Re: Bits (Nybbles?) from the Vancouver release team meeting

2005-03-14 Thread Henning Makholm
Scripsit Stephen Gran <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > No, I thought the proposal stated quite clearly, if there are users and > there are porters, a given arch is able to be included. "Included" perhaps, but still banned from making stable releases within Debian. > All that means is that those interested

Re: Bits (Nybbles?) from the Vancouver release team meeting

2005-03-14 Thread Matthias Urlichs
Hi, Stephen Gran wrote: > I took those two in > particular to be guidelines, rather than strict quantifiers. That's not how I was reading that list. > The > problems they appear to be trying to address with these points are > hardware availability and buildd admin time. If no more working hard

Re: Bits (Nybbles?) from the Vancouver release team meeting

2005-03-14 Thread Stephen Gran
This one time, at band camp, John Goerzen said: > On Mon, Mar 14, 2005 at 10:21:39AM -0500, Stephen Gran wrote: > > So far as I can tell, the governing rule in Debian thus far has > > always been that the people doing the work get to make the decisions > > about their corner of the project. I don'

Re: Bits (Nybbles?) from the Vancouver release team meeting

2005-03-14 Thread Sven Luther
On Mon, Mar 14, 2005 at 03:24:06PM +0100, Aurélien Jarno wrote: > Sven Luther a écrit : > >On Mon, Mar 14, 2005 at 02:38:01PM +0100, Aurélien Jarno wrote: > > > >>Sven Luther a écrit : > >> > >>>- Not having slower arches hold up testing. > >> > >>Slower arches don't hold up testing. Arches with b

Re: Bits (Nybbles?) from the Vancouver release team meeting

2005-03-14 Thread John Goerzen
On Mon, Mar 14, 2005 at 10:44:50AM -0500, David Nusinow wrote: > > Why? Because having an environment that works exactly the same across > > multiple architectures is a Good Thing. If I will no longer be able to > > achieve that, then Debian on x86 becomes seriously less useful, because > > now I

Re: Bits (Nybbles?) from the Vancouver release team meeting

2005-03-14 Thread Scott James Remnant
On Mon, 2005-03-14 at 11:13 +0100, Sven Luther wrote: > On Mon, Mar 14, 2005 at 10:16:20AM +, Martin Michlmayr wrote: > > * AurÃlien Jarno <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2005-03-14 10:56]: > > > Would it be possible to have a list of such proposed architectures? > > > > amd64, s390z, powerpc64, netbsd-

Re: Bits (Nybbles?) from the Vancouver release team meeting

2005-03-14 Thread Matthias Urlichs
Hi, Wouter Verhelst wrote: > Op ma, 14-03-2005 te 12:38 +0100, schreef David Schmitt: >> On Monday 14 March 2005 11:28, Thomas Bushnell BSG wrote: >> > In this case, it was a bug that required human intervention, a package >> > upload that accidentally would hose a chroot, which required the >> >

Re: Bits (Nybbles?) from the Vancouver release team meeting

2005-03-14 Thread Sven Luther
On Mon, Mar 14, 2005 at 10:16:19AM -0500, David Nusinow wrote: > On Mon, Mar 14, 2005 at 03:24:06PM +0100, Aurélien Jarno wrote: > > What about partial mirroring to address space problems? What about a > > team for wanna-build so that help and machines are not refused anymore? > > What about a te

Re: Bits (Nybbles?) from the Vancouver release team meeting

2005-03-14 Thread Marc Haber
On Mon, 14 Mar 2005 10:21:39 -0500, Stephen Gran <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >So far as I can tell, the governing rule in Debian thus far has always >been that the people doing the work get to make the decisions about >their corner of the project. I don't see that that's going to change >any time s

Re: Bits (Nybbles?) from the Vancouver release team meeting

2005-03-14 Thread Sven Luther
On Mon, Mar 14, 2005 at 04:26:50PM +0100, Frank Küster wrote: > That is a problem. However it seemed that the amd64 people could solve > it nevertheless. And I think there can also be technical and/or social > mechanisms to deal with that: Funny that you would compare amd64 to m68k or s390 or ..

COUNT(buildd) IN (2,3) (was: Re: Bits (Nybbles?) from the Vancouver release team meeting)

2005-03-14 Thread David Schmitt
On Monday 14 March 2005 14:24, Aurélien Jarno wrote: > Hamish Moffatt a écrit : > > I see it as more a practical consideration. If you can't buy the > > hardware new then you will have trouble keeping up with a growing > > unstable, especially given the requirement that you need <= 2 buildds. > > S

Re: Bits (Nybbles?) from the Vancouver release team meeting

2005-03-14 Thread Henning Makholm
Scripsit David Schmitt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > On Monday 14 March 2005 12:05, Robert Lemmen wrote: >> - there must be a way for a scc arch to get a stable release. why don't >> we either keep testing for scc archs but not do releases, so the >> porters can do their own stable releases of their a

