Re: Some observations regardig the progress towards Debian 3.1

2003-11-27 Thread Goswin von Brederlow
Adrian Bunk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Thu, Nov 27, 2003 at 09:18:18AM +0100, Yann Dirson wrote: > > On Thu, Nov 27, 2003 at 08:59:54AM +0100, Goswin von Brederlow wrote: > > > Nothing stops me from using Version 1.2.3.4.5.6.7.8.9. > > > > It's sure that this system of numeration only works

Re: Status of mozilla packages for debian 3.1 release

2003-11-27 Thread Eric Valette
Eric Valette wrote: This shows that very basic feature are not working with debian provided mozilla packages whereas they *do work* with the official mozilla binary and are therefore either due to maintainer changes (the uncompressed diff is about 3Mb in size which is not reasonable I think!!!

Re: Some observations regardig the progress towards Debian 3.1

2003-11-27 Thread Yann Dirson
On Thu, Nov 27, 2003 at 08:59:54AM +0100, Goswin von Brederlow wrote: > Nothing stops me from using Version 1.2.3.4.5.6.7.8.9. It's sure that this system of numeration only works for non-native Debian packages. It's not clear at all how to distinguish a NMU or a binary NMU on a native Debian pack

Re: Some observations regardig the progress towards Debian 3.1

2003-11-27 Thread Yann Dirson
On Thu, Nov 27, 2003 at 12:44:57AM +0100, Goswin von Brederlow wrote: > - pre/postinst/rm scripts that worked from release to release fail on > the version jump in testing Nice catch. This even points to a flaw in the rule that only wants the upgrade to work fine from the latest stable, and fr

Re: Some observations regardig the progress towards Debian 3.1

2003-11-27 Thread Yann Dirson
On Thu, Nov 27, 2003 at 12:44:57AM +0100, Goswin von Brederlow wrote: > - Foo depends on Bar and new version of Foo entering testing breaks > Bar I guess you mean "new version of Bar breaks Foo" ? Regards, -- Yann Dirson<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> |Why make M$-Bill richer & richer ? Debian-rel

Re: Some observations regardig the progress towards Debian 3.1

2003-11-27 Thread Goswin von Brederlow
Yann Dirson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Sun, Nov 23, 2003 at 05:13:24PM +0100, Adrian Bunk wrote: > > Independent of your suggestions: > > It's never a good idea to use a version number namespace that is already > > occupied for something different. > > OK, good point. > > So maybe pre-tes

Re: Some observations regardig the progress towards Debian 3.1

2003-11-27 Thread Adrian Bunk
On Thu, Nov 27, 2003 at 09:18:18AM +0100, Yann Dirson wrote: > On Thu, Nov 27, 2003 at 08:59:54AM +0100, Goswin von Brederlow wrote: > > Nothing stops me from using Version 1.2.3.4.5.6.7.8.9. > > It's sure that this system of numeration only works for non-native > Debian packages. It's not clear

Re: Some observations regardig the progress towards Debian 3.1

2003-11-27 Thread Goswin von Brederlow
Yann Dirson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Fri, Nov 21, 2003 at 04:42:44PM -0800, Mike Fedyk wrote: > > Why does testing get out of a releasable state? > > o RC bugs are found after entering testing > > what else? > > - Maintainers sometime miss versionned deps > - Build-deps are ignored by t

Re: jack 0.75 mini-freeze

2003-11-27 Thread Adrian Bunk
On Tue, Nov 25, 2003 at 05:12:24PM -0500, Enrique Robledo Arnuncio wrote: >... > Meanwhile, since fftw3 seems to keep failing to build in some archs > due to test bench errors, I should probably rebuild freqtweak using > fftw2... Looking at the log of the failed ftw3 builds on arm and powerpc, the

Re: Some observations regardig the progress towards Debian 3.1

2003-11-27 Thread Yann Dirson
On Sat, Nov 22, 2003 at 02:32:38AM +0100, Adrian Bunk wrote: > On Fri, Nov 21, 2003 at 09:26:45AM +0100, Yann Dirson wrote: > >... > > > Binary NMU for unstable: > > > Version: 1.0-2.0.1 > > > > > > Your suggested pre-tesing package: > > > Version: 1.0-2.0.1 > > > > > > > > > IOW: > > > There ar

Re: jack 0.75 mini-freeze

2003-11-27 Thread Enrique Robledo Arnuncio
[Please CC: me, I am not subscribed to these lists.] On Tue, Nov 25, 2003 at 11:02:17AM +0100, guenter geiger wrote: > Do we agree on removing packages in order to get JACK into testing ? > As we have to discuss this with the affected maintainers, I'm CC'ing > this to Enrique, who is the maintaine

Re: Some observations regardig the progress towards Debian 3.1

2003-11-27 Thread Yann Dirson
On Sun, Nov 23, 2003 at 05:13:24PM +0100, Adrian Bunk wrote: > Independent of your suggestions: > It's never a good idea to use a version number namespace that is already > occupied for something different. OK, good point. If we were to use a different component of the Debian revision for pre-te

Re: release-reminder.txt draft

2003-11-27 Thread Steve Langasek
On Tue, Nov 25, 2003 at 10:13:47AM -0700, Andre Lehovich wrote: > > > 3. Tag the bug sarge-ignore: > > 3. Have the bug tagged sarge-ignore: > better would be: > 3. Ask the release team to tag the bug sarge-ignore: > Even if you beat the obvious over the head some still won't > ge