Re: Defaulting to i686 for the Debian i386 architecture

2015-09-29 Thread Riku Voipio
On Mon, Sep 28, 2015 at 09:31:03PM -0700, Josh Triplett wrote: > [Please CC me; not subscribed to -devel.] > Ben Hutchings wrote: > > So far as I know, all current Quark processors have errata that make > > them unstable, not to mention totally insecure, when running ordinary > > i386 binaries. >

Re: Defaulting to i686 for the Debian i386 architecture

2015-09-29 Thread Josselin Mouette
Ben Hutchings wrote: Since the 686-class, introduced with the Pentium Pro, is now almost 20 years old, we believe there are few Debian systems still running that have 586-class or hybrid processors. The only such processors apparently still available for sale are

Bug#800437: ITP: python-sievelib -- Client-side Sieve and Managesieve library

2015-09-29 Thread Michael Fladischer
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Michael Fladischer -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 * Package name: python-sievelib Version : 0.8 Upstream Author : Antoine Nguyen * URL : https://pypi.python.org/pypi/sievelib * License : Expat Program

Re: Defaulting to i686 for the Debian i386 architecture

2015-09-29 Thread Manuel A. Fernandez Montecelo
2015-09-28 23:34 Josh Triplett: Ben Hutchings wrote: We propose to drop support for i386 processors older than 686-class in the current release cycle. This would include folding libc6-i686 into libc6, changing the default target for gcc, and changing the 586 kernel flavour to 686 (non-PAE). Si

Re: Defaulting to i686 for the Debian i386 architecture

2015-09-29 Thread Ben Hutchings
On Tue, 2015-09-29 at 10:02 +0200, Josselin Mouette wrote: > Ben Hutchings wrote: > Since the 686-class, introduced with the Pentium Pro, is now almost 20 > years old, we believe there are few Debian systems still running that > have 586-class or hybrid processors. The on

Re: Defaulting to i686 for the Debian i386 architecture

2015-09-29 Thread Alastair McKinstry
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Re: Defaulting to i686 for the Debian i386 architecture

2015-09-29 Thread Josh Triplett
On Tue, Sep 29, 2015 at 06:48:26AM +, Riku Voipio wrote: > On Mon, Sep 28, 2015 at 09:31:03PM -0700, Josh Triplett wrote: > > [Please CC me; not subscribed to -devel.] > > Ben Hutchings wrote: > > > So far as I know, all current Quark processors have errata that make > > > them unstable, not to

Re: Bug#800093: ITP: libdpkg-parse-perl -- module to parse various dpkg files into Perl Objects

2015-09-29 Thread Guillem Jover
Hi! On Mon, 2015-09-28 at 12:37:22 +0100, Andrew Beverley wrote: > On Mon, 2015-09-28 at 13:12 +0200, Guillem Jover wrote: > > On Sat, 2015-09-26 at 21:12:57 +0300, Andy Beverley wrote: > > > Package: wnpp > > > Owner: Andy Beverley > > > Severity: wishlist > > > X-Debbugs-CC: debian-devel@lists.

Re: Bug#800093: ITP: libdpkg-parse-perl -- module to parse various dpkg files into Perl Objects

2015-09-29 Thread Andrew Beverley
On Tue, 2015-09-29 at 15:28 +0200, Guillem Jover wrote: > The attached untested patch should in principle do it. Thanks Guillem, will test that soon. Andy

Re: Defaulting to i686 for the Debian i386 architecture

2015-09-29 Thread Josselin Mouette
Ben Hutchings wrote: Contrary to what I thought, the Xeon Phi processors are actually 64-bit . However I think they're a little too weird to support with the same binaries - no CMOV, no MMX and no SSE. I think we’ve both been mistaken by Intel documents describing Xeon P

Re: Defaulting to i686 for the Debian i386 architecture

2015-09-29 Thread Wookey
+++ Manuel A. Fernandez Montecelo [2015-09-29 12:27 +0100]: > 2015-09-28 23:34 Josh Triplett: > >Many distributions have already dropped that support, making it all the > >more valuable that Debian hasn't. I can certainly understand dropping > >i386 and i486, but i586 remains useful today precisel

Re: GitLab B.V. to host free-software GitLab for Debian project (was: debian github organization ?)

2015-09-29 Thread Barry Warsaw
On Apr 22, 2015, at 01:25 PM, Ben Finney wrote: >Rather, this is the Debian project considering our own instance of a >first-class Git hosting platform. I guess this would mean being able to use the Debian GitLab instance for package development, rather than say Alioth? For straight-up hosting o

Re: Bug#799682: ITP: ruby-quiet_assets -- A gem that turns off Rails asset pipeline log.

2015-09-29 Thread Andrei POPESCU
Control: reassign -1 wnpp Control: severity -1 wishlist Control: owner -1 aditibhat...@gmail.com On Lu, 21 sep 15, 19:18:00, aditi bhatt wrote: > package: wnppSeverity: wishlistOwner: 'Aditi Bhatt' > *Package Name : quiet_assets Version : 1.1.0 > Upstream Author : Dmitry KODer Karpunun / Evrone.c

partial architectures -- was: Re: Defaulting to i686 for the Debian i386 architecture

2015-09-29 Thread Manuel A. Fernandez Montecelo
2015-09-29 17:38 Wookey: +++ Manuel A. Fernandez Montecelo [2015-09-29 12:27 +0100]: Maybe it would be a good idea to split the architectures, and have one port for legacy-but-still-sold-or-useful i386 and move the current i386 to only support newer, common-use i686 hardware. It seems to me t

Re: Defaulting to i686 for the Debian i386 architecture

2015-09-29 Thread Iustin Pop
On 2015-09-28 22:14:44, Ben Hutchings wrote: > We propose to drop support for i386 processors older than 686-class in > the current release cycle. This would include folding libc6-i686 into > libc6, changing the default target for gcc, and changing the 586 kernel > flavour to 686 (non-PAE). > > S

Re: Defaulting to i686 for the Debian i386 architecture

2015-09-29 Thread Dimitri John Ledkov
On 29 September 2015 at 17:24, Josselin Mouette wrote: > > As of Knights Landing, it is based on Airmont Atom cores which indeed support > x86_64. > Correct. -- Regards, Dimitri.

Re: GitLab B.V. to host free-software GitLab for Debian project

2015-09-29 Thread Pirate Praveen
On Tuesday 29 September 2015 02:07 AM, IOhannes m zmölnig (Debian/GNU) wrote: > On 09/28/2015 08:41 PM, Balasankar C wrote: >> Hi, >> >>> indeed, that status page got my very excited. >> Maintainer of that status page here. :) >>> >>> however, i wonder whether that page is actually getting the stat