Re: Bits (Nybbles?) from the Vancouver release team meeting

2005-03-14 Thread Alastair McKinstry
>On Mon, Mar 14, 2005 at 09:23:54AM -0600, John Goerzen wrote: >> On Mon, Mar 14, 2005 at 12:47:58PM +0100, Julien BLACHE wrote: >> > Basically, you're just leaving a number of Debian users out in the >> > cold. Users who choose Debian because we were the only distribution >> > out of there to prov

Re: Bits (Nybbles?) from the Vancouver release team meeting

2005-03-14 Thread John Goerzen
On Mon, Mar 14, 2005 at 10:52:29AM -0500, Stephen Gran wrote: > Let me try to be clear. I am not necessarily in favor of dropping > arches. I am opposed to having portability issues make new releases > drag on forever, and slowing security releases. We have been told I am too. I have no object

Re: Bits (Nybbles?) from the Vancouver release team meeting

2005-03-14 Thread Sven Luther
On Mon, Mar 14, 2005 at 04:17:45PM +0100, Matthias Urlichs wrote: > Hi, Sven Luther wrote: > > > What about building the scc (or tier 2 as i would say) arches from testing > > and > > not unstable ? > > That would negate one of the main points of having Testing, i.e. something > that's supposed

Re: Bits (Nybbles?) from the Vancouver release team meeting

2005-03-14 Thread Scott James Remnant
On Mon, 2005-03-14 at 16:51 +0100, Marc Haber wrote: > On Mon, 14 Mar 2005 15:41:16 +, Scott James Remnant > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >On Mon, 2005-03-14 at 15:38 +0100, Marc Haber wrote: > >> It does a significant number of other things, one of them being paying > >> a number of Debian de

COUNT(buildd) IN (2,3) (was: Re: Bits (Nybbles?) from the Vancouver release team meeting)

2005-03-14 Thread David Schmitt
On Monday 14 March 2005 16:27, Matthias Urlichs wrote: > If I had to think of a rationale for it, the only one I could think of > would be "the architecture needs to be fast enough not to block security > updates". This is not the only one. Taking days to build some packages also leads to shlibs-

Re: Bits (Nybbles?) from the Vancouver release team meeting

2005-03-14 Thread David Nusinow
On Mon, Mar 14, 2005 at 09:54:49AM -0600, John Goerzen wrote: > It is not unstable that I am (most) worried about. > > It is the lack of any possibility of a stable release that concerns me. > Even if the people for a given arch were to build a stable etch, it > would have no home in Debian, would

Re: Bits (Nybbles?) from the Vancouver release team meeting

2005-03-14 Thread Sven Luther
On Mon, Mar 14, 2005 at 04:10:33PM +0100, David Schmitt wrote: > On Monday 14 March 2005 10:56, Aurélien Jarno wrote: > > I think that supporting a lot of architectures is an important > > difference between Debian and other distributions. Changing that could > > have a dramatically influence of wh

Re: Bits (Nybbles?) from the Vancouver release team meeting

2005-03-14 Thread Frank Küster
David Schmitt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> schrieb: > On Monday 14 March 2005 10:56, Aurélien Jarno wrote: >> I think that supporting a lot of architectures is an important >> difference between Debian and other distributions. Changing that could >> have a dramatically influence of what users think of Debi

Re: Bits (Nybbles?) from the Vancouver release team meeting

2005-03-14 Thread Marc Haber
On Mon, 14 Mar 2005 10:52:29 -0500, Stephen Gran <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >The only real showstopper for some of the slower arches is that they >take too long to compile some of the bigger packages, and that slows >down getting security upgrades out the door. I was under the impression >that thi

powerpc64 (was Re: Bits (Nybbles?) from the Vancouver release team meeting)

2005-03-14 Thread Martin Michlmayr
* Scott James Remnant <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2005-03-14 15:56]: > > ppc64 is not currently a candidate for a separate arch, > > > If that's the case, could you close #263743. The problem is that afaik there's currently disagreement about how it should be done. The IBM folks wanted to think about i

Re: Bits (Nybbles?) from the Vancouver release team meeting

2005-03-14 Thread Sven Luther
On Mon, Mar 14, 2005 at 03:56:34PM +, Scott James Remnant wrote: > On Mon, 2005-03-14 at 11:13 +0100, Sven Luther wrote: > > > On Mon, Mar 14, 2005 at 10:16:20AM +, Martin Michlmayr wrote: > > > * Aurélien Jarno <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2005-03-14 10:56]: > > > > Would it be possible to have a

Re: COUNT(buildd) IN (2,3) (was: Re: Bits (Nybbles?) from the Vancouver release team meeting)

2005-03-14 Thread John Goerzen
On Mon, Mar 14, 2005 at 05:03:30PM +0100, David Schmitt wrote: > Thus the problem is less in the development and more in the support of > testing > requirements (all arches in sync) and stable support (security response > time). Therefore the N<=2 requirement is only needed for tier-1 arches but

Re: Bits (Nybbles?) from the Vancouver release team meeting

2005-03-14 Thread Frank Küster
Stephen Gran <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > So far as I can tell, the governing rule in Debian thus far has always > been that the people doing the work get to make the decisions about > their corner of the project. I don't see that that's going to change > any time soon, and I don't particularly t

