Re: Debian built from non-Debian sources

2017-07-20 Thread Alexey Salmin
On Wed, Jul 19, 2017 at 3:59 PM, Holger Levsen wrote: > I dont even see how there would > be much delay, if we had the policy of say requiring a debian-cd upload > (to sid) with the changes made to create the stable upload. Sid likely won't work here because both sid and testing may get ahead of

Re: Debian built from non-Debian sources

2017-07-18 Thread Alexey Salmin
On Tue, Jul 18, 2017 at 9:15 PM, Ian Jackson wrote: > Steve McIntyre writes ("Re: Debian built from non-Debian sources"): >> For the record, all the changes I'm talking about go into public git >> with all of the configuration and scripting that we use on our image >> building machine. > > For me,

Re: Debian built from non-Debian sources

2017-07-18 Thread Alexey Salmin
On Tue, Jul 18, 2017 at 4:51 PM, Scott Kitterman wrote: > > > On July 18, 2017 8:41:43 AM EDT, Alexey Salmin > wrote: >>On Tue, Jul 18, 2017 at 2:09 AM, Steve McIntyre >>wrote: >>> Making images often requires tweaks to the build script at/near >>> r

Re: Debian built from non-Debian sources

2017-07-18 Thread Alexey Salmin
On Tue, Jul 18, 2017 at 2:09 AM, Steve McIntyre wrote: > Making images often requires tweaks to the build script at/near > release time. The archive continues to be a moving target until very > close to that time. More than once we've fixed things or added > workarounds in the image generation scr

Re: Can we kill net-tools, please?

2017-01-08 Thread Alexey Salmin
On Sun, Jan 8, 2017 at 10:49 PM, Tom H wrote: > On Fri, Jan 6, 2017 at 7:58 PM, Toni Mueller wrote: >> On Thu, Dec 29, 2016 at 09:01:51PM +0500, Andrey Rahmatullin wrote: >>> On Thu, Dec 29, 2016 at 10:30:26AM -0500, Theodore Ts'o wrote: > > Ifconfig has been deprecated; you should probably

Re: apt-listbugs

2011-10-18 Thread Alexey Salmin
by apt-listbugs during the upgrade because they were upgrading xserver-xorg-core and bugreport is against the nvidia-graphics-drivers. More details below. On Tue, Oct 18, 2011 at 2:37 AM, Francesco Poli wrote: > On Mon, 17 Oct 2011 09:30:56 +0700 Alexey Salmin wrote: >> Many people got alm

Re: lilo removal in squeeze (or, "please test grub2")

2010-05-31 Thread Alexey Salmin
On Mon, May 31, 2010 at 10:25 PM, Marc Haber wrote: > I fully agree. The grub situation is as with KDE: Old version > abandoned, new version not finished. Not exactly. I was testing KDE4 since 3.97 and it was quite interesting and amusing. Not many people like to test bootloader on themself, thou

Re: Parallellizing the boot in Debian Squeeze - ready for wider testing

2010-05-07 Thread Alexey Salmin
On Fri, May 7, 2010 at 2:59 PM, Mike Hommey wrote: > On Fri, May 07, 2010 at 09:47:36AM +0200, Josselin Mouette wrote: >> Le jeudi 06 mai 2010 à 21:11 +0200, Petter Reinholdtsen a écrit : >> > These days, the init.d script dependencies in Squeeze are quite >> > complete, so complete that it is act

Re: btrfs

2009-10-07 Thread Alexey Salmin
> On Wed, 7 Oct 2009, Alexey Salmin wrote: >> I think it's reasonable for package maintainers to check compatibility >> with the kernel from the >> distribution they upload package to. Especialy here when package is >> newer then kernel driver. >> It's

Re: btrfs

2009-10-07 Thread Alexey Salmin
I think it's reasonable for package maintainers to check compatibility with the kernel from the distribution they upload package to. Especialy here when package is newer then kernel driver. It's of course harder to supervise the situation when kernel pass ahead of user-space packages but it's also

Remove a package?

2009-05-05 Thread Alexey Salmin
Hello! At first I want to say that I'm not sure that this mailing list is a right place for my letter. Secondly, this letter isn't actually about some specific package, I'm just interested in understanding Debain policies. Is there any way to remove some package from debian distribution? For exampl