Status report?

2005-08-27 Thread Nathanael Nerode
er for any single subarchitecture -- and that's not nearly as bad as holding up every package on every single arch. Is there a problem which is not listed in the RC bugs? -- Nathanael Nerode <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [Insert famous quote here] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED

Bug#246689: Surely this is fixed now?

2005-08-11 Thread Nathanael Nerode
"PPC libc6 should be built with TLS and NPTL" We have new enough GCC now, and new glibc. Is this fixed in the current glibc version in unstable? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Bug#195360: 2-year-old unreproducible bug, can this be closed?

2005-08-11 Thread Nathanael Nerode
It doesn't seem to serve a useful purpose to leave it hanging around. Unless it's reproducible in which case it should lose the tag. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Bug#320240: ucontext.h bug also breaks libgc build

2005-08-07 Thread Nathanael Nerode
Ian Wienand wrote: > On Wed, Aug 03, 2005 at 09:58:32PM -0400, Nathanael Nerode wrote: > >>If glibc in unstable doesn't require significant fixes to build with gcc-4.0, >>it really would be a good idea to backport the fix for this bug and the >>rpc/xdr.h one. >

Bug#320240: ucontext.h bug also breaks libgc build

2005-08-03 Thread Nathanael Nerode
So, 496 more packages in the C++ transition waiting on glibc. If glibc in unstable doesn't require significant fixes to build with gcc-4.0, it really would be a good idea to backport the fix for this bug and the rpc/xdr.h one. If it does require significant fixes, perhaps you could suggest to the

Bug#320240: ucontext.h bug breaks apt

2005-08-03 Thread Nathanael Nerode
FYI, this bug breaks the apt build. It is going to stall at least 77 packages. -- A thousand reasons. http://www.thousandreasons.org/ Lies, theft, war, kidnapping, torture, rape, murder... Get me out of this fascist nightmare! -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "u

Bug#308792: Via C3 v1

2005-05-12 Thread Nathanael Nerode
IIRC, the C3 v1 is the infamous "686 without CMOV" (reporting as a 686 from the dynamic detection code, but not supporting most 686 libraries). Is it possible that this has anything to do with the problem, considering that things appear to work everywhere else?... Just a guess. -- To UNSUBS

Re: Bug#235759: Comentar on which replacement for German quotes

2004-04-04 Thread Nathanael Nerode
GOTO Masanori wrote: > At Mon, 29 Mar 2004 04:23:37 -0500, > Nathanael Nerode wrote: >> > as a German native speaker with some interest on typography but >> > virtually no knowledge on UTF-8 some comments: >> > >> > The common quotes in German today a

Re: Bug#235759: Comentar on which replacement for German quotes

2004-04-02 Thread Nathanael Nerode
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 GOTO Masanori wrote: | At Mon, 29 Mar 2004 04:23:37 -0500, | Nathanael Nerode wrote: | |>>as a German native speaker with some interest on typography but |>>virtually no knowledge on UTF-8 some comments: |>> |>>The common qu

Bug#231538: *sigh*

2004-04-01 Thread Nathanael Nerode
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 GOTO Masanori wrote: | At Tue, 30 Mar 2004 10:46:25 +0200, | Martin Schulze wrote: | |>I have another solution to propose: Provide an upgrade-for-real-i386 |>directory, including a README and kernel packages to install before |>upgrading to sarge. We'

Bug#231972: Has a decision been made on this?

2004-03-29 Thread Nathanael Nerode
Allowing 'long long' in asm/types.h even with __STRICT_ANSI__ may not be ideal, but it would work. I ask because this is the last RC bug against l-k-h. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Bug#235759: Comentar on which replacement for German quotes

2004-03-29 Thread Nathanael Nerode
Adrian Bunk wrote: > Hi, > > as a German native speaker with some interest on typography but > virtually no knowledge on UTF-8 some comments: > > The common quotes in German today are > double open quotes (low position) U201E > together with > double closed quote (high position) U201C > > T

Bug#239555: Sorry

2004-03-27 Thread Nathanael Nerode
>Nathanael Nerode, you wrote "How about the change I suggest >above?". I'm afraid but I missed it, and I am unable to find a >previous post from you at ><http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=239555> (Am I >getting blind?). No previous post.