Re: Bits (Nybbles?) from the Vancouver release team meeting

2005-03-14 Thread Sven Luther
On Mon, Mar 14, 2005 at 03:47:52PM +, Henning Makholm wrote: > Scripsit David Schmitt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > On Monday 14 March 2005 12:05, Robert Lemmen wrote: > > >> - there must be a way for a scc arch to get a stable release. why don't > >> we either keep testing for scc archs but not d

Re: Bits (Nybbles?) from the Vancouver release team meeting

2005-03-14 Thread David Schmitt
On Monday 14 March 2005 14:50, Steve McIntyre wrote: > Lots of people on arm, for a start. Debian is (to my knowledge) the > only common distro that supports arm, so there are _lots_ of people > out there running embedded machines using bits from Debian. Look at > the emdebian project. Of course, m

Re: Bits (Nybbles?) from the Vancouver release team meeting

2005-03-14 Thread Stephen Gran
This one time, at band camp, Marc Haber said: > On Mon, 14 Mar 2005 10:52:29 -0500, Stephen Gran <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >The only real showstopper for some of the slower arches is that they > >take too long to compile some of the bigger packages, and that slows > >down getting security upgrad

Re: Bits (Nybbles?) from the Vancouver release team meeting

2005-03-14 Thread Sven Luther
On Mon, Mar 14, 2005 at 09:27:25AM -0500, Stephen Gran wrote: > This one time, at band camp, Ingo Juergensmann said: > > On Mon, Mar 14, 2005 at 12:47:58PM +0100, Julien BLACHE wrote: > > > > > Moreover, the criterias given in your mail are just so oriented > > > towards/against some architectures

Re: Bits (Nybbles?) from the Vancouver release team meeting

2005-03-14 Thread David Nusinow
(Please don't cc me. I'm on-list. Thanks.) On Mon, Mar 14, 2005 at 04:06:39PM +, Alastair McKinstry wrote: > The question is: how do you release a SCC arch, if at all? > > Its unlikely that producing an s390 (for example) release for etch is simply > a matter of building the released etch on

Re: Bits (Nybbles?) from the Vancouver release team meeting

2005-03-14 Thread Sven Luther
On Mon, Mar 14, 2005 at 11:22:33AM -0500, Stephen Gran wrote: > This one time, at band camp, Marc Haber said: > > On Mon, 14 Mar 2005 10:52:29 -0500, Stephen Gran <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > >The only real showstopper for some of the slower arches is that they > > >take too long to compile some

Re: COUNT(buildd) IN (2,3) (was: Re: Bits (Nybbles?) from the Vancouver release team meeting)

2005-03-14 Thread Matthias Urlichs
Hi, David Schmitt wrote: >> Not when the alternate choice is to not have Debian support $ARCH at all. > > Please cite where this was proposed. I read the original Nybbles mail (and a > part of the current thread) but couldn't find the "at all" bit. I consider an official stable release with at

Re: Bits (Nybbles?) from the Vancouver release team meeting

2005-03-14 Thread Sven Luther
On Mon, Mar 14, 2005 at 11:12:29AM -0500, David Nusinow wrote: > On Mon, Mar 14, 2005 at 09:54:49AM -0600, John Goerzen wrote: > > It is not unstable that I am (most) worried about. > > > > It is the lack of any possibility of a stable release that concerns me. > > Even if the people for a given a

Re: Bits (Nybbles?) from the Vancouver release team meeting

2005-03-14 Thread Stephen Gran
This one time, at band camp, Sven Luther said: > On Mon, Mar 14, 2005 at 09:27:25AM -0500, Stephen Gran wrote: > > This one time, at band camp, Ingo Juergensmann said: > > > On Mon, Mar 14, 2005 at 12:47:58PM +0100, Julien BLACHE wrote: > > > > > > > Moreover, the criterias given in your mail are

Re: Bits (Nybbles?) from the Vancouver release team meeting

2005-03-14 Thread Sven Luther
On Mon, Mar 14, 2005 at 01:41:04PM +0100, Jon Kåre Hellan wrote: > A short comment from a user perspective: I find this proposal > very encouraging. It goes a long way towards restoring my > confidence that sarge will in fact happen, and that future Debian > releases will be made in a timely manner

Re: Bits (Nybbles?) from the Vancouver release team meeting

2005-03-14 Thread David Nusinow
On Mon, Mar 14, 2005 at 05:13:59PM +0100, Sven Luther wrote: > So you mean that all the tier-2 arches should go and take over alioth as > distribution media ? You read the answer of wiggy about this almost bringing > alioth to his knees ? Aren't scc.debian.org (or perhaps various different hosts

Re: COUNT(buildd) IN (2,3) (was: Re: Bits (Nybbles?) from the Vancouver release team meeting)

2005-03-14 Thread Sven Luther
On Mon, Mar 14, 2005 at 05:03:30PM +0100, David Schmitt wrote: > On Monday 14 March 2005 14:24, Aurélien Jarno wrote: > > Hamish Moffatt a écrit : > > > I see it as more a practical consideration. If you can't buy the > > > hardware new then you will have trouble keeping up with a growing > > > uns

