Re: percona-xtrabackup bundling the kitchen sink in static libs

2022-08-25 Thread Sven Lankes
On Tue, Aug 23, 2022 at 11:27:55AM -0400, Paul Wouters wrote: > >[1]: https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/fesco/Bundled_Software_policy/ > Thanks for the link. Sadly, the justification would be "because upstream > hardcoded this an errors on any other version", which in itself is > pretty weak.

Re: Orphaned packages looking for new maintainers (incl. GConf2, keybinder3, orangefs)

2020-04-14 Thread Sven Lankes
On Tue, Apr 14, 2020 at 11:06:27AM +0200, Miro Hrončok wrote: > libacpi orphan 1 weeks ago I have re-claimed this and retired it (and yacpi which depends on it) properly. While I was able to fix the FTBFS, I noticed that libacpi no longer works

Re: firefox-wayland and URLs in other programs

2019-04-02 Thread Sven Lankes
On Tue, Apr 02, 2019 at 05:05:50PM +0200, Hans de Goede wrote: > To help testing firefox on wayland I'm running it as my day to day browser > now, but when I click links (specifically in thunderbird) I get a dialog > saying "firefox is running but not responding". I believe this is caused > by thu

Re: Unresponsive maintainer procedure for tuxbrewr

2016-01-12 Thread Sven Lankes
On Tue, Jan 12, 2016 at 10:06:40AM -0500, Nico Kadel-Garcia wrote: >> Could we adjust the tooling so that a request for commit access is >> automatically granted if it isn't answered within three months? > That's a potential security problem. If I, for example, can get > commit access to any id

Re: Unresponsive maintainer procedure for tuxbrewr

2016-01-12 Thread Sven Lankes
On Tue, Jan 12, 2016 at 01:30:27PM +0100, Michael Schwendt wrote: > Isn't that tedious, inefficient and a waste of time? As all of the unresponsive maintainer procedure. Could we adjust the tooling so that a request for commit access is automatically granted if it isn't answered within three mon

Non-responsive Maintainer - helloworld1

2015-12-22 Thread Sven Lankes
Does anyone know how to contact Howard Ning? His package goobook https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1098220 is outdated and because of changes on the google side no longer works these days. Above but is 18+ Months old and Howards last build in Koji was in 2011. I'm interested in takin

Re: Remove gcc, gcc-c++ and make from minimal build root

2015-01-13 Thread Sven Lankes
On Tue, Jan 13, 2015 at 12:16:42PM +, Richard W.M. Jones wrote: > That's simply an idiotic thing to say. What is the progress involved > in adding a new BR to thousands of packages? Am I wrong assuming that it would be rather easy to add the BR to all packages semi-automatically previous to

Orphaning pympdtouchgui

2015-01-11 Thread Sven Lankes
Hi, I'm orphaning pympdtouchgui - while it may still work I've never actually used it myself and I do not know of any other user of the package. Additionally it hasn't been touched by $upstream in almost four years. -- sven === jabber/xmpp: s...@lankes.net -- devel mailing list devel@lists.fed

Re: Proposed F19 Feature: Replace MySQL with MariaDB

2013-01-23 Thread Sven Lankes
On Wed, Jan 23, 2013 at 02:12:27AM -0500, Tom Lane wrote: > It strikes me that we missed a bet in setting up the mariadb package > for only F19-and-up in git. If we made a version available for F18, > that would allow people to test compatibility without having to run > rawhide, which is somethin

Re: MariaDB in Fedora

2013-01-16 Thread Sven Lankes
On Wed, Jan 16, 2013 at 08:44:31AM -0200, Itamar Reis Peixoto wrote: [MariaDB] > I think this is going to happen for F19 or F20 > http://koji.fedoraproject.org/koji/packageinfo?packageID=15262 Great news - I totally missed this. This is the package review: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug

Re: MariaDB in Fedora

2013-01-16 Thread Sven Lankes
On Wed, Jan 16, 2013 at 08:07:30AM -0200, Henrique Junior wrote: > Other distros are discussing about the future of MySQL and the > implementation of MariaDB as default. What is Fedora position about this > matter? There have been a few threads about this. We need facts to get a decision - such

Re: MariaDB: Packagers needed

2012-10-28 Thread Sven Lankes
On Sun, Oct 28, 2012 at 11:31:25PM +0100, Kevin Kofler wrote: > Uh, conflicting with MySQL is really a no go (just look at how many things > require mysql-libs, and even mysql-server is required for Akonadi, and > mysql-embedded or Amarok), why isn't the fork renaming its stuff? If the > idea i

Re: Unkown Horizons: Does anybody want to comaintain?