Bug#239555: libc6-i686: misleading info in the package description, about "commercial software"

2004-03-24 Thread Nathanael Nerode
Mathieu Roy wrote: >>> > WARNING: Some commercial programs may not work well with these s/commercial programs/third-party binaries/ >>> > libraries. Most notably, IBM's JDK. If you experience problems >>> > with such applications, you will need to remove this package. >

Bug#239427: realpath() incorrectly described in /usr/include/stdlib.h

2004-03-23 Thread Nathanael Nerode
> The false sentence quoted above should be removed from stdlib.h. Actually, in the context of the mess with initscripts, it would probably be better if the documented behavior was implemented. In the meantime, stdlib.h should say: TO DO: Allow the last file name component to not exist, o

Re: Using SVN instead?

2004-03-23 Thread Nathanael Nerode
Jeff Bailey wrote: > I'd like to put forward the idea of moving the repo to svn (and > svn.debian.org). Talking with pere online, he wants to clean up the > locales mess in our patches directory, some of which involves renames. > > renames have bitten us a few times, and it would be nice to Stop

Bug#231538: *sigh*

2004-03-21 Thread Nathanael Nerode
is helps explain the problem, why it's 'critical', and why it has something to do with woody. - --Nathanael Nerode -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.2.4 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFAXfZ/RGZ0aC4lkIIRAqKDAJ4oCi5OgYuCMBec6EzEEFG9HT0IlQCfZ9dN djzO04onZMcHY9PcxSClXn4= =FXPU -END P

Bug#231538: *sigh*

2004-03-20 Thread Nathanael Nerode
Kernel 2.4.24 is *not* present in woody. It is in woody-proposed-updates. Please, someone, remember to convince Martin Schulze to accept it. :-) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Bug#230857: libc6: remove /etc/default/{devpts,tmpfs} etc

2004-03-19 Thread Nathanael Nerode
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Thomas Hood wrote: | Your patch shows the trouble you have to go to if you choose not | to Depend on the new initscripts. Is there some reason why the | new libc6 should _not_ Depend on the new initscripts? Indeed, after going to the trouble of constru

Bug#230857: patch for thought

2004-03-17 Thread Nathanael Nerode
This is an experimental patch (against CVS) which attempts to handle upgrading from any libc version whether or not initscripts has been updated. It's a little hackish, and it's probably not quite the right thing, and I'm not really up to testing it, but I hope it helps. :-) It does depend on upg

Bug#230857: Correction

2004-03-17 Thread Nathanael Nerode
The correct line is Depends: initscripts (>= 2.85.10) since that's the binary package which supplies /etc/initd/mountvirtfs -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Bug#230857: Careful with that shell scripting...

2004-03-17 Thread Nathanael Nerode
>This means that the plan to deal with the old devpts.sh >should be modified to take this into account. I suggest: > >* Depends: sysvinit (>= 2.85-10) >* No longer ship either devpts.sh or mountkernfs. > That means that both of these conffiles are abandoned. > Because dpkg does not dispose of ab

Bug#231538: Bug status report?

2004-03-12 Thread Nathanael Nerode
GOTO Masanori wrote: At Tue, 9 Mar 2004 05:30:34 -0500, Nathanael Nerode wrote: What progress has been made and what still needs to be done? Apparently current glibc now has the checking code in glibc to prevent it from being upgraded until *after* the kernel is upgraded (to 2.4.24 or 2.6.0

Bug#231538: Bug status report?