Re: Bits (Nybbles?) from the Vancouver release team meeting

2005-03-14 Thread Wouter Verhelst
Op ma, 14-03-2005 te 16:51 +0100, schreef Marc Haber: > On Mon, 14 Mar 2005 15:41:16 +, Scott James Remnant > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >On Mon, 2005-03-14 at 15:38 +0100, Marc Haber wrote: > >> It does a significant number of other things, one of them being paying > >> a number of Debian de

Re: COUNT(buildd) IN (2,3)

2005-03-14 Thread Frank Küster
David Schmitt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> schrieb: > On Monday 14 March 2005 16:27, Matthias Urlichs wrote: > >> Not when the alternate choice is to not have Debian support $ARCH at all. > > Please cite where this was proposed. I read the original Nybbles mail (and a > part of the current thread) but cou

Re: Bits (Nybbles?) from the Vancouver release team meeting

2005-03-14 Thread Thiemo Seufer
Steve Langasek wrote: [snip] > This change has superseded the previous SCC (second-class citizen > architecture) plan that had already been proposed to reduce the amount of > data Debian mirrors are required to carry; prior to the release of sarge, > the ftpmasters plan to bring scc.debian.org on-l

Re: Bits (Nybbles?) from the Vancouver release team meeting

2005-03-14 Thread Sven Luther
On Mon, Mar 14, 2005 at 11:31:56PM +1100, Hamish Moffatt wrote: > On Mon, Mar 14, 2005 at 01:17:03PM +0100, Ingo Juergensmann wrote: > > On Mon, Mar 14, 2005 at 11:00:22PM +1100, Hamish Moffatt wrote: > > > But really, is there much benefit in > > > making *releases* for the SCC architectures? > >

Re: Bits (Nybbles?) from the Vancouver release team meeting

2005-03-14 Thread Frank Küster
Sven Luther <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> schrieb: > On Mon, Mar 14, 2005 at 04:26:50PM +0100, Frank Küster wrote: >> That is a problem. However it seemed that the amd64 people could solve >> it nevertheless. And I think there can also be technical and/or social >> mechanisms to deal with that: > > Funny

Re: Bits (Nybbles?) from the Vancouver release team meeting

2005-03-14 Thread Stephen Gran
This one time, at band camp, Sven Luther said: > On Mon, Mar 14, 2005 at 11:22:33AM -0500, Stephen Gran wrote: > > > > amd64 seems to have done quite well for themselves actually. They > > have actually done exactly what this proposal has asked for - they > > have done the heavy lifting themselve

Re: Bits (Nybbles?) from the Vancouver release team meeting

2005-03-14 Thread Thiemo Seufer
John Goerzen wrote: [snip] > > - the release architecture must have N+1 buildds where N is the number > > required to keep up with the volume of uploaded packages > > > > - the value of N above must not be > 2 > > It seems to me that if an arch can keep up with builds, why impose this > artific

Re: Bits (Nybbles?) from the Vancouver release team meeting

2005-03-14 Thread Aurélien Jarno
Frank Küster a écrit : I think Sven was talking about *his* proposal for an alternative handling of SCC architectures, giving them a chance to be released. Oops sorry. I am not really against, but we should before try to address the real problems. What about partial mirroring to address space pro

Re: ports.debian.org (Re: Bits (Nybbles?) from the Vancouver release team meeting)

2005-03-14 Thread Javier Fernández-Sanguino Peña
On Mon, Mar 14, 2005 at 03:42:54PM +0100, Steinar H. Gunderson wrote: > On Mon, Mar 14, 2005 at 03:31:30PM +0100, Christoph Berg wrote: > > I'd propose to use a less "discriminating" name for the scc archive. > > What about ports.debian.org (which coincidentally already exists and > > http-wise poi

Re: Bits (Nybbles?) from the Vancouver release team meeting

2005-03-14 Thread Sven Luther
On Mon, Mar 14, 2005 at 09:19:27AM -0500, Andres Salomon wrote: > On Mon, 14 Mar 2005 15:15:16 +0100, Marc Haber wrote: > > > On Mon, 14 Mar 2005 08:54:09 -0500, Andres Salomon > > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >>On Mon, 14 Mar 2005 14:32:42 +0100, Florian Weimer wrote: > >>> I'm a bit disappointed

Re: Bits (Nybbles?) from the Vancouver release team meeting

2005-03-14 Thread Humberto Massa
Matthias Urlichs wrote: With a decent toolset, doing a security package for 10 architectures should be a nearly-constant amount of work, no matter which base the number 10 is written in. Speaking of which, can anyone here explain to me why does a two-line security fix on, say, KDE, makes things ne

Re: Bits (Nybbles?) from the Vancouver release team meeting

2005-03-14 Thread Frank Küster
David Nusinow <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I'm pretty amazed that people are saying that without being an FCC that their > arch will simply die. I don't understand why the porters, who've been so quick > to point out that they'll host and maintain buildd's, aren't willing to simply > track unstabl

