woody->sarge upgrade removes perl (and a bunch of other stuff)

2005-04-06 Thread Wichert Akkerman
of dpkg's status file at http://www.wiggy.net/tmp/status.bz2 . Wichert. -- Wichert Akkerman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>It is simple to make things. http://www.wiggy.net/ It is hard to make things simple. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a su

Re: [xml/sgml-pkgs] Bug#293989: xsl stylesheet does not work anymore

2005-02-07 Thread Wichert Akkerman
would be somewhat unfortunate to have stricter checking in libxslt1.1 break db2latex while there is no fix for it yet. Alternatively, is there a hinting option to do that instead? Wichert. -- Wichert Akkerman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>It is simple to make things. http://www.wiggy.net/

Re: zsi for testing

2004-06-20 Thread Wichert Akkerman
Previously Colin Watson wrote: > There's no hint type that covers this case. Sillyness ensues. I dropped a new version on newraff which should work around this problem in testing. Wichert. -- Wichert Akkerman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>It is simple to make things. http:/

Re: zsi needs hinting

2004-05-03 Thread Wichert Akkerman
oned yet again there is no hurry at all :) Wichert. -- Wichert Akkerman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>It is simple to make things. http://www.wiggy.net/ It is hard to make things simple.

Re: debian-release list dead?

2002-08-17 Thread Wichert Akkerman
Previously Peter Palfrader wrote: > I intended to ask for removal of this list but Joey sugested to ask > first whether anybody intents to use this list or finds it useful as it > is now. I think it would be useful, but if the release manager doesn't use it we might as well remove it I guess. Wic

Re: Preparation of Debian GNU/Linux 2.2r4

2001-10-13 Thread Wichert Akkerman
Previously Adam Di Carlo wrote: > In fact, I wonder whether all the ports still have the capability > (machine around running Potato, with root access) to build. For the next release they will have to (otherwise the security team won't be able to support them) so they might as well practice now :)

Woody, security and architectures

2001-08-13 Thread Wichert Akkerman
As people have probably noticed we've done a number of security advisories over the last few days, and doing those has made it clear that the way we currently do those will not scale with future release. The problem is the number of architectures we have to support. For potato we have to recompil

Re: 2.2r4?

2001-07-25 Thread Wichert Akkerman
Previously Josip Rodin wrote: > For the record, I counted that 2.2r3 included 38 new security advisories, > up to DSA-047. We're at DSA-066 right now, that's 19 more. We're working on that :( Wichert. -- _ / Nothing is foo

Re: should burn new potato b-f for ARM?

2001-06-07 Thread Wichert Akkerman
Previously Adam Di Carlo wrote: > Should I prepare new Potato boot-floppies with 2.2.19 for i386? Not right now, I expect we'll need updated kernel packages soon. Wichert. -- _ / Nothing is fool-proof to a sufficiently tal

Re: should burn new potato b-f for ARM?

2001-06-07 Thread Wichert Akkerman
Previously Wichert Akkerman wrote: > Not right now, I expect we'll need updated kernel packages soon. Ok, forget about that. Yes, new package would be nice ;) Wichert. -- _ / Nothing is fool-proof to a suff

Re: m68k boot-floppies for woody

2001-06-07 Thread Wichert Akkerman
Previously Richard Hirst wrote: > So, I guess it is the [i386] it doesn't like. I'm guessing I need > a newer dpkg, but I don't see a 1.9.8 for m68k yet. Can someone > confirm that, before I chew up another 9hrs of cpu? Someone is confusing Build-Depends syntax with Depends syntax there. You can

Re: should burn new potato b-f for ARM?

2001-06-04 Thread Wichert Akkerman
Previously Adam Di Carlo wrote: > Ok. I am not moving i386 to straigh 2.2.19 right now, btw, since I'm > pretty sure that kernel has issues. What kind of issues are you referring to? Wichert. -- _ / Nothing is fool-proof

Re: 2.2rev3 CDs (was Re: Stable Release plan)

2001-04-21 Thread Wichert Akkerman
Previously Nate Duehr wrote: > On Thu, Apr 19, 2001 at 09:37:33PM +0200, Bernd Hentig wrote: > > AFAIK, the only kernels worth having in either binary or source > > are (in release order) 2.0.36, 2.0.17, 2.0.19, 2.4.2. > > You don't like *any* of the 2.2 series? Considering he said `in release o

