Bug#412006: dvidvi: Please Replace texlive-extra-utils (<< 2005.dfsg.2-12)

2007-02-22 Thread Kevin B. McCarty
/sh linked to /bin/bash Kernel: Linux 2.6.8-3-k7 Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) Versions of packages dvidvi depends on: ii libc6 2.3.6.ds1-13 GNU C Library: Shared libraries dvidvi recommends no packages. -- no debconf information best

Bug#423136: apt-move: built against experimental libgcc1 and libstdc++6

2007-05-09 Thread Kevin B. McCarty
? If so, a bin-NMU should suffice to fix it, assuming it's bin-NMU safe. regards, -- Kevin B. McCarty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Physics Department WWW: http://www.princeton.edu/~kmccarty/Princeton University GPG: public key ID 4F83C751 Princeton, NJ 08544 -- To UNSUBS

Re: Bug#423136: apt-move: built against experimental libgcc1 and libstdc++6

2007-05-09 Thread Kevin B. McCarty
Chuan-kai Lin wrote: > On Wed, May 09, 2007 at 10:05:04PM -0700, Kevin B. McCarty wrote: >> apt-move is currently uninstallable in unstable (at least on i386) since >> it depends on libgcc1 (>= 1:4.2-20070208) and libstdc++6 (>= >> 4.2-20070208). Maybe it was by accide

SRMs: Possible to get a fix for viewcvs in Etch so it works with Etch cvs?

2007-05-10 Thread Kevin B. McCarty
a safe assumption) I will endeavor to provide one. Thanks and best regards, -- Kevin B. McCarty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Physics Department WWW: http://www.princeton.edu/~kmccarty/Princeton University GPG: public key ID 4F83C751 Princeton, NJ 08544 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, em

Latest OOo Etch update -7etch1 depends on different libneon

2007-06-12 Thread Kevin B. McCarty
-upgrade, in security updates considered a bug? If so, should I bother filing it? (For what it's worth, OOo packages in testing and unstable depend on libneon25.) regards, -- Kevin B. McCarty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Physics Department WWW: http://www.princeton.edu/~kmccarty/Princeton

Please give-back geant321 on mips, mipsel, sparc

2007-06-20 Thread Kevin B. McCarty
even though it was built successfully on "crest" and supposed to have been uploaded on June 11 according to http://buildd.debian.org/pkg.cgi?pkg=geant321 Whom should I contact about that? Thank you, -- Kevin B. McCarty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Physics Department WWW: http://w

Re: fw: gfortran transition release goal proposal

2007-07-21 Thread Kevin B. McCarty
be uploaded in the following order once blas, lapack (and ideally atlas) are taken care of: cernlib mclibs / paw (these two are independent) geant321 / mn-fit (these are independent but must each follow paw) I'd prefer to do the uploads myself since these packages are rather finicky. b

Re: fw: gfortran transition release goal proposal

2007-07-23 Thread Kevin B. McCarty
that since I haven't uploaded a version of Cernlib compiled against gfortran yet, this hack doesn't exist in any object code already in Debian (to the best of my knowledge). best regards, -- Kevin B. McCarty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Physics Department WWW: http://www.princeton.edu/~km

Re: fw: gfortran transition release goal proposal

2007-07-26 Thread Kevin B. McCarty
is any difference depending on whether one or both of the libraries is linked statically), or if the compiler / runtime linker just arbitrarily picks one of the two dummy getarg_'s? -- Kevin B. McCarty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Physics Department WWW: http://www.princeton.edu/~kmccarty/Prince

Re: fw: gfortran transition release goal proposal

2007-07-27 Thread Kevin B. McCarty
, and at least one independent implementation has > been mentioned on c.l.f. > What do you suggest for *C/C++* code that, for whatever reason, needs to call GETARG() or whatever the modern equivalent is from a FORTRAN library? best regards, -- Kevin B. McCarty <[EMAIL PRO

