Re: GNUstep and FHS

2005-07-26 Thread Hubert Chan
On Tue, 26 Jul 2005 22:23:10 +0200, Eric Heintzmann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > I co-maintain the GNUstep Core packages for more than 2 years, and I > spend a lot of time to find a solution to these problems by moving > files accordingly to FHS, and by symlinking some directories. After > several

Re: [Debian GNUstep maintainers] GNUstep and FHS

2005-07-26 Thread Yavor Doganov
* Eric Heintzmann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Since there is no other maintainer to try to make these packages FHS > compliant, should GNUstep be removed from Debian ? Speaking on behalf of the tiny Bulgarian GNUstep community I would like to ask you (and RMs as well) not to remove GNUstep from

GNUstep and FHS

2005-07-26 Thread Eric Heintzmann
Hi, Actually, there are in Debian (sarge, etch, sid) more than 50 packages that are parts of the GNUstep Environment. But there is a big issue with all of them: none are FHS compliant. The development of GNUstep started a long time before the birth of the File Hierarchy Standard, and since they i

Re: Coordinating upload of teTeX-3.0 to unstable

2005-07-26 Thread Frank Küster
Kurt Roeckx <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Tue, Jul 26, 2005 at 11:45:18AM +0200, Frank Küster wrote: >> >> The number of packages build-depending on tetex (directly or indirectly >> via a build-dep on some conversion tool like debiandoc-sgml) is really >> big, and we will not be able to check t

Re: Coordinating upload of teTeX-3.0 to unstable

2005-07-26 Thread Kurt Roeckx
On Tue, Jul 26, 2005 at 11:45:18AM +0200, Frank Küster wrote: > > The number of packages build-depending on tetex (directly or indirectly > via a build-dep on some conversion tool like debiandoc-sgml) is really > big, and we will not be able to check this all by hand. Doing just build tests for a

Re: Coordinating upload of teTeX-3.0 to unstable

2005-07-26 Thread Graham Wilson
On Tue, Jul 26, 2005 at 10:14:15AM +0200, Frank K?ster wrote: > a) libkpathsea: It has a new soname, and I have not checked at all >whether this causes problems in compiling other packages. I do not >expect, however, big problems with that because of two reasons: First >of all, only a

Re: Coordinating upload of teTeX-3.0 to unstable

2005-07-26 Thread Frank Küster
Andreas Barth <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > * Frank Küster ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [050726 14:45]: >> Matthias Klose <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> >> > please make sure, that tetex-bin builds on all architectures. > >> Does all also mean amd64 now? If yes, is there a machine I can access >> to te

Re: Coordinating upload of teTeX-3.0 to unstable

2005-07-26 Thread Andreas Barth
* Frank Küster ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [050726 15:04]: > Andreas Barth <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > * Frank Küster ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [050726 14:45]: > >> Matthias Klose <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> > >> > please make sure, that tetex-bin builds on all architectures. > > > >> Does all als

Re: Coordinating upload of teTeX-3.0 to unstable

2005-07-26 Thread Frank Küster
Matthias Klose <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > please make sure, that tetex-bin builds on all architectures. Does all also mean amd64 now? If yes, is there a machine I can access to test it? TIA, Frank -- Frank Küster Inst. f. Biochemie der Univ. Zürich Debian Developer

Re: Coordinating upload of teTeX-3.0 to unstable

2005-07-26 Thread Andreas Barth
* Frank Küster ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [050726 14:45]: > Matthias Klose <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > please make sure, that tetex-bin builds on all architectures. > Does all also mean amd64 now? If yes, is there a machine I can access > to test it? If you upload to experimental, it should wo

Re: Bug#319878: kernel-image-2.6-686: the entire range of 2.6 debian kernels do not install on m/cs with <= 48mb RAM

2005-07-26 Thread Colin Watson
On Tue, Jul 26, 2005 at 12:45:48AM +0100, Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton wrote: > On Mon, Jul 25, 2005 at 03:51:22PM -0700, Matt Taggart wrote: > > It would probably be a good idea to record what ought to work in any given > > release and maybe have an ongoing idea what it should be. The answer migh

