Re: sprint for separating release from ftp-master

2016-04-13 Thread Neil McGovern
On Wed, Apr 13, 2016 at 07:00:08PM +, Peter Palfrader wrote: > Hi, > > we (the release team, by remote participation the FTP-team, and DSA) are > planning a sprint for entangling release from ftp-master infrastructure. > > Time and location would be at the debian sun camp [DSC]. > > We have

Re: 8.2 and 7.9 planning

2015-08-21 Thread Neil McGovern
On Tue, Aug 18, 2015 at 07:52:49PM +0100, Adam D. Barratt wrote: > 5/6th - okay for me Fine. > 12/13th - the 12th doesn't work for me until at least mid-afternoon I'm away I'm afraid. > 19th/20th - looks okay > 26th/27th - looks okay > Both work for me. Neil

Bug#587058: (no subject)

2010-08-02 Thread Neil McGovern
pkg-clamav-de...@lists.alioth.debian.org Bcc: Subject: ClamAV supportability in stable releases Reply-To: Hi, The release team have been asked to remove ClamAV from testing (and hence the next stable release. See bug #587058. The issue seems to be that it's not supportable in stable due to the

Bug #588280 (Atlas FTBFS)

2010-08-05 Thread Neil McGovern
Hi Debian Science team, I was wondering what your plans were with regard to Atlas and bug #588280? I don't particularly want to remove atlas and all its rdeps, but there hasn't been any activity or reply to that RC bug in a month now. Thanks, Neil -- Damned Inselaffen. Oh, wait, that's me. -

courier-authlib shlibs missing

2010-08-05 Thread Neil McGovern
Hi, With regards to #554788, is there a chance that this could be fixed, or even replied to? I really would rather not remove courier from testing. Neil -- What is a sane place to look for washing machines around Manchester? enrico: the canals :-) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-release-r

Re: Update to libmowgli

2010-08-05 Thread Neil McGovern
On Thu, Jul 22, 2010 at 02:29:50PM +0200, Mehdi Dogguy wrote: > On 08/07/2010 11:15, Patrick Schoenfeld wrote: > > > > Is it okay to upload? > > > > Yes, please do. > Hi Patrick, I'm sorry to mess you about, but it now seems that we're not going to have space in the transition queue for this

Re: libetpan13 -> libetpan15 mini-transition

2010-08-05 Thread Neil McGovern
On Sat, Jul 17, 2010 at 08:21:03PM +0100, Adam D. Barratt wrote: > On Fri, 2010-07-09 at 10:22 +0100, Adam D. Barratt wrote: > > On Wed, June 23, 2010 14:59, Adam D. Barratt wrote: > > > On Wed, June 23, 2010 14:36, Nikita V. Youshchenko wrote: > > >>> >> > > I would like to upload libetpan 1.0 to

Re: Bug#591931: xprintmon: not really useful to release squeeze with it

2010-08-06 Thread Neil McGovern
On Fri, Aug 06, 2010 at 05:02:28PM +0200, Bernhard R. Link wrote: > I do not think it makes sense to release xprintmon in squeeze. > (Actually I think noone but me uses it, so I'm also considering > to have it removed from unstable, but I most likely will not > think enough about that before squeez

Re: runinit-run, releaseability thereof

2010-08-06 Thread Neil McGovern
On Tue, Jul 27, 2010 at 10:54:12PM -0400, Don Armstrong wrote: > Release team: if you think this bug makes runit-run unreleaseable, > please indicate as such; otherwise I think it's reasonable for the > maintainer to downgrade the severity of this bug if the maintainer > feels that it is releasable

Re: Bug#561944: Bits from the (chilly) release team

2010-08-06 Thread Neil McGovern
On Fri, Aug 06, 2010 at 07:00:00PM +0300, Yavor Doganov wrote: > Neil McGovern wrote: > > As mentioned in the previous mail, we would freeze when various > > transitions are completed or being handled. > > I sincerely hope you haven't forgetten #561944, and that ditching

Re: Perl 5.12 status update

2010-08-06 Thread Neil McGovern
On Sun, Jun 13, 2010 at 07:23:33PM +0100, Adam D. Barratt wrote: > Our proposal would therefore be that we look again at the number and > severity of outstanding issues related to moving to Perl 5.12 once the > Python transition has finished and evaluate at that point whether it > would be feasible

Re: audacity, vlc, and xmms2

2010-08-06 Thread Neil McGovern
On Sat, Aug 07, 2010 at 12:12:05AM +0200, Benjamin Drung wrote: > I like to see these three packages migrating to testing: > Hi, As you can potentially see from running grep-excuses, or reading the mail I sent to d-d-a carfully, it's already unblocked. Thanks, Neil -- A. Because it breaks the

Re: Bug#505111: will suggest removal from testing

2010-08-07 Thread Neil McGovern
Well, it seems that other people haven't taken an interest in the bug, and we've now frozen, again. As there isn't a resolution in sight, I'll add a hint at the end of August for the removal of the package unless there's significant progress to fixing the issue. Neil -- the hacklab room is the