Please give-back mclibs on ia64

2008-01-18 Thread Kevin B. McCarty
ttp://lists.debian.org/debian-ia64/2008/01/msg00012.html (Note that the build failure mentioned at [2] is what is supposed to have been fixed by -3.) Thanks and best regards, -- Kevin B. McCarty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> WWW: http://www.starplot.org/ WWW: http://people.debian.org/~kmccarty/

Please give-back cernlib on mipsel

2008-03-04 Thread Kevin B. McCarty
dependency liblapack-dev is now built and available for all release-candidate architectures. Thank you! [1] http://buildd.debian.org/build.php?&pkg=cernlib&ver=2006.dfsg.2-11&arch=mipsel -- Kevin B. McCarty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> WWW: http://www.starplot.org/ WWW: http://people.debia

Re: Please give-back cernlib on mipsel

2008-03-05 Thread Kevin B. McCarty
Steve Langasek wrote: > On Tue, Mar 04, 2008 at 09:25:43AM -0800, Kevin B. McCarty wrote: > >> Could you please give-back cernlib version 2006.dfsg.2-11 on mipsel? It >> previously failed to build on Feb. 29 [1] due to an attempt to compile >> it before a build-depend

please give-back cernlib/2006.dfsg.2-13 on arm

2008-03-27 Thread Kevin B. McCarty
build on a different machine than "europa"? [0] http://buildd.debian.org/build.cgi?pkg=cernlib;ver=2006.dfsg.2-13;arch=arm Thanks and best regards, -- Kevin B. McCarty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> WWW: http://www.starplot.org/ WWW: http://people.debian.org/~kmccarty/ GPG: public

Re: please give-back cernlib/2006.dfsg.2-13 on arm

2008-03-30 Thread Kevin B. McCarty
Steve Langasek wrote: > On Thu, Mar 27, 2008 at 11:38:20AM -0700, Kevin B. McCarty wrote: >> Hi release team, > >> Cernlib 2006.dfsg.2-13 did not build on arm [0] due to a segfault in ld. >> However, previous versions built successfully on arm, and -13 has no >> arm

Bug#476427: gfortran-4.3: Please include patch for PR35662 to fix problem on mips(el)

2008-04-16 Thread Kevin B. McCarty
3 and (b) appear to use sincos{,f,l}. I will post the list of packages that appear to be affected by PR35662 later today in a follow-up message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] best regards, -- Kevin B. McCarty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> WWW: http://www.starplot.org/ WWW: http://people.debian.org/~kmccart

List of packages most probably affected by PR35662

2008-04-16 Thread Kevin B. McCarty
gfortran-4.3 package is available, I will recreate the above list in order to request bin-NMUs. Ideally, a fixed gfortran-4.3 package should be permitted to migrate into Lenny. Otherwise, later security builds of these packages in Lenny would re-break things. The script I wrote to do the checks

question about propagation of testing packages to new arch (armel)

2008-04-23 Thread Kevin B. McCarty
soon.) Or does it require a manual hint from the Release Team? The packages in question are these: cernlib/2006.dfsg.2-13 paw/1:2.14.04.dfsg.2-3 mclibs/2006.dfsg.2-5 geant321/1:3.21.14.dfsg-8 mn-fit/5.13-6 Thanks for your time, -- Kevin B. McCarty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> WWW: http://www.starpl

Re: question about propagation of testing packages to new arch (armel)

2008-04-24 Thread Kevin B. McCarty
Andreas Barth wrote: > * Andreas Barth ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [080423 21:36]: >> * Kevin B. McCarty ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [080423 18:20]: >>> Would you be able to tell me how long I need to wait before they get >>> into testing on armel? (I'd like to upload a new relea

Please consider bin-NMUs of certain gfortran-using packages on mips/mipsel

2008-05-05 Thread Kevin B. McCarty
//bugs.debian.org/476427 best regards, -- Kevin B. McCarty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> WWW: http://www.starplot.org/ WWW: http://people.debian.org/~kmccarty/ GPG: public key ID 4F83C751 signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Testing migration doesn't check build-depends?