2012-10-28 Thread Sven Lankes
On Sun, Oct 28, 2012 at 01:43:01PM -0600, Renich Bon Ciric wrote: > # Main > http://renich.fedorapeople.org/SPECS/unknown-horizons.spec > # Deps > http://renich.fedorapeople.org/SPECS/fife.spec Fife is already in Fedora! > http://renich.fedorapeople.org/SPECS/python-enet.spec > I think the specs

Re: MariaDB: Packagers needed

2012-10-28 Thread Sven Lankes
On Sun, Oct 28, 2012 at 01:52:18PM -0600, Renich Bon Ciric wrote: Hi, > I am to start packaging MariaDB for Fedora. I've promised monty to get going with packaging MariaDB and I did create some local test packages which do work still need quite a few changes. I got busy with $dayjob for a while

Re: Packages in need of new maintainers

2012-10-03 Thread Sven Lankes
On Wed, Oct 03, 2012 at 01:23:02PM -0500, Jon Ciesla wrote: > maatkit -- Essential command-line utilities for MySQL I'll take this one. I'm already a co-maintainer. It's deprecated upstream and replaced by the percona toolkit - I'm going to maintain it for now and try to get percona toolkit into

Re: Adobe opensource font

2012-08-12 Thread Sven Lankes
On Sun, Aug 12, 2012 at 05:24:57PM +0800, Christopher Meng wrote: > Recently,adobe got one of its font open-sourced.See [1]. > So,is it possible to add it into fedora font library or EPEL? Here is the corresponding review request: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=845743 -- sven ===

Re: Orphaning packages

2012-01-09 Thread Sven Lankes
On Tue, Jan 10, 2012 at 04:40:27PM +1100, Marc Bradshaw wrote: > moreutils -- Additional unix utilities > docbook2X -- Convert docbook into man and Texinfo > perl-Time-Duration -- Time-Duration - rounded or exact English expression of > durations I use moreutils on all my machines so I would lik

Re: Unresponsive Package Maintainer - Gary T. Giesen

2011-11-02 Thread Sven Lankes
On Wed, Nov 02, 2011 at 09:17:49AM -0600, Kevin Fenzi wrote: > I've orphaned the following: Thank you. I've taken > daemonize and > rancid Co-Maintainers very-welcome. -- sven === jabber/xmpp: s...@lankes.net -- devel mailing list devel@lists.fedoraproject.org https://admin.fedoraproject

Re: Unresponsive Package Maintainer - Gary T. Giesen

2011-11-01 Thread Sven Lankes
On Sun, Oct 23, 2011 at 11:15:20PM +0200, Sven Lankes wrote: > I'm following the procedure at: > http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Policy_for_nonresponsive_package_maintainers > Does anyone know how to contact Gary T. Giesen? > I've sent him an email (also CCed on this

Unresponsive Package Maintainer - Gary T. Giesen

2011-10-23 Thread Sven Lankes
I'm following the procedure at: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Policy_for_nonresponsive_package_maintainers Does anyone know how to contact Gary T. Giesen? I've sent him an email (also CCed on this one) a few months ago requesting co-maintainer status for daemonize without a response. Gary has t

Re: Subject: IMPORTANT: Mandatory password and ssh key change by 2011-11-30

2011-10-12 Thread Sven Lankes
On Wed, Oct 12, 2011 at 05:41:33PM -0400, Sam Varshavchik wrote: > Guess how many people will have their password set to > "abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz". > It meets the new criteria. And is much better than "abcdefgh" which was their old pwd. -- sven === jabber/xmpp: s...@lankes.net -- devel m

Re: Responsibility for rebuilding dependent components, was: F-16 Branched report: 20110920 changes

2011-09-20 Thread Sven Lankes
On Tue, Sep 20, 2011 at 03:19:17PM +0200, Ralf Corsepius wrote: > When you have a closer look, you'll notice that such "mass rebuilts" > were being delayed by QA's "delay queue" and now are stuck. Yeah. I rebuilt maatkit on the 1st of September and it still hasn't made it to the -stable reposito