Re: Freeze exception for debhelper 8.0.0

2010-08-07 Thread Neil McGovern
Hi Joey, On Sat, Aug 07, 2010 at 07:23:12AM -0400, Joey Hess wrote: > My plan for v8 was to put in as many good things as possible before > the freeze, and call it finished when the freeze happened. This will > avoid needing to backport debhelper when backporting packages that use > v8, after the

Bug#592055: xpdf: freeze exception

2010-08-07 Thread Neil McGovern
On Sat, Aug 07, 2010 at 02:59:38AM -0400, Michael Gilbert wrote: > The plan is to get the poppler issue fixed via NMU as soon as possible, > which will let 3.02-9 enter testing (that should be automatic?), then > we will need your OK to upload 3.02-10. > Hrm, maul...@cheshire:/home/repos/xpdf$ g

Re: Please unblock libdatetimex-easy-perl

2010-08-07 Thread Neil McGovern
On Sat, Aug 07, 2010 at 11:00:09AM -0400, Chris Butler wrote: > Can you please unblock libdatetimex-easy-perl to go into testing. It > removes the dependency on libdatetime-format-datemanip-perl, which is > RC buggy and has been removed from unstable. > Unblocked. Neil -- A. Because it breaks t

Bug#592055: xpdf: freeze exception

2010-08-07 Thread Neil McGovern
On Sat, Aug 07, 2010 at 11:52:18AM -0400, Michael Gilbert wrote: > Attached is the debdiff. A couple of the longer differences are the > copyright file rewrite and dropping the update-xpdfrc script and its > manpage. > Hi, Please upload and then re-prod us when it hits unstable for an unblock.

Bug#592055: xpdf: freeze exception

2010-08-07 Thread Neil McGovern
On Sun, Aug 08, 2010 at 01:56:04AM +0900, Osamu Aoki wrote: > On Sun, Aug 08, 2010 at 01:31:13AM +0900, Osamu Aoki wrote: > > Hi, > > > > On Sat, Aug 07, 2010 at 03:23:43PM +0100, Neil McGovern wrote: > > > On Sat, Aug 07, 2010 at 02:59:38AM -0400, Michael Gilbert

Re: Bug#561944: GNUstep transition

2010-08-09 Thread Neil McGovern
On Sun, Aug 08, 2010 at 09:33:08PM +0300, Yavor Doganov wrote: > The cure for #581940 (gorm.app) depends on -base/-gui from > experimental. The specific fix can be backported easily if a new > upstream gorm.app release is not acceptable at this point. Gürkan is > the de-facto maintainer, so he ca

Pending removal of deborphan

2010-08-11 Thread Neil McGovern
Hi, As per bug 592071, it seems that deborphan shoudn't be in squeeze without a maintainer who'll take care of it. I'm ccing the maintainers of the depending packages to see if they'd be interested in taking it over. If I don't hear anything in a week, I'll go ahead and remove it from testing. Ne

Re: Bug#591673: movabletype-plugin-core: zemanta content recommendations on by default?

2010-08-11 Thread Neil McGovern
On Mon, Aug 09, 2010 at 11:32:06AM +0100, Dominic Hargreaves wrote: > I think the best thing to do at this stage is probably to split out the > Zemanta plugin into a separate package (with a clear warning about what > it does) in order to avoid the risk of delving into the code and > making configu

Re: Pending removal of deborphan

2010-08-11 Thread Neil McGovern
On Wed, Aug 11, 2010 at 12:20:44PM -0700, Russ Allbery wrote: > Neil McGovern writes: > > > As per bug 592071, it seems that deborphan shoudn't be in squeeze > > without a maintainer who'll take care of it. I'm ccing the maintainers > > of the depending pac

Re: freeze exception for gcc-4.5 (i386, amd64 only)

2010-08-11 Thread Neil McGovern
Hi Matthias, Sorry for not getting back to you sooner. On Sat, Aug 07, 2010 at 11:42:42PM +0200, Matthias Klose wrote: > gcc-4.5 should be released with squeeze, at least on amd64 and i386. > gcc-4.5.1 was released a week ago, the first bug and regression fix > release after the initial gcc-4.5.0

Bug#592659: freeze exception for deborphan

2010-08-11 Thread Neil McGovern
On Wed, Aug 11, 2010 at 01:04:49PM -0700, Russ Allbery wrote: > The request is, therefore, not for an advance freeze exception (since > I know you'll want to look at the package as uploaded), but for an > indication of whether such a new release has a reasonable chance of being > accepted if it is

Re: Bug#591673: movabletype-plugin-core: zemanta content recommendations on by default?