2008-05-06 Thread Kevin B. McCarty
ing. Seems to be related to #145257 but I find it surprising that hasn't been fixed by now. best regards, -- Kevin B. McCarty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> WWW: http://www.starplot.org/ WWW: http://people.debian.org/~kmccarty/ GPG: public key ID 4F83C751 signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

SRMs: Should maxdb-related packages be removed from Etch?

2008-05-09 Thread Kevin B. McCarty
endent source packages should also be removed: libdbd-maxdb-perl (#461479) php-maxdb (#461480) The following would not need to be removed for dependency reasons, but they would no longer have any reason to be shipped: maxdb-doc (#461481) maxdb-buildtools (#461482) libsapdbc-java (#461483) best r

Bug#481231: RM: maxdb-7.5.00/stable -- ROST; Unfixable security bug, upstream went non-free

2008-05-14 Thread Kevin B. McCarty
a (#461483) Thanks and best regards, -- Kevin B. McCarty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> WWW: http://www.starplot.org/ WWW: http://people.debian.org/~kmccarty/ GPG: public key ID 4F83C751 signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Re: SRMs: Should maxdb-related packages be removed from Etch?

2008-05-14 Thread Kevin B. McCarty
umented yet and > the bugs are reassigned to us by the ftpteam, but still, as removals > can only be done at point release time anyway... Bug filed as #481231 against pseudopackage release.debian.org. Thanks and best regards, -- Kevin B. McCarty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> WWW: http://www.starp

Re: Please consider bin-NMUs of certain gfortran-using packages on mips/mipsel

2008-05-23 Thread Kevin B. McCarty
Luk Claes wrote: > Kevin B. McCarty wrote: >> Hi Release Team, > > Hi > >> as I mentioned previously [1], a bug in gfortran 4.3 [2,3] caused some >> FORTRAN code using SIN() / COS() functions to be miscompiled on mips and >> mipsel with -O1 or greater.

Re: RFC: expat transition or update - before or after lenny?

2008-05-28 Thread Kevin B. McCarty
t's running now. (At the moment it's processing packages in Etch; on i386, amd64 and powerpc architectures; main, contrib and non-free components). Should be done in a few hours, and I'll post the results and the script here. Let me know if you'd like me to search additional

Re: RFC: expat transition or update - before or after lenny?

2008-05-29 Thread Kevin B. McCarty
he vast majority of pre-compiled binaries for Linux are made available only for i386, so I think it's quite unlikely. Thus I'd suggest just contacting wink upstream about a fix, and not bothering about a libexpat0 compatibility package. best regards, -- Kevin B. McCarty <[

Re: RFC: expat transition or update - before or after lenny?

2008-05-29 Thread Kevin B. McCarty
te "Replaces: libexpat1 (<= [last version with compat symlink])" line. The wink package would also need to have an explicit Depends: libexpat1 (which it really ought to do anyway, even before any transition). [1] http://lists.debian.org/debian-release/2008/05/msg00428.html best regar

Re: RFC: expat transition or update - before or after lenny?

2008-06-02 Thread Kevin B. McCarty
gt; solution is that wink ships a symlink in /usr/lib/wink/libexpat.so.0, > and uses LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/usr/lib/wink from the /usr/bin/wink wrapper > script. ... but I agree that this proposal is much better, especially since /usr/bin/wink is already a wrapper script anyway. best regards

New ftgl-dev seems to cause breakage

2008-06-22 Thread Kevin B. McCarty
this also causes problems for other rdepends? Wanted to give you a heads-up. best regards, -- Kevin B. McCarty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> WWW: http://www.starplot.org/ WWW: http://people.debian.org/~kmccarty/ GPG: public key ID 4F83C751 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject

Re: New ftgl-dev seems to cause breakage

2008-06-22 Thread Kevin B. McCarty
Hi Sam, Bastian, Christian, On Sun, Jun 22, 2008 at 11:42 AM, Bastian Blank <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Sun, Jun 22, 2008 at 10:58:24AM -0700, Kevin B. McCarty wrote: >> It has apparently caused breakage in a package I'm sponsoring, see >> http://buildd.debian.or

