-15 Thread Sven Luther
On Tue, Mar 15, 2005 at 11:47:37AM +, Colin Watson wrote: > On Mon, Mar 14, 2005 at 05:38:30PM +0100, Sven Luther wrote: > > I have proposed tier-1 ports for the main arches, tier-2 ports for the other > > ready ports but dropped from official support, and tier-3 ports for >

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

2005-03-15 Thread Sven Luther
On Tue, Mar 15, 2005 at 01:41:01PM +0100, Ingo Juergensmann wrote: > On Tue, Mar 15, 2005 at 12:59:43PM +0100, Sven Luther wrote: > > > > With the new proposal of de facto dropping m68k support, I'm this -><- > > > close > > > to recommend to Roman

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

2005-03-15 Thread Sven Luther
URL in the announcement > above became a redirect to the more comprehensive site. I heard about it through slashdot the first time though :). Friendly, Sven Luther -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: debian/kernel security issues (Was: Re: Bits (Nybbles?) from the Vancouver release team meeting)

2005-03-15 Thread Sven Luther
On Tue, Mar 15, 2005 at 08:51:30AM -0800, Matt Zimmerman wrote: > On Tue, Mar 15, 2005 at 09:50:22AM +0100, Sven Luther wrote: > > > On Mon, Mar 14, 2005 at 04:51:55PM -0800, Matt Zimmerman wrote: > > > On Tue, Mar 15, 2005 at 01:14:30AM +0100, Sven Luther wrote: > >

Re: Bits from the CD team, 2005-03-16

2005-03-15 Thread Sven Luther
DVDs (i386-only planned) May i ask for powerpc DVD images too ? Friendly, Sven Luther -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

NEW handling ...

2005-03-16 Thread Sven Luther
cally processed. Friendly, Sven Luther -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

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

2005-03-16 Thread Sven Luther
elease, and probably make the source changeset over tier-1 stable bigger than necessary due to the fact that arch-specific fixes will only be fixed once tier-1 stable has been released. Friendly, Sven Luther -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Tr

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

2005-03-16 Thread Sven Luther
ctures. > > Nevertheless, it is a factor that contributes negatively to the > maintainability of a stable release... Well, we could drop mac/m68k supported subarch then ? For that matter, it would probably make sense to drop 2.4 kernels fully in the not so far future. Friendly, Sven L

Re: NEW handling ...

2005-03-16 Thread Sven Luther
On Wed, Mar 16, 2005 at 04:21:56AM -0500, Joey Hess wrote: > Sven Luther wrote: > > After reading the mention of it in debian-weekly-news, i read with interest > > : > > > > > > http://kitenet.net/~joey/blog/entry/random_idea_re_new_queue-2005-03-02-21-12.h

Re: Vancouver hierarchy - proposed terminology

2005-03-16 Thread Sven Luther
d to full release manager assistants or whatever later on, as they already have the right credential for it. Your proposal also ignores security team's requirement which may be orthogonal to the release team requirements, as their timeline is fully different (post-release vs pre-release).

Re: [Debian-ppc64-devel] Call For Help - Please support the ppc64 architecture

2005-03-17 Thread Sven Luther
so we can't really do kernel or installer tests), we don't have those ppc64 machine IBM mentioned could be made available, which makes work on the kernel and installer part at least less possible. Friendly, Sven Luther -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [Debian-ppc64-devel] Re: Bug#263743: Call For Help - Please support the ppc64 architecture

2005-03-17 Thread Sven Luther
rchitecture. > Having "ppc" and "ppc64" would be fine, as would having "powerpc" and > "powerpc64". Having "powerpc" and "ppc64" is inconsistent. Notice that powerpc used to be called ppc back then (98ish or something such), and that the name got changed to powerpc64. Friendly, Sven Luther -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [Debian-ppc64-devel] Re: Bug#263743: Call For Help - Please support the ppc64 architecture

2005-03-17 Thread Sven Luther
rent as pure dogma, despite the cost involved ? > Obviously I have no power to overrule you on your choice of architecture > name, but I'd like to try and appeal to some common sense in you, if > there is any. Hehe. Friendly, Sven Luther -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL P

Re: NEW handling ...

2005-03-17 Thread Sven Luther
On Thu, Mar 17, 2005 at 02:35:27AM +1100, Matthew Palmer wrote: > On Wed, Mar 16, 2005 at 03:29:28PM +0100, Sven Luther wrote: > > Ideally we would see forming a little NEW-reviewing comittee which would > > facilitate the job of the ftp-masters. This is also in accordance of the

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