Re: Uploads to proposed-updates

2001-04-15 Thread Wichert Akkerman
Previously Anthony Towns wrote: > --- glibc_2.1.3-18_arm.changes > --- glibc_2.1.3-18_i386.changes > --- glibc_2.1.3-18_powerpc.changes I uploaded alpha as well > --- kernel-image-2.2.19pre11-i386_2.2.19pre11-1_i386.changes > --- kernel-image-2.2.19pre13-alpha_2.2.19pre13-1_alpha.changes > --- ke

Re: [2.2r3] Status report

2001-04-14 Thread Wichert Akkerman
Previously Adam Di Carlo wrote: > That must be a typo -- i386 you mean. Not really, ia32 is technically correct. > > 2. glibc 2.1.3-18 is missing for alpha, delaying its installation I am uploading this one right now > > 3. e2fsprogs 1.18-3.0potato1 is missing for alpha, delaying its > >

Re: packages from potato-proposed-updates used in 2.2.21 bf

2001-03-27 Thread Wichert Akkerman
Previously Adam Di Carlo wrote: > Still waiting for the pcmcia packages... They should be there now.. Wichert. -- _ / Nothing is fool-proof to a sufficiently talented fool \ | [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://

Re: packages from potato-proposed-updates used in 2.2.21 bf

2001-03-24 Thread Wichert Akkerman
Previously Adam Di Carlo wrote: > FYI, I used the following packages (and only the following packages) > from Potato proposed updates when building 2.2.21. Let me know if I > am missing any. Please use libc 2.1.3-18 instead, it fixes an interesting ldd bug. Wichert. -- _

Re: 2.2r3 preparation

2001-01-25 Thread Wichert Akkerman
Previously Adrian Bunk wrote: > But the following packages seem to be missing there (the versions in > potato are too old): > - util-linux util-linux is there, look at the optional subdirectory. I'm not sure from memory if we also did ppp, if not I'll make sure that will be added. > - pcmcia-cs

Re: 2.2r3 preparation

2001-01-23 Thread Wichert Akkerman
Previously Adam Di Carlo wrote: > Ah! Someone needs to let me know when this is robust enough for us to > put a mention on http://www.d.o/releases/potato/ about it, for Potato > users wanting to run 2.4. All I can say is `it works for me'. I've set the maintainer address of those packages to me a

Re: 2.2r3 preparation

2001-01-18 Thread Wichert Akkerman
Previously Adrian Bunk wrote: > Two questions: > - I understand it right: You can't use a modular 2.0 kernel with the > latest modutils? Right. > - Shall I create an apt-able archive with the packages needed for kernel > 2.4 recompiled for potato? If noone has a good reason against this I'll

Re: 2.2r3 preparation

2001-01-16 Thread Wichert Akkerman
Previously Adrian Bunk wrote: > To support Kernel 2.4 you we need to upgrade at least: > - modutils Won't happen for potato: it's either 2.0+2.2 kernel support or 2.2+2.4, and I refuse to drop 2.0 kernel support from potato for modutils (there are stil lots of people relying on that). Wichert. -

Re: *Final* 2.2r2 Update List

2000-12-01 Thread Wichert Akkerman
Previously Anthony Towns wrote: > install joe_2.8-15.1_arm.changes > install joe_2.8-15.1_m68k.changes > install joe_2.8-15.1_sparc.changes > install joe_2.8-15.1_security.changes Please replace with 2.8-15.2, which I just uploaded for all archs. Wichert. -- _

Re: *Final* 2.2r2 Update List

2000-12-01 Thread Wichert Akkerman
Previously Anthony Towns wrote: > Well, maybe not *quite* final, but near enough for government work. I'm fixing a bug in the joe security fix and have an bugreport for the modutils security fix I'm looking into as well. Should both be done in 2 hours. > # pandora security fixes > install fsh_1.0

Re: Uploads to proposed-updates (updated)

2000-11-30 Thread Wichert Akkerman
I don't see any non-US things in this list.. is that an oversight? Wichert. -- _ / Nothing is fool-proof to a sufficiently talented fool \ | [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.liacs.nl/~wichert/ | | 1024D/2F

Re: modutils 2.3.11-13

2000-11-29 Thread Wichert Akkerman
Previously Cristian Ionescu-Idbohrn wrote: > I'm very curious to know what's going on here. Care to tell the story, I'm actually surprised modutils 2.3.11-12 did accept that line. What happened is that years ago the syntax for conf.modules changes, and a couple of months ago that file was renamed