Please unblock cfortran

2008-08-28 Thread Kevin B. McCarty
assume gfortran (rather than g77/f2c) if the FORTRAN compiler has > otherwise been left unspecified. Thanks Davide Mancusi for the prod. > * Fix a buffer overrun bug found by Jean-Guillaume Piccinali in one of > the example programs (fd/fd.c). (Closes: #489886.) > > -- Kevi

Please push cernlib 2004.11.04-3 into testing despite missing arm build

2005-04-12 Thread Kevin B. McCarty
/sparc-all.txt , so it should be in the archive this afternoon). As I mentioned in private email to one of you (SL) already, this release fixes a number of tempfile-related local vulnerabilities. Thanks, - -- Kevin B. McCarty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Physics Department WWW: http://www.princet

Please consider wmakerconf 2.11-2 for Sarge

2005-05-11 Thread Kevin B. McCarty
t;= 0.90.0) instead of Conflicting > against wmaker (<< 0.90.0); this prevents woody->sarge upgrade problems. > (closes: #307850) > * debian/control: Change maintainer address. > > -- Kevin B. McCarty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sat, 7 May 2005 19:04:07 -0400 wmakercon

Re: Bug#273734: education-common: con't fulfill the Recommends on !i386

2004-10-03 Thread Kevin B. McCarty
to do about it, since making some of the data packages Arch: any would tremendously bloat the archive. I guess they could just Suggest the relevant libraries, but this sort of twists the meaning of Recommends vs. Suggests -- no one would want to have a data package installed without the correspond

Re: Bug#273734: education-common: con't fulfill the Recommends on !i386

2004-10-03 Thread Kevin B. McCarty
es that can't be satisfied on 64-bit arches, but I guess this is OK. Thank you for the advice, -- Kevin B. McCarty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Physics Department WWW: http://www.princeton.edu/~kmccarty/Princeton University GPG public key ID: 4F83C751 Princeton, NJ 08544

Please remove cernlib from testing

2004-07-20 Thread Kevin B. McCarty
unstable should in principle propagate to testing almost immediately. Whoever does so, please also close bug # 255970. Thanks a lot! -- Kevin B. McCarty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Physics Department WWW: http://www.princeton.edu/~kmccarty/Princeton University GPG public key ID: 4F

Re: Please remove cernlib from testing

2004-07-20 Thread Kevin B. McCarty
the others to be removed by ftpmaster, and then the new > version will propagate to testing. Then I need to wait for ftpmaster to take care of # 255970 and the buildds to catch up, I suppose. Thank you for setting me straight. regards, -- Kevin B. McCarty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Ph

Bad interaction between sed and a2ps breaks apsfilter

2004-08-13 Thread Kevin B. McCarty
I thought it could be informative to forward this email to the debian-release list, in case any NMUs may be needed. See http://bugs.debian.org/258042 for the background... -- Forwarded message -- Date: Fri, 13 Aug 2004 14:19:52 -0400 (EDT) From: Kevin B. McCarty <[EM

New upload of cernlib planned to fix (unfiled) RC bug

2004-08-18 Thread Kevin B. McCarty
-) bug # 255970 against ftp.debian.org. thanks and regards, - -- Kevin B. McCarty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Physics Department WWW: http://www.princeton.edu/~kmccarty/Princeton University GPG public key ID: 4F83C751 Princeton, NJ 08544 -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: Gn

Packages not entering testing due to version inconsistencies between arches

2004-11-13 Thread Kevin B. McCarty
ee the email I sent to bug #269523. Debian QA Group <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> lush 267494 1.0+cvs.2004.02.02 1.0+cvs.2004.05.16 243501 Dirk Eddelbuettel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> octave2.0 271648 2.0.17-7 2.0.17-9 none Ian Lynagh (wibble) <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> ghc6 276608 6.2.1-4 6.2.2

Re: Upload of GNOME 2.8 to unstable

2004-11-17 Thread Kevin B. McCarty
downside is of course that type-handling depends on dpkg-dev, which recommends c-compiler, so many apt front ends will cause gcc to be installed. IMO this is really a flaw in the type-handling package, and a dummy package that Provides appropriate per-arch virtual packages should be split off

Re: wmaker, wsound* and libdockapp.

