Re: Serializing transitions

2011-05-02 Thread Scott Kitterman
On Monday, May 02, 2011 12:26:05 PM Jan Hauke Rahm wrote: > On Mon, May 02, 2011 at 11:48:27AM -0400, Scott Kitterman wrote: > > On Monday, May 02, 2011 07:31:31 AM Lucas Nussbaum wrote: > > ... > > > > > How we deal with freezes is the hard point in this discussion. I'm > > > personnally in favor

Re: Serializing transitions

2010-03-30 Thread Don Armstrong
On Tue, 30 Mar 2010, Raphael Hertzog wrote: > X-Debbugs-Cc and a script should be more than enough, you can > certainly parse the pseudo-headers to find out the packages and the > version. And when you report the bug, you can add a custom > pseudo-header "Arch" that the BTS would ignore but that yo

Re: Serializing transitions

2010-03-30 Thread Raphael Hertzog
On Tue, 30 Mar 2010, Wouter Verhelst wrote: > > You always have to wait for the BTS confirmation first. > > Perhaps it would be nice to talk to the debbugs maintainers and work out > a way in which the BTS can inform wanna-build of a bug number without > buildd admin intervention? Maybe this could

Re: Serializing transitions

2010-03-30 Thread Wouter Verhelst
On Sun, Mar 28, 2010 at 09:53:56AM +, Philipp Kern wrote: > On 2010-03-28, Wouter Verhelst wrote: > > With old buildd, it was always possible to add this bug # after the > > fact. I don't know what the case is with new buildd/new wanna-build, but > > it might be a good idea to look into that..

Re: Serializing transitions

2010-03-28 Thread Kurt Roeckx
On Sun, Mar 28, 2010 at 09:28:43AM +0200, Wouter Verhelst wrote: > On Sat, Mar 27, 2010 at 11:13:20PM +0100, Kurt Roeckx wrote: > > On Fri, Mar 26, 2010 at 03:11:12PM +0100, Raphael Hertzog wrote: > > > On Fri, 26 Mar 2010, Marc 'HE' Brockschmidt wrote: > > > > You mean like the existing pages on b

Re: Serializing transitions

2010-03-28 Thread Philipp Kern
On 2010-03-28, Wouter Verhelst wrote: > With old buildd, it was always possible to add this bug # after the > fact. I don't know what the case is with new buildd/new wanna-build, but > it might be a good idea to look into that... That hasn't changed. It's mildly annoying though that you cannot d

Re: Serializing transitions

2010-03-28 Thread Raphael Hertzog
On Fri, 26 Mar 2010, Sune Vuorela wrote: > On 2010-03-26, Raphael Hertzog wrote: > > That said I think those transition repositories are going to be more used > > (and thus tested) than experimental because they are targeted. Users who > > want to test the latest KDE or Gnome will happily add such

Re: Serializing transitions

2010-03-28 Thread Raphael Hertzog
On Sat, 27 Mar 2010, Kurt Roeckx wrote: > The BTS supports filing bugs against source packages, so you also > file against the version of the source package. A FTBFS bug is now > almost always reported against the source package, including binNMUs. That's good for reporting FTBFS but users findin

Re: Serializing transitions

2010-03-28 Thread Wouter Verhelst
On Sat, Mar 27, 2010 at 11:13:20PM +0100, Kurt Roeckx wrote: > On Fri, Mar 26, 2010 at 03:11:12PM +0100, Raphael Hertzog wrote: > > On Fri, 26 Mar 2010, Marc 'HE' Brockschmidt wrote: > > > You mean like the existing pages on buildd.debian.org? You just need to > > > feed them the list of affected p

Re: Serializing transitions

2010-03-27 Thread Michael Banck
On Fri, Mar 26, 2010 at 12:37:59PM +0100, Alexander Reichle-Schmehl wrote: > Hi! > > Neil Williams schrieb: > > >Wouldn't a simpler method be to identify uploads that inadvertently > >impair an ongoing transition and bump that one upload to experimental > >or simply tell the DD not to upload to u

