Re: RC bugs blocking transitions

2009-03-01 Thread Cyril Brulebois
Adeodato Simó (01/03/2009): > Hello, o<, > We have a number of FTBFSes that are blockers for the current set of > transitions going forward. I've gone ahead and tagged them with > user:debian-rele...@lists.debian.org and usertag:transition-blocker. thanks for the heads-up. > The list is here:

Re: Up for adoption: Xiph.org and OpenEXR packages

2009-03-03 Thread Cyril Brulebois
Adeodato Simó (04/03/2009): > (pkg-multimedia-maintainers and pkg-phototools-devel Bcc'ed). The latter Cc'd this time. > 2. OpenEXR packages > === > > * openexr > * ilmbase > > These two library packages I RFA'ed quite some time ago (#494877 and > #494878), but the person w

Re: OSS-only applications

2009-03-03 Thread Cyril Brulebois
Paul Wise (04/03/2009): > Is ALSA supported by kFreeBSD or hurd or other unofficial ports? Last time I checked, GNU/kFreeBSD provided with OSS, not with ALSA (which is, as its name suggests, Linux-specific). Mraw, KiBi. signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: Pristine source from upstream VCS repository

2009-03-03 Thread Cyril Brulebois
Ben Finney (04/03/2009): > * Invoke the appropriate VCS tool to export the specified revision > from the VCS repository URL to a temporary directory. > > * Pack the temporary directory to an appropriately-named tarball in > the current directory. AFAICT, that doesn't ensure reproduci

Re: Pristine source from upstream VCS repository

2009-03-04 Thread Cyril Brulebois
Ben Finney (04/03/2009): > How feasible is it to ensure reproducibility, though, when there is no > canonical upstream release tarball? Just saying that your get-orig-source stuff will not necessarily give you the same tarball on different machines/setups/etc. You want to look at pristine-tar to

Re: #518696 ITP: parallel -- build and execute command lines from standard input in parallel]

2009-03-09 Thread Cyril Brulebois
Samuel Thibault (09/03/2009): > which makes parallel not take a command, but executes commands from > stdin. That can however be obtained by xargs sh -c. Another option > that xargs misses is > >-j +NAdd N to the number of CPUs. Run this many jobs in parallel. > For

Re: debhelper >= 7.2.3, doc-base, and lintian

2009-03-11 Thread Cyril Brulebois
(Wild guesses follow.) Jay Berkenbilt (11/03/2009): >* dh_installdocs: No longer add maintainer script code to call > doc-base, as it supports triggers in stable. > > This version was uploaded on 3/7/2009. > > I can't really parse "as it supports triggers in stable." Who is "it" > and

Re: toolame: remove from unstable, update in stable

2009-03-16 Thread Cyril Brulebois
Fabian Greffrath (16/03/2009): > Unfortunately IANADD, so I cannot modify the wiki page on my own. Yes, you can! Mraw, KiBi. signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: Mass bugfiling in preparation for multiarch

2009-03-20 Thread Cyril Brulebois
Goswin von Brederlow (17/03/2009): > Aurelien Jarno writes: > > I am interested in seeing the dpkg patch. > > The most current work should be on the multiarch alioth project. If > you do work on something please add it there. > > http://alioth.debian.org/tracker/index.php?func=detail&aid=310911

Re: Sponsorship requirements and copyright files

2009-03-22 Thread Cyril Brulebois
Jonas Meurer (21/03/2009): > Joerg, please don't you see the consequences of your harsh discussion > style? You can cross out “discussion” here. Mraw, KiBi. signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: net-tools future

2009-03-23 Thread Cyril Brulebois
Henrique de Moraes Holschuh (16/03/2009): > So, ethtool really needs to grow an option to iterate over all > netdevs, and another one to print a summary of link state and > speed,duplex before mii-tool could be dropped. I won't promise anything, but I'm interested in having a look, time permittin

Re: NEW processing

2009-03-25 Thread Cyril Brulebois
Mike O'Connor (25/03/2009): > Yes, there have definately been times when packages are rejected from > NEW that only got there becuase of a package addition. I'd say its > common, even. If a package passes through new, then the maintainer > uploads without really paying attention to what they ar

Re: NEW processing

2009-03-25 Thread Cyril Brulebois
Mike O'Connor (25/03/2009): > [...] we are having trouble keeping up with the NEW queue wihtout > doing all of the source checks of packages not in the queue as you > seem to be suggesting we should possibly be doing. Actually, that's not what I meant to suggest. :) I've been wondering for a whil

Re: NEW processing

2009-03-25 Thread Cyril Brulebois
Luk Claes (25/03/2009): > Michael Meskes wrote: > > On Wed, Mar 25, 2009 at 04:24:59PM +0100, Cyril Brulebois wrote: > >> And while the new package is kept out, the package currently in the > >> archive might not be suitable at all. In

Re: How to depend on 32bit libs on amd64? (and what to do with ia32-libs)

2009-04-01 Thread Cyril Brulebois
Vincent Fourmond (01/04/2009): > Although I admit that schroot is a neat tool to deal with that, it is > overkill in the case of wine, and much too complex for users that would > be interested to use wine: one of the public that can be attracted to > the GNU/Linux side of the game is gamers - es

Re: "Team uploads"

2009-04-06 Thread Cyril Brulebois
Raphael Hertzog (06/04/2009): > Except when you have multiple people listed you don't know who > uploaded without resorting to who-uploads (or gpg check). Not to mention cases where 5 people are listed there, and the package got sponsored by even someone else (any idea how many NMs there were in

Re: "Team uploads"

2009-04-06 Thread Cyril Brulebois
Romain Beauxis (06/04/2009): > Couldn't this also be a line in the changelog ? Like the trailer line, yes. > This is not a standard but this is done in many cases: > > [ Romain Beauxis ] > * Upload to $TARGET Dunno about others, but I just see that as: this person chose to target this or tha

Re: lilo about to be dropped?

2009-04-07 Thread Cyril Brulebois
William Pitcock (07/04/2009): > Alternatively, we can just leave it and let it become another XMMS. I > don't like this solution very much. Beware, gtk3 is coming, so you'd better update lilo to no longer depend on gtk2! Mraw, KiBi. signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: bdb versions for squeeze

2009-04-08 Thread Cyril Brulebois
(Not sure if you need to To+Cc d...@…) Michael Biebl (09/04/2009): > Sorry for hijacking the thread, but what are the plans for bdb in > squeeze, I'm counting 5 atm: > libdb4.2 > libdb4.4 > libdb4.5 > libdb4.6 > libdb4.7 > > Are there plans to reduce this? I guess you're aware of the thread sta

Re: Up for adoption: Xiph.org and OpenEXR packages

2009-04-11 Thread Cyril Brulebois
Cyril Brulebois (04/03/2009): > > 2. OpenEXR packages > > === > > > > * openexr > > * ilmbase > > > > These two library packages I RFA'ed quite some time ago (#494877 and > > #494878), but the person who expressed initia

Re: Up for adoption: Xiph.org and OpenEXR packages

2009-04-11 Thread Cyril Brulebois
Kurt Roeckx (04/03/2009): > Argyll (#498396) might also be something you want in the > pkg-phototools group? Looks like Roland is very much more bzr-ish than git-ish. Thanks for mentioning that package though. Mraw, KiBi. signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: Wanna-Build Status update: new sbuild/buildd software

2009-04-14 Thread Cyril Brulebois
Philipp Kern (14/04/2009): > there are some news from the autobuilding front that may be of your > interest: o< > State of the software packages used on the buildds > == > > This is part of the plan to unify those buildds to use one common set > o

Re: DEP-4 TDebs - updated

2009-04-14 Thread Cyril Brulebois
Neil Williams (14/04/2009): > This is where the Draft TDeb Specification, created at the > ftp-master/i18n meeting in Extremadura, will be developed and improved. > Motivation > >1. Updates to translations should not require source NMU’s. Any reason not to make that “sourceful uploads”? Mra

Re: DEP-4 TDebs - updated

2009-04-14 Thread Cyril Brulebois
[ Since you seem to like redundant stuff: GO AWAY WITH YOUR PRIVATE REPLIES. GUESS WHAT, I READ THE LIST, OTHERWISE I WOULDN'T HAVE ANSWERED. ] Neil Williams (14/04/2009): > > Any reason not to make that “sourceful uploads”? > > Well, the maintainer will be making the initial TDeb upload > (

Re: DEP-4 TDebs - updated

2009-04-14 Thread Cyril Brulebois
Neil Williams (14/04/2009): > > > http://dep.debian.net/deps/dep4/#index9h2 > > > > You probably need to clarify in your DEP what “initial” means. > > This section covers part of that: > http://dep.debian.net/deps/dep4/#index9h2 > > "When the maintainer makes a new release, foo1.2.3-5, which in

Re: Bug#524787: ITP: unicorn -- Drivers and applications for the Bewan ADSL PCI ST and USB modems

2009-04-19 Thread Cyril Brulebois
Nick Leverton (19/04/2009): > This is really an ITA for the existing unicorn and unicorn-source > packages which were somewhat precipitately removed from Debian two > weeks ago. Well, I don't call that “precipitately”: | Please remove unicorn: | - mostly unused (2 in popcon for the binary package

Re: Bug#524998: ITP: libmqdb-perl -- MappedQueryDB toolkit for federated databases

2009-04-21 Thread Cyril Brulebois
Charles Plessy (21/04/2009): > Source: libmqdb-perl > Section: perl > Priority: optional > Build-Depends: debhelper (>= 7) > Build-Depends-Indep: libdbd-mysql-perl (>= 3.0005), > libdbd-sqlite3-perl (>= 1.14), libdbi-perl (>= 1.51), perl (>= 5.6.0-12)

Re: Bug#524998: ITP: libmqdb-perl -- MappedQueryDB toolkit for federated databases

2009-04-21 Thread Cyril Brulebois
Charles Plessy (21/04/2009): > > > libdbd-sqlite3-perl (>= 1.14), libdbi-perl (>= 1.51), perl (>= 5.6.0-12) > > ^^ > > WTH? > > aqwa『~』$ zgrep -A1 -B1 '5.6.0-12' /usr/share/doc/dh-make-perl/changelog.gz > * when module

Re: Bug#524787: ITP: unicorn -- Drivers and applications for the Bewan ADSL PCI ST and USB modems

2009-04-22 Thread Cyril Brulebois
Nick Leverton (22/04/2009): > Thanks for your interest in my IT(re)P and your comments. No problem. > Of the stated reasons for removal: > > > | Please remove unicorn: > > | - mostly unused (2 in popcon for the binary package unicorn) > > The unicorn binary package contains ancillary utils whi

Re: Bug#524998: ITP: libmqdb-perl -- MappedQueryDB toolkit for federated databases

2009-04-22 Thread Cyril Brulebois
Charles Plessy (22/04/2009): > I try to refresh my control and rules files with latest versions of > dh-make-perl when I upload new upstream releases. Be sure that this > depenancy will be removed after the patches that you will send to the > Policy and to dh-make-perl will be accepted. Contacted

Re: Bug#524998: ITP: libmqdb-perl -- MappedQueryDB toolkit for federated databases

2009-04-22 Thread Cyril Brulebois
(No need to Cc me if you keep -devel in the loop.) gregor herrmann (21/04/2009): > On Tue, 21 Apr 2009 18:22:39 +0200, Cyril Brulebois wrote: > > > > > > libdbd-sqlite3-perl (>= 1.14), libdbi-perl (>= 1.51), p

Re: Bug#524998: ITP: libmqdb-perl -- MappedQueryDB toolkit for federated databases

2009-04-22 Thread Cyril Brulebois
Russ Allbery (22/04/2009): > Yeah, absolutely. Could you file a bug against debian-policy so that I > don't lose track of this before I get a chance to do it? Sure. #525190 (-policy received the bugreport, dropping it; adding the initial bugreport). Mraw, KiBi. signature.asc Description: Digi

Re: AVR32 port - config.{sub,guess} bug filing

2009-04-23 Thread Cyril Brulebois
Bradley Smith (23/04/2009): > That's certainly some of them yes, but lintian only seems to check for > files from earlier than 2004, however AVR32 was only added on > 6/6/2006, so there are certainly considerably more than those. Seems like a valid reason to request bumping the date check in lint

Re: Linux-libre for Debian Lenny

2009-04-24 Thread Cyril Brulebois
Ben Finney (24/04/2009): > Think of it as “defense in depth”, ensuring that there is more than > one barrier to undesirable elements. Having to enable contrib/non-free and to pull stuff from there being of course insufficient? Mraw, KiBi. signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: [Is there a lawyer in the room?] JPEG-LS license issue