2004-12-06 Thread Kevin B. McCarty
e #282807. I'm trying to port wmakerconf to GTK+ 2.x but there are some weird problems that will take a little while to solve, and I won't have much free programming time before Christmas. -- Kevin B. McCarty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Physics Department WWW: http://www.princeton.edu/~km

Re: Xorg 6.9

2005-12-19 Thread Kevin B. McCarty
> soqt Jeff Teunissen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> libdockapp Chris Waters <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> itcl3.0 itcl3.1 tk8.0 tk8.3 Florian M. Weps <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> libooc-x11 Mathias Weyland <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> beep-media-player regards, -- Kevin B. Mc

xlibs-dev removal and RC bug fun

2006-01-07 Thread Kevin B. McCarty
ing, mass-bug-filing, or doing other things related to dealing with this issue, could you please try to keep the wiki page up-to-date? Thanks! -- Kevin B. McCarty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Physics Department WWW: http://www.princeton.edu/~kmccarty/Princeton University GPG: public key ID 4F83C751

Re: xlibs-dev removal and RC bug fun

2006-01-09 Thread Kevin B. McCarty
David Martínez Moreno wrote: > El sábado, 7 de enero de 2006 23:53, Kevin B. McCarty escribió: > >>Looks like xlibs-dev is now officially gone, which instantly creates a >>hell of a lot of RC (FTBFS) bugs that will manifest the next time >>rebuilds are attempted of x

Re: draft of announcement for sarge r2

2006-04-12 Thread Kevin B. McCarty
can be found at the direct URL http://www.debian.org/security/2006/dsa-1006 regards, -- Kevin B. McCarty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Physics Department WWW: http://www.princeton.edu/~kmccarty/Princeton University GPG: public key ID 4F83C751 Princeton, NJ 08544 signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Re: Easy removals B-G reminder

2006-05-17 Thread Kevin B. McCarty
mail at the end of the log. > # 362533 > remove gr-usrp/0.6-1 Fixed in a new version uploaded to unstable, 0.8-1. regards, -- Kevin B. McCarty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Physics Department WWW: http://www.princeton.edu/~kmccarty/Princeton University GPG: public key ID 4F83C751

Re: Packages that ought to be kicked out of testing

2006-05-25 Thread Kevin B. McCarty
Steve Langasek wrote: > On Thu, May 25, 2006 at 03:04:25PM -0400, Kevin B. McCarty wrote: >># No point in having interchange-doc without interchange >># (not currently in testing). >>remove interchange-doc/5.2.0-1 > > Then the correct procedure is to first

Packages that ought to be kicked out of testing

2006-05-25 Thread Kevin B. McCarty
/3.1-1 -- Kevin B. McCarty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Physics Department WWW: http://www.princeton.edu/~kmccarty/Princeton University GPG: public key ID 4F83C751 Princeton, NJ 08544 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe".

Re: Preparation of the next stable Debian GNU/Linux update (I)

2006-08-25 Thread Kevin B. McCarty
he existing mozilla-thunderbird security update needs a bin-NMU on i386 [2]. CC'ed to Alexander. [0] http://lists.alioth.debian.org/pipermail/pkg-mozilla-maintainers/2006-August/000399.html [1] http://www.asoftsite.org/s9y/archives/113-Please-test-firefoxthunderbirdmozilla-security-packages.

