Re: Too much bureaucracy or not enough interest? (Re: [ACTION REQUIRED] Retiring packages for F-17)

2012-01-16 Thread Kevin Kofler
Kevin Fenzi wrote: > We talked about, but never finished implementing a timeout on acl > requests. > > The way this would work is that maintainer would have some time.. 3 > weeks or something to reject a acl request. If they did not do so, > pkgdb would automatically approve it at the end of the t

Re: Packaging guidelines for packaging vala bindings

2012-01-16 Thread Kevin Kofler
Marc-André Lureau wrote: > I also prefer the vapi files are part of the -devel package, that > reduces the number of packages & depedency, and it's not worth the > split for a few kb. I think that consistency, also with other language bindings, is worth the extra subpackage(s). And it would allow

Re: [ACTION REQUIRED] Retiring packages for F-17

2012-01-16 Thread Kevin Kofler
Brendan Jones wrote: > I agree! If a package is orphaned, can't we automatically escalate > ownership to the next co-maintainer (when there is one - perhaps the one > with the most commits for example). > > If a package is being orphaned for legitimate reasons, the owner should > announce the inte

Re: Too much bureaucracy or not enough interest? (Re: [ACTION REQUIRED] Retiring packages for F-17)

2012-01-16 Thread Kevin Kofler
Mattia Verga wrote: > For the second point, I don't know if a new review should be really > necessary only to verify the presence of "obsoletes and provides": in my > opinion if someone is a package maintainer he/she MUST already know how > to rename a package and that this requires "obsoletes and

Re: cmake parallel make problem.

2012-01-16 Thread Petr Machata
Richard Shaw writes: > On Tue, Jan 10, 2012 at 8:18 AM, Rex Dieter wrote: >> Richard Shaw wrote: >> >>> I've gone through the CMakeLists.txt and added "add_dependencies(..." >>> but I think that's redundant because target_link_libraries is getting >>> set properly. >> >> I'm not sure this is red

Summary/Minutes for today's FESCo meeting (16 January 2012)

2012-01-16 Thread Miloslav Trmač
=== #fedora-meeting: FESCO (2012-01-16) === Meeting started by mitr at 18:00:06 UTC. The full logs are available at http://meetbot.fedoraproject.org/fedora-meeting/2012-01-16/fesco.2012-01-16-18.00.log.html . Meeting summary -

BTW: Removing SysV Init Scripts

2012-01-16 Thread Sérgio Basto
> > what about looking at existing ones? > > no,, it takes some minutes for 90% of all services > > > > If you believe so, file patches > > well, attached are the one i am using with F15 > most of them written by myself or derived > from F16/F17 packages > > CAUTION: they are from mixed

Re: Losing package maintainers (Re: [ACTION REQUIRED] Retiring packages for F-17)

2012-01-16 Thread Kevin Fenzi
On Mon, 16 Jan 2012 05:01:29 +0100 Ralf Corsepius wrote: > On 01/16/2012 03:20 AM, Kevin Fenzi wrote: > > On Sat, 14 Jan 2012 18:28:15 +0100 > > Kevin Kofler wrote: > > > >> Michael Schwendt wrote: > >>> However, with the current features of pkgdb, each member of such a > >>> group would need to

Re: Too much bureaucracy or not enough interest? (Re: [ACTION REQUIRED] Retiring packages for F-17)

2012-01-16 Thread Mattia Verga
Yes, with skychart I made some confusion: after a discussion on a forum I thought I can use a request for updating a package as a review ticket, but I soon realize that this wasn't possible. So I became a maintainer in the correct way and after that I asked privileges in pkgdb to become a co-ma

Re: Rebuild for GCC-4.7

2012-01-16 Thread Dennis Gilmore
Timing could have been better. But the workflow I'm going to work towards is the have fedpkg retire handle got and pkgdb then have pkgdb handle the koji side. With the end result being that you just do 1 thing. -- Sent from my Android phone with K-9 Mail. Please excuse my brevity. Iain Arnell

Re: Orphaned Perl packages on 2012-01-16

2012-01-16 Thread Iain Arnell
On Mon, Jan 16, 2012 at 3:55 PM, Petr Pisar wrote: > Hello, > > list of Perl packages which are orphaned in rawhide follows (101 now). Feel > free to grab them. F17 branching from rawhide is planned to 2012-02-07. I will > be sending updated list regularly to the begining of February. Then I will

Re: Rebuild for GCC-4.7

2012-01-16 Thread Iain Arnell
On Mon, Jan 16, 2012 at 5:53 PM, Dennis Gilmore wrote: > > One thing that became clear during the mass rebuild is that people are > not following the proper procedure to retire packages > http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/How_to_remove_a_package_at_end_of_life > lists the current process.  I have some

Re: Rebuild for GCC-4.7

2012-01-16 Thread Bruno Wolff III
On Mon, Jan 16, 2012 at 10:53:11 -0600, Dennis Gilmore wrote: > > The Bulk of the mass rebuild is done and will shortly be tagged into > f17 http://ausil.fedorapeople.org/f17-failures.html is a list of the > packages that failed to build. im working on double checking that we > attempted every