Re: modutils 2.3.11-13

2000-11-28 Thread Wichert Akkerman
Previously Cristian Ionescu-Idbohrn wrote: > ### update-modules: start processing /etc/modutils/pcmcia > path[pcmcia]=/lib/modules/`uname -r` > > ### update-modules: end processing /etc/modutils/pcmcia There you go, that line is broken. File a bugreport for pcmcia and remove /etc/modutils/pcmcia

Re: modutils 2.3.11-13

2000-11-28 Thread Wichert Akkerman
Previously Cristian Ionescu-Idbohrn wrote: > from 2.3.11-13.1 in proposed-updates vomits tons of bogous errors like > "... header not ELF format ..." or similar. Show me your /etc/modules.conf file. Wichert. -- / Generally uni

sgml-tools for alpha/potato miscompiled?

2000-11-28 Thread Wichert Akkerman
I just got this while upgrading an alpha: sgml-tools: Depends: libc6.1 (>= 2.1.94) but 2.1.3-13 is to be installed Oops? Wichert. -- / Generally uninteresting signature - ignore at your convenience \ | [EMAIL PROTECTED]

[andreas@conectiva.com.br: Re: typo in modutils-2.3.20]

2000-11-22 Thread Wichert Akkerman
Heh, we got lucky :) Wichert. - Forwarded message from Andreas Hasenack <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> - From: Andreas Hasenack <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re: typo in modutils-2.3.20 Date: Wed, 22 Nov 2000 13:20:32 -0200 It's out. ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/utils/kernel/modutils/v2.3/modut

modutils 2.3.11-13

2000-11-22 Thread Wichert Akkerman
I just uploaded modutils 2.3.11-13 which is the bug and security fixed version based on the changes Keith made in 2.3.21. I can't do the rebuilds and announcements for it until something like 9 hours from now though. Anyone from the security team who wants to is free to beat me to it though :) W

Re: Current 2.2r2 status

2000-11-22 Thread Wichert Akkerman
Previously Ben Collins wrote: > - Security updates affecting base packages, Wichert. How long till this > is done? What packages should we be watching for? New modutils (current security fix breaks some things in nasty ways), libncurses (dan), elvis-tiny (uploaded, needs to be rebuild). > - Res

Re: boot-floppies 2.2.18 building now

2000-11-19 Thread Wichert Akkerman
Previously Adam Di Carlo wrote: > I'm building and will upload tonight boot-floppies 2.2.18. This > includes the 2.2.18 kernel and other bug fixes and such. Euhm, please don't upload them until I have a final security fix for modutils done. There is a real option that local users can get root tri

gtk/glib on sparc is broken

2000-11-13 Thread Wichert Akkerman
Is it a known problem that I can't install libgtk1.2-dev and libglib1.2-dev on sparc potato? The -dev package depends on version 1.2.7-2 of libgtk1.2, but only version 1.2.8-1 is available, which makes it completely impossible to compile any gnome app including the ssh security fix I'm trying to b

problems with 2.2r1

2000-11-12 Thread Wichert Akkerman
Found problem with 2.2r1 as it is now: * pcmcia package were installed that use a kernel that was rejected * sparc dpkg uses a woody libc * 5 outsatnding security problems As a result of this sparc can't be installed and i386 boot-floppies can't be build. No further comment. Wichert. --

Re: potato revision one

2000-11-12 Thread Wichert Akkerman
Previously Anthony Towns wrote: > auric:~ajt/chkproposedupdates.sh and auric:~ajt/chkproposedupdates2.sh > might (or might not) be informative to people trying to grok what updates > are about and what arches haven't been doing recompiles. quinn-diff is > operating on stable+proposed-updates so aut

Re: Package pools, testing, 2.2r2

2000-11-12 Thread Wichert Akkerman
Previously Jason Gunthorpe wrote: > Thinko? APT will not break, anything using APT will not break. It does not > even look like dpkg-ftp will break. Oh right, I missed a `not' in there. Wichert. -- / Generally uninteresting si

Re: Package pools, testing, 2.2r2

2000-11-11 Thread Wichert Akkerman
Previously Anthony Towns wrote: > All who're interested: katie (ie, the new dinstall, ie package pools) > will be rolled out when James has enough time to cope with any unforseen > problems. Hopefully in the next week or two. "testing" will be rolled out > shortly afterwards, in all probability. D

