Re: Requesting autopkgtests

2023-07-18 Thread Loïc Minier
fo/ubuntu-devel > > > > -- > Christian Ehrhardt > Senior Staff Engineer and acting Director, Ubuntu Server > Canonical Ltd > > -- > ubuntu-devel mailing list > ubuntu-devel@lists.ubuntu.com > Modify settings or unsubscribe at: > https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-devel > -- Loïc Minier -- ubuntu-devel mailing list ubuntu-devel@lists.ubuntu.com Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-devel

Re: ari-tczew to be excluded from Ubuntu community

2011-04-08 Thread Loïc Minier
have potential for abuse though, and its mere existence would cause people to wonder how much is being discussed on it. -- Loïc Minier -- ubuntu-devel mailing list ubuntu-devel@lists.ubuntu.com Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-devel

Re: Test version of Upstart with full chroot support available

2011-04-11 Thread Loïc Minier
things don't make sense to run in a chroot, while others do: I might want to run a chrooted service, but I probably don't need a chrooted udev, is there any guideline for this? -- Loïc Minier -- ubuntu-devel mailing list ubuntu-devel@lists.ubuntu.com Modify settings or unsubs

Re: Using -v when merging from Debian

2011-05-28 Thread Loïc Minier
would make sense to offer (optional) series-specific upload queues? e.g.: dput ubuntu:oneiric foo.changes where ubuntu:oneiric would be a place in Launchpad which rejects non-oneiric uploads -- Loïc Minier -- ubuntu-devel mailing list ubuntu-devel@lists.ubuntu.com Modify settings or uns

ARM: Dropping debian-installer armel+versatile kernel and netboot kernel

2011-06-20 Thread Loïc Minier
ap as it can't do any retries. Cheers, -- Loïc Minier -- ubuntu-devel mailing list ubuntu-devel@lists.ubuntu.com Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-devel

Re: ARM: Dropping debian-installer armel+versatile kernel and netboot kernel

2011-06-28 Thread Loïc Minier
tu-oneiric.git patch yet The only thing to be careful about is to keep generating linux-libc-dev on armel; all the versatile related stuff in the linux source package can go away IMO (Other impacted packages: debian-installer, I can take care of it, and maybe rootstock?) -- Loïc Minier --

Re: ARM: Dropping debian-installer armel+versatile kernel and netboot kernel

2011-06-28 Thread Loïc Minier
t versatile, you can also revert 32e7fd13de2db501a1c3d53a847c1ca666efdb42 UBUNTU: SAUCE: (no-up) select a v7 CPU for versatile Thanks! -- Loïc Minier -- ubuntu-devel mailing list ubuntu-devel@lists.ubuntu.com Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-devel

Re: Checklist of package changes for new distribution?

2011-11-07 Thread Loïc Minier
pdate-manager I'm not sure ReleaseChecklist is the best place to document these, so I've not updated it; if someone knows an existing place to list these, I'm happy to merge my notes into it. -- Loïc Minier -- ubuntu-devel mailing list ubuntu-devel@lists.ubuntu.com Modify settings

Re: Call for testing: udev 175 [precise]

2011-11-09 Thread Loïc Minier
gainst Ubuntu's udev since I guess we will want to track it there anyway: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/udev/+bug/888191 -- Loïc Minier -- ubuntu-devel mailing list ubuntu-devel@lists.ubuntu.com Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-devel

Re: Proposing a New App Developer Upload Process

2012-09-07 Thread Loïc Minier
ant application sandboxing but are we going to allow replacing system services in apps? Would we allow an app to act as an interactive desktop background? Are sandboxed apps always fullscreen like on Android and iOS, or may they have resizeable windows? [ 2/ (installed files) above seems like a no

Re: Installable ARMv8 cross-toolchain

2012-11-03 Thread Loïc Minier
-- when available as it's painful to have to rebuild the .axf whenever the kernel or kernel cmdline change, and real hardware wouldn't use a boot wrapper anyway. I guess you're asking because you consider an U-Boot port? :-) Cheers, -- Loïc Minier -- ubuntu-devel mailing li

Re: Let's Discuss Interim Releases (and a Rolling Release)