2010-08-11 Thread Neil McGovern
On Wed, Aug 11, 2010 at 09:54:36PM +0100, Dominic Hargreaves wrote: > On Wed, Aug 11, 2010 at 07:56:52PM +0100, Neil McGovern wrote: > > On Mon, Aug 09, 2010 at 11:32:06AM +0100, Dominic Hargreaves wrote: > > > I think the best thing to do at this stage is probably to split out

Re: freeze exception for gcc-4.5 (i386, amd64 only)

2010-08-18 Thread Neil McGovern
On Mon, Aug 16, 2010 at 12:36:34PM +0200, Matthias Klose wrote: > On 11.08.2010 23:16, Neil McGovern wrote: > >Hi Matthias, > > > >Sorry for not getting back to you sooner. > > > >On Sat, Aug 07, 2010 at 11:42:42PM +0200, Matthias Klose wrote: > >>gcc-4.5

Re: freeze exception for gcc-4.5 (i386, amd64 only)

2010-08-20 Thread Neil McGovern
On Wed, Aug 18, 2010 at 05:17:32PM +0200, Matthias Klose wrote: > >I'm not sure there are any in the original, plugins and a greater > >optimisation level certainly aren't things which will solve specific > >problems. Could you highlight them for me? > > Having these features available for develop

Re: Bug#593627: java-common: please use openjdk as default jdk on powerpcspe

2010-08-21 Thread Neil McGovern
On Sat, Aug 21, 2010 at 04:13:34PM +0200, Niels Thykier wrote: > Personally I am okay with doing it and it is the intention of the Java > Team to make openjdk the default on all architectures. The question is > if we should do it now or after Squeeze (CC'ed the release team) for > their comments. >

Re: Bug#593627: java-common: please use openjdk as default jdk on powerpcspe

2010-08-22 Thread Neil McGovern
On Sat, Aug 21, 2010 at 09:33:19PM +0100, Neil McGovern wrote: > On Sat, Aug 21, 2010 at 04:13:34PM +0200, Niels Thykier wrote: > > Personally I am okay with doing it and it is the intention of the Java > > Team to make openjdk the default on all architectures. The question is >

Bug#592055: xpdf: freeze exception

2010-08-22 Thread Neil McGovern
On Sat, Aug 21, 2010 at 04:25:29PM +0900, Osamu Aoki wrote: > Sorry... > > On Sat, Aug 21, 2010 at 02:59:07AM -0300, Rogério Brito wrote: > > Hi. > > > > On 08/21/2010 02:39 AM, Osamu Aoki wrote: > > > On Sat, Aug 07, 2010 at 05:08:04PM +0100, Neil McGovern w

Re: Bug#591673: movabletype-plugin-core: zemanta content recommendations on by default?

2010-08-24 Thread Neil McGovern
On Tue, Aug 24, 2010 at 07:58:06PM +0100, Dominic Hargreaves wrote: > On Thu, Aug 12, 2010 at 07:15:14PM +0100, Dominic Hargreaves wrote: > > On Wed, Aug 11, 2010 at 10:16:52PM +0100, Neil McGovern wrote: > > > > > Ok, please upload. > > > > Changes commi

Re: freeze exception: lynx-cur 2.8.8dev5-1

2010-08-26 Thread Neil McGovern
On Thu, Aug 26, 2010 at 10:59:12PM +0900, Atsuhito Kohda wrote: > I think it's your point of view and I don't agree with you here. > I have a good relation with the upstream author and don't > think it is necessary for me to understand the code. > > Umm, sorry again but I'd like to know if you can

Re: runinit-run, releaseability thereof

2010-08-31 Thread Neil McGovern
On Mon, Aug 30, 2010 at 03:07:59PM +, Gerrit Pape wrote: > On Fri, Aug 06, 2010 at 05:07:22PM +0100, Neil McGovern wrote: > > On Tue, Jul 27, 2010 at 10:54:12PM -0400, Don Armstrong wrote: > > > Release team: if you think this bug makes runit-run unreleaseable, > > &

Re: Request for approval of FAI 3.4.1 (was: Re: Request for (pre-)approval of FAI 3.4.0)

2010-08-31 Thread Neil McGovern
On Fri, Aug 27, 2010 at 02:35:17PM +0200, Michael Prokop wrote: > Please approve fai 3.4.1 for squeeze. > Unblocked by luk Neil -- * stockholm calls netapp * stockholm calls someone else you are typing random numbers on your phone? yes. my newest attempt to close our budget hole signature.a

Re: Python 3 support in Squeeze

2010-09-08 Thread Neil McGovern
On Mon, Sep 06, 2010 at 10:54:45PM +0200, Piotr Ożarowski wrote: > [Adam D. Barratt, 2010-09-06] > > So upstream have verified the result of 2to3 on their software? > > yes > > > On a related note, will the build system allow for the result of 2to3 to > > be easily overridden? For example, if wh

Re: Python 3 support in Squeeze

2010-09-09 Thread Neil McGovern
On Thu, Sep 09, 2010 at 11:25:30AM +0200, Matthias Klose wrote: > >Sometimes 2to3 will find a place in your source code that needs to be > >changed, but 2to3 cannot fix automatically. In this case, 2to3 will > >print a warning beneath the diff for a file. You should address the > >warning in order

Re: Python 3 support in Squeeze

2010-09-09 Thread Neil McGovern
On Thu, Sep 09, 2010 at 05:53:59PM +0200, Moritz Muehlenhoff wrote: > On Thu, Sep 09, 2010 at 03:54:56PM +0100, Neil McGovern wrote: > > On Thu, Sep 09, 2010 at 11:25:30AM +0200, Matthias Klose wrote: > > > >Sometimes 2to3 will find a place in your source code that needs to b

Re: Python 3 support in Squeeze

2010-09-09 Thread Neil McGovern
On Thu, Sep 09, 2010 at 06:43:42PM +0200, Matthias Klose wrote: > The upstream policy for the python branches is to fix documentation > and bugs, not to introduce new features or change semantics of > existing features. lib2to3 does evolve in in the py3k branch only. > Plus, the 2.6 now only sees s

Re: squeeze-ignore for Bug #509287?