Re: potato revision one

2000-11-10 Thread Wichert Akkerman
Previously Anthony Towns wrote: > All the security team need to do is upload the fixes into proposed-updates. > There's no reason for that to ever be done later rather than sooner. That too, but you also should post the list of package you want accept and refuse so people can comment on them. Rele

Re: potato revision one

2000-11-10 Thread Wichert Akkerman
Previously Anthony Towns wrote: > 2.2r1 is underway (ie, the ftpmasters are cleaning up the archive and > moving things around). Most of the proposed updates have been accepted. In that case I'm upset, since there has be no involvement of the security team at all and there are security fixes invol

Re: 2.2.18 and 2.2r1 release

2000-10-21 Thread Wichert Akkerman
Previously Wichert Akkerman wrote: > I seriously need to fix a bug I introduced in modutils for 2.2r1, > I'll work on that tonight. Fixed and uploaded. Wichert. -- _ / Nothing is fool-proof to a sufficiently ta

Re: 2.2.18 and 2.2r1 release

2000-10-19 Thread Wichert Akkerman
Previously Adam Di Carlo wrote: > My plans to get 2.2.18 tested and release have not worked out. My > time has been virtually non-existant and the testing I hoped others to > do didn't happen. I seriously need to fix a bug I introduced in modutils for 2.2r1, I'll work on that tonight. > Anyhow,

Re: 2.2.17 i386 boot-floppies uploading

2000-10-02 Thread Wichert Akkerman
Previously Adam Di Carlo wrote: > We'll be building 2.2.18 hopefully within a few days, so please try > this out quickly so we can see if it has any bad bugs. I'll be uploading dpkg 1.6.15, a new modutils and a new base-passwd for stable today as well. I'll also do the recompiles for other archit

Re: preparing boot-floppies 2.2.17

2000-09-14 Thread Wichert Akkerman
I'm gettings requests for a trivial change in /etc/init.d/modutils to make it do nothing if the kernel does not support modules. This prevents some annoying warnings messages from appaering. Do people think I should bother to such a change? I won't bother unless I know it'll be accepted. Wichert

Re: Potato revision 1

2000-09-13 Thread Wichert Akkerman
Previously J.H.M. Dassen (Ray) wrote: > I have a fairly important, big data set stored in PostgreSQL 7 with the > woody packages installed on top of an otherwise potato system for quite some > time though, with no real problems. There is a problem with VACUUMing a > database with a lot of indices o

Re: Potato revision 1

2000-09-13 Thread Wichert Akkerman
Previously Anthony Towns wrote: > That is, there shouldn't be any reason to run r0 instead of r1 or r3 > instead of r8. Other way around: there shouldn't be a reason to run rN instead of r(N-x) as well except for bugfixes. This is still potato folks, not potato-and-a-half or so. > Even adding alt

Re: Potato revision 1

2000-09-12 Thread Wichert Akkerman
Previously Adrian Bunk wrote: > - It's still extremely unstable (e.g. ext2 file system corruption very > recently). > - You have to update several other packages to provide the right > infrastructure (e.g. ppp). modutils as well, pcmcia also I think. Als 2.4.0 renamed some drivers so the pcmci

Re: regarding xviddetect

2000-08-21 Thread Wichert Akkerman
Previously Sean 'Shaleh' Perry wrote: > by woody release (at least 6 - 8 months) Xfree 4 should be safe enough for > everyone to use. By woody freeze I'm quite sure there are still lots of drivers that are not in Xfree 4. Wichert. -- __

Re: regarding xviddetect

2000-08-21 Thread Wichert Akkerman
Previously Sean Perry wrote: > This is all moot if we move to X 4. X does it own monitor / vid card > detection now. I wonder if it doesn't make more sense to use a mixed X3/X4 setup for woody and base the decision on which server to use on the installed videocard? Wichert. -- __

Re: point release versioning [was Re: dedication]

2000-08-02 Thread Wichert Akkerman
Previously Brooks R. Robinson wrote: > Just couldn't help but add my $0.02! For the M$ server products (NT and > 2000), the initial release is always Service Pack 1. That is not true. A service pack is a collection of hotfixes and other (sometimes major) changes. For example the first servi

Re: point release versioning [was Re: dedication]

2000-08-01 Thread Wichert Akkerman
Previously Philip Hands wrote: > Shouldn't that be 2.2 r1? The first revision will be 2.2r1, but we'll do a second revision as well at some point. Wichert. -- / Generally uninteresting signature - ignore at your convenience \

