Re: Fwd: apt-get dist-upgrade will remove metapackages

2005-04-05 Thread Adeodato Simó
* Daniel Burrows [Tue, 05 Apr 2005 22:09:49 -0400]: [Explanation of how aptitude's smart "This pacakge was automatically installed" mechanism breaks badly with metapackages, when removing one of the dependencies triggers the removal of the metapackage, and then all the other dependencies g

Re: Fwd: apt-get dist-upgrade will remove metapackages

2005-04-05 Thread Daniel Burrows
On Tuesday 05 April 2005 06:22 pm, Frans Pop wrote: > Is the release team aware of this issue? > Will migration to testing of the new vim be blocked automatically until > this is solved? It's even more fun if you're using aptitude, because then you get this: (A) apt says "oh, kvim is broken.

Re: Fwd: apt-get dist-upgrade will remove metapackages

2005-04-05 Thread Frank Lichtenheld
On Wed, Apr 06, 2005 at 12:22:05AM +0200, Frans Pop wrote: > Is the release team aware of this issue? > Will migration to testing of the new vim be blocked automatically until > this is solved? Additional info: kvim is not in woody and I wasn't able to find any vim dependency of kde in woody at a

Re: Fwd: apt-get dist-upgrade will remove metapackages

2005-04-05 Thread Frank Lichtenheld
On Wed, Apr 06, 2005 at 12:22:05AM +0200, Frans Pop wrote: > Is the release team aware of this issue? > Will migration to testing of the new vim be blocked automatically until > this is solved? The question is: what is "the issue". kde is certainly installable (you will probably end up with vim-g

Fwd: apt-get dist-upgrade will remove metapackages

2005-04-05 Thread Frans Pop
Is the release team aware of this issue? Will migration to testing of the new vim be blocked automatically until this is solved? Cheers, FJP -- Forwarded Message -- Subject: apt-get dist-upgrade will remove metapackages Date: Tuesday 05 April 2005 23:25 From: "Peder Chr. Nørga

Re: Can dhcp3 go into testing?

2005-04-05 Thread Andrew Pollock
On Tue, Apr 05, 2005 at 05:16:30AM -0700, Steve Langasek wrote: > Hi Andrew, Hi Steve, > On Tue, Apr 05, 2005 at 09:52:59AM +1000, Andrew Pollock wrote: > > I know that dhcp3 is frozen to prevent udeb version skew because of d-i rc3, > > yadda yadda. > > > TTBOMK, the dhcp3-client udeb isn't ac

Re: proposed fix to allow security support for fai-kernels in sarge (#297811)

2005-04-05 Thread Martin Schulze
Steve Langasek wrote: > - Nothing in the source or binary package names matches the > kernel.*2\.(4\.27|6\.8) regexp that I've been using so far to identify the > kernel packages requiring attention > > I have no knowledge of how important the latter is to the security team; > they may not be both

Re: proposed fix to allow security support for fai-kernels in sarge (#297811)

2005-04-05 Thread Martin Schulze
Holger Levsen wrote: > Howto handle security fixes for fai-kernels > --- > > fai-kernels uses the kernel-source-2.4.27 and kernel-source-2.6.8 packages. > If these packages get updated with a security fix, fai-kernels needs to be > rebuild. > > The kernel

Re: proposed fix to allow security support for fai-kernels in sarge (#297811)

2005-04-05 Thread Steve Langasek
Hi Holger, On Tue, Apr 05, 2005 at 12:35:44PM +0200, Holger Levsen wrote: > to fix #297811, which is about adding the kernel abi version number to > fai-kernels (which is only build on i386 currently, powerpc is pending) to be > able to do security support for fai-kernels in sarge, I made the fo

Re: NSarge probably wants krb5 1.3.6-2

2005-04-05 Thread Steve Langasek
Hi Sam, On Mon, Apr 04, 2005 at 09:22:59AM -0400, Sam Hartman wrote: > Hi. I uploaded krb5 1.3.6-2 last night. It fixes DSA 703, ups the > priority to standard and does nothing else I'm aware of. I bet sarge > wants this version. Since it is standard, I assume I need to talk to > this list to

Re: Please tag this bug sarge-ignore

2005-04-05 Thread Steve Langasek
tags 302599 sarge-ignore thanks Hi Frank, On Tue, Apr 05, 2005 at 10:45:06AM +0200, Frank Küster wrote: > > There's one more small point, the license of the documentation. The info > > files currently don't permit modification, > Since there were similar problems all over the source and we talke

Re: Can dhcp3 go into testing?

2005-04-05 Thread Steve Langasek
Hi Andrew, On Tue, Apr 05, 2005 at 09:52:59AM +1000, Andrew Pollock wrote: > I know that dhcp3 is frozen to prevent udeb version skew because of d-i rc3, > yadda yadda. > TTBOMK, the dhcp3-client udeb isn't actually used by the installer at > present (it's certainly not present on a netinst ISO),

proposed fix to allow security support for fai-kernels in sarge (#297811)

2005-04-05 Thread Holger Levsen
Hi, to fix #297811, which is about adding the kernel abi version number to fai-kernels (which is only build on i386 currently, powerpc is pending) to be able to do security support for fai-kernels in sarge, I made the following changes and I would like to ask on the release managers and securit

Re: bswap,xadd and cmpxchg emulation on 386

2005-04-05 Thread Frank Lichtenheld
On Tue, Apr 05, 2005 at 11:34:50AM +0200, Peter 'p2' De Schrijver wrote: > I got from Andreas that not everyone was aware 486 stepping A CPUs are > affected as well. But 486 stepping A CPUs actually do have cmpxchg, but > with other opcodes if I get it correctly. So the emulation could be much > si

Re: bswap,xadd and cmpxchg emulation on 386

2005-04-05 Thread Peter 'p2' De Schrijver
On Mon, Apr 04, 2005 at 05:35:26PM -0700, Steve Langasek wrote: > On Mon, Apr 04, 2005 at 05:11:20PM +0200, Peter 'p2' De Schrijver wrote: > > http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.linux.kernel/205839 has the patch. Note > > that 486 stepping A processors have a wrong opcode for cmpxchg. This > > means emu

Virusinformation vom Maltanet Mailserver

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Please tag this bug sarge-ignore

2005-04-05 Thread Frank Küster
Dear release team, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Frank Küster) wrote: > There's one more small point, the license of the documentation. The info > files currently don't permit modification, Since there were similar problems all over the source and we talked about exactly that issue, this should be covered

Re: Can dhcp3 go into testing?

2005-04-05 Thread Bastian Blank
On Tue, Apr 05, 2005 at 09:52:59AM +1000, Andrew Pollock wrote: > TTBOMK, the dhcp3-client udeb isn't actually used by the installer at > present (it's certainly not present on a netinst ISO), so I'm wondering if > this can be relaxed at all? This have to be discussed with the debian-installer tea