Re: ports.debian.org (Re: Bits (Nybbles?) from the Vancouver release team meeting)

2005-03-14 Thread Sven Luther
On Mon, Mar 14, 2005 at 04:10:30PM +0100, Eduard Bloch wrote: > #include > * Colin Watson [Mon, Mar 14 2005, 02:40:56PM]: > > On Mon, Mar 14, 2005 at 03:31:30PM +0100, Christoph Berg wrote: > > > Re: Andres Salomon in <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > > without being constricted by others' deadlines and s

Re: Bits (Nybbles?) from the Vancouver release team meeting

2005-03-14 Thread Petter Reinholdtsen
[Wouter Verhelst] >> For example, it suspiciously looks like the Security Team only has one >> public active member, Martin Schulze, since at least October 2004. > > Uh. there's only been one person sending out the emails when a security > announcement is due, but that isn't the same thing. Who e

Re: COUNT(buildd) IN (2,3) (was: Re: Bits (Nybbles?) from the Vancouver release team meeting)

2005-03-14 Thread Stephen Gran
This one time, at band camp, Sven Luther said: > On Mon, Mar 14, 2005 at 05:03:30PM +0100, David Schmitt wrote: > > > > Thus the problem is less in the development and more in the support > > of testing requirements (all arches in sync) and stable support > > (security response time). Therefore th

Re: Bits (Nybbles?) from the Vancouver release team meeting

2005-03-14 Thread Daniel Burrows
On Monday 14 March 2005 07:49 am, Hamish Moffatt wrote: > Sure. Who's doing that on anything but i386/amd64/powerpc? Yes, I'm sure all those s390 users are running it on a machine in their basements... ;-) Daniel -- /--- Daniel Burrows <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> --

Re: Do not make gratuitous source uploads just to provoke the buildds!

2005-03-14 Thread Goswin von Brederlow
Wouter Verhelst <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Op vr, 11-03-2005 te 19:14 -0800, schreef Steve Langasek: >> The queue ordering is entirely automatic, and AIUI the queue(s) is (are) >> sorted by: >> >> - target suite >- previous compilation state (already built packages are prioritized > above

Re: Bits (Nybbles?) from the Vancouver release team meeting

2005-03-14 Thread Goswin von Brederlow
Steve Langasek <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Sun, Mar 13, 2005 at 10:47:15PM -0800, Thomas Bushnell BSG wrote: >> Steve Langasek <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > >> > The sh and hurd-i386 ports don't currently meet the SCC requirements, as >> > neither has a running autobuilder or is keeping up wi

Re: Bits (Nybbles?) from the Vancouver release team meeting

2005-03-14 Thread Goswin von Brederlow
Thomas Bushnell BSG <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Steve Langasek <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > >> The point is that the ftpmasters don't want to play host to various >> ports that *aren't* yet matured to the point of usability, where "being >> able to run a buildd" is regarded as a key element of

Re: Bits (Nybbles?) from the Vancouver release team meeting

2005-03-14 Thread Mark Brown
On Mon, Mar 14, 2005 at 02:57:25PM +0100, Marc Haber wrote: > Considered that ftbfs bugs for scc architectures are not going to be > RC any more, people will stop fixing them, thus the scc architectures Some may, but some would continue to be helpful. My experience doing porting work was that pr

Re: Restrictive SMTP server

2005-03-14 Thread Daniel Ruoso
Em Dom, 2005-03-13 às 14:39, Stephen Gran escreveu: > I can offer something as well - I would probably lean towards just > auth+ssl instead of over VPN, but it's up to you. I just don't happen > to have a VPN set up yet, so it's less ovrhead for me :) That would be nice, auth+ssl sounds simpler t

Package flow scenarios (was: Re: Bits (Nybbles?) from the Vancouver release team meeting)

2005-03-14 Thread David Schmitt
[Sven, pPlease teach you and your mutt the use of reply-to-list] On Monday 14 March 2005 14:06, Sven Luther wrote: > On Mon, Mar 14, 2005 at 01:02:34PM +0100, David Schmitt wrote: [...] > No, you didn't understand. You are right. > let's tell the plan again : > > 1) people upload to unstable

Re: Bits (Nybbles?) from the Vancouver release team meeting

2005-03-14 Thread Goswin von Brederlow
Sven Luther <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I don't really understand that point though, since the plan is to drop mirror > support for all minor arches, what does it cost to have a 3 level archive > support : > > 1) tier 1 arches, fully mirrored and released. One full set of sources, 10G. >

Security Support and other reasoning (was: Re: Bits (Nybbles?) from the Vancouver release team meeting)

2005-03-14 Thread David Schmitt
On Monday 14 March 2005 14:06, Sven Luther wrote: > > My answer is that I don't care enough for tow out of 15 boxes for the > > hassle, I will update them to sarge, be grateful for the gracetime given > > and - iff nobody steps up to do the necessary porting and security work - > > donate them to D

Mirror Network (was: Re: Bits (Nybbles?) from the Vancouver release team meeting)