2010-09-14 Thread Neil McGovern
This mail should be sent to the debian-release mailing list, copying in. On Tue, Sep 14, 2010 at 12:32:57AM +0200, Erik Schanze wrote: > please let me kindly ask for setting squeeze-ignore tag for > serious Bug #509287. > > Afio has a problematic license, but in my opinion it should > not block t

Re: maxima 'serious' bug fix missed freeze

2010-09-14 Thread Neil McGovern
On Wed, Sep 08, 2010 at 12:54:57PM -0500, Kumar Appaiah wrote: > Hi! > > On Wed, Sep 08, 2010 at 12:36:41PM -0400, Camm Maguire wrote: > > Greetings! I uploaded a fix for 591862 together with a minor upstream > > point release that just missed the freeze. Would it be possible to > > permit the f

Bug#608744: unblock: mercurial-server/1.1-1

2011-01-24 Thread Neil McGovern
On Fri, Jan 21, 2011 at 02:58:41PM +0200, Teodor MICU wrote: > 2011/1/3 Mehdi Dogguy : > > On 01/03/2011 11:31 AM, Teodor wrote: > >> > >> Please unblock package mercurial-server. The two RC bugs for this > >> package were fixed so it should get back for inclussion in Debian 6.0 > >> (squeeze). > >

Re: please migrate mhonarc package to testing

2011-01-24 Thread Neil McGovern
On Sun, Jan 23, 2011 at 10:45:58AM -0800, Jeff Breidenbach wrote: > On Sun, Jan 16, 2011 at 6:19 PM, Jeff Breidenbach wrote: > >> diffstat: 61 files changed, 1502 insertions(+), 657 deletions(-) > >> Is all of that necessary to fix the security issues? > > > > No. > > > > However, I do not have th

Re: sh4 architecture into Wheezy

2011-04-03 Thread Neil McGovern
On Thu, Mar 31, 2011 at 08:02:18AM +0900, Nobuhiro Iwamatsu wrote: > The package which time needs most is GCC. GCC takes about 6 days. Ouch! That doesn't sound supportable to be honest. Do you have faster hardware? Neil -- So we can expect stockholm to be elected in 2009? isnt the world own3d

Re: sh4 architecture into Wheezy

2011-04-26 Thread Neil McGovern
On Tue, Apr 26, 2011 at 12:58:24PM +0900, Nobuhiro Iwamatsu wrote: > > We don't have faster hardware. > > We think of a too slow thing in a question > > A test of gcc of sh4 takes time. > When there is not a test, a package is done in about two days. > > How does sh4 become targeted for the r

Re: Bits from the Release Team - Kicking off Wheezy

2011-05-22 Thread Neil McGovern
On Tue, Mar 29, 2011 at 10:51:02AM +0100, Neil McGovern wrote: > Sprint > -- > We feel it would be useful for the Release Team as a whole to get > together to think about what the plans are for the next release. As > such, we're planning a sprint to meet in person. Detail

Re: test

2011-07-07 Thread Neil McGovern
nterpretation of that announcement, and its applicability now, but despite that I do acknowledge it may be useful to provide a confirmation. Thus, you can take this as confirmation that there is no current plan to support 5.0 to 7.0 upgrades, unless we release by February 2012. As we are due t

Re: test

2011-07-10 Thread Neil McGovern
On Thu, Jul 07, 2011 at 01:23:51PM +, Camaleón wrote: > May I also ask if the idea of a 2-year fixed cycle freeze is still in > place (is valid) or has been reviewed and then discarded? > The current plan is that we will try the fixed release date for the coming release, and see how it goes.

di/cd/release meetup at DebConf

2011-07-28 Thread Neil McGovern
Hi, I'd like to have a sit down with relevant people to work out how we can improve d-i and debian-cd handling for the next release. Please indicate your availability at: http://www.doodle.com/x2kit5h9zurfk6ss Thanks, Neil -- < vorlon> We need a fresher website - WordPress is the perfect solutio

Re: di/cd/release meetup at DebConf

2011-07-28 Thread Neil McGovern
On Thu, Jul 28, 2011 at 11:16:59AM +0200, Neil McGovern wrote: > I'd like to have a sit down with relevant people to work out how we can > improve d-i and debian-cd handling for the next release. Please indicate > your availability at: > http://www.doodle.com/x2kit5h9zurfk6ss >

Re: Release goal proposal: remove yada

2011-08-04 Thread Neil McGovern
On Thu, Aug 04, 2011 at 01:14:29PM +0100, Adam D. Barratt wrote: > To get a fuller picture, what are the changes being made to each of > the files in question and when/where are they being made? You > mentioned earlier that cleaning the package would lead to changes > being made - it sounds like t

Re: Upload of dtc-xen 0.5.13-1+squeeze1 in squeeze-proposed-updates

2011-08-04 Thread Neil McGovern
On Fri, Aug 05, 2011 at 12:22:58AM +0800, Thomas Goirand wrote: > Hi Adam, > > Are you a new member of the release team? If so, then I'm happy there > are much needed new members! :) > For reference, Adam as been one of the Release *Managers* for over a year now. Neil -- A. Because it breaks t