TC3 CD images for LWCE

2000-07-25 Thread Wichert Akkerman
Can someone please send an email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] as soon as i386 and source CD images for TC3 are finished? Bradley kindly agreed to produce TC3 CDs for us so we can hand them out at LinuxWorld, but he needs the images quickly seens LinuxWorld isn't very far away.. Also please tell him where

Re: potato

2000-07-15 Thread Wichert Akkerman
Previously Stephen R. Gore wrote: > All except xcdroast and strace. Both of these packages need wichert's > attention wrt building on sparc. He's aware of this, and should be able > to take a look at them when he get's home. Aie, hope I'm not becoming a bottleneck here. I'll look at them on tues

Re: Test Cycle 2 Report and Problem

2000-06-27 Thread Wichert Akkerman
Previously Brooks R. Robinson wrote: > It seems that the installation scripts are not passing these > parameters on to the actual 'insmod' when attempting to load the module. This has been fixed already I think. Wichert. -- _ /

Re: Test Cycle Three status

2000-06-22 Thread Wichert Akkerman
Fun for the whole family :) Wichert. - Forwarded message from "H. Peter Anvin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> - From: "H. Peter Anvin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: autofs mailing list Subject: autofs 3.1.6-pre1 released (LDAP support) Date: Mon, 19 Jun 2000 17:04:10 -0700 Hi all, I have released a p

Re: The Grand Plan

2000-06-18 Thread Wichert Akkerman
Previously Anthony Towns wrote: > In particular, TC3 looks like involving: > > * The traditional random updates to the install system > (boot-floppies, CD scripts, base-config, dpkg; if the people > involved could start finalising these now ready for midweek that >

Re: Upgrade report: Test Cycle 2

2000-06-15 Thread Wichert Akkerman
Previously Raphael Hertzog wrote: > We already had such a problem in the first version of static dpkg that we > provided on Anne's page, but I recompiled it and it should be ok now ... > unless the bad one has been installed... Grmbl. Do people test things before they upload? I'm going to be extre

Re: Upgrade.tar available (was Re: [dark: READ!] CD images)

2000-05-23 Thread Wichert Akkerman
Previously J.A. Bezemer wrote: > Well, it has taken some time because nobody felt like recompiling i386 > apt/dpkg, but things are finally ready. Oh come on! a) As dpkg maintainer I never got a request to rebuild it b) As far as I know the release manager never agreed that this was going to be

Re: need word on next test cycle

2000-05-16 Thread Wichert Akkerman
Previously Adam Di Carlo wrote: > Do you need a list of stuff from Incoming (base) that must be > installed for boot-floppies fixes? dpkg 1.6.13 is currently also stuck in Incoming, and I intend to reupload it with improved translations. Do you want to include that as well in the bootfloppies? If

Re: potato section on security.debian.org

2000-05-16 Thread Wichert Akkerman
Previously Jason Gunthorpe wrote: > Why keep the new one? The 'updates' version has existed for ages and ages. Mostly because I used it myself on a couple of machines, I'll remove it before the release. Wichert. -- _ / Generally

Re: potato section on security.debian.org

2000-05-15 Thread Wichert Akkerman
Previously Jason Gunthorpe wrote: > If you don't mind not making more pointless, needless changes, please use > potato/updates not potato/security, then things will work fine when you > add the stable symlink. Heh, okay. Renamed & a symlink added so both will work now. Wichert. -- ___

potato section on security.debian.org

2000-05-15 Thread Wichert Akkerman
Since no packages are being installed during the testing cycle I have started to add security fixes for potato to security.debian.org. I'm not going to recompile everything on there myself, so for now only i386 packages are present. Appropriate line for apt is: deb http://security.debian.org/

Re: file RC bugs for potato uninstallable pkgs (was Re: Pleaserelease 2.1r6)

2000-04-24 Thread Wichert Akkerman
Previously Adrian Bunk wrote: > The next thing I'm doing is filing RC bugs for priority problems (most > often: package with priority `optional' depends on package with priority > `extra'). Noo, please don't do that. File a *single* bugreport for ftp.debian.org to update the override file. Wicher

Re: Please release 2.1r6

2000-04-22 Thread Wichert Akkerman
Previously Anthony Towns wrote: > On the downside, it doesn't care about priorities, and doesn't list > explanations (it seems hard to work out what's at fault when conflicts > are involved). I'm curious, what exactly do you do with conflicts? Detect depend<->conflict problems (ie a depends on b w

