Bug#484129: release.debian.org: packages in tasks should be fixed in priority and removed in last resort after discussion

2008-06-05 Thread Adeodato Simó
* Andreas Barth [Fri, 06 Jun 2008 07:30:06 +0200]: > The mechanismn: yes. But not FauxPackages itself, as I think we could > generate that list automatic. (For a short-term solution, FauxPackages > might just be ok.) I meant, yes, adding to FauxPackages an automatically-generated list, not a list

Re: glest/glest-data hint

2008-06-05 Thread Philipp Kern
Hallo Paul, am Fri, Jun 06, 2008 at 11:30:29AM +0800 hast du folgendes geschrieben: > glest and glest-data appear to need a hint to go into testing together. hinted, thanks. Kind regards, Philipp Kern -- .''`. Philipp Kern Debian Developer : :' : http://philkern.d

Bug#484129: release.debian.org: packages in tasks should be fixed in priority and removed in last resort after discussion

2008-06-05 Thread Andreas Barth
* Adeodato Simó ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [080605 22:41]: > * Andreas Barth [Wed, 04 Jun 2008 07:19:07 +0200]: > > > Is there a reasonable way to > > generate pseudo-packages "taskel-$task" that depend on all the packages > > that need to be present to not break anything? > > I think britney's FauxPack

glest/glest-data hint

2008-06-05 Thread Paul Wise
Hi RMs, glest and glest-data appear to need a hint to go into testing together. -- bye, pabs http://wiki.debian.org/PaulWise -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

[stable] firmware-nonfree update for etchnhalf

2008-06-05 Thread dann frazier
I'd like to propose the following update for stable. I've tested on an etch laptop w/ built-in intel 3945 wireless and a server w/ a bnx2 nic under both etch and etchnhalf. Index: debian/changelog === --- debian/changelog(.../rel

Re: [stable] aboot - support recent kernels, fix build issues

2008-06-05 Thread dann frazier
On Thu, Jun 05, 2008 at 02:35:22PM -0600, Bdale Garbee wrote: > On Tue, 2008-05-27 at 02:56 -0600, dann frazier wrote: > > > Other than the testing I mentioned above, I've also had successful test > > reports from Bdale and Tim Cutts (on albeniz.d.o, iirc). > > For completeness, let me report det

Bug#484129: release.debian.org: packages in tasks should be fixed in priority and removed in last resort after discussion

2008-06-05 Thread Joey Hess
Adeodato Simó wrote: > Could there be one? Well, if you're interested in having the same > safeguard mechanism in place for these packages. It would be nice to have one, but many different parts of d-i decide what to apt-install, so extracting a list is hard. -- see shy jo signature.asc Descri

Bug#484129: release.debian.org: packages in tasks should be fixed in priority and removed in last resort after discussion

2008-06-05 Thread Adeodato Simó
* Andreas Barth [Wed, 04 Jun 2008 07:19:07 +0200]: > Is there a reasonable way to > generate pseudo-packages "taskel-$task" that depend on all the packages > that need to be present to not break anything? I think britney's FauxPackages would just be very appropriate for this? (For those reading a

Re: [stable] aboot - support recent kernels, fix build issues

2008-06-05 Thread Bdale Garbee
On Tue, 2008-05-27 at 02:56 -0600, dann frazier wrote: > Other than the testing I mentioned above, I've also had successful test > reports from Bdale and Tim Cutts (on albeniz.d.o, iirc). For completeness, let me report details. I updated ds10.gag.com running etch and stock kernel package linux-

Re: [stable] aboot - support recent kernels, fix build issues

2008-06-05 Thread dann frazier
On Tue, May 27, 2008 at 01:32:33PM +0200, Andreas Barth wrote: > Hi, > > * dann frazier ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [080527 10:56]: > > etch's aboot doesn't permit booting recent 2.6 kernels. While > > backporting a fix for this issue, I ran into a couple of other build > > issues that prevent etch's aboo

Bug#484009: Bug#484129: release.debian.org: packages in tasks should be fixed in priority and removed in last resort after discussion

2008-06-05 Thread Johannes Wiedersich
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 2008-06-04 18:36, Pierre Habouzit wrote: > No it's not. A user that prefers to have broken software rather than > no software (if the option "non broken" software is absent) should use > unstable. I mean it. > > You can easily use testing by de

Bug#484009: Bug#484129: release.debian.org: packages in tasks should be fixed in priority and removed in last resort after discussion

2008-06-05 Thread Josselin Mouette
Le mercredi 04 juin 2008 à 10:30 -0700, Mike Bird a écrit : > On Wed June 4 2008 09:36:07 Pierre Habouzit wrote: > > Package: * > > Pin: release a=testing > > Pin-Priority: 990 > > > > Package: * > > Pin: release a=unstable > > Pin-Priority: 500 > > Downsides include: > >