2013-02-28 Thread Loïc Minier
ueprint from some discussion we had on this: https://blueprints.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+spec/release-r-monthly-snapshots Cheers, -- Loïc Minier -- ubuntu-devel mailing list ubuntu-devel@lists.ubuntu.com Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-devel

Re: Security Support - Re: Let's Discuss Interim Releases (and a Rolling Release)

2013-02-28 Thread Loïc Minier
tall. After a month this needs to happen anyway, so why not right > away? At the very least it should be very easy to switch between using the monthly and going to the rolling release; software-properties UI for instance, or perhaps also a command-line tool. -- Loïc Minier -- ub

Re: Security Support - Re: Let's Discuss Interim Releases (and a Rolling Release)

2013-02-28 Thread Loïc Minier
On Thu, Feb 28, 2013, Scott Kitterman wrote: > Will they start getting USN coverage? Good point; I've added that as a question in the bp[1] thanks, [1] https://blueprints.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+spec/release-r-monthly-snapshots -- Loïc Minier -- ubuntu-devel mailing list ubun

Re: Let's Discuss Interim Releases (and a Rolling Release)

2013-02-28 Thread Loïc Minier
of: https://blueprints.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+spec/release-r-monthly-snapshots (but please reword adequately if you like!) -- Loïc Minier -- ubuntu-devel mailing list ubuntu-devel@lists.ubuntu.com Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-devel

Re: Monthly snapshots Re: Let's Discuss Interim Releases (and a Rolling Release)

2013-02-28 Thread Loïc Minier
changes from one monthly to the next. Launchpad series are in too many places and would be too expensive to create/update monthly :-/ We need an easy and solid way to switch between monthly and rolling though; a bit like the software-properties flags for update frequencies, which updates to i

Re: Avoiding fragmentation with a rolling release

2013-02-28 Thread Loïc Minier
proach that security updates would be built based on some version of the rolling release and so users of older versions of the packages would be forced to update to anything pulled by these security updates. -- Loïc Minier -- ubuntu-devel mailing list ubuntu-devel@lists.ubuntu.com Modi

Re: Avoiding fragmentation with a rolling release

2013-02-28 Thread Loïc Minier
evisit how we manage various types of data: how does one "reset to factory settings"? How would one deploy an update from a local file or OTA? Plus we'd want these updates to be as small as possible; typically deltas. Would be a good win over downloading hundreds of megs of .debs fr

Re: Avoiding fragmentation with a rolling release

2013-03-01 Thread Loïc Minier
e proposal in the blueprint is to use "raring" as this archive for building security updates and copy raring-updates only monthly to raring. (the SONAME change is just an example, there might be more subtle cases like transitions which involve only versioned dependencies -- that we sometimes d

Re: Let's Discuss Interim Releases (and a Rolling Release)

2013-03-01 Thread Loïc Minier
7;s now at: https://blueprints.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+spec/client-1303-monthly-snapshots -- Loïc Minier -- ubuntu-devel mailing list ubuntu-devel@lists.ubuntu.com Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-devel

Re: Avoiding fragmentation with a rolling release

2013-03-01 Thread Loïc Minier
le could run on other GNU/Linux distros and eventually perhaps even from Windows and OSX as to target Ubuntu. This should probably be a new thread though :-) -- Loïc Minier -- ubuntu-devel mailing list ubuntu-devel@lists.ubuntu.com Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-devel

Re: Let's Discuss Interim Releases (and a Rolling Release)

2013-03-01 Thread Loïc Minier
(or /tested, /releasable etc.) would only be updated when the image passes tests. -- Loïc Minier -- ubuntu-devel mailing list ubuntu-devel@lists.ubuntu.com Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-devel

Re: Let's Discuss Interim Releases (and a Rolling Release)

2013-03-01 Thread Loïc Minier
On Fri, Mar 01, 2013, Steve Langasek wrote: > Sounds familiar: > http://people.canonical.com/~ubuntu-archive/livefs-build-logs/raring/ubuntu/ haha, I couldn't find were the /latest were; checked cdimage and it didn't have them :-) -- Loïc Minier -- ubuntu-devel mailing l