Re: Please release 2.1r6

2000-04-21 Thread Wichert Akkerman
Previously Santiago Vila wrote: > Well, apache-ssl's Depends line contains "perl | perl5" > perl5 is provided by perl-5.005 which has "Priority: important", so > the dependency is actually satisfied, and apache-ssl does not depend on > an extra package. We can argue if it is a bug; I wrote the cod

Re: Preparing for first test cycle

2000-04-20 Thread Wichert Akkerman
Previously Ben Collins wrote: > Herbert, is this possible for you? If we do this I have this little patch that must be put in as well. I'll mail it to Herbert. Wichert. -- _ / Generally uninteresting signature - ignore at your c

Re: Preparing for first test cycle

2000-04-20 Thread Wichert Akkerman
Previously Brandon Mitchell wrote: > I believe the intention is to continue testing with a minor security hole. However we know there is a major security hole in 2.2.14 for example.. and I won't be surprised if more will be discovered during the testing cycle. I think we need to have some short-cu

Re: Preparing for first test cycle

2000-04-20 Thread Wichert Akkerman
Previously Richard Braakman wrote: > No. Any such change means aborting the test cycle. This may be reasonable > if a security problem is big enough, but I'm not going to decide that in > advance. I'm certainly very much against releasing with known security holes. At this moment we already have

Re: Debian 2.1r5

2000-03-23 Thread Wichert Akkerman
Previously Jordi wrote: > I thought 2.1r5 had been released already, but I can't find it on the ftps. > The changelog does not mention a release neither so I guess it didn't > happen. > Will it be released? as far as I know it has been released, but nobody has done an announcement about it. Is the

Re: 2.1r5...

2000-03-01 Thread Wichert Akkerman
Richard is currently busy with potato and moving. Jamer or Guy, can you take care of this? Previously Vincent Renardias wrote: > Here's again the list of the packages that should go in 2.1r5. > (I just added htdig on the list since it has been uploaded to fix a > security bug) Lets add nmh as we

Re: update on 2.1r5 status...

2000-02-17 Thread Wichert Akkerman
Previously Ben Collins wrote: > Wichert, are you doing the compiles for sparc/slink to get sparc > up-to-date with 2.1r5? Christian Meder (hope I remembered the name correctly..) was afaik.. Wichert. -- _ / Generally uninteresti

Re: update on 2.1r5 status...

2000-02-09 Thread Wichert Akkerman
Previously Vincent Renardias wrote: > Ok, we'll see tomorrow if it has been accepted. Why wait when you can easily check that yourself? ~maor/dinstall/dinstall -n xxx.changes will tell you what dinstall will do with your upload. Wichert. -- ___

Re: Updated list of packages of 2.1r5

2000-01-10 Thread Wichert Akkerman
Previously J.A. Bezemer wrote: > IIRC, I did report this dependency problem to either you personally or > [EMAIL PROTECTED] (which should have reached you too) only some hours > after the security fix was released... Hmm, yes, I remember now. I think I already fixed that on security.debian.org ba

Re: Updated list of packages of 2.1r5

2000-01-10 Thread Wichert Akkerman
Previously Vincent Renardias wrote: > [Vincent 1999/12/20] > package : lprng > version : 3.5.2-2.1 > architectures: sparc only > issue: fix dependency problem preventing the creation of sparc CDs Euh, what problem? This seems to be the same version that is also on secu

Re: Updated list of packages of 2.1r5

2000-01-10 Thread Wichert Akkerman
Previously Vincent Renardias wrote: > Security updates: package : lpr version : 0.48-0.slink1 architectures: alpha i386 m68k sparc issue: remote exploit > [Vincent 2000/01/07] > package : nvi > version : 1.79-9.1 > architectures: i386 Only i386? I uploaded bin

Re: Debian 2.1r5 + last y2k fixes

2000-01-07 Thread Wichert Akkerman
Previously Vincent Renardias wrote: > here's the list of packages that I plan to include in 2.1r5: > http://www.debian.org/~vincent/2.1r5.txt Euh, could you please mail the whole list as well? I usually do my work offline so this is somewhat inconvenient for me.. Wichert. --

Re: M68K boot floppies / CDs

2000-01-05 Thread Wichert Akkerman
Previously Michael Schmitz wrote: > Format: 1.5 > Date: Fri, 10 Dec 1999 15:07:21 +0100 > Source: boot-floppies > Binary: boot-floppies > Architecture: m68k > Version: 2.1.9.2 < not a potato version number (slink.r2 > perhaps) How would he know that's not a potato version number?