2005-03-14 Thread David Schmitt
On Monday 14 March 2005 18:11, Goswin von Brederlow wrote: > Thomas Bushnell BSG <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > Speaking of the mirror network is a red-herring. Mirrors are not > > forced to distribute every arch; they can and should eliminate archs > > they aren't interested in distributing. > >

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2005-03-14 Thread Cuschera
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Re: Bits (Nybbles?) from the Vancouver release team meeting

2005-03-14 Thread Goswin von Brederlow
Steve Langasek <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Hi Andreas, > > On Mon, Mar 14, 2005 at 07:37:51AM +0100, Andreas Tille wrote: >> On Sun, 13 Mar 2005, Steve Langasek wrote: > >> IMHO all these facts with exception of those "social" facts I marked (?) >> are fullfilled by Sparc. > > For reference, the

Re: Bits (Nybbles?) from the Vancouver release team meeting

2005-03-14 Thread Joel Aelwyn
On Mon, Mar 14, 2005 at 04:44:27PM +0100, David Schmitt wrote: > > In my reading of the proposal, not-tier-1 arches will receive appropriate > space and resources off the main mirror network if they can demonstrate > viability (working buildd, basic unix functionality, compiled 50%, 5 > develop

Re: Bits (Nybbles?) from the Vancouver release team meeting

2005-03-14 Thread Thiemo Seufer
Tollef Fog Heen wrote: > * Thiemo Seufer > > | For anyone who uses Debian as base of a commercial solution it is a > | requirement. Grabing some random unstable snapshot is a non-starter. > > You do realise this is exactly what Ubuntu is doing? (Grab «random» > snapshot; stabilise) The "stabil

Re: Bits (Nybbles?) from the Vancouver release team meeting

2005-03-14 Thread Matt Zimmerman
On Mon, Mar 14, 2005 at 04:51:30PM +0100, Marc Haber wrote: > On Mon, 14 Mar 2005 15:41:16 +, Scott James Remnant > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >Are you thinking of any particular developers here? > > For example, it suspiciously looks like the Security Team only has one > public active mem

Re: Bits (Nybbles?) from the Vancouver release team meeting

2005-03-14 Thread Goswin von Brederlow
Sven Luther <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Mon, Mar 14, 2005 at 02:12:48AM -0800, Thomas Bushnell BSG wrote: >> Sven Luther <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> >> > BTW, how much of the human intervention needed for buildd signing >> > plays in the delays you see, and did you discuss the possibiliit

Re: OASIS -- Our Membership and their IP Policy?

2005-03-14 Thread Mark Johnson
Hi Claire, Sorry for the delay. Is Debian still a member of the OASIS group? Yes. Our membership expires in June. I just looked at their member list, and didn't see us listed. We are listed as a "Contributor", rather than a sponsor, owing to the fact that we pay a reduced rate: http://www.oasis-

Re: Bits (Nybbles?) from the Vancouver release team meeting

2005-03-14 Thread Goswin von Brederlow
Wouter Verhelst <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Op ma, 14-03-2005 te 12:38 +0100, schreef David Schmitt: >> On Monday 14 March 2005 11:28, Thomas Bushnell BSG wrote: >> > In this case, it was a bug that required human intervention, a package >> > upload that accidentally would hose a chroot, which r

Re: Bits (Nybbles?) from the Vancouver release team meeting

2005-03-14 Thread David Schmitt
On Monday 14 March 2005 18:37, Goswin von Brederlow wrote: > Steve Langasek <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > This point is *not* about supported architectures, only about > > architectures carried by the primary mirror network. We did consider > > having a single set of requirements for both "relea

Re: Bits (Nybbles?) from the Vancouver release team meeting

2005-03-14 Thread Sven Luther
On Mon, Mar 14, 2005 at 04:04:45PM +0100, Roland Mas wrote: > - d-i, especially the kernel problems: okay, so there the > arch-specific kernels have played a role. Future (post sarge) kernels will have one kernel package only, which will build all arches, and possibly even all .udebs, like the u

Re: Bits (Nybbles?) from the Vancouver release team meeting

2005-03-14 Thread Bill Allombert
On Sun, Mar 13, 2005 at 08:45:09PM -0800, Steve Langasek wrote: > Therefore, we're planning on not releasing most of the minor architectures > starting with etch. They will be released with sarge, with all that > implies (including security support until sarge is archived), but they > would no lon

Re: mplayer 1.0pre6a-4 for i386 and PowerPC and sparc

2005-03-14 Thread Matt Zimmerman
On Mon, Mar 14, 2005 at 11:17:55AM +0100, Sven Luther wrote: > Like said, since ubuntu has mplayer, there is really no reason to stale it for > debian now. I cannot speak for anyone regarding the specific case of mplayer, but the above is not a valid inference for any package. Ubuntu and Debian

Re: Do not make gratuitous source uploads just to provoke the buildds!