Re: libtool rebuild required for updates-testing

2011-08-29 Thread Sven Lankes
On Sun, Aug 28, 2011 at 01:25:52PM +0200, Reindl Harald wrote: Hello Harald, > currently "updates-testing" offers GVV 4.6.1 (thank you!) > but "libtool" needs a rebuild for dependencies > this time the rebuild runs on my testing-VM to rebuild all my packages > later on this machine with new GCC,

Re: Unresponsive Package Maintainer - Jeroen van Meeuwen

2011-06-27 Thread Sven Lankes
On Mon, Jun 27, 2011 at 10:38:20AM +0200, Christoph Wickert wrote: > I'll ping Jeroen in the meantime, but we are both very busy with out > dayjob. In that case approving one or all of the three people who have requested commit access seems sensible. -- sven === jabber/xmpp: s...@lankes.net --

Re: AutoQA: distro congestion?

2011-04-19 Thread Sven Lankes
On Tue, Apr 19, 2011 at 11:44:03AM +0300, Axel Thimm wrote: > This is probably part of the problem, I have been trying to push all 5 > packages that are now in testing with bodhi rejecting due to autoqa. > Even packages that do have a positive autoqa tag on them like > fail2ban-0.8.4-27.fc13. Acc

Re: critpath approval process seems rather broken

2011-04-10 Thread Sven Lankes
On Sun, Apr 10, 2011 at 12:45:56PM -0400, Doug Ledford wrote: > And here we are, about to go down the same road again. I have an update > in updates-testing, it's getting no love, and the package that's in the > release is *known broken*. It has not been updated for systemd to begin > with. Nor

42 Orphaned packages

2011-03-08 Thread Sven Lankes
After a dispute on the #fedora-kde IRC channel thomasj has orphaned a huge number of packages. I extracted the list from scm-commits emails so I hope that I haven't missed any. The following packages are in need of new owners: luckybackup xine-ui vor stfl spambayes six sentinella recordmydesktop

Re: ABRT opt-out? (Re: bugzilla bugzappers?)

2010-11-04 Thread Sven Lankes
On Thu, Nov 04, 2010 at 02:21:19PM +0100, Christoph Wickert wrote: [Opt-out for ABRT-Reports] > How would you do that? A popup in ABRT that reads > "Sorry, but the maintainer of this package > has decided to not accept any bug reports." Nope. App X crashes and the

Re: bugzilla bugzappers?

2010-11-04 Thread Sven Lankes
On Thu, Nov 04, 2010 at 02:15:30AM -0400, Orcan Ogetbil wrote: > The question is Am I using the time efficiently? OR Are the these > tools actually preventing me to be efficient during my available time? Wasn't there some way for a maintainer to opt out of abrt? I remember seeing this being disc

Re: OpenLayers update?

2010-10-08 Thread Sven Lankes
On Fri, Oct 08, 2010 at 10:31:00PM +0530, Ankur Sinha wrote: > Will OpenLayers see any more updates for F13? The version available is > 2.8-5.fc12 while latest upstream is 2.10. > I'll file an RFE for update if necessary. No, sorry. According to the new fedora update rules, an update like openl

Re: xulrunner 2.0 in rawhide (F15) bundles several system libs

2010-09-30 Thread Sven Lankes
On Thu, Sep 30, 2010 at 10:09:32AM -0700, Christopher Aillon wrote: >> https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=577653 >> Looking at how rigorous new packages with bundled libs are fought we >> should really stop shipping firefox and start shipping Iceweasel. > I personally don't care what w

Re: xulrunner 2.0 in rawhide (F15) bundles several system libs

2010-09-30 Thread Sven Lankes
On Thu, Sep 30, 2010 at 06:37:33PM +0900, Takanori MATSUURA wrote: > If someone implement > --enable-system-libvpx > --enable-system-vorbis > --enable-system-ogg > --enable-system-theora > into the mozilla source, we can easily remove source for the > libraries. And Fedora will be happy. :-) http

Re: Fedora 14 Beta corrupts user data

2010-09-26 Thread Sven Lankes
On Sun, Sep 26, 2010 at 09:33:49PM +0200, Ralf Ertzinger wrote: > Please forgive me for being confused, but isn't the default for Fedora > to build with -O2? The issue exists for code compiled with at least -O1 - so -O2 compiled code is affected as well. -- sven === jabber/xmpp: s...@lankes.net

Re: Voting Process [WAS: FESCo decision on systemd]