2004-03-09 Thread Nathanael Nerode
What progress has been made and what still needs to be done? Apparently current glibc now has the checking code in glibc to prevent it from being upgraded until *after* the kernel is upgraded (to 2.4.24 or 2.6.0). However, as Karolina Lindqvist wrote: > You can't install 2.4.24 on a i386 system,

Bug#225822: Before assigning this to l-k-h...

2004-02-10 Thread Nathanael Nerode
Before assigning this to l-k-h, you probably should have tried my suggestion of switching to the userland header in e2fslibs-dev, and if it failed, documented that. The l-k-h people are most likely going to bite your head off for using a linux/ header directly in userspace ;-)

Bug#225822: Before assigning this to l-k-h...

2004-02-10 Thread Nathanael Nerode
Before assigning this to l-k-h, you probably should have tried my suggestion of switching to the userland header in e2fslibs-dev, and if it failed, documented that. The l-k-h people are most likely going to bite your head off for using a linux/ header directly in userspace ;-) -- To UNSU

Bug#226540: linux-kernel-headers FTBFS on hppa

2004-01-07 Thread Nathanael Nerode
ld/buildd/linux-kernel-headers-2.5.999-test7-bk/debian/linux-kernel-headers/usr/include/asm/atomic.h:144: warning: implicit declaration of function `local_irq_restore' make[1]: *** [fs.o] Error 1 make[1]: Leaving directory `/build/buildd/linux-kernel-headers-2.5.999-test7-bk/testsuite&#x

Bug#226540: linux-kernel-headers FTBFS on hppa

2004-01-07 Thread Nathanael Nerode
ld/buildd/linux-kernel-headers-2.5.999-test7-bk/debian/linux-kernel-headers/usr/include/asm/atomic.h:144: warning: implicit declaration of function `local_irq_restore' make[1]: *** [fs.o] Error 1 make[1]: Leaving directory `/build/buildd/linux-kernel-headers-2.5.999-test7-bk/testsuite&#x

Bug#6798: Deals with rsh NIS support

2003-12-31 Thread Nathanael Nerode
Apparently a /etc/hosts.equiv containing the single line [EMAIL PROTECTED] "used to work fine" and is now "completely ignored". According to some old SunOS man pages ;-), this is supposed to allow rlogin/rsh/rcp/rcmd password-free access for all users from any hosts in the 'netgroup' list stored

Bug#6798: Deals with rsh NIS support

2003-12-31 Thread Nathanael Nerode
Apparently a /etc/hosts.equiv containing the single line [EMAIL PROTECTED] "used to work fine" and is now "completely ignored". According to some old SunOS man pages ;-), this is supposed to allow rlogin/rsh/rcp/rcmd password-free access for all users from any hosts in the 'netgroup' list sto

Bug#223891: the same bug...

2003-12-31 Thread Nathanael Nerode
appears to have broken the 'dmapi' build too.

Bug#223891: the same bug...

2003-12-31 Thread Nathanael Nerode
appears to have broken the 'dmapi' build too. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Bug#223891: Hits kdebase as well as kdeutils.

2003-12-30 Thread Nathanael Nerode
This is breaking the kdebase build as well, in essentially the same way.

Bug#223891: Hits kdebase as well as kdeutils.

2003-12-30 Thread Nathanael Nerode
This is breaking the kdebase build as well, in essentially the same way. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Bug#223441: Way to go for this bug?...

2003-12-30 Thread Nathanael Nerode
If it's setting the stack *limit* and glibc is complaining because the stack *size* isn't a multiple of the page size... Why doesn't glibc round all stack limit settings to the next lower multiple of the page size? Sounds straightforward and safe enough to me. Sort of kludgy, in some ways, I

Bug#223441: Way to go for this bug?...

2003-12-30 Thread Nathanael Nerode
If it's setting the stack *limit* and glibc is complaining because the stack *size* isn't a multiple of the page size... Why doesn't glibc round all stack limit settings to the next lower multiple of the page size? Sounds straightforward and safe enough to me. Sort of kludgy, in some ways, I

What's new linux-kernel-headers waiting for?