Re: Seeking pre-approval on reprepro 3.5.2-5

2008-11-19 Thread Neil McGovern
On Wed, Nov 19, 2008 at 08:59:16AM +0100, Bernhard R. Link wrote: > * Neil McGovern <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [081110 12:27]: > > On Sun, Nov 09, 2008 at 05:02:53PM +0100, Bernhard R. Link wrote: > > > Hi, I backported some changes from 3.6.2 (currently in experimental > &g

Re: Please unblock xapian-bindings 1.0.7-3.1

2008-11-19 Thread Neil McGovern
On Wed, Nov 19, 2008 at 12:04:54AM +, Chris Lamb wrote: > xapian-bindings (1.0.7-3.1) unstable; urgency=medium Unblocked. Neil -- Ganneff is just a big cuddly teddy bear. Our photo proves it. signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: Unblock request for pdbv/2.0.11-0.4 (l10n updates)

2008-11-19 Thread Neil McGovern
On Tue, Nov 18, 2008 at 07:50:13AM +0100, Christian Perrier wrote: > Could you consider unblocking that version and allow it to enter testing? > Unblocked Neil -- Drinking coca cola is the most unhealthy thing you can do; it is healthier to drink tap water than coca cola : ) -- Sergio C

Re: Unblock request for stunnel4/3:4.22-2

2008-11-19 Thread Neil McGovern
On Tue, Nov 18, 2008 at 03:13:43PM +0100, Rodrigo Gallardo wrote: > Please unblock stunnel4 3:4.22-2. This upload closes > Unblocked by luk. Neil -- A. Because it breaks the logical sequence of discussion Q. Why is top posting bad? gpg key - http://www.halon.org.uk/pubkey.txt ; the.earth.li B34

Re: please consider unblocking portmap/6.0-8

2008-11-30 Thread Neil McGovern
On Fri, Nov 21, 2008 at 08:17:58PM +1100, Aníbal Monsalve Salazar wrote: > please consider unblocking portmap/6.0-8 > portmap/6.0-9 unblocked by luk. Neil -- If stockhom sees my banana, he will want to eat it -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trou

Re: Request for freeze exception: apt-cacher-ng

2008-11-30 Thread Neil McGovern
On Fri, Nov 21, 2008 at 10:22:18AM +0100, Eduard Bloch wrote: > > There's no release critical bug reported against the version in > > lenny. However, that version *has* had sufficient testing to assume that > > every serious bug should have been noticed until now. You propose to > > Okay, simple q

Re: Unblock request irmp3 0.5.7pre2-1.3

2008-11-30 Thread Neil McGovern
On Tue, Nov 25, 2008 at 01:08:47PM -0500, Barry deFreese wrote: > Please unblock irmp3 0.5.7pre2-1.3. If fixes a Lenny Release Goal for > bash. Here is the changelog: > Unblocked. Neil -- [..] Debian (in the form of a large, busy, and frequently stressed organising team) has been able to org

Re: Freeze exception: xsane 0.996-1

2008-11-30 Thread Neil McGovern
On Thu, Nov 27, 2008 at 02:25:31PM +0100, Julien BLACHE wrote: > Hi, > > I'm asking for a freeze exception for a new upstream release of XSane; > this upstream release fixes two bugs: Unblocked, set age-days to 20. Neil -- Ganneff is just a big cuddly teddy bear. Our photo proves it. signat

Re: Please unblock app-install-data/2008.11.27

2008-11-30 Thread Neil McGovern
On Thu, Nov 27, 2008 at 05:42:01PM +0100, Julian Andres Klode wrote: > Hello, > > please consider unblocking app-install-data/2008.11.27, which > is currently waiting at incoming. > > - The semi-automatic data update: The desktop files and icons This makes the diff very hard to review. Unblocked

Re: Unblock request for samba/2:3.2.5-1 (security update)

2008-11-30 Thread Neil McGovern
On Thu, Nov 27, 2008 at 05:56:50PM +0100, Christian Perrier wrote: > The Samba Team just released Samba 3.2.5 today, which is a > security-only fix, wrt 3.2.4, which is in lenny. > Unblocked. Neil -- bah Germans. You just put 100 DDs in one country and then they all become friends

Re: Unblock request for geneweb/5.01-8

2008-11-30 Thread Neil McGovern
On Thu, Nov 27, 2008 at 07:23:50PM +0100, Christian Perrier wrote: > > I would like to get the release team's advice on a possible upload of > > geneweb, my pet package. > > > As I've got the blessing of the release team, I uploaded that package > today, with the announced changes. > Unblocked.

Re: jabber-irc and python-xmpp blocked by freeze

2008-11-30 Thread Neil McGovern
On Wed, Nov 26, 2008 at 11:12:57AM -0200, Cosimo Alfarano wrote: > Hi DR Team, > I'm writing to ask to let the two packages in subject go into testing. > Hi, and sorry for the delay in replying. jabber-irc has a LOT of changes, so I'm afraid this won't be unblocked. > python-xmpp was blocked by

Re: Suggested removal: yocto-reader (RC bug, depends on remote scripts).