Re: Avoiding fragmentation with a rolling release

2013-03-04 Thread Loïc Minier
On Sat, Mar 02, 2013, Martin Pitt wrote: > Loïc Minier [2013-03-01 12:10 +0100]: > > I don't think we can make any commitment against all of Ubuntu or all of > > main, but we could pick a subset by product and commit to some level of > > API and ABI support for this sub

Re: Monthly snapshots Re: Let's Discuss Interim Releases (and a Rolling Release)

2013-03-04 Thread Loïc Minier
gather stats about how much use rolling vs > monthly vs LTS gets, to see if there is actual non-trivial demand for > one vs another (and deal with the 'default sticks' effect too). +1 on stats; in fact whatever we implement we ought to revisit our choice in some time to revie

Re: Monthly snapshots Re: Let's Discuss Interim Releases (and a Rolling Release)

2013-03-04 Thread Loïc Minier
t know the internals, I guess it's just one more reference to the files as with the archive's pools/dists. -- Loïc Minier -- ubuntu-devel mailing list ubuntu-devel@lists.ubuntu.com Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-devel

Re: Monthly Updates versus Monthly Images

2013-03-06 Thread Loïc Minier
xes and latest features. We would have an easy way to push an update for a security fix, and an easy way to stage what goes in it. We do need some branch of (a subset of) the archive to build that though. -- Loïc Minier -- ubuntu-devel mailing list ubuntu-devel@lists.ubuntu.com Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-devel

Re: Monthly Updates versus Monthly Images

2013-03-06 Thread Loïc Minier
're trying to land. We also want peer reviews somewhere. Finally, I'm not sure we can fit all the *buntu builds with the same workflow; it worries me that we'd enforce the same transition logic to e.g. unseeded universe packages and boot infrastructure. -- Loïc Minier -- ubuntu-dev

New ubuntu-platform@ list for APIs

2013-03-11 Thread Loïc Minier
interested! Cheers, [1] http://summit.ubuntu.com/uds-1303/meeting/21613/client-1303-add-app-model-and-lifecycle-to-platform-api/ [2] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-platform -- Loïc Minier -- ubuntu-devel mailing list ubuntu-devel@lists.ubuntu.com Modify settings or unsubscribe

Re: Coverity static analysis for C, C++ and Java code

2013-04-10 Thread Loïc Minier
ackages from a set to be tested? -- Loïc Minier -- ubuntu-devel mailing list ubuntu-devel@lists.ubuntu.com Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-devel

Re: Listing the licenses used on an installed system?

2013-06-14 Thread Loïc Minier
age creation. Cheers, -- Loïc Minier -- ubuntu-devel mailing list ubuntu-devel@lists.ubuntu.com Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-devel

Re: Listing the licenses used on an installed system?

2013-06-14 Thread Loïc Minier
On Fri, Jun 14, 2013, Loïc Minier wrote: > On Fri, Jun 14, 2013, Sebastien Bacher wrote: > > Does anyone know if we already have tools doing that > > We do! Kyle (Cc:ed) worked on a license scanner in lp:getlicenses; it > requires internet connectivity (I guess due to th

Re: Handling of layout/input methods in Unity: what should we do for the LTS?

2013-11-13 Thread Loïc Minier
sk point of view, the second option seems like the safest one, but from an efforts point of view this depends on how much work it is to produce an Unity 8 image with a new keyboard layouts / shortcuts solution + finding a solution for Ubuntu Desktop. -- Loïc Minier -- ubuntu-devel mailing list ub

Re: Handling of layout/input methods in Unity: what should we do for the LTS?

2013-11-13 Thread Loïc Minier
7;t know whether this is on the roadmap) -- Loïc Minier -- ubuntu-devel mailing list ubuntu-devel@lists.ubuntu.com Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-devel

Re: Should we change memtest to use elf binary?

2013-11-14 Thread Loïc Minier
s a workaround to the locally installed one being broken. It might be possible to trigger a memtest from a remove serial console, but I guess the most common use case is to locally start it when investigating a hardware issue, or when installing new hardware. -- Loïc Minier -- ubuntu-devel

Re: remove i386 from foreign arch on server install?