2003-12-09 Thread Nathanael Nerode
Looks to me like the buildds are back, so that excuse is gone. Can we expect a new linux-kernel-headers tomorrow, and if not, why not? -- Nathanael Nerode http://home.twcny.rr.com/nerode/neroden/fdl.html

What's new linux-kernel-headers waiting for?

2003-12-09 Thread Nathanael Nerode
Looks to me like the buildds are back, so that excuse is gone. Can we expect a new linux-kernel-headers tomorrow, and if not, why not? -- Nathanael Nerode http://home.twcny.rr.com/nerode/neroden/fdl.html -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe"

Bug#220232: spurious letter in patch

2003-11-20 Thread Nathanael Nerode
Don't ask me how that spurious 'f' got into the copy of my patch which I sent. It should be "#else", not "#elsef", of course.

Bug#220232: spurious letter in patch

2003-11-20 Thread Nathanael Nerode
Don't ask me how that spurious 'f' got into the copy of my patch which I sent. It should be "#else", not "#elsef", of course. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Bug#220232: Patch for videodev2.h time.h vs. linux/time.h problem.

2003-11-20 Thread Nathanael Nerode
Proposed patch for this issue, to go into debian/patches. Simpler approach than Goswin's: in all known cases, videodev2.h has been the problem. It appears to only need 'struct timeval'. 'struct timeval' is the same size and shape in linux/time.h and in time.h. So I just made videodev2.h incl

Bug#220232: Patch for videodev2.h time.h vs. linux/time.h problem.

2003-11-20 Thread Nathanael Nerode
Proposed patch for this issue, to go into debian/patches. Simpler approach than Goswin's: in all known cases, videodev2.h has been the problem. It appears to only need 'struct timeval'. 'struct timeval' is the same size and shape in linux/time.h and in time.h. So I just made videodev2.h incl

Re: Bug#220399: Glibc people please comment on correct fix

2003-11-16 Thread Nathanael Nerode
guenter geiger wrote: (I wrote:) Hmm. OK, this is the way it is. Linux kernel developers don't like most linux headers to be included directly from userspace. They want them to be "sanitized" first if used at all; the glibc sys/ headers often include carefully sanitized versions of the linux/ hea

Re: Bug#220399: Glibc people please comment on correct fix

2003-11-16 Thread Nathanael Nerode
guenter geiger wrote: (I wrote:) Hmm. OK, this is the way it is. Linux kernel developers don't like most linux headers to be included directly from userspace. They want them to be "sanitized" first if used at all; the glibc sys/ headers often include carefully sanitized versions of the linux/ he

Bug#218627: ...

2003-11-02 Thread Nathanael Nerode
No, the dependency is correct, and is in fact the vehicle to fix a lot of long-standing bugs. Don't include kernel headers from userspace. Also, read the FAQ. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Bug#203303: Status report on bug #203303 vs. experimental glibc?

2003-10-30 Thread Nathanael Nerode
So, in the new glibc in 'experimental', there's a separate glibc (non-stock) kernel-headers package. Has this bug been fixed in that version of glibc? Could someone please test, as this is important to kde? Thanks. --Nathanael -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of

Bug#181493: Release without RPC

2003-10-22 Thread Nathanael Nerode
Francesco P. Lovergine wrote: On Wed, Oct 22, 2003 at 02:10:01AM -0400, Nathanael Nerode wrote: Andreas Barth wrote: I do make this destinction. But the discussed question is not: Are we going to release sarge now, but without Sun RPC? And precisely why isn't that the discussed question? RPC

Bug#181493: Release without RPC

2003-10-22 Thread Nathanael Nerode
Francesco P. Lovergine wrote: On Wed, Oct 22, 2003 at 02:10:01AM -0400, Nathanael Nerode wrote: Andreas Barth wrote: I do make this destinction. But the discussed question is not: Are we going to release sarge now, but without Sun RPC? And precisely why isn't that the discussed question? R