2008-12-17 Thread Neil McGovern
On Sun, Dec 07, 2008 at 01:17:25PM +0900, Charles Plessy wrote: > yocto-reader has a RC bug that was filed for multiple licensing issues. As there has been no progress on this report, removal hint added. Neil -- bah Germans. You just put 100 DDs in one country and then they all beco

Re: Please hint to unblock debian-reference 2.21

2008-12-17 Thread Neil McGovern
On Sun, Dec 14, 2008 at 03:25:41AM +0900, Osamu Aoki wrote: > I have uploaded new 1.21 version with documentation updates only. Most > importantly, it fixes missing links. > Unblocked. Neil -- doesn't the world come to an end if iDunno shaves? That's how the dinosaurs died then... and why

Re: Bug#504875: Unblock suggestion: libggi

2008-12-17 Thread Neil McGovern
On Sun, Dec 14, 2008 at 10:38:05AM +0100, David Paleino wrote: > On Thu, 11 Dec 2008 10:38:30 -0800 (PST), Asheesh Laroia wrote: > > > Howdy Debian Releasers, > > > > I was examining the remaining Lenny RC bugs and found > > http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=504875 via > > http:/

Re: Pre-approval for freemat t-p-u upload

2008-12-17 Thread Neil McGovern
On Sun, Dec 14, 2008 at 11:38:57AM +0100, Giuseppe Iuculano wrote: > freemat is caught by pcre3 shlibs bump, so I prepared an upload for t-p-u. > I'd like to upload in t-p-u, for your approval. > Please upload. Neil -- A. Because it breaks the logical sequence of discussion Q. Why is top postin

Re: Please unblock smarty - RC bug fix

2008-12-17 Thread Neil McGovern
On Sun, Dec 14, 2008 at 10:57:27AM +, Neil Williams wrote: > http://incoming.debian.org/smarty_2.6.20-1.1_amd64.changes > Unblocked by Luk. Neil -- 'Maybe you can try to find a nice hotel by shouting in the Mexico DF streets "where could a gringo find a decent hotel in this dirty third

Re: request removal of shc package from lenny

2008-12-17 Thread Neil McGovern
On Mon, Dec 08, 2008 at 01:32:47AM +0200, George Danchev wrote: > Hereby I request removal of the shc package from lenny. For reference, this was automatically removed from lenny due to the removal from sid. Neil -- A. Because it breaks the logical sequence of discussion Q. Why is top posting ba

Re: Unblock request: util-vserver 0.30.216~r2772-6

2008-12-17 Thread Neil McGovern
On Fri, Dec 12, 2008 at 11:43:44PM -0500, Micah Anderson wrote: > So, with the hope that this is the last request I bother you with, would > you please unblock 0.30.216~r2772-6 of util-vserver? > Done by luk. Neil -- A. Because it breaks the logical sequence of discussion Q. Why is top posting

Re: Please consider tagging this bug lenny-ignore (was: Bug#507003: initiatorname.iscsi should maybe not be in /etc)

2008-12-17 Thread Neil McGovern
tags 507003 +lenny-ignore thanks On Wed, Dec 03, 2008 at 12:33:52AM +0100, Carsten Hey wrote: > This bug in open-iscsi is not a functional one and the package works > quite well (although is against the policy). I consider the danger of > a functional breakage through a possible fix before the re

Re: Suggested removal: xwhois [was: Bug#507944: xwhois: segfaults on start in get_servers()]

2008-12-17 Thread Neil McGovern
On Sun, Dec 07, 2008 at 12:14:52PM +0100, Cyril Brulebois wrote: > Agreed, looks like a candidate for removal from testing (-release@ Cc'd > for that), and maybe even from unstable (-qa@ Cc'd for that). For reference, this was dropped from testing automatically due to the removal from unstable. N

Re: t-p-u push to lenny for axel [Was: Bug#502836: axel: buffer overflow when expanding spaces in URLs]

2008-12-25 Thread Neil McGovern
On Sat, Dec 20, 2008 at 05:03:50PM +0530, Y Giridhar Appaji Nag wrote: > Hi release team, > > More info about my request for pushing 1.1-3lenny1 to lenny from t-p-u: > Could you please attach a debdiff? Thanks, Neil -- int getRandomNumber() { return 4; // chosen by fair dice roll. guarante

Re: [SRM] [2nd try] linux-ftpd-ssl stable update for CVE-2008-4247

2008-12-25 Thread Neil McGovern
On Wed, Dec 17, 2008 at 10:42:48AM +, Ian Beckwith wrote: > Nico Golde suggested I prepare a package of linux-ftpd-ssl for a > stable point release, fixing CVE-2008-4247, as it doesn't warrant > a DSA. > > Are DMs allowed to upload to stable? If not, can someone sponsor the upload, > package a

Re: impressive (former keyjnote) is unblocking possible?