2014-02-14 Thread Loïc Minier
; this probably needs non-trivial APT work though. This would be a nice saving for both desktop and server users and would avoid the question of the cost of keeping i386 enabled on amd64 installs. -- Loïc Minier -- ubuntu-devel mailing list ubuntu-devel@lists.ubuntu.com Modify settings or unsubscr

Re: SLP (Service Location Protocol)

2014-07-29 Thread Loïc Minier
think we'd want to install more central agents/servers by default when we dont know the general network topology. The trend seems to be for individual services to advertise themselves over mDNS/Bonjour rather than anything centralized and/or SLP. > 3. How can I test my environment with co

Re: State of systemd-networkd integration for Xenial

2016-01-11 Thread Loïc Minier
On Mon, Jan 4, 2016 at 8:19 AM, Martin Pitt wrote: > networkd is a supported component in Xenial, so you are welcome to use > it. The server and snappy teams have discussed using it by default, > and I'm not entirely sure about the latest word on it, but I believe > the plan was to stay conserva

Re: Ubuntu ARM and the linaro kernels

2010-11-15 Thread Loïc Minier
imiting the Sauce which goes into the linaro branch with the Ubuntu Kernel Team; I don't think this fundamentally holds up anything though * if someone cares about providing better vanilla Linaro Kernel builds, e.g. .debs, then that someone ought to start some spec on providing +

Re: Ubuntu ARM and the linaro kernels

2010-11-15 Thread Loïc Minier
y in an Ubuntu kernel) etc. -- Loïc Minier -- ubuntu-devel mailing list ubuntu-devel@lists.ubuntu.com Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-devel

Re: Ubuntu ARM and the linaro kernels

2010-11-15 Thread Loïc Minier
s about security support -- Loïc Minier -- ubuntu-devel mailing list ubuntu-devel@lists.ubuntu.com Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-devel

Re: ftbfs in subversion related to linker change?

2010-11-15 Thread Loïc Minier
rous; you can do something like: LD_LIBRARY_PATH="yourdir${LD_LIBRARY_PATH:+:$LD_LIBRARY_PATH}" to be secure Cheers -- Loïc Minier -- ubuntu-devel mailing list ubuntu-devel@lists.ubuntu.com Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-devel

Re: ftbfs in subversion related to linker change?

2010-11-19 Thread Loïc Minier
27;m trying some > other approaches to see what happens at this point to break fakeroot. I didn't use it so far, but isn't it what $purge_build_directory="successful"; is for in /etc/sbuild/sbuild.conf? According to this file, "always" is the default and will wip

Re: ftbfs in subversion related to linker change?

2010-11-19 Thread Loïc Minier
On Fri, Nov 19, 2010, Loïc Minier wrote: > I didn't use it so far, but isn't it what > $purge_build_directory="successful"; > is for in /etc/sbuild/sbuild.conf? > > According to this file, "always" is the default and will wipe your > chroot

Re: build-from-branch into the primary archive

2011-02-19 Thread Loïc Minier
of implicit that we have this branch in every package, but there is not way to tell whether the UDD branch is in use or not; listing it explicitly when it's used solves this) -- Loïc Minier -- ubuntu-devel mailing list ubuntu-devel@lists.ubuntu.com Modify settings or unsubscribe at: htt

Re: build-from-branch into the primary archive

2011-02-22 Thread Loïc Minier
the actual change manually into the trunk branch, then bump the version to > 2.1.0-0ubuntu3 with a note about why -0ubuntu2 is skipped. But this was actually a case of me not being able to commit to the Vcs branch! :-) What I usually do in these cases is copy the changelog to bzr myself, to

Re: Call for testing: Aubergine-love for Server folks!

2011-03-18 Thread Loïc Minier
ide similar colors by default in xterm/gnome-terminal/others? Thanks! -- Loïc Minier -- ubuntu-devel mailing list ubuntu-devel@lists.ubuntu.com Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-devel

Re: Should PPAs be forced to specify a ~ppa1 or similar in the package version?

2011-04-03 Thread Loïc Minier
#x27;s not practical to impose a specific version scheming to all PPA packages immediately. -- Loïc Minier #!/bin/sh # dput - wrapper for /usr/bin/dput asking for confirmation on some uploads # Copyright (C) 2008 Loïc Minier # # Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person