Re: Important (Y2K) Bugfix for stable tetex-bin

1999-12-20 Thread Wichert Akkerman
Previously Christoph Martin wrote: > Does that mean I have to release a new version with another corrected > changelog entry, to get it installed into stable? No, we are aware of it now. But please remember this for future reference. Wichert. -- ___

Re: CD images appearing (except sparc :-[ )

1999-12-19 Thread Wichert Akkerman
Previously Philip Hands wrote: > The sparc ones cannot be built at present because lprng depends upon > a version of libncurses4 (>= 4.2-3.1) that only exists in potato. Strange, apt showed 19 packages with unmet dependencies but lprng wasn't among them. How are you able to produce images for

Re: Important (Y2K) Bugfix for stable tetex-bin

1999-12-18 Thread Wichert Akkerman
Previously Christoph Martin wrote: > tetex-bin (0.9.981113-4) stable; urgency=high > > * reupload, because of the severity of the problem. it is sort of a Y2K > problem. older Versions of tetex-bin will *NOT* work if they are newly > installed after the 1st of December 1999, or if an att

Re: list of 2.1r4 changes (was: Re: Last call for updated non-i386 packages.)

1999-12-14 Thread Wichert Akkerman
Previously J.A. Bezemer wrote: > I didn't see any official announcement. It didn't happen, Richard is working on it right now (and almost finished) > If things are ready, please post to debian-cd (and to Phil Hands > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> personally!) so we know that CDs can be made. I will, we're

Re: list of 2.1r4 changes (was: Re: Last call for updated non-i386 packages.)

1999-12-13 Thread Wichert Akkerman
The signs are agreeing with a release, since the m68k machine I was building stuff on crashed today. Figures. Anyway, the 2.1r4 release will happen tomorrow (Monday). I have all the packages recompiled now, so everything should be ready. Pending missing dependencies, those still need to be checke

Re: list of 2.1r4 changes (was: Re: Last call for updated non-i386 packages.)

1999-12-12 Thread Wichert Akkerman
I just spent a couple of hours going through the list, verifying some things and fixing stuff. Vincent: frankly I'm annoyed that I had to do this, since this is your job. This list assumes that everything that is in Incoming right now has been processed. I've tested things with dinstall so that

Re: list of 2.1r4 changes (was: Re: Last call for updated non-i386 packages.)

1999-12-09 Thread Wichert Akkerman
Here's a new list (added htdig securityfix). Can someone please check the y2k fixes and be a bit more specific about the problem with each package? No long description needed, but something more then just `y2k fix' would be nice.. Another one that is missing is a new samba-doc package to bring i

[sanvila@unex.es: sharutils 4.2.1-1 (source all i386) uploaded to erlangen]

1999-12-09 Thread Wichert Akkerman
Can someone please check if we need this for the 2.1r4 as well? Wichert. - Forwarded message from Santiago Vila <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> - Date: Thu, 9 Dec 1999 12:36:48 +0100 (CET) From: Santiago Vila <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Debian Developer Changes Subject: sharutils 4.2.1-1 (source all i

Re: Last call for updated non-i386 packages.

1999-12-08 Thread Wichert Akkerman
Previously Vincent Renardias wrote: > Here's the current list of packages that should go in 2.1r4. Please add the new dump, sendmail and sendmail-wide packages. I'll make sure all architectures are uploaded. Wichert. -- / Gen

list of 2.1r4 changes (was: Re: Last call for updated non-i386 packages.)

1999-12-08 Thread Wichert Akkerman
Here is an attempt to make a proper list for a release announcement. This is all from memory so far, so some things are missing or possible incorrect. Vincent: can you check this list, fix any errors in it and fill in the blanks? Security updates: package : amd version : 102-23.slin

Re: debian 2.1r4 and boot-floppies

1999-12-07 Thread Wichert Akkerman
Previously Adam Di Carlo wrote: > What is your targetted "freeze" date or whatever, so I know when this > stuff is "due" ? Let me intervene here and say that I want to see 2.1r4 happen this week, sunday at the *very* latest. We simply cannot delay y2k updates any longer. Wichert. --

Re: Updated 2.1r4 package list errata.