2005-03-14 Thread Wouter Verhelst
Op ma, 14-03-2005 te 17:59 +0100, schreef Goswin von Brederlow: > Wouter Verhelst <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > Op vr, 11-03-2005 te 19:14 -0800, schreef Steve Langasek: > >> The queue ordering is entirely automatic, and AIUI the queue(s) is (are) > >> sorted by: > >> > >> - target suite > >

Supporting tier-2 (was Re: COUNT(buildd) IN (2,3))

2005-03-14 Thread David Schmitt
On Monday 14 March 2005 17:39, Frank Küster wrote: > David Schmitt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> schrieb: > > On Monday 14 March 2005 16:27, Matthias Urlichs wrote: > >> Not when the alternate choice is to not have Debian support $ARCH at > >> all. > > > > Please cite where this was proposed. I read the orig

Re: Bits (Nybbles?) from the Vancouver release team meeting

2005-03-14 Thread Goswin von Brederlow
Rene Engelhard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Hi, > > Am Montag, 14. März 2005 08:36 schrieb Steve Langasek: >> wanna-build stats: >> i386: 99.83% up-to-date, 99.83% if also counting uploaded pkgs >> ia64: 97.39% up-to-date, 97.41% if also counting uploaded pkgs >> powerpc:

Re: Bits (Nybbles?) from the Vancouver release team meeting

2005-03-14 Thread Marc Haber
On Mon, 14 Mar 2005 11:27:11 -0500, David Nusinow <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >On Mon, Mar 14, 2005 at 04:06:39PM +, Alastair McKinstry wrote: >> will Security releases be available? > >Explicitly no, unless the porters themselves handle them. Will early-release information be available to the

Call for help / release criteria (was: Re: Bits (Nybbles?) from the Vancouver release team meeting)

2005-03-14 Thread David Schmitt
On Monday 14 March 2005 17:31, Aurélien Jarno wrote: > Frank Küster a écrit : > > - First of all, we should take the details as a starting point for > > discussion, not as a decision that has made. Nevertheless, we must > > take into account that there are reasons for it: The people doing the

Re: Bits (Nybbles?) from the Vancouver release team meeting

2005-03-14 Thread cobaco (aka Bart Cornelis)
On Monday 14 March 2005 17:46, Thiemo Seufer wrote: > John Goerzen wrote: > [snip] > > > > - the release architecture must have N+1 buildds where N is the > > > number required to keep up with the volume of uploaded packages > > > > > > - the value of N above must not be > 2 > > > > It seems to me

Re: Mirror Network

2005-03-14 Thread Tollef Fog Heen
* David Schmitt | On Monday 14 March 2005 18:11, Goswin von Brederlow wrote: | | > Instead of dropping archs from debian mirrors should be allowed to do | > partial mirrors. That would solve the space and bandwith problems for | > mirrors without adverse effects to the project as such. | | And w

Re: Supporting tier-2 (was Re: COUNT(buildd) IN (2,3))

2005-03-14 Thread Matthew Garrett
David Schmitt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Monday 14 March 2005 17:39, Frank Küster wrote: >> No testing, no release, no security support. For me, that is so close >> to "not support at all" that I hardly see the difference. > > No testing and release support by the current RMs and no security

Re: Bits (Nybbles?) from the Vancouver release team meeting

2005-03-14 Thread Sven Luther
On Mon, Mar 14, 2005 at 01:51:02PM -0300, Humberto Massa wrote: > Matthias Urlichs wrote: > > >With a decent toolset, doing a security package for 10 architectures > >should be a nearly-constant amount of work, no matter which base the > >number 10 is written in. > > > Speaking of which, can anyon

Vision for the future (was: Re: COUNT(buildd) IN (2,3))

2005-03-14 Thread David Schmitt
On Monday 14 March 2005 17:16, John Goerzen wrote: > On Mon, Mar 14, 2005 at 05:03:30PM +0100, David Schmitt wrote: > > Thus the problem is less in the development and more in the support of > > testing requirements (all arches in sync) and stable support (security > > response time). Therefore the

Re: Supporting tier-2 (was Re: COUNT(buildd) IN (2,3))

2005-03-14 Thread David Nusinow
On Mon, Mar 14, 2005 at 05:57:05PM +, Matthew Garrett wrote: > Reasonable security support requires some degree of cooperation with the > current security team. Without that, vulnerabilities notifications won't > be available. Why can't porters join the security team? Then everyone benefits.

Re: mplayer 1.0pre6a-4 for i386 and PowerPC and sparc

2005-03-14 Thread Sven Luther
On Mon, Mar 14, 2005 at 09:53:38AM -0800, Matt Zimmerman wrote: > On Mon, Mar 14, 2005 at 11:17:55AM +0100, Sven Luther wrote: > > > Like said, since ubuntu has mplayer, there is really no reason to stale it > > for > > debian now. > > I cannot speak for anyone regarding the specific case of mpl

Re: Bits (Nybbles?) from the Vancouver release team meeting

2005-03-14 Thread Goswin von Brederlow
Hamish Moffatt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Mon, Mar 14, 2005 at 10:10:32AM +0100, Ingo Juergensmann wrote: >> All the work and support over all those years by all those users and porters >> will be vanished with that stupid idea, imho. > > Ingo, obviously you are pissed off. But really, is t

