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

2013-11-03 Thread Steve Langasek
ved in getting the porters access to porter boxes? Porter boxes exist so that DDs *not* involved in a port have access to a machine of the architecture and can keep their packages working. I've never heard of a porter who didn't have access to their own box

Re: DSO linking changes for wheezy

2010-11-16 Thread Steve Langasek
oving libglitz is more painful than it would be otherwise, because instead of just rebuilding cairo itself without glitz, you must rebuild everything above cairo in the stack that used pkg-config for linking. I don't argue that this makes --as-needed *correct* as a default

Re: Problems with Debian PowerPC

2009-12-17 Thread Steve Langasek
nput on the uninstallability of gnome in testing. -- Steve Langasek Give me a lever long enough and a Free OS Debian Developer to set it on, and I can move the world. Ubuntu Developerhttp://www.debian.org/ slanga...@ub

Re: Bug#404876: NMU for libvisual breaking gnome on non-altivec powerpc machines.

2007-03-06 Thread Steve Langasek
On Tue, Mar 06, 2007 at 08:36:19AM +0100, Loïc Minier wrote: > On Mon, Mar 05, 2007, Steve Langasek wrote: > > > With this workaround #404876 and #407153 can either be closed or > > > downgraded && > > > retitled to please enable/fix altivec detection. >

Re: Bug#404876: NMU for libvisual breaking gnome on non-altivec powerpc machines.

2007-03-05 Thread Steve Langasek
x altivec detection. Have you not closed these bugs in the changelog of your NMU? -- Steve Langasek Give me a lever long enough and a Free OS Debian Developer to set it on, and I can move the world. [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://ww

Re: Debian has failed us

2007-01-16 Thread Steve Langasek
in testing. To be precise, 2.6.18 is in testing -- but it's the *wrong* 2.6.18, which doesn't have the final ABI for etch, so any effort put into prepping this kernel for d-i would be wasted and have to be re-done following the next kernel upload to unstable. -- Steve Langasek

Re: Debian has failed us

2007-01-14 Thread Steve Langasek
ate because there hasn't *been* a d-i release candidate yet using the 2.6.18 kernel. Claiming that the installer team has wronged Debian's users by not releasing such an update, when we are still missing a releasable kernel, are beyond the pale. -- Steve Langasek

Re: Debian Installer - Etch Beta 3 release

2006-06-24 Thread Steve Langasek
lve the bug cited above. And binNMU scheduled. Thanks, -- Steve Langasek Give me a lever long enough and a Free OS Debian Developer to set it on, and I can move the world. [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.debian.org/ -- To UN

Re: Bug#365010: Xserver G5 usb keyboard not loaded ...

2006-04-28 Thread Steve Langasek
On Fri, Apr 28, 2006 at 12:40:48AM +0200, Sven Luther wrote: > On Thu, Apr 27, 2006 at 03:34:30PM -0700, Steve Langasek wrote: > > On Thu, Apr 27, 2006 at 10:46:24PM +0200, Sven Luther wrote: > > > The maintainer is held responsible (and frans and joeyh have not stepped >

Re: Bug#365010: Xserver G5 usb keyboard not loaded ...

2006-04-27 Thread Steve Langasek
rter doesn't spare the rest of the d-i team from having their time wasted by threads like this. -- Steve Langasek Give me a lever long enough and a Free OS Debian Developer to set it on, and I can move the world. [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [powerpc-floppies] Help Needed : root.img too big (1489688, should be 1474560).

2006-01-10 Thread Steve Langasek
Are other images building? I just fixed mklibs to cope with a change in readelf output on alpha; if this error isn't target-specific, there may be a similar change on powerpc that we need to cope with. If so, the output of readelf -s -D -W /lib/libslang.so.2 should be helpful here. -- Steve

Re: kernel-package hooks transition

2005-12-25 Thread Steve Langasek
ully restarting the frontend. STOP should only be used when you need to force-kill the frontend because of other processes that will otherwise leave dangling file descriptors open to it after your scripts exit. -- Steve Langasek Give me a lever long enough and a Free OS

Re: Bug#306254: axe: FTBFS: "Failed to satisfy Build-Depends dependency for axe: libxaw-dev"

2005-04-28 Thread Steve Langasek
* must meet all policy requirements presented in this manual that it is possible for them to meet. [1] [1] It is possible that there are policy requirements which the package is unable to meet, for example, if the source is unavailable. These situations will need to be handled on a ca

X on an iBook Radeom Mobility 7500 (sarge)?

2004-06-01 Thread Steve Langasek
(Kernel is 2.4.25-powerpc-pmac, X server is 4.3.0). Anyone have any insights/suggestions? Please cc: me on any replies, as I don't follow this list. Thanks, -- Steve Langasek postmodern programmer signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Please rebuild samba 2.0.7-4 for potato

2001-12-30 Thread Steve Langasek
four potato archs could rebuild the package as well. TIA, Steve Langasek postmodern programmer pgpl0ODu1d4Cc.pgp Description: PGP signature