2010-09-15 Thread Sven Lankes
On Wed, Sep 15, 2010 at 12:36:40PM -0500, Mike McGrath wrote: > Gregdek mentioned voter fatigue on FAB a while back. I know exactly what > he's talking about though I'm not quite sure how to fix it. I suppose > meeting fatigue isn't much different. http://www.public-software-group.org/liquid_fe

Re: CUPS problem

2010-09-09 Thread Sven Lankes
On Thu, Sep 09, 2010 at 02:50:49PM -0700, darrell pfeifer wrote: > Ran into this yesterday and it took a bit to figure out. Me too. This also breaks importing eps/ps in Inkscape, viewing them in Okular or Evince ... > Cups is fine, but ghostscript is broken in the latest update. Both the F13

Re: fedora mission (was Re: systemd and changes)

2010-08-30 Thread Sven Lankes
On Mon, Aug 30, 2010 at 04:01:25PM -0500, Chris Adams wrote: > I guess I've never been concerned about "unique selling points". Why > should it be "Fedora is Ubuntu with RPM", instead of "Ubuntu is Fedora > with DEB"? IIRC Fedora came first (and certainly RHL came before > Ubuntu, although Debia

Re: fedora mission (was Re: systemd and changes)

2010-08-30 Thread Sven Lankes
On Mon, Aug 30, 2010 at 12:36:42PM -0700, Jesse Keating wrote: >> Why not give QA the time to settle and find out how the new things >> work out? > Because the likes of Kevin throw fits whenever we try to insert any QA > time or seem to try and improve the quality of our updates in any way > oth

Re: fedora mission (was Re: systemd and changes)

2010-08-30 Thread Sven Lankes
On Mon, Aug 30, 2010 at 03:09:06PM -0400, Jon Masters wrote: > Fedora is being ruined by this kind of behavior. You can have progress, > cutting edge, etc. without having to be unstable and unpredictable in > the process. A lot has been done in the last couple of months in that direction. Proven

Re: [ACTION REQUIRED, v2] orphaned packages in F-14

2010-08-23 Thread Sven Lankes
On Sat, Aug 21, 2010 at 09:00:21AM +0200, Dan Horák wrote: >> Orphan ogdi > because gdal and all the geo applications, it would be good, if the > owners of packages that depend on gdal and other base geo libraries > would create a SIG or some other group to collectively maintain them There is h

Re: Mailing list guidelines and smartphones

2010-08-16 Thread Sven Lankes
On Sun, Aug 15, 2010 at 12:32:46AM +0200, Sven Lankes wrote: > I would like to add something similar to the following to the "If You > Are Replying to a Message" part in the wiki: > > The fact that you're sending the email from a smart-phone or similar > d

Mailing list guidelines and smartphones

2010-08-14 Thread Sven Lankes
Hi, despite the occasional flamewar and useless argumentation the fedora- mailinglist (and especially the high-traffic 'devel' list) I find that the mailinglist is one of the more pleasant FLOSS related mailinglist to read. This probably because of the fact that there are guidelines and that peopl

Re: New bodhi release in production

2010-08-13 Thread Sven Lankes
On Fri, Aug 13, 2010 at 07:21:50PM +0200, Martin Sourada wrote: > I wonder why I get the impression that the only ones who strongly > oppose this change are you folks from KDE SIG... Are you doing things > differently from anyone else in fedora - the rest of us are either > more or less neutral or

Re: Slow updates?

2010-08-07 Thread Sven Lankes
On Sat, Aug 07, 2010 at 02:20:07PM -0600, Kevin Fenzi wrote: >> On a separate topic, any idea why exim-4.72.fc14 isn't showing up in >> the repository? It was built on June 3rd: >> http://koji.fedoraproject.org/koji/buildinfo?buildID=176510 > You need to submit an update for it. ;) > f14 branch

Re: Can anyone contact Balint Christian (rezso)?

2010-08-02 Thread Sven Lankes
On Sun, Aug 01, 2010 at 12:27:53PM -0600, Kevin Fenzi wrote: > > openlayers I have taken openlayers. -- sven === jabber/xmpp: s...@lankes.net -- devel mailing list devel@lists.fedoraproject.org https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel

nonresponsive maintainer policy (was: Re: Can anyone contact Balint Christian (rezso)?)