Re: Preparation of the next stable Debian GNU/Linux update (I)

2006-08-27 Thread Kevin B. McCarty
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Martin Zobel-Helas wrote: > Hi Kevin, > > On Fri, Aug 25, 2006 at 09:59:53AM -0700, Kevin B. McCarty <[EMAIL > PROTECTED]> wrote: >>Second, is it planned to include the next round of security updates to >>the Mozilla

Please bin-NMU mn-fit on alpha, amd64, ia64

2006-10-02 Thread Kevin B. McCarty
27;ed version can incorporate those fixes and go into etch. mn-fit is bin-NMU safe, to the best of my knowledge, so this should not cause any problems. Thanks in advance! best regards, -- Kevin B. McCarty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Physics Department WWW: http://www.princeton.edu/~kmccarty/

hypothetical bin-NMU versioning question

2006-10-02 Thread Kevin B. McCarty
;s wrong.) And does this numbering depend upon whether the reasons for the first and second rounds of bin-NMUs are the same or different? Thanks and best regards, -- Kevin B. McCarty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Physics Department WWW: http://www.princeton.edu/~kmccarty/Princeton Univers

Re: hypothetical bin-NMU versioning question

2006-10-02 Thread Kevin B. McCarty
Andreas Metzler wrote: > On 2006-10-02 "Kevin B. McCarty" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> I have a hypothetical bin-NMU versioning question (this is asked only >> for my curiosity, so don't give it a high priority). Suppose that >> package X (version 1.0

apt-listbugs unusable in Sarge

2006-10-05 Thread Kevin B. McCarty
ou is a snapshot of bug reports back in May > 2005 or something; since the job to update the indices was broken and > nobody fixed it. Should the apt-listbugs package be removed from stable since it's no longer at all usable there? (possibly with an announcement to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Serious issues with linux-2.6 (was: Re: Scheduling linux-2.6 2.6.18-3)

2006-10-12 Thread Kevin B. McCarty
livejournal.com/55309.html Apologies if it's a known and/or fixed issue. best regards, -- Kevin B. McCarty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Physics Department WWW: http://www.princeton.edu/~kmccarty/Princeton University GPG: public key ID 4F83C751 Princeton, NJ 08544 signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Bug#392818: ext3 corruption issue in 2.6.18 found by RedHat

2006-10-13 Thread Kevin B. McCarty
Package: linux-2.6 Version: 2.6.18-1 Severity: critical Justification: possible filesystem corruption Hi release and kernel teams, Following up to http://lists.debian.org/debian-release/2006/10/msg00183.html : Steve Langasek wrote: > On Thu, Oct 12, 2006 at 10:11:06AM -0700, Kevin B. McCa

Re: Please bin-NMU mn-fit on alpha, amd64, ia64

2006-10-17 Thread Kevin B. McCarty
Wondering if this message was just overlooked, or if the release team has a reason to ignore it? Thanks, and sorry for the bother. best regards, Original Message Subject: Please bin-NMU mn-fit on alpha, amd64, ia64 Date: Mon, 02 Oct 2006 10:52:32 -0700 From: Kevin B. McCarty

Bug#394332: sysvinit: Please remove NEWS.Debian entries for 2.86.ds1-18 and -19

2006-10-20 Thread Kevin B. McCarty
ant dates /MM/DD. regards, -- Kevin B. McCarty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Physics Department WWW: http://www.princeton.edu/~kmccarty/Princeton University GPG: public key ID 4F83C751 Princeton, NJ 08544 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "

Re: Bug#394332: sysvinit: Please remove NEWS.Debian entries for 2.86.ds1-18 and -19

2006-10-20 Thread Kevin B. McCarty
packages site you see this type of information (on the right) > > http://packages.qa.debian.org/s/sysvinit.html Thanks! Don't I feel dumb now. (CC'ed to debian-release for the benefit of anyone reading the archives later.) regards, -- Kevin B. McCarty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> P

Re: Bug#396331: upgrade-reports: sarge to etch removes kernels

2006-10-31 Thread Kevin B. McCarty
Argh. Sorry, this was of course supposed to go to debian-release@LISTS.debian.org ... Original Message Subject: Re: Bug#396331: upgrade-reports: sarge to etch removes kernels Date: Tue, 31 Oct 2006 08:57:25 -0800 From: Kevin B. McCarty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: [EMAIL PRO