Bug#181493: Release without RPC

2003-10-22 Thread Nathanael Nerode
Andreas Barth wrote: I do make this destinction. But the discussed question is not: Are we going to release sarge now, but without Sun RPC? And precisely why isn't that the discussed question? RPC is an old, tired protocol which should not generally be used. So release without it already. --Nath

Bug#181493: Release without RPC

2003-10-21 Thread Nathanael Nerode
Andreas Barth wrote: I do make this destinction. But the discussed question is not: Are we going to release sarge now, but without Sun RPC? And precisely why isn't that the discussed question? RPC is an old, tired protocol which should not generally be used. So release without it already. --Nat

Bug#205691: HPPA breakage and announcements.

2003-09-28 Thread Nathanael Nerode
Martin-Eric Racine wrote: >I still think that skiping a supported architecture, as well as the >ground rule >about syncing everything before allowing a package to slide down to >testing, is >a REALLY bad idea, especialy for something so fundamental as glibc. I don't think so. However, I think t

Bug#205691: HPPA breakage and announcements.

2003-09-28 Thread Nathanael Nerode
Martin-Eric Racine wrote: >I still think that skiping a supported architecture, as well as the >ground rule >about syncing everything before allowing a package to slide down to >testing, is >a REALLY bad idea, especialy for something so fundamental as glibc. I don't think so. However, I think t

Bug#184048: ...

2003-08-24 Thread Nathanael Nerode
>From the discussion, it sounds like the release-critical aspects of this bug are fixed, and the remaining aspects of the bug are not release-critical. Downgrade anyone? :-) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: glibc 2.3.2-2 goes unstable

2003-08-14 Thread Nathanael Nerode
they're preexisting, they probably shouldn't block new versions of glibc from going into testing, however. If you can convince the release manager to mark them 'sarge-ignore', that's probably the best thing to do. (That's what he did with the GFDL bugs against GCC.

Re: glibc 2.3.2-2 goes unstable

2003-08-14 Thread Nathanael Nerode
l remain 100% free software", under which Debian can contain an arbitrary amount of non-free non-software.) But to err on the side of caution, I'm not even including them in the majorities I mentioned above. If I did, it would be 'near unanimity' of opinion. You don&#

Re: libc6 posix version/breakage

2003-08-14 Thread Nathanael Nerode
er as well, though. :-P No reason for Debian to claim to support a version of POSIX which removes standard usages, and I suppose it's more honest to not claim to be compliant when you not only aren't, but don't want to be. :-P -- Nathanael Nerode http://home.twcny.rr.com/nerode

Re: glibc 2.3.2-2 goes unstable

2003-08-07 Thread Nathanael Nerode
they're preexisting, they probably shouldn't block new versions of glibc from going into testing, however. If you can convince the release manager to mark them 'sarge-ignore', that's probably the best thing to do. (That's what he did with the GFDL bugs against GCC.) -- Nathanael Nerode http://home.twcny.rr.com/nerode/neroden/fdl.html

Bug#181493: Status report? It's well after March.

2003-08-03 Thread Nathanael Nerode
Status report on this bug, perhaps? It's well after March.

Bug#181493: Status report? It's well after March.

2003-08-03 Thread Nathanael Nerode
Status report on this bug, perhaps? It's well after March. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

What's going on with glibc?

2003-08-02 Thread Nathanael Nerode
I'm a little confused. packages.qa.debian.org claims that 2.3.2-1 was accepted on 2003-07-18. And that it's out of date on sparc because it needs to be version 2.3.1-17. (?!) What's the status of glibc and what's the expected status in the near future?

What's going on with glibc?

2003-08-02 Thread Nathanael Nerode
I'm a little confused. packages.qa.debian.org claims that 2.3.2-1 was accepted on 2003-07-18. And that it's out of date on sparc because it needs to be version 2.3.1-17. (?!) What's the status of glibc and what's the expected status in the near future? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROT