Post-stretch mass bug filing: build-depending on automake1.11

2017-03-12 Thread Simon McVittie
Most packages in Debian that run autoreconf currently build-depend directly or indirectly on automake (version 1.14.1 in jessie, released 2013; version 1.15 in stretch/sid, released in 2015). However, 58 packages in sid still build with automake1.11, released in 2009. This doesn't seem desirable fo

Re: Bits from the DPL -- January-February 2017

2017-03-12 Thread jathan
On 12/03/17 01:14, Mehdi Dogguy wrote: > Dear fellow developers, > > Here is my report for January and February 2017. > > > Stretch Freeze > == > > As planned, the Release Team announced the freeze of Stretch [1]. It > is now our turn to squash bugs and help them to make the release

Re: Bits from the DPL -- January-February 2017

2017-03-12 Thread jathan
On 12/03/17 01:14, Mehdi Dogguy wrote: > Dear fellow developers, > > Here is my report for January and February 2017. > > > Stretch Freeze > == > > As planned, the Release Team announced the freeze of Stretch [1]. It > is now our turn to squash bugs and help them to make the release

Re: Post-stretch mass bug filing: build-depending on automake1.11

2017-03-12 Thread Eric Dorland
Hi Simon, * Simon McVittie (s...@debian.org) wrote: > Most packages in Debian that run autoreconf currently build-depend > directly or indirectly on automake (version 1.14.1 in jessie, released > 2013; version 1.15 in stretch/sid, released in 2015). However, 58 > packages in sid still build with a

Re: Bits from the DPL -- January-February 2017

2017-03-12 Thread Paul Wise
On Mon, Mar 13, 2017 at 12:58 AM, jathan wrote: > Hello. If I want to organize a Bug Squashing Party in my city, it could > be in any month before July 2017? Thanks and regards. You can organise a BSP at any time, but obviously before the release is more helpful to the release :) -- bye, pabs