2009-04-24 Thread Cyril Brulebois
Mathieu Malaterre (24/04/2009): > I am trying to understand some license issue I am having. Could > someone let me know if the following is compatible with a debian > package: You usually want -legal@ for that. Mraw, KiBi. signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: Outdated config.{sub,guess} package list

2009-04-24 Thread Cyril Brulebois
Bradley Smith (25/04/2009): > In light of the recent outdated config.{sub,guess} discussion I have > decided to generate a list[0] of packages that have these files from > before June 2006, which is when the AVR32 architecture was added. Speaking of which, where can one read more about that port?

Re: Can we ship sources of a PDF file in the Debian diff? (was: Re: phyml_20081203-1_powerpc.changes REJECTED)

2009-04-26 Thread Cyril Brulebois
Charles Plessy (26/04/2009): > But since in the rejected package I had taken great care to include > uuencoded sources of the PDF and explained this in REAME.source, can > you confirm this was not acceptable for Debian and that shipping > sources in the Debian diff is not enough? JFWIW, I guess y

Re: Can we ship sources of a PDF file in the Debian diff? (was: Re: phyml_20081203-1_powerpc.changes REJECTED)

2009-04-26 Thread Cyril Brulebois
FIRST: GO AWAY WITH YOUR STUPID CC'S. I OBVIOUSLY READ THE LIST. Noah Slater (26/04/2009): > > JFWIW, I guess you want license-related stuff to go into > > debian/copyright, rather than README.source. > > Actually, I would use debian/copyright for simply specifying licences, > and debian/README.

Re: Possible mass bug filing: non-doc packages recommending doc packages

2009-05-08 Thread Cyril Brulebois
Daniel Burrows (07/05/2009): > As a practical matter, downgrading these dependencies will cause > aptitude and other package managers to believe that the documentation > is unnecessary and suggest removing it. So that one has a chance to notice possibly unneeded doc? Works for me. Mraw, KiBi.

Re: architecture wildcards, type-handling, etc.

2009-05-13 Thread Cyril Brulebois
Peter Eisentraut (13/05/2009): > The latter two approaches have obvious flaws, but it seems that no one is > using > the built-in dpkg approach. Is there anything wrong with it? Are people > just > not aware of it? People might be using the following, which is slightly better than listing e

Re: architecture wildcards, type-handling, etc.

2009-05-13 Thread Cyril Brulebois
Cyril Brulebois (13/05/2009): > dpkg folks haven't been advocating their use, either. Ah, Phil just mentioned what I had troubles remembering: the fact that Build-Depends and Architecture can't be handled in a similar fashion. Mraw, KiBi. signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: architecture wildcards, type-handling, etc.

2009-05-14 Thread Cyril Brulebois
brian m. carlson (14/05/2009): > I've worked on FTBFS-with-new-GCC bugs before, and realized only after > putting significant work into the bug that the package didn't build on > amd64, only on i386. Therefore, I think that the package should have > a proper list of archs that prevents this probl

Re: i386.changes vs source.changes

2009-05-15 Thread Cyril Brulebois
Russ Allbery (15/05/2009): > Calling dpkg-buildpackage -S produces a superfluous _sources.changes > file, so anything that uses that method to produce a source package > for build would either need to remove it or would leave it lying > around. pdebuild uses dpkg-buildpackage -S to generate a sou

Re: i386.changes vs source.changes

2009-05-15 Thread Cyril Brulebois
Russ Allbery (15/05/2009): > So, y'all realize that pdebuild --buildresult .. by default breaks the > *_source.changes file that it generates because it regenerates a > source package as part of the regular build, right? How are you > actually using that *_source.changes file? Always having pdeb

Re: Bug#532167: ITP: records -- Save and index notes in Emacs environment

2009-06-07 Thread Cyril Brulebois
Xavier MAILLARD (07/06/2009): > The package was already in Debian till 2006 then it got dropped (no > reason given). You could look at: http://packages.qa.debian.org/r/records.html Removed 1.4.9-4.1 from unstable → http://packages.qa.debian.org/r/records/news/20081204T190628Z.html # 507598 → ht

Re: What's wrong with meta-gnome2 ?

