Re: Perl plans for the squeeze cycle

2009-08-20 Thread Niko Tyni
On Sun, Aug 16, 2009 at 02:41:53PM +0200, Marc Brockschmidt wrote: > * Which major upstream releases of perl are expected in the next two > years? Which of those are material for Debian stable, which might be a bit > flaky? As already mentioned, 5.12 in two years seems unlikely but there's n

Re: please allow ltsp 5.1.81-2 into testing

2009-08-20 Thread Adam D. Barratt
On Mon, 2009-08-17 at 21:28 -0700, Vagrant Cascadian wrote: > ltsp 5.1.81-2 is blocked from migrating into testing, due to the > ltsp-client-builder udeb, though this udeb is not used by debian-installer by > default, and has no changes since the previous version. > > it has been in unstable for

Re: OpenOffice.org plans for the squeeze cycle

2009-08-20 Thread Matthias Klose
On 16.08.2009 15:15, Rene Engelhard wrote: Hi, On Sun, Aug 16, 2009 at 02:41:06PM +0200, Marc Brockschmidt wrote: * Which major upstream releases of OO.org are expected in the next two years? Which of those are material for Debian stable, which might be a bit flaky? The next two years f

Re: Sparc release requalification

2009-08-20 Thread Aurelien Jarno
Bastian Blank a écrit : > On Wed, Aug 19, 2009 at 01:16:36PM +0200, Matthias Klose wrote: >> I did speak with Martin Zobel at Debconf on how to get there, having two >> proposals: >> - define a new sparc64 port, and bootstrap this one using the 32bit port. > > This is rather easy. I already did

Re: Sparc release requalification

2009-08-20 Thread Bastian Blank
On Thu, Aug 20, 2009 at 10:53:08AM +0200, Philipp Kern wrote: > It's not intended that multiarch supports switching architectures. It's also just an upgrade. Or did I miss something that would make it impossible to replace perl/i386 with perl/amd64? Bastian -- Many Myths are based on truth

Re: aptitude plans for the squeeze cycle

2009-08-20 Thread Goswin von Brederlow
Daniel Burrows writes: > On Sun, Aug 16, 2009 at 02:41:08PM +0200, Marc Brockschmidt > was heard to say: >> Heya, >> >> As announced on dda [RT1], we want to get an impression when releasing >> Squeeze is feasible. We have proposed a (quite ambitious) freeze in December >> 2009, and some devel

Re: GCC plans for the squeeze cycle

2009-08-20 Thread Matthias Klose
On 16.08.2009 14:41, Marc Brockschmidt wrote: Heya, As announced on dda [RT1], we want to get an impression when releasing Squeeze is feasible. We have proposed a (quite ambitious) freeze in December 2009, and some developers have noted that their planned changes wouldn't be possible in this tim

Re: GCC 4.4 run-time license and non-GPLv3 compilers

2009-08-20 Thread Matthias Klose
On 16.08.2009 10:50, Luk Claes wrote: Matthias Klose wrote: On 29.04.2009 04:49, Florian Weimer wrote: * Florian Weimer: I've asked the FSF for a clarification (the second time, the first clarification resulted in the Java bytecode exception). Until we know for sure how to interpret the exce

Re: OpenJDK plans for the squeeze cycle

2009-08-20 Thread Cyril Brulebois
Matthias Klose (20/08/2009): > OpenJDK/IcedTea ports for the Hurd, FreeBSD and Linux/hppa are > missing. Afaik nobody works on these. It's on (my|the) todo list for GNU/kFreeBSD, at least. So many things to do, so little time. :) Mraw, KiBi. signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: OpenJDK plans for the squeeze cycle

2009-08-20 Thread Matthias Klose
On 16.08.2009 14:41, Marc Brockschmidt wrote: Heya, As announced on dda [RT1], we want to get an impression when releasing Squeeze is feasible. We have proposed a (quite ambitious) freeze in December 2009, and some developers have noted that their planned changes wouldn't be possible in this tim

Re: mips* port plans for the squeeze cycle

2009-08-20 Thread Matthias Klose
On 16.08.2009 14:40, Marc Brockschmidt wrote: Heya, As announced on dda [RT1], we want to get an impression when releasing Squeeze is feasible. We have proposed a (quite ambitious) freeze in December 2009, and some developers have noted that their planned changes wouldn't be possible in this tim

Re: Sparc release requalification

2009-08-20 Thread Matthias Klose
On 19.08.2009 16:33, Bastian Blank wrote: On Wed, Aug 19, 2009 at 01:55:24PM +0200, Matthias Klose wrote: On 19.08.2009 13:42, Bastian Blank wrote: On Wed, Aug 19, 2009 at 01:16:36PM +0200, Matthias Klose wrote: I did speak with Martin Zobel at Debconf on how to get there, having two proposal

Re: Wireshark 1.0.x updates for Etch

2009-08-20 Thread Bálint Réczey
Hi Luk, The original source can be found here: http://rbalint.cs.bme.hu/ws-pkg/wireshark_1.0.8.orig.tar.gz The diffs are maintained in subversion. http://svn.debian.org/wsvn/collab-maint/ext-maint/wireshark/tags/1.0.8-1/#_ext-maint_wireshark_tags_1.0.8-1_ I think 1.0.8-1 would be the right versi

Re: Sparc release requalification

2009-08-20 Thread Philipp Kern
On Thu, Aug 20, 2009 at 10:45:46AM +0200, Bastian Blank wrote: > On Thu, Aug 20, 2009 at 07:09:44AM +0200, Mike Hommey wrote: > > On Wed, Aug 19, 2009 at 04:33:32PM +0200, Bastian Blank wrote: > > > If I understand this correctly, this would need the modification off all > > > library packages to i

Re: Sparc release requalification

2009-08-20 Thread Bastian Blank
On Thu, Aug 20, 2009 at 07:09:44AM +0200, Mike Hommey wrote: > On Wed, Aug 19, 2009 at 04:33:32PM +0200, Bastian Blank wrote: > > If I understand this correctly, this would need the modification off all > > library packages to implement biarch semantic. > ... which will be needed anyways. So your c