2010-07-30 Thread Sven Lankes
On Fri, Jul 30, 2010 at 03:28:42PM +0200, Michael Schwendt wrote: >> I think we should add some policy to address those unmaintained >> packages, > There is the non-responsive maintainer policy already. That policy isn't the easiest one to follow though. I understand that taking someones packag

Re: Can anyone contact Balint Christian (rezso)?

2010-07-30 Thread Sven Lankes
On Wed, Jul 28, 2010 at 11:38:59PM -0600, Kevin Fenzi wrote: >> I would take over gdal and grass if nobody else steps forward to do so >> (I'd rather have someone with more knowledge in the field of gis be >> the maintainer). > You can talk to the existing co-maintainers and see what you/they wo

Re: Can anyone contact Balint Christian (rezso)?

2010-07-28 Thread Sven Lankes
On Wed, Jul 21, 2010 at 02:31:19PM +0200, Sven Lankes wrote: > Following the process > https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Policy_for_nonresponsive_package_maintainers > Is someone able to get in touch with Christian Balint (rezso)? > His last koji activity was on the 18th of March 20

Can anyone contact Balint Christian (rezso)?

2010-07-21 Thread Sven Lankes
Hi all, Following the process https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Policy_for_nonresponsive_package_maintainers Is someone able to get in touch with Christian Balint (rezso)? His last koji activity was on the 18th of March 2010. I sent a personal email on the 9th of June to which I got no reply. I'v

Make pkgdb grant co-maintainer status automatically? (was Re: Non-responsive maintainer fast track procedure for libsndfile)

2010-07-06 Thread Sven Lankes
On Tue, Jul 06, 2010 at 09:21:29AM +1000, Chris Jones wrote: > This seems to be happening a lot lately regarding maintainers and/or > co-maintainers losing interest in their projects somewhere along the > line and just stopping development without any warning and > notification to other members wh

Re: Bodhi 0.7.5 release

2010-06-30 Thread Sven Lankes
On Wed, Jun 30, 2010 at 03:37:11PM -0400, Stephen Gallagher wrote: > A suggestion: when critical path updates hit updates-testing, a > notification should go to both devel@lists.fedoraproject.org and > q...@lists.fedoraproject.org to encourage testing. The qa-list has already lost a lot of it's r

Re: Proposed udpates policy change

2010-03-08 Thread Sven Lankes
On Mon, Mar 08, 2010 at 11:12:11PM +, Matthew Garrett wrote: >> If Fesco is aiming at getting rid of all the pesky packagers maintaining low >> profile packages: You're well on your way. > So, no, that's not the intent and it's realised that this is a problem. > We need to work on making it

Re: Proposed udpates policy change

2010-03-08 Thread Sven Lankes
On Mon, Mar 08, 2010 at 09:59:29PM +, Matthew Garrett wrote: > Before being added to updates, the package must receive a net karma of > +3 in Bodhi. [...] > It is the expectation of Fesco that the majority of updates should > easily be able to garner the necessary karma in a minimal space o

Re: how to make things better(tm)

2010-03-05 Thread Sven Lankes
On Fri, Mar 05, 2010 at 01:15:50PM +0530, Rahul Sundaram wrote: >> latest-and-greatest, bleeding edge policy of Fedora. > If you would point me to such a "bleeding edge" policy then I could > agree but I believe this is merely assumed by some and if you want the > latest always you could use kde-

Re: Fedora 13 has been branched!!

2010-02-17 Thread Sven Lankes
On Wed, Feb 17, 2010 at 11:40:15PM +0100, Kevin Kofler wrote: >> Yes, I know, because I co-maintain a package using qt and I recently >> read something from the maintainer that he can not push a bugfix update >> to stable, because a qt override is in the buildroot. > The solution there is to tal

Re: Name that Tree!

2010-02-13 Thread Sven Lankes
On Sat, Feb 13, 2010 at 07:48:07AM -0800, Jesse Keating wrote: >> Why not just call it 13 now, and 14 next time, and so on? It doesn't >> really need to have its own name that's always the same... > Mostly because it becomes awkward to talk about things in "13" before 13 > is released, In my w

Re: Sindre Pedersen Bjørd al is AWOL, 25 packages looking for new owners

2010-02-03 Thread Sven Lankes
On Wed, Feb 03, 2010 at 12:15:41AM +0100, Christoph Wickert wrote: > * xdotool -- Fake keyboard/mouse input I have taken xdotool which I was co-maintaining before. -- sven === jabber/xmpp: s...@lankes.net -- devel mailing list devel@lists.fedoraproject.org https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mail