1999-12-01 Thread Wichert Akkerman
Previously Vincent Renardias wrote: > Because I wanted to have my y2k "fixes" to be at least roughly tested by a > few people before to just put them directly in slink (and it seems to have > been a good idea since the updated gnats introduces a bad bug) But that's exactly why we have proposed-upd

Re: Updated 2.1r4 package list errata.

1999-12-01 Thread Wichert Akkerman
Previously Vincent Renardias wrote: > [*] pvm_3.4beta7-4_i386.changes >- security fix. >[MISSING: alpha, sparc, m68k] >[Note: doesn't build on alpha] Also doesn't build on sparc; it tries to use non-exsiting signals. Wichert. -- ___

Re: Updated 2.1r4 package list errata.

1999-12-01 Thread Wichert Akkerman
Previously Paul Slootman wrote: > Maybe you should have looked better. Vincent asked for the compiles, > and I compiled the following for him (look in ~vincent/INCOMING on > master): I hadn't even looked at the y2k stuff, only at the other stuff. And I'm puzzled why this y2k effort seems to be do

Re: Updated 2.1r4 package list errata.

1999-12-01 Thread Wichert Akkerman
Previously Vincent Renardias wrote: > Paul Slootman has recompiled all the y2k fixes on alpha. You can find the > files in master:~vincent/INCOMING. AFAIK, there's nobody else who's > working on the non-i386 updates. Can you copy them all into Incoming so dinstall can process them today then? I wo

Re: Updated 2.1r4 package list errata.

1999-12-01 Thread Wichert Akkerman
I just uploaded alpha versions of nfs-server, netkit-telnet & friends, and bind. I'll try to get some sparc builds going as well. Wichert (disappointed nobody else recompiled anything while this list has been out there for 2 weeks now). --

Re: Updated 2.1r4 package list errata.

1999-12-01 Thread Wichert Akkerman
Previously Vincent Renardias wrote: > [*] roxen_1.2beta2-3 >- sync with i386 version. >[MISSING: m68k, sparc] Those two were also missing in the original release, I'm thinking of skipping them. > [*] bind_8.2.2p5-0slink1.1 >- security fix >[MISSING: sparc, m68k, alpha] Only alp

Re: [non-i386 people needed] Proposed packages for 2.1r4

1999-11-25 Thread Wichert Akkerman
Previously J.A. Bezemer wrote: > Of course, updates. But are those updates fixing bugs? Critical bugs? Security > bugs? Or are they only adding features? IMHO&AFAIK: some, very few, none, and > most, respectively. some, few, some. Wichert. --

Re: 2.1r4 package list errata.

1999-11-25 Thread Wichert Akkerman
Previously Vincent Renardias wrote: > 2 packages where missing in the list I posted yesterday: More missing stuff: roxen and pike for m68k and sparc. Wichert. -- / Generally uninteresting signature - ignore at your convenience

Re: [non-i386 people needed] Proposed packages for 2.1r4

1999-11-25 Thread Wichert Akkerman
Previously J.A. Bezemer wrote: > I don't follow kernel development, but 2.2.13 has been out since 20 Oct, and > >1 month without update (or errata on www.linux.org.uk) is really long for any > stable kernel. So I think "a lot of bugs" in 2.2.13 is a little overstated. > Correct me if I'm wrong... >

Re: [non-i386 people needed] Proposed packages for 2.1r4

1999-11-25 Thread Wichert Akkerman
Previously Joel Klecker wrote: > Strongly disagree, 2.2.5 has a lot of bugs, some of them security related. The same can be said for 2.2.13 btw. Wichert. -- / Generally uninteresting signature - ignore at your convenience \ |

Re: Unofficial Y2K update for slink.

1999-11-23 Thread Wichert Akkerman
Vincent, do you have a list of packages you want in 2.1r4 somewhere? Wichert. -- / Generally uninteresting signature - ignore at your convenience \ | [EMAIL PROTECTED]http://www.liacs.nl/~wichert/ | | 1024

Re: Updates to busybox

1999-10-22 Thread Wichert Akkerman
Previously Adam Di Carlo wrote: > The issue of whether or not we strive for both 2.0 and 2.2 linux > kernel compatability in general is a potato release manager / leader > issue, not an issue for this list. Compatibility yes I would say. However we can no longer support 2.0 anymore. In fact it is

Re: kernel candidates for potato

1999-10-03 Thread Wichert Akkerman
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