Re: Broken Debian's testing migration (grave bug in module-init-tools)

2019-02-14 Thread Sven Joachim
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Re: Broken Debian's testing migration (grave bug in module-init-tools)

2010-04-19 Thread Sven Joachim
On 2010-04-19 12:43 +0200, Vincent Lefevre wrote: > Are bugs which are marked as done taken into account before a > release? Yes, they are. Sven -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Arch

Re: Broken Debian's testing migration (grave bug in module-init-tools)

2010-04-19 Thread Vincent Lefevre
On 2010-04-12 12:55:59 +0200, Sven Joachim wrote: > On 2010-04-12 12:21 +0200, Vincent Lefevre wrote: > > > Moreover, with the current status of module-init-tools, it seems > > that the broken version will get into squeeze anyway (at least, > > there doesn't seem to be anything to prevent that) if

Re: Broken Debian's testing migration (grave bug in module-init-tools)

2010-04-16 Thread Andrei Popescu
On Mon,12.Apr.10, 11:19:54, Vincent Lefevre wrote: > There's something broken in the design of Debian's migration to testing. > > A grave bug in the testing version of module-init-tools (3.12~pre2-1) > was fixed several weeks ago, and the package was uploaded with > urgency=high: > > module-init

Re: Broken Debian's testing migration (grave bug in module-init-tools)

2010-04-13 Thread Brad Rogers
On Mon, 12 Apr 2010 11:19:54 +0200 Vincent Lefevre wrote: Hello Vincent, > module-init-tools (3.12~pre2-2) unstable; urgency=high Migrated to testing today. -- Regards _ / ) "The blindingly obvious is / _)radnever immediately apparent" A friend of a fri

Re: Broken Debian's testing migration (grave bug in module-init-tools)

2010-04-12 Thread Stephen Powell
On Mon, 12 Apr 2010 06:07:08 -0400 (EDT), Sven Joachim wrote: > On 2010-04-12 11:19 +0200, Vincent Lefevre wrote: >> There's something broken in the design of Debian's migration to testing. >> >> A grave bug in the testing version of module-init-tools (3.12~pre2-1) >> was fixed several weeks ago, a

Re: Broken Debian's testing migration (grave bug in module-init-tools)

2010-04-12 Thread Sven Joachim
On 2010-04-12 12:21 +0200, Vincent Lefevre wrote: > Moreover, with the current status of module-init-tools, it seems > that the broken version will get into squeeze anyway (at least, > there doesn't seem to be anything to prevent that) if the problem > on HPPA isn't fixed. There is something to p

Re: Broken Debian's testing migration (grave bug in module-init-tools)

2010-04-12 Thread Vincent Lefevre
On 2010-04-12 12:07:08 +0200, Sven Joachim wrote: > The conclusion I had drawn from this long ago: don't use testing, it is > only meant to be a staging area for preparing the next release and not > as a distribution actually to be used by people, except during freezes > maybe. The machine in ques

Re: Broken Debian's testing migration (grave bug in module-init-tools)

2010-04-12 Thread Sven Joachim
On 2010-04-12 11:19 +0200, Vincent Lefevre wrote: > There's something broken in the design of Debian's migration to testing. > > A grave bug in the testing version of module-init-tools (3.12~pre2-1) > was fixed several weeks ago, and the package was uploaded with > urgency=high: > > module-init-t

Broken Debian's testing migration (grave bug in module-init-tools)

2010-04-12 Thread Vincent Lefevre
There's something broken in the design of Debian's migration to testing. A grave bug in the testing version of module-init-tools (3.12~pre2-1) was fixed several weeks ago, and the package was uploaded with urgency=high: module-init-tools (3.12~pre2-2) unstable; urgency=high * Fixed an init

Re: testing migration

2003-03-13 Thread Richard Kimber
On Thu, 13 Mar 2003 13:00:25 -0500 Joey Hess <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Richard Kimber wrote: > > Actually, this is ambiguous, because "local changes must be preserved" > > can both mean "backed up" (which is what happened in my xinetd case) > > and"remain active", which is what I think should h

