Re: Future of the s390 port

2009-08-31 Thread Michael Casadevall
On Mon, Aug 31, 2009 at 12:46 PM, Marco d'Itri wrote: > On Aug 31, Bastian Blank wrote: > >> I doubt that I would be able to push this port through another release >> in the current state. The consequence would by that the port dies >> completely and with it the only free and released distribution

Re: problems with the concept of unstable -> testing

2008-12-22 Thread Michael Casadevall
On Mon, Dec 22, 2008 at 5:55 AM, Russell Coker wrote: > On Monday 22 December 2008 17:55, "Paul Wise" wrote: >> On Mon, Dec 22, 2008 at 6:08 AM, Kjeldgaard Morten >> >> wrote: >> > Another model that I think has not been discussed is never freezing >> > stable. >> >> Freezing is the whole point

Re: I hereby resign as secretary

2008-12-19 Thread Michael Casadevall
The problem is you can't wave a magic wand, and fix the community. It's a self-feeding cycle which goes on and on and on. Even if we had a Code of Conduct for Debian, unless it was strongly enforced, its the same problem. Whether the ballot was valid or not was immaterial, the response to it was c

Re: [DRAFT] resolving DFSG violations

2008-10-30 Thread Michael Casadevall
I'll add my two cents. I have some experience with radios. The FCC requires all radios to be certified before they can be sold, and there is a requirement that you must not make a device that is easily modifiable to operate outside the limits put forth by the FCC. In this case, it would be illegal

Re: Upcoming changes to supported architectures

2008-08-15 Thread Michael Casadevall
that list. Michael On Fri, Aug 15, 2008 at 9:03 PM, Samuel Thibault <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Michael Casadevall wrote >> kfreebsd-* is pretty close to releasable; they've got the archive >> built in the high 80s, and are keeping up). > > BTW, it may be worth notin

Re: Upcoming changes to supported architectures

2008-08-15 Thread Michael Casadevall
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 I have a local mirror of m68k, and both kfreebsd ports, and they're roughly 70-80GB including source. If ries has become so full that space is becoming an issue, then dropping arm, hurd-i386, and m68k is a stopgap move at best (your only going to recov

Re: projectb users - we want you

2008-08-12 Thread Michael Casadevall
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 I'm not a DD so I can't add myself to the list; I'd like to see better support for importing dsc files and binaries into the archive (aka to importing an existing archives (import-archive now works though after I gave it a lobotomy). Database wise, t

Re: What is the target used by buildd?

2008-08-08 Thread Michael Casadevall
sbuild calls dpkg-buildpackage to build the package. It doesn't touch the rules file directly. On 8/8/08, Francisco Moya <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, > > I believed buildd.debian.org was meant to build only binary-arch packages. > > But in recent build logs of the zeroc-ice package: > http://b

Re: Packages getting marked not-for-us

2008-08-06 Thread Michael Casadevall
Correct me if I'm wrong, but it seems like a pretty bad idea to NFU software that can be compiled on an architecture even if it doesn't seem that useful. I have the X11 libraries on my NSLU2, which lacks any graphical output, but I use it as an X11 server. That being said, I can see the point from

Re: Package management unsafe?

2008-07-11 Thread Michael Casadevall
Linux) Comment: http://getfiregpg.org iD8DBQFId//JpblTBJ2i2psRAu6uAJ48+knPTzxi1InA/Wg3AN4m2Rt8WwCfa/ES rddl6+w/Kw+7UBVNQLjLplE= =fGdJ -END PGP SIGNATURE- On Fri, Jul 11, 2008 at 8:39 PM, Frank Lichtenheld <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Fri, Jul 11, 2008 at 11:48:03AM -0400, Michael Ca

Re: Package management unsafe?

2008-07-11 Thread Michael Casadevall
Maybe a check should be added to APT to flag a warning if there has been no updates for a significant period of time? That way if a mirror ever does that, its more detectable. Michael On Fri, Jul 11, 2008 at 8:55 AM, Steinar H. Gunderson < [EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Fri, Jul 11, 2008 at 07:36:

Bug#470995: ITP: devotee -- Debian voting system

2008-03-14 Thread Michael Casadevall
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Michael Casadevall <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * Package name: devotee Version : 0.1patch2 Upstream Author : Manoj Srivastava <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * URL : http://www.debian.org/ * License : GPL Programming Lang

Re: dpkg semi-hijack - an announcement (also, triggers)

2008-03-09 Thread Michael Casadevall
I'm going to have to agree with this; I admin m68k buildds; I had to preinstall most of the texex packages simply because it was taking hours (and that is not an exaggeration) to install them all, and then remove them all again. A trigger based system would help relieve this problem. I had a si

Re: Please allow the migration of the packages stalled in the MIPS buildd backlog.

2008-03-02 Thread Michael Casadevall
What about simply decoupling mips/mipsel's version numbers so an out of date package on mips(el) doesn't stall out the rest of the testing. Having (somewhat) setup britney/update_out to generate testing for m68k, it should just be a matter of adding of adding mips and mipsels, to the proper li

Re: Thoughts about including scsiaddgui

2007-08-30 Thread Michael Casadevall
Hi, On Thu, 2007-08-30 at 09:43 +0200, Steinar H. Gunderson wrote: > On Thu, Aug 30, 2007 at 08:22:36AM +0100, Neil Williams wrote: > > Yes. Except that you don't have to go trying to find someone. You should > > file a RFP bug against wnpp and wait until someone has sufficient > > interest and sk