Re: Bits (Nybbles?) from the Vancouver release team meeting

2005-03-14 Thread Rene Engelhard
Hi, Am Montag, 14. März 2005 18:58 schrieben Sie: > Rene Engelhard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > pcc is barely at 98%. I don't think that barrier should be that high. We > > *should* at last release with the tree most important archs: i386, amd64, > > powerpc. > > [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~/archive/pur

Re: Bits (Nybbles?) from the Vancouver release team meeting

2005-03-14 Thread David Schmitt
On Monday 14 March 2005 12:45, Wouter Verhelst wrote: > Op ma, 14-03-2005 te 12:38 +0100, schreef David Schmitt: > > On Monday 14 March 2005 11:28, Thomas Bushnell BSG wrote: > > > In this case, it was a bug that required human intervention, a package > > > upload that accidentally would hose a chr

Re: Bits (Nybbles?) from the Vancouver release team meeting

2005-03-14 Thread David Nusinow
On Mon, Mar 14, 2005 at 07:03:52PM +0100, Marc Haber wrote: > Will early-release information be available to the porters? Or do > porters only start building their security updates once the official > advisory has gone out? Why can't porters join the security team? > >Not necessarily. I imagine

Re: Bits (Nybbles?) from the Vancouver release team meeting

2005-03-14 Thread Sven Luther
On Mon, Mar 14, 2005 at 06:20:23PM +0100, Goswin von Brederlow wrote: > Sven Luther <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > I don't really understand that point though, since the plan is to drop > > mirror > > support for all minor arches, what does it cost to have a 3 level archive > > support : > >

Re: Bits (Nybbles?) from the Vancouver release team meeting

2005-03-14 Thread Goswin von Brederlow
Thiemo Seufer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Thiemo Seufer wrote: >> Hamish Moffatt wrote: >> > On Mon, Mar 14, 2005 at 12:06:18PM +, Martin Michlmayr wrote: >> > > * Hamish Moffatt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2005-03-14 23:00]: >> > > > But really, is there much benefit in making *releases* for the S

Re: Supporting tier-2 (was Re: COUNT(buildd) IN (2,3))

2005-03-14 Thread David Schmitt
On Monday 14 March 2005 19:18, David Nusinow wrote: > On Mon, Mar 14, 2005 at 05:57:05PM +, Matthew Garrett wrote: > > Reasonable security support requires some degree of cooperation with the > > current security team. Without that, vulnerabilities notifications won't > > be available. > > Why

Bug#299527: ITP: oidua -- an audio file metadata lister for directory trees

2005-03-14 Thread Lee Aylward
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Lee Aylward <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * Package name: oidua Version : 0.16.1 Upstream Author : Sylvester Johansson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * URL : http://oidua.suxbad.com/ * License : GPL Description : an audio file metadata

Re: Supporting tier-2 (was Re: COUNT(buildd) IN (2,3))

2005-03-14 Thread Marc Haber
On Mon, 14 Mar 2005 13:18:54 -0500, David Nusinow <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >On Mon, Mar 14, 2005 at 05:57:05PM +, Matthew Garrett wrote: >> Reasonable security support requires some degree of cooperation with the >> current security team. Without that, vulnerabilities notifications won't >> b

Re: Supporting tier-2 (was Re: COUNT(buildd) IN (2,3))

2005-03-14 Thread Marc Haber
On Mon, 14 Mar 2005 18:54:34 +0100, David Schmitt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >On Monday 14 March 2005 17:39, Frank Küster wrote: >> No testing, no release, no security support. For me, that is so close >> to "not support at all" that I hardly see the difference. > >No testing and release support b

Re: Bits (Nybbles?) from the Vancouver release team meeting

2005-03-14 Thread Goswin von Brederlow
Tollef Fog Heen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > * Hamish Moffatt > > | OK, that makes sense. Can you buy those architectures new? (Surely yes > | in the case of s390 at least, probably mipsel also as the mips CPU > | manufacturers are alive and well.) > > [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~# uname -a > Linux eetha

Re: Bits (Nybbles?) from the Vancouver release team meeting

2005-03-14 Thread Goswin von Brederlow
Hamish Moffatt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Mon, Mar 14, 2005 at 01:17:03PM +0100, Ingo Juergensmann wrote: >> On Mon, Mar 14, 2005 at 11:00:22PM +1100, Hamish Moffatt wrote: >> > But really, is there much benefit in >> > making *releases* for the SCC architectures? >> >> What will happen is

Re: Bits (Nybbles?) from the Vancouver release team meeting

2005-03-14 Thread Sven Luther
On Mon, Mar 14, 2005 at 06:43:21PM +0100, Goswin von Brederlow wrote: > Sven Luther <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > >> Where human delay did come into play was in getting the xfree86 mess > >> cleaned; in theory it should have taken one or two days, but in > >> practice it took much longer. > > > > W

Re: Bits (Nybbles?) from the Vancouver release team meeting

2005-03-14 Thread Christian Perrier
> Based on the last few hours only, I think you'll have lots of comments > to meditate on :-) Only if considering that a few dozen of people making a lot of noise and thus making the thread absolutely impossible to read for people with a normal life and health, represents the feeling of near 100

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