2008-12-25 Thread Neil McGovern
On Thu, Dec 18, 2008 at 11:18:33PM -0500, Yaroslav Halchenko wrote: > Due to trademark violation, keyjnote was removed from lenny a bit more > than a week ago. Meanwhile I have uploaded the same version of a new > brand of the project: impressive. > Unblocked. Merry Christmas, Neil -- 10 peopl

Re: Wireshark upload fixes two security issues

2008-12-25 Thread Neil McGovern
On Sun, Dec 21, 2008 at 11:43:11AM +0100, Moritz Muehlenhoff wrote: > Please allow wireshark/1.0.2-3+lenny3 from tpu, it fixes two > DoS issues. > ACCEPTed. Merry Christmas. Neil -- A. Because it breaks the logical sequence of discussion Q. Why is top posting bad? gpg key - http://www.halon.org

Re: please consider python2.4 / python2.4-doc for testing

2008-12-25 Thread Neil McGovern
On Tue, Dec 23, 2008 at 04:48:55PM +0100, Nico Golde wrote: > python2.4-doc still needs an unblock. > Unblocked. Merry Christmas, Neil -- * Maulkin cries NB: rm -rf /chroots/sarge while /home is mounted at /chroots/sarge/home is NOT-A-GOOD-THING(tm) signature.asc Description: Digital

Re: unfreeze jsmath [i10n]

2008-12-25 Thread Neil McGovern
On Tue, Dec 23, 2008 at 11:38:21PM -0500, Yaroslav Halchenko wrote: > Please let 3.4f-2 enter lenny from sid. > Unblocked by HE. Merry Christmas, Neil -- int getRandomNumber() { return 4; // chosen by fair dice roll. guaranteed to be random. } // http://xkcd.com/c221.html signature.asc De

Re: diffstat

2008-12-26 Thread Neil McGovern
On Wed, Dec 24, 2008 at 12:23:03AM -0500, Asheesh Laroia wrote: > I have a feeling that the libwebkit currently in sid and lenny is pretty > broken, from the looks of this bug. > Unfortunately, we don't seem to be able to get much/any response from the maintainers. It would have been really usef

Re: Please hint to unblock debian-reference 2.22

2008-12-28 Thread Neil McGovern
On Sat, Dec 27, 2008 at 01:36:15AM +0900, Osamu Aoki wrote: > This is documentation package. > Unblocked. Neil -- Jump in and have a quim! signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: Please unblock liboobs

2008-12-28 Thread Neil McGovern
On Sat, Dec 27, 2008 at 02:26:18PM +0100, Josselin Mouette wrote: > please allow liboobs 2.22.0-2 into lenny for a RC bug fix. > Unblocked. Neil -- [..] Debian (in the form of a large, busy, and frequently stressed organising team) has been able to organise food, accommodation and bandwidth [..

Re: curl to testing, please

2008-12-28 Thread Neil McGovern
On Sat, Dec 27, 2008 at 03:10:58PM +0100, Andreas Schuldei wrote: > hi > > i just uploaded curl-7.18.2-8, which fixes #506096, a regression (ldap > worked in etch). There also seem to be a lot of ipv6 changes. Are these related? Thanks, Neil -- A. Because it breaks the logical sequence of discu

Re: please unbloc/accept muttprint

2008-12-28 Thread Neil McGovern
On Sat, Dec 27, 2008 at 04:34:01PM +0100, Rene Engelhard wrote: > Hi, > > please unblock (or in case of spu, accept) the muttprint updates for > http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=509487. > Unblocked. Neil -- I use three different operating systems: Sarge, Etch, and Sid. signa

Re: libapache2-mod-perl2 2.0.4-5 uploaded

2008-12-28 Thread Neil McGovern
On Sun, Dec 28, 2008 at 08:51:05AM +0200, Niko Tyni wrote: > Release team: please consider > > unblock libapache2-mod-perl2/2.0.4-5 > Unblocked. Neil -- I use three different operating systems: Sarge, Etch, and Sid. signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: freeze exceptions for texlive-extra 2007.dfsg.13-1

2008-12-28 Thread Neil McGovern
On Sun, Dec 28, 2008 at 12:51:08AM +0100, Norbert Preining wrote: > And another ... > > The following happened from .dfsg.12 to .dfsg.13: > Unblocked by Luk. Neil -- A. Because it breaks the logical sequence of discussion Q. Why is top posting bad? gpg key - http://www.halon.org.uk/pubkey.txt

Re: curl to testing, please

2008-12-28 Thread Neil McGovern
On Sun, Dec 28, 2008 at 03:26:58PM +0100, Andreas Schuldei wrote: > * Neil McGovern (maul...@halon.org.uk) [081228 13:05]: > > On Sat, Dec 27, 2008 at 03:10:58PM +0100, Andreas Schuldei wrote: > > > hi > > > > > > i just uploaded curl-7.18.2-8, which fixes #506

Re: freeze exception for proposed ncbi-tools6 upload?