2009-06-21 Thread Cyril Brulebois
Aaron M. Ucko (21/06/2009): > [Copying the original poster because I'm not certain he's subscribed; > apologies for any resulting duplication.] [AFAICT, he is, since he replied in some threads previously. ;)] > I agree that this message is not as clear as it could be. In > practice, I believe th

Re: Lintian magic-arch-in-arch-list

2009-06-22 Thread Cyril Brulebois
Shaun Jackman (21/06/2009): > I have a source package with two binary packages. One binary package > is arch i386 amd64, the other is arch all containing the > architecture-independent data files. The resulting dsc file is > Architecture: amd64 i386 all > which lintan complains about: > E: eagle s

Re: dupload fatal error: Can't upload libgdcm-cil_2.0.10-5_amd64.deb

2009-06-22 Thread Cyril Brulebois
Mathieu Malaterre (22/06/2009): > Sorry this might be dumb, but I cannot get the *.commands to be signed > as expected: Use dcut. Mraw, KiBi. signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: Bug#534398: ITP: libposix -- unifed implementation of core functionality of all Unix systems

2009-06-24 Thread Cyril Brulebois
Guus Sliepen (24/06/2009): > On Wed, Jun 24, 2009 at 09:17:14AM -0400, Bryan Donlan wrote: > > > Is libposix complete enough to link against for real programs yet? If > > not, why should it be included at this time? > > I agree that if the only thing that works at this moment is the simplest >

Re: Switching the default /bin/sh to dash

2009-06-25 Thread Cyril Brulebois
Stefano Zacchiroli (25/06/2009): > Still, as a DD, I would like to explicitly switch to dash to help in > spotting possible problems. Can you please consider document how to > switch? I guess switching the symlink is enough, but an entry in > README.Debian saying explicitly so (and possibly docume

Re: Switching the default /bin/sh to dash

2009-06-25 Thread Cyril Brulebois
Lucas Nussbaum (25/06/2009): > On 25/06/09 at 10:32 +0200, Harald Braumann wrote: > > Checkbashisms is a lintian check, right? > > No, it's in devscripts. Yes, it is also a lintian check. Although not as complete, see lintian's check/scripts file. Mraw, KiBi. signature.asc Description: Digita

Re: [Debconf-discuss] using OpenPGP notations to indicate keysigning practices

2009-06-26 Thread Cyril Brulebois
Philipp Kern (26/06/2009): > On 2009-06-25, Bernd Eckenfels wrote: > > European ID cards are more like a passport, whereas a US ID is a > > driver license. (In addition to that national driver licenses of > > european countries are much less usefull for this purpose unless > > they are the new e

Re: BTS and the missing 'invalid' tag

2009-06-26 Thread Cyril Brulebois
Frank Küster (26/06/2009): > In this case, I'd tend to say that there is actually a bug: Move the > documentation that explains why the behavior is intended to a more > prominent, visible place. OK, and once that done, what do you do when the bugs keep on being opened because people don't read th

Re: Why does mysql-server depend on exim?

2009-06-26 Thread Cyril Brulebois
mli...@stacktrace.us (26/06/2009): > While installing mysql-server I noticed the following dependencies: > > "bsd-mailx exim4 exim4-base exim4-config exim4-daemon-light" > > Although it's not that big of a deal, it does raise the question "Why > should a database server require a MTA?" -(cy...@ta

Re: DD's cheat card (was Re: Bug#754416: makefs: FTBFS on mips: Must set MACHINE_ARCH to one of mipseb or mipsel)

2014-07-13 Thread Cyril Brulebois
Thorsten Glaser (2014-07-13): > Cyril Brulebois dixit: > > >Thorsten Glaser (2014-07-12): > > >> OK, can you please give-back makefs on mips once the new bmake > >> binaries are available for all buildds? > > > >Please send your request to the appro

Re: DD's cheat card (was Re: Bug#754416: makefs: FTBFS on mips: Must set MACHINE_ARCH to one of mipseb or mipsel)

2014-07-13 Thread Cyril Brulebois
Joachim Breitner (2014-07-13): > Hi, > > Am Sonntag, den 13.07.2014, 13:02 +0200 schrieb Cyril Brulebois: > > > Maybe a “gift” job for a Debian Contributor would be to put together > > > a “DD’s cheat card”, with infos about how to contact DSA, WB team, > > >

Re: say goodbye to network-manager-strongswan?