Re: Coordinating upload of teTeX-3.0 to unstable

2005-07-26 Thread Frank Küster
Andreas Barth <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > * Frank K?ster ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [050726 12:34]: >> Andreas Barth <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> > Currently, we have (at least) two large transitions at our hands: >> > 1. gcc-4.0/glibc >> > 2. xorg >> > >> > I really would be happy if we can avoid that

Re: Coordinating upload of teTeX-3.0 to unstable

2005-07-26 Thread Andreas Barth
* Frank Küster ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [050726 13:17]: > Andreas Barth <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > * Frank K?ster ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [050726 12:34]: > >> Andreas Barth <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> > Currently, we have (at least) two large transitions at our hands: > >> > 1. gcc-4.0/glibc > >> >

Re: Coordinating upload of teTeX-3.0 to unstable

2005-07-26 Thread Matthias Klose
Andreas Barth writes: > * Frank K?ster ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [050726 12:34]: > > Andreas Barth <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Currently, we have (at least) two large transitions at our hands: > > > 1. gcc-4.0/glibc > > > 2. xorg > > > > > > I really would be happy if we can avoid that tetex becomes

Re: Coordinating upload of teTeX-3.0 to unstable

2005-07-26 Thread Andreas Barth
* Frank K?ster ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [050726 12:34]: > Andreas Barth <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Currently, we have (at least) two large transitions at our hands: > > 1. gcc-4.0/glibc > > 2. xorg > > > > I really would be happy if we can avoid that tetex becomes part of any > > of these transition

Re: Bug#319878: kernel-image-2.6-686: the entire range of 2.6 debian kernels do not install on m/cs with <= 48mb RAM

2005-07-26 Thread Andrew Vaughan
On Tue, 26 Jul 2005 09:45, Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton wrote: > On Mon, Jul 25, 2005 at 03:51:22PM -0700, Matt Taggart wrote: > > It would probably be a good idea to record what ought to work in any > > given release and maybe have an ongoing idea what it should be. The > > answer might be archite

Re: Coordinating upload of teTeX-3.0 to unstable

2005-07-26 Thread Frank Küster
Andreas Barth <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > That sounds good, thanks. > >> b) More severely, tetex-bin is a build-dependency of many packages. >>While I think that our packages do not contain major bugs, I would be >>surprised if the upgrade did not reveal bugs in packages that use it, >>

Re: Bug#319878: kernel-image-2.6-686: the entire range of 2.6 debian kernels do not install on m/cs with <= 48mb RAM

2005-07-26 Thread Frans Pop
On Tuesday 26 July 2005 02:06, Steve Langasek wrote: > I believe Joey Hess is the person who has the best handle on what the > actual minimum requirements are for installing sarge. Joey, do you > have anything we could add to the sarge release notes for this, if it's > not already in there? The d

Re: Coordinating upload of teTeX-3.0 to unstable

2005-07-26 Thread Steve Langasek
On Tue, Jul 26, 2005 at 10:14:15AM +0200, Frank Küster wrote: > b) More severely, tetex-bin is a build-dependency of many packages. >While I think that our packages do not contain major bugs, I would be >surprised if the upgrade did not reveal bugs in packages that use it, >causing some

Re: Coordinating upload of teTeX-3.0 to unstable

2005-07-26 Thread Andreas Barth
Hi Frank, * Frank K?ster ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [050726 10:30]: > with the next upload (scheduled for today) of teTeX-3.0 to experimental, > I think we have only cosmetic issues left before we can upload it to > unstable. That sounds good, thanks. > b) More severely, tetex-bin is a build-dependency

Coordinating upload of teTeX-3.0 to unstable

2005-07-26 Thread Frank Küster
Dear release team, with the next upload (scheduled for today) of teTeX-3.0 to experimental, I think we have only cosmetic issues left before we can upload it to unstable. Before doing this, however, I'd like to notify you, so that you have a chance to yell out "no!". There are two problem areas