Re: Bug#396331: upgrade-reports: sarge to etch removes kernels

2006-10-31 Thread Kevin B. McCarty
Steve Langasek wrote: > On Tue, Oct 31, 2006 at 08:57:25AM -0800, Kevin B. McCarty wrote: >> This problem (automatic removal of old kernel packages) is apparently >> fixed in the version of aptitude in Sid, 0.4.4-1. If this version was >> allowed to pass into Etch (currentl

Re: Bug#396331: upgrade-reports: sarge to etch removes kernels

2006-10-31 Thread Kevin B. McCarty
Steve Langasek wrote: > On Tue, Oct 31, 2006 at 03:04:49PM -0800, Kevin B. McCarty wrote: >> Sorry, maybe I didn't make myself understood well, or else I didn't >> understand the bug report. If I read correctly, the submitter is >> complaining that his dist-upgra

Re: please hint lilypond 2.8.7 into testing

2006-11-26 Thread Kevin B. McCarty
ches in both testing and unstable. It looks like the last Lilypond built against guile-1.6 (version 2.6.5-3) compiled OK on the three problematic arches. Hope this helped, -- Kevin B. McCarty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Physics Department WWW: http://www.princeton.edu/~km

Re: Packages rename and conffiles

2006-12-14 Thread Kevin B. McCarty
ell people "upgrade dpkg first" along with aptitude in the Sarge->Etch upgrade release notes? That would at least take care of everyone who bothers to read the instructions :-) best regards, -- Kevin B. McCarty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Physics Department WWW: http://www.princeton.edu/~

Sarge -> Etch upgrade: no way to prevent removal of running kernel

2006-12-21 Thread Kevin B. McCarty
Etch 2) Make available 2.4.27/2.6.8 kernel images for a new Sarge point release that don't depend on initrd-tools 3) Make available udev and/or yaird packages built against the Sarge libc6 4) Remove the initrd-tools conflict from libc6 in Etch (might not work due to #364338) 5) Others? regards, -

Re: #379288 release-critical?

2007-01-16 Thread Kevin B. McCarty
OOo Calc, and is the only reason left on my > Desktop PCs for keeping gcc-3.x packages. Really? Aren't there a number of GNOME packages that use FFTW? best regards, -- Kevin B. McCarty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Physics Department WWW: http://www.princeton.edu/~kmccarty/

Please unblock paw 1:2.14.04-7

2007-01-24 Thread Kevin B. McCarty
widgets, fixing an important GUI > bug (not filed in the BTS) that was causing parts of the Paw++ UI not > to be displayed. Hence urgency set to medium. > > -- Kevin B. McCarty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Fri, 19 Jan 2007 15:13:37 -0500 Thanks for your consideration!

Please unblock geant321 1:3.21.14.dfsg-3

2007-01-24 Thread Kevin B. McCarty
idget, > copying from the Paw++ app-defaults. > * Add widget geometry constraints in the Geant++ browser widget > app-defaults. This fixes an (unreported) important bug that caused > some of the UI widgets in GEANT 3.21 client programs to be missing. > Hence urgen

Re: Please unblock geant321 1:3.21.14.dfsg-3

2007-01-30 Thread Kevin B. McCarty
My apologies, I discovered some more issues relating to the main fix that went into version -2 of geant321. Please ignore this unblock request for now. I have uploaded a new -4 version and I will make a new request once it's been available for 5 days... best regards, -- Kevin B. Mc

Please unblock geant321 1:3.21.14.dfsg-4

2007-02-05 Thread Kevin B. McCarty
an-release/2007/01/msg01178.html Thank you for your consideration! best regards, -- Kevin B. McCarty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Physics Department WWW: http://www.princeton.edu/~kmccarty/Princeton University GPG: public key ID 4F83C751 Princeton, NJ 08544 signature.asc Desc

Re: unblock requests for young packages

2007-02-09 Thread Kevin B. McCarty
ame. I packaged this game because someone > requested a package (RFP). The only Lintian/Linda complaint about the binary .debs is that none of them ship a manpage, which seems minor. But I'm not a release manager; if the RMs judge these unacceptable to go in Etch, then so be it. best re