2008-12-28 Thread Neil McGovern
On Sun, Dec 28, 2008 at 06:10:27PM -0500, Aaron M. Ucko wrote: > Would you grant a freeze exception for such an upload, or is it too > late? > Please upload and re-ping when it's nearer migration so we can unblock it. Thanks, Neil -- ETOOMUCHSPANISHTOOFAST -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian

Re: curl to testing, please

2008-12-28 Thread Neil McGovern
On Sun, Dec 28, 2008 at 08:28:39PM +0100, Andreas Schuldei wrote: > Those changes are all inactive and encapsulated by #ifdefs for CURLRES_ARES. > Unfortunately, this can't be seen in the debdiff clearly... > if you prefer i can upload a version without the patch applied, > but the effect would

Re: Please unblock logwatch

2009-01-01 Thread Neil McGovern
On Thu, Jan 01, 2009 at 03:48:52PM +0100, Philipp Kern wrote: > the recent logwatch upload to unstable fixes a regular expression which > otherwise clutters up the output of the dpkg log checks. This happens > with Lenny's dpkg and should thus go in. The other change is an > adjustment of the man

Re: freeze exception for config-package-dev 4.9

2009-01-03 Thread Neil McGovern
On Fri, Jan 02, 2009 at 03:46:50PM -0500, Tim Abbott wrote: > I'd like to request a freeze exception for config-package-dev 4.9. It > fixes #510355, which I reported after getting user complaints via email. > Unblocked. Neil -- A. Because it breaks the logical sequence of discussion Q. Why is

Re: FOSDEM talk?

2009-01-03 Thread Neil McGovern
On Fri, Jan 02, 2009 at 10:10:40PM +0100, Wouter Verhelst wrote: > Hi Release team! > > I'm having issues filling the FOSDEM schedule. Slightly over 50% of the > weekend's schedule has been filled in right now, and I have less than a > week to get all my speakers. > > I would appreciate it if a m

Re: libf2c2 20061008-4.1 (Bug#508565, intend to NMU)

2009-01-03 Thread Neil McGovern
On Sat, Jan 03, 2009 at 04:15:17AM +0100, Evgeni Golov wrote: > libf2c2 currently suffers from bad style on 64bit archs where a long is > 8 bytes (see #508565 and #442018). Hi Evgeni, Please upload, and re-ping once it's hit unstable for unblocks and binNMUs. Thanks, Neil -- A. Because it break

Re: Unfreeze request for cpuburn (1.4-37)

2009-01-03 Thread Neil McGovern
On Sat, Jan 03, 2009 at 08:04:53AM +0100, Christian Perrier wrote: > That release is a translation-only update. > Unblocked. Neil -- * hermanr feels like a hedgehog having sex... signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: May we upload inkscape 0.46-2.lenny2?

2009-01-03 Thread Neil McGovern
On Sat, Jan 03, 2009 at 10:41:59AM +0100, Salvatore Bonaccorso wrote: > > During the last days, we prepared a new version of the inkscape package > > (0.46-5). Please upload. As it's a t-p-u update, no need to reping once done. Thanks, Neil -- A. Because it breaks the logical sequence of discuss

Re: Freeze exception request for nvram-wakeup 0.97-15

2009-01-03 Thread Neil McGovern
On Sat, Jan 03, 2009 at 11:20:07AM +0100, Tobias Grimm wrote: > The changes should qualify for a freeze exception because they fix a RC > bug, important bugs from an optional package and documentation. > All good, and it would be nice to see this in lenny, but: > * Switched Build-System to cdbs

Re: Request for a freeze exception for thaifonts-scalable 0.4.11-2

2009-01-03 Thread Neil McGovern
On Sat, Jan 03, 2009 at 08:52:46PM +0700, Theppitak Karoonboonyanan wrote: > I would like to request for a freeze exception for thaifonts-scalable > 0.4.11-2, which fixes following important problems in Lenny: > Unblocked. Neil -- A. Because it breaks the logical sequence of discussion Q. Why i

Re: Freeze exception request for nvram-wakeup 0.97-15

2009-01-03 Thread Neil McGovern
On Sat, Jan 03, 2009 at 02:57:10PM +0100, Tobias Grimm wrote: > Ok, I've switched back to the plain debian/rules from 0.97-14. The only > changes I had to make to debian/rules are: > Please upload. No need to re-ping, as it's a t-p-u upload. Thanks, Neil -- Roses are Red Violets are Bl

Re: Request for a freeze exception for xfce4-mpc-plugin 0.3.3-2

2009-01-03 Thread Neil McGovern
On Sat, Jan 03, 2009 at 03:48:49PM +, Simon Huggins wrote: > I've been trying to get time to upload this fix lately. There are quite > a few potential buffer overflows in the 0.3.3-1 code one of which hit a > user as per bug #498770. > Hi Simon, Please upload and reping when it's hit unstab

Re: pre-approval for glibc/2.7-18

2009-01-04 Thread Neil McGovern
On Sun, Jan 04, 2009 at 11:51:04AM +0100, Aurelien Jarno wrote: > Hi release team, > > Faidon Liambotis remarked in another thread that Cyprus and Malta > hasn't been switched to Euro in glibc (including in upstream). I > have made a patch for the unstable glibc that you can find below. > > Is su

Re: Please let haproxy 1.3.15.2-2 into lenny

2009-01-04 Thread Neil McGovern
On Sun, Jan 04, 2009 at 02:55:13PM +0100, Arnaud Cornet wrote: > haproxy (1.3.15.2-2) unstable; urgency=low > > * Add stable branch bug fixes from upstream (Closes: #510185). > - use_backend-consider-unless.patch: consider "unless" in use_backend > - segfault-url_param+check_post.patch:

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