2014-07-16 Thread Cyril Brulebois
Hi Riku, Holger, Holger Levsen (2014-07-16): > On Mittwoch, 16. Juli 2014, Riku Voipio wrote: > > This a side-effect from Debian's policy that discourages fixing bugs in > > other maintainers packages via NMUs. Somehow, it is felt better to > > remove packages from testing than possibly offending

Re: First steps towards source-only uploads

2014-08-06 Thread Cyril Brulebois
Ansgar Burchardt (2014-08-01): > as a first step towards source-only uploads, the archive will now accept > source-only uploads provided the following conditions are met: > > * The source package is not NEW and does not build NEW binaries. > * Architecture-independent (arch:all) packages must b

Re: Bugs which do not belong to console-setup

2014-08-07 Thread Cyril Brulebois
Anton Zinoviev (2014-08-07): > Hi! > > I have two bugs reported against console-setup about keybord not working > properly under X Window. In both cases I have asked the reportes to > provide the file /etc/default/keyboard and in both cases the file was > correct. Therefore, the bugs are not

Re: Reverting to GNOME for jessie's default desktop

2014-08-07 Thread Cyril Brulebois
Hi dd@. (M-F-T was set so respecting it; but adding -boot@ anyway.) Jordi Mallach (2014-08-07): > It's been around 9 months since tasksel changed (for real) the default > desktop for new installs. At the time of the change, it was mentioned > the issue would be revisited before the freeze, aroun

Re: Why are the gcc-*-base packages priority:required?

2014-08-08 Thread Cyril Brulebois
Theodore Ts'o (2014-08-08): > > Potentially stupid question --- why are the gcc-4.[789]-base packages > have the priority required? And what are they used for? > > I'm fine-tuning a small kvm appliance (kvm-xfstests, as it happens), and > I'm trying to keep the root file system as small as poss

Re: Why are the gcc-*-base packages priority:required?

2014-08-08 Thread Cyril Brulebois
Russ Allbery (2014-08-08): > Cyril Brulebois writes: > > > I'd therefore contact the relevant maintainers to make sure, probably > > through a bug report asking for a priority downgrade. > > It looks like the only remaining purpose for gcc-4.9-base is to cre

Re: (Possible) bug in fglrx dependencies in Sid(Unstable)

2014-08-09 Thread Cyril Brulebois
Charlie Brown (2014-08-09): > Hi, > I'm using Sid(Unstable). I tried to install fglrx-driver, and failed. > It seems that fglrx-driver requires xorg-video-abi-15 or below, but > xserver-xorg-core(1.16.0) in Sid doesn't provide any of them. A search > in aptitude shows that it provides xorg-video-a

Re: Reverting to GNOME for jessie's default desktop

2014-08-14 Thread Cyril Brulebois
Hi Josselin, here's my take as d-i release guy. That's basically in line with Christian's except for the last answer. I'm also putting -boot@ in Cc so that other d-i members can voice their opinions. Full mail can be found at: https://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/2014/08/msg00432.html Jossel

Re: [FFmpeg-devel] Reintroducing FFmpeg to Debian

2014-08-16 Thread Cyril Brulebois
Hi Russ, Russ Allbery (2014-08-16): > None of this is why libav and FFmpeg can't both be in the archive. > They can't both be in the archive because both the release team and > the security team have said that they're not interested in trying to > support both, due to the amount of work involved.

Re: incoming.debian.org opens its doors to the public

2014-08-16 Thread Cyril Brulebois
Ansgar Burchardt (2014-08-17): > incoming.debian.org is used to publish recently uploaded source and > binary packages before they reach the mirror network of the main > archive. Until now, however, with the exception of the buildd network, > it has not been possible to verify the integrity of the

Re: systemd service and /etc/default/

2014-08-18 Thread Cyril Brulebois
Marc Haber (2014-08-18): > And others removed. Or do you actually claims that the systemd > migration didn't actually break things? Not all of them, but a > noticeable number. (I don't think Russ claimed anything along those lines, no.) Anyway: things get broken, bugs get reported, bugs get fixe

Re: Hardware Support

2014-08-19 Thread Cyril Brulebois
Sven Bartