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Re: util-linux for sarge

2005-03-25 Thread Steve Langasek
Hi LaMont, On Wed, Mar 23, 2005 at 06:59:18PM -0700, LaMont Jones wrote: > Please consider util-linux 2.12p-4 for Sarge. Relevant changelog chunk > below. > Cons: > - it's a change Additional con: - depends on a newer version of e2fsprogs than we currently have in testing, which requires up

Re: kernel-image-2.6.8-ia64 ABI reversion

2005-03-25 Thread Steve Langasek
On Fri, Mar 25, 2005 at 08:45:40AM -0700, dann frazier wrote: > On Thu, 2005-03-24 at 19:37 -0800, Steve Langasek wrote: > > On Thu, Mar 24, 2005 at 06:22:32PM -0700, dann frazier wrote: > > > I'm trying to decide what I want to do about the ia64 kernel ABI. I > > > rev'd it from -2 (currently in

Re: kaffe in sarge

2005-03-25 Thread Ean Schuessler
I confirm this change. I asked Jeroen if he wanted to forward me a patch and I could do the maintainer change myself but he said he would prefer to NMU if I did not specifically protest. I trust that I have been added to "uploaders" properly. As you and I have discussed I will take a more activ

Re: ABI-changing kernel security fixes for sarge

2005-03-25 Thread Martin Zobel-Helas
Hi Martin, On Friday, 25 Mar 2005, Martin 'Joey' Schulze wrote: > Matthew Wilcox wrote: > > On Wed, Mar 23, 2005 at 04:09:42PM +0100, Frank Lichtenheld wrote: > > Absolutely. It's bound to happen again. We also need to figure out > > how to do driver updates during sarge's lifetime. I suspect v

Re: kernel security upgrades

2005-03-25 Thread Andreas Barth
* Martin Schulze ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [050325 17:50]: > Andreas Barth wrote: > > Ok, summarising this means for me: > > > > If we change the abi for d-i, than a lot of work at a lot of places > > needs to be done. Definitly possible, but not the thing we want to do > > for each security upgrade.

Re: kernel security upgrades

2005-03-25 Thread Martin Schulze
Andreas Barth wrote: > Ok, summarising this means for me: > > If we change the abi for d-i, than a lot of work at a lot of places > needs to be done. Definitly possible, but not the thing we want to do > for each security upgrade. On the other side, as long as we keep the > old kernel around, an

Re: kernel security upgrades

2005-03-25 Thread Andreas Barth
* Joey Hess ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [050325 17:05]: > Andreas Barth wrote: > > [What changes to d-i need to be done for a security upload?] > Besides building the udebs, if the abi changes we have to update rootskel, > base-installer, and the debian-installer build system. >> [...] > Not quite accura

Re: kernel security upgrades

2005-03-25 Thread Joey Hess
Andreas Barth wrote: > [What changes to d-i need to be done for a security upload?] Besides building the udebs, if the abi changes we have to update rootskel, base-installer, and the debian-installer build system. > The d-i changes are only finalized with the next point release - but well, > that

Re: kernel-image-2.6.8-ia64 ABI reversion

2005-03-25 Thread dann frazier
On Thu, 2005-03-24 at 19:37 -0800, Steve Langasek wrote: > On Thu, Mar 24, 2005 at 06:22:32PM -0700, dann frazier wrote: > > I'm trying to decide what I want to do about the ia64 kernel ABI. I > > rev'd it from -2 (currently in sarge) to -3 to turn off PREEMPT > > (prevents at least one user trigg

Re: [Urgency] How to make libchewing & scim-chewing into Sarge?

2005-03-25 Thread Steve Langasek
On Fri, Mar 25, 2005 at 12:41:28PM +0100, Enrico Zini wrote: > Dear Release Managers, > Andrew and Kanru are very active Taiwanese Debian people, and they're > working hard on making input methods work fine in Debian. > I'll quote the entire message to your attention; maybe you want to > coordina

Re: [Urgency] How to make libchewing & scim-chewing into Sarge?

2005-03-25 Thread Christian Perrier
> > Could you please give me some hits how to make libchewing and > > scim-chewing into Sarge as soon as possible? > > > > And we also hope we can put these two packages into tasksel instead of > > xcin(big5 only) input method. Don't forget to report the needed bug against tasksel for this to h

Re: [Urgency] How to make libchewing & scim-chewing into Sarge?

2005-03-25 Thread Enrico Zini
On Fri, Mar 25, 2005 at 03:57:06PM +0800, Andrew Lee wrote: Dear Release Managers, Andrew and Kanru are very active Taiwanese Debian people, and they're working hard on making input methods work fine in Debian. I'll quote the entire message to your attention; maybe you want to coordinate with th

Re: kaffe in sarge

2005-03-25 Thread Arnaud Vandyck
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Tue, 22 Mar 2005 14:05:51 -0800, Steve Langasek <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Tue, Mar 22, 2005 at 10:46:50PM +0100, Arnaud Vandyck wrote: >> Tue, 22 Mar 2005 13:00:21 -0800, >> Steve Langasek <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> > Arnaud, if ia64 an

Re: a kernel plan for sarge and beyond ... (Was Re: ABI-changing kernel security fixes for sarge)

2005-03-25 Thread Andreas Barth
* Steve Langasek ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [050325 02:05]: > On Thu, Mar 24, 2005 at 03:30:01PM -0500, Andres Salomon wrote: > > That is irritating, but less so than rebooting and discovering you need to > > run `module-assistant auto-install ` to compile a module for an ABI > > change (and if the machin

kernel security upgrades

2005-03-25 Thread Andreas Barth
Hi, this mail consists of two parts: First, I describe my understanding of how any kernel upgrade currently works. Please feel free to cluebat me if I got it wrong. After that, I list some ideas how we can minimize the amount of work for the security team once sarge is hard frozen, and the roun