Re: testing migration

2003-03-13 Thread Joey Hess
Richard Kimber wrote: > Actually, this is ambiguous, because "local changes must be preserved" can > both mean "backed up" (which is what happened in my xinetd case) and > "remain active", which is what I think should happen. The rest of the section clarifies it pretty well I think. -- see shy j

Re: testing migration

2003-03-13 Thread Richard Kimber
On Wed, 12 Mar 2003 19:51:34 -0500 Joey Hess <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Any package in debian that, during installation or upgrade, loses > changes you have locally made to a config file is broken. A bug report > of severity serious should be filed on it for its violation of debian > policy, sec

Re: testing migration

2003-03-13 Thread Joey Hess
Hall Stevenson wrote: > I *believe* you can configure debconf to NOT overwrite existing config > files, automatically overwrite them, or prompt you before doing so. debconf is a system for asking questions. It has nothing to do with config files. It does not modify config files. Any package in

RE: testing migration

2003-03-12 Thread Jim McCloskey
Thanks very much to all who responded and contributed to the discussion. I did the upgrade, and have experienced no problems at all so far. Nice, Jim -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: testing migration

2003-03-12 Thread Richard Kimber
On Wed, 12 Mar 2003 15:09:44 -0500 Hall Stevenson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I *believe* you can configure debconf to NOT overwrite existing config > files, automatically overwrite them, or prompt you before doing so. With > > either of the last two options, it will still create a backup of

Re: testing migration

2003-03-12 Thread Colin Watson
On Wed, Mar 12, 2003 at 03:09:44PM -0500, Hall Stevenson wrote: > At 07:47 PM 3/12/2003 +, Richard Kimber wrote: > >I've upgraded, and only noticed two things. > > > >1) My xinetd.conf file was overwritten without asking me, which I don't > >feel is right, and > > I *believe* you can configure

Re: testing migration

2003-03-12 Thread Hall Stevenson
At 07:47 PM 3/12/2003 +, Richard Kimber wrote: I've upgraded, and only noticed two things. 1) My xinetd.conf file was overwritten without asking me, which I don't feel is right, and I *believe* you can configure debconf to NOT overwrite existing config files, automatically overwrite them,

Re: testing migration

2003-03-12 Thread Richard Kimber
On Wed, 12 Mar 2003 18:27:03 + Colin Watson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Wed, Mar 12, 2003 at 11:41:52AM -0600, Brooks R. Robinson wrote: > > Jim McCloskey wrote: > > | I expected to see all sorts of messages here about difficulties with > > | testing after the migration of glibc 2.3.1-14.

Re: testing migration

2003-03-12 Thread Colin Watson
On Wed, Mar 12, 2003 at 11:41:52AM -0600, Brooks R. Robinson wrote: > Jim McCloskey wrote: > | I expected to see all sorts of messages here about difficulties with > | testing after the migration of glibc 2.3.1-14. > | > | Hardly anything, though. > | > | I've been holding back from the upgrade til

RE: testing migration

2003-03-12 Thread Brooks R. Robinson
| I expected to see all sorts of messages here about difficulties with | testing after the migration of glibc 2.3.1-14. | | Hardly anything, though. | | I've been holding back from the upgrade till things settle down. | | Are there any brave souls who went ahead and upgraded and have the | time to

Re: testing migration

2003-03-11 Thread Travis Crump
Jim McCloskey wrote: I expected to see all sorts of messages here about difficulties with testing after the migration of glibc 2.3.1-14. Hardly anything, though. I've been holding back from the upgrade till things settle down. Are there any brave souls who went ahead and upgraded and have the tim

Re: testing migration

2003-03-11 Thread Derrick 'dman' Hudson
On Tue, Mar 11, 2003 at 04:49:19PM -0800, Jim McCloskey wrote: | | I expected to see all sorts of messages here about difficulties with | testing after the migration of glibc 2.3.1-14. | | Hardly anything, though. | | I've been holding back from the upgrade till things settle down. | | Are ther

testing migration

2003-03-11 Thread Jim McCloskey
I expected to see all sorts of messages here about difficulties with testing after the migration of glibc 2.3.1-14. Hardly anything, though. I've been holding back from the upgrade till things settle down. Are there any brave souls who went ahead and upgraded and have the time to do a quick rep