Re: Please release 2.1r6

2000-04-21 Thread Raphael Hertzog
Le Thu, Apr 20, 2000 at 06:22:26PM +0200, Martin Schulze écrivait: > > What I don't understand is why this makes it impossible to generate > > CD's. Is debian-cd so fragile that it dies on an unmet dependency? > > Yes. No. Debian-cd copes quite well with it, it refuses to include packages with u

Re: Please release 2.1r6

2000-04-21 Thread Philip Charles
On Fri, 21 Apr 2000, J.A. Bezemer wrote: **cut > Which stresses an important point: the Debian distribution isn't anymore only > about FTP archives, but CDs are becoming increasingly important. This is taken > care for nicely with the potato test cycles, but as soon as `stable' things > are conce

Re: Please release 2.1r6

2000-04-21 Thread Anthony Towns
On Fri, Apr 21, 2000 at 02:14:43AM +0200, Wichert Akkerman wrote: > Previously Santiago Vila wrote: > > Well, apache-ssl's Depends line contains "perl | perl5" > We can argue if it is a bug; I wrote the code to verify that all > options can be fullfilled. [...] FWIW, http://auric.debian.org/~ajt/p

Re: Preparing for first test cycle

2000-04-21 Thread Ben Collins
> > Hi, > > If you use the "flavors" mechanism, the package will probably be named > kernel-foo-2.2.15-pre19_2.2.15-pre19-1. Might be better to take out the > dashes, and have it be kernel-foo-2.2.15pre19_2.2.15pre19-1. > Ew, that would make it even more complex for boot-floppies. I think Herbe

Re: Preparing for first test cycle

2000-04-21 Thread Jim Lynch
Hi. > Date:Thu, 20 Apr 2000 18:28:11 EDT > To: Herbert Xu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > cc: Wichert Akkerman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, > debian-release@lists.debian.org,[EMAIL PROTECTED] > From:Ben Collins <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Subject: Re: Preparing for first test cycle > > Uggh, can you m

Re: Please release 2.1r6

2000-04-21 Thread Wichert Akkerman
Previously Santiago Vila wrote: > Well, apache-ssl's Depends line contains "perl | perl5" > perl5 is provided by perl-5.005 which has "Priority: important", so > the dependency is actually satisfied, and apache-ssl does not depend on > an extra package. We can argue if it is a bug; I wrote the cod

Re: Preparing for first test cycle

2000-04-21 Thread Herbert Xu
On Fri, Apr 21, 2000 at 10:52:54AM +1000, Herbert Xu wrote: > > Upon reflection, I'll just change MINOR to 15 and be done with it. So > the arch-specific package will look like kernel-foo-2.2.15 2.2.15pre19-1, and > the arch-independent packages will be kernel-foo-2.2.15pre19 2.2.15pre19-1. s/ar

Re: Preparing for first test cycle

2000-04-21 Thread Herbert Xu
On Thu, Apr 20, 2000 at 08:26:58PM -0400, Ben Collins wrote: > > Well it uses the package name, like so: > > kernel-image- > > which for example on sparc matches > > kernel-image-2.2.14-sun4cdm Upon reflection, I'll just change MINOR to 15 and be done with it. So the arch-specific package wil

Re: Preparing for first test cycle

2000-04-21 Thread Ben Collins
On Fri, Apr 21, 2000 at 08:36:21AM +1000, Herbert Xu wrote: > On Thu, Apr 20, 2000 at 06:28:11PM -0400, Ben Collins wrote: > > > > Uggh, can you make it kernel-foo-2.2.15_2.2.15-pre19-1? This way in the > > boot-floppies we can actually change the version of the kernel it looks > > for to 2.2.15,

Re: Please release 2.1r6

2000-04-21 Thread Philip Charles
On Thu, 20 Apr 2000, Richard Braakman wrote: > On Thu, Apr 20, 2000 at 07:34:11AM -0700, Jim Westveer wrote: > > I understand that one does not want to update the stable tree > > without documenting the changes, but the current errors > > in 2.1r5 are procluding the creation of .iso's because of

Re: Please release 2.1r6

2000-04-21 Thread Philip Charles
On Thu, 20 Apr 2000, Jim Westveer wrote: > > Ok, how about making sure that there are no package dependancy > errors in the resulting update. (ie apt-get check?) > > The problem at the moment is that slink on ftp.d.o currently > has a dependancy error with the packages w3-el* because > emacs

Re: Preparing for first test cycle

2000-04-21 Thread Ben Collins
On Fri, Apr 21, 2000 at 10:17:08AM +1000, Herbert Xu wrote: > On Thu, Apr 20, 2000 at 08:05:22PM -0400, Ben Collins wrote: > > > > Not the package name, just the version. So it just says "2.2.14". There is > > one entry for each arch. > > Well if it's the version then there is no problem since I

Re: Preparing for first test cycle

2000-04-21 Thread Herbert Xu
On Thu, Apr 20, 2000 at 08:05:22PM -0400, Ben Collins wrote: > > Not the package name, just the version. So it just says "2.2.14". There is > one entry for each arch. Well if it's the version then there is no problem since I can set the version to 2.2.15 if needed, I just need the package name to