Re: Serializing transitions

2010-03-27 Thread Kurt Roeckx
On Fri, Mar 26, 2010 at 03:11:12PM +0100, Raphael Hertzog wrote: > On Fri, 26 Mar 2010, Marc 'HE' Brockschmidt wrote: > > You mean like the existing pages on buildd.debian.org? You just need to > > feed them the list of affected packages to get that. > > Good if it can be done with a simple link t

Re: Serializing transitions

2010-03-27 Thread Marc 'HE' Brockschmidt
Stéphane Glondu writes: > Raphael Hertzog a écrit : >> I don't an exhaustive answer but here are some points: >> 1/ you can't request bin-nmus of reverse-dependencies in experimental >>(to verify that all packages build fine with the updated package, and >>that's one of the main task in pr

Re: Serializing transitions

2010-03-27 Thread Neil Williams
On Sat, 27 Mar 2010 00:09:53 +0100 Stéphane Glondu wrote: > > 3/ some maintainers are too confident that nothing is going to break > > And even if they do tests, they cannot do them on all architectures. With edos-debcheck you can. You simply need to download the relevant Packages.gz file. edos

Re: Serializing transitions

2010-03-26 Thread Stéphane Glondu
Neil Williams a écrit : > I did a form of that for Emdebian Crush (emrecent) which used > edos-debcheck to see if the upload was going to break the repository > prior to making the upload. [...] Hum... interesting. If an upload is going to break the repository, dak could indeed ask some kind of co

Re: Serializing transitions

2010-03-26 Thread Stéphane Glondu
Raphael Hertzog a écrit : >>> Preparing the transition in experimental is not always done and takes >>> much more energy than such a system would take. >> Why, actually? > > I don't an exhaustive answer but here are some points: > 1/ you can't request bin-nmus of reverse-dependencies in experiment

Re: Serializing transitions

2010-03-26 Thread Raphael Hertzog
[ I find the tone of your mail needlessly aggressive, we're just discussing an idea at this point and seeing if it's worth investing more time into it ] On Fri, 26 Mar 2010, Marc 'HE' Brockschmidt wrote: > No, this can't be defined later. It's a central part. Would any new > binary lead to a d

Re: Serializing transitions

2010-03-26 Thread Alexander Reichle-Schmehl
Hi! Neil Williams schrieb: Wouldn't a simpler method be to identify uploads that inadvertently impair an ongoing transition and bump that one upload to experimental or simply tell the DD not to upload to unstable? [..] Maybe extending dput functionality to check a file on a central server tha

Re: Serializing transitions

2010-03-26 Thread Neil Williams
On Fri, 26 Mar 2010 10:51:43 +0100 Raphael Hertzog wrote: > one of our biggest problems is dealing with transitions because they tend > to get interdependant and it's thus very difficult to move packages from > sid to testing. Also many transitions are badly managed by the maintainers > who are r

Re: Serializing transitions

2010-03-26 Thread Xavier Oswald
On 10:51 Fri 26 Mar , Raphael Hertzog wrote: > To resolve the problems I suggest to serialize transitions in sid. > First the archive should block package uploads to sid that would be > starting a new transition (defining this in more details is left for > later). Instead transitions should be

Re: Serializing transitions

2010-03-26 Thread Sune Vuorela
On 2010-03-26, Raphael Hertzog wrote: > That said I think those transition repositories are going to be more used > (and thus tested) than experimental because they are targeted. Users who > want to test the latest KDE or Gnome will happily add such a repository if > its sole purpose is to contain

Re: Serializing transitions

2010-03-26 Thread Marc 'HE' Brockschmidt
Raphael Hertzog writes: > To resolve the problems I suggest to serialize transitions in sid. This was already discussed a few times. > First the archive should block package uploads to sid that would be > starting a new transition (defining this in more details is left for > later). No, this ca

Re: Serializing transitions

2010-03-26 Thread Raphael Hertzog
[ Not quite sure why you sent it to debian-release when I tried to have the discussion on -devel only, anyway ] On Fri, 26 Mar 2010, Philipp Kern wrote: > [ Just a few quick thoughts. ] > > On 2010-03-26, Raphael Hertzog wrote: > > Multiple transitions will still end up mixed in sid if you pus