Re: Rebuild for GCC-4.7

2012-01-16 Thread Dennis Gilmore
El Wed, 4 Jan 2012 11:27:45 -0600 Dennis Gilmore escribió: > starting immediatly there is going to be a mass rebuild of rawhide > for gcc-4.7 that landed yesterday. > > as approved by FESCo (https://fedorahosted.org/fesco/ticket/739) > packagers will have just over a week, until Thursday Jan 12 t

Re: How to send a package update

2012-01-16 Thread Bruno Wolff III
On Mon, Jan 16, 2012 at 10:48:53 -0500, Julio Merino wrote: > > I don't think any of these gives package maintainer permissions. > (But also, I can't remember if I ever had those before!) You got sponsored as a result of this ticket: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=453821 You appe

Re: How to send a package update

2012-01-16 Thread Michael Schwendt
On Mon, 16 Jan 2012 10:46:13 -0500, JM (Julio) wrote: > > http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Package_update_HOWTO > > I actually had read that (although it was non-trivial to reach). > However, this document assumes you already are a maintainer with access > to the repository and build systems. Wha

Re: How to send a package update

2012-01-16 Thread Julio Merino
On 1/15/12 11:20 PM, Bruno Wolff III wrote: On Sun, Jan 15, 2012 at 20:08:20 -0500, Julio Merino wrote: Also, I cannot tell if three years ago I gained some privileges that I have now lost due to the conversion of the packages repository from cvs to git. For example, a "fedpkg clone" witho

Re: How to send a package update

2012-01-16 Thread Julio Merino
On 1/15/12 11:20 PM, Rex Dieter wrote: Julio Merino wrote: Also, I cannot tell if three years ago I gained some privileges that I have now lost due to the conversion of the packages repository from cvs to git. For example, a "fedpkg clone" without the -a option fails due to a permission denied

Re: OCaml 3.12.1 (was 3.12.0) in Rawhide

2012-01-16 Thread Richard W.M. Jones
On Mon, Jan 16, 2012 at 09:47:46AM +0100, Marcela Mašláňová wrote: > On 01/13/2012 02:55 PM, Richard W.M. Jones wrote: > > ocaml-perl4caml > > > > - Some sort of Perl bug or change which I'm not quite sure about. > > > The scratch build is now working fine. Maybe rebuild of perl > dependencies f

Re: Plan for tomorrow's FESCo meeting

2012-01-16 Thread Miloslav Trmač
2012/1/15 Miloslav Trmač : > Following is the list of topics that will be discussed in the FESCo > meeting tomorrow at 18:00UTC (1:00pm EST) in #fedora-meeting on > irc.freenode.net. One more thing that may be added to the agenda if there is enough time left: #topic #724 sponsor request - sdak

Just a note: perldoc may need an explicit BuildRequires

2012-01-16 Thread Richard W.M. Jones
I've been fixing a few of my packages which FTBFS in the grand rebuild. A common theme I'm seeing is packages that need /usr/bin/perldoc which (a) is no longer included in the base package set and (b) is no longer included in the base 'perl' package. I suspect that (a) happened because of (b). A

Re: Packaging guidelines for packaging vala bindings

2012-01-16 Thread Ralf Corsepius
On 01/16/2012 11:21 AM, Marc-André Lureau wrote: On Mon, Jan 16, 2012 at 10:40 AM, Hans de Goede wrote: Eitherway I think we need some (minimalistic) guidelines on howto package vala bindings so that we can do this consistently and with proper directory ownership. Note that the bindings provi

Re: Packaging guidelines for packaging vala bindings

2012-01-16 Thread Marc-André Lureau
On Mon, Jan 16, 2012 at 10:40 AM, Hans de Goede wrote: > Eitherway I think we need some (minimalistic) guidelines on > howto package vala bindings so that we can do this consistently > and with proper directory ownership. Note that the bindings provided by vala itself are installed in its own dir

Re: Multimedia SIG

2012-01-16 Thread Vratislav Podzimek
On Sat, 2012-01-14 at 14:44 -0500, Trever Fischer wrote: > Greetings from FUDCon, in Blacksburg, VA. > > I know that only a handful of people might recognize me on devel@, but > something that's been rolling around in my head for a little while is to > start a Multimedia SIG in fedora. > > I know

Packaging guidelines for packaging vala bindings

2012-01-16 Thread Hans de Goede
Hi, More and more packages are getting / installing vala bindings. While adding vala bindings to the spice-gtk package I've noticed that there are some issues / inconsistencies with how vala bindings are packaged: 1) Some packages put them in their regular -devel, others in a separate -vala 2)

Re: OCaml 3.12.1 (was 3.12.0) in Rawhide

2012-01-16 Thread Marcela Mašláňová
On 01/13/2012 02:55 PM, Richard W.M. Jones wrote: > > OK I've done all but a handful that have proper errors: > > ocaml-augeas > > - New depends on libxml2 and detection of the header >file breaks. Needs upstream fix. > > ocaml-perl4caml > > - Some sort of Perl bug or change which I'm

Octave api bump coming up

2012-01-16 Thread Jussi Lehtola
Hi, Octave 3.6.0 was released yesterday, so I'm updating the rawhide branch to 3.6.0. This causes an API bump, causing the need to rebuild all octave related packages. -- Jussi Lehtola Fedora Project Contributor jussileht...@fedoraproject.org -- devel mailing list devel@lists.fedoraproject.org