libctl and mpb

2006-05-19 Thread Josselin Mouette
trying to update mpb from 1.4.2-8 to 1.4.2-9 (candidate is 16 days old) * mpb is waiting for libctl * Updating libctl makes 2 depending packages uninstallable on i386: mpb, mpb-mpi * Updating mpb makes 2 non-depending packages uninstallable on i386

Sparc architecture requalification

2006-05-19 Thread Aurelien Jarno
Hi all, It has been a long time since the sparc status on the architecture requalification page [1] has been updated. A few things seems to have changed: - There is now 3 sparc buildds (mrpurply, spontini and auric), so I think the "buildd redundancy" box could be set to green. - The kerne

libusb: new ABI on arm

2006-05-19 Thread Aurelien Jarno
Hi all, A few months before the sarge release, I have received a bug report telling me that libusb is not usable on arm. It was due to a structure alignment, and I fixed that by using the aligned attribute of gcc, and I sent the patch to the upstream. Recently, the upstream answer me he have

Re: Bug#365488: Current GNOME crashes X

2006-05-19 Thread Denis Barbier
On Thu, May 18, 2006 at 04:16:01AM +0200, Josselin Mouette wrote: > Le mercredi 17 mai 2006 à 12:26 -0500, Donald King a écrit : > > Ever since a GNOME upgrade around late April, I haven't been able to use > > GNOME at all. By downgrading to Sarge versions of the kernel, X, and > > GNOME, I narrow

Re: BinNMU for obby

2006-05-19 Thread Goswin von Brederlow
Philipp Kern <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> Have you checked that a recompiled obby will work with older gmp >> packages? If that is not the case then you have no choice but to >> properly fix this at the source level. > > They most probably won't work with older, but I could force a shlibs > vers

Re: BinNMU for obby

2006-05-19 Thread Philipp Kern
On Fri, 2006-05-19 at 13:06 +0200, Goswin von Brederlow wrote: > If gmp has changed its API then the dev package has to change its > name. If the ABI changed then the soname must change. I consider this as a RC critical bug in gmp anyway, if it is really the cause of the problem, and as the recomp

Re: BinNMU for obby

2006-05-19 Thread Goswin von Brederlow
Philipp Kern <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Hi there, > > it seems that some A(P|B)I changes in the most recent gmp upload broke > obby and causes its dependent applications to FTBFS (see RC bug > #367862). > > A simple recompile of obby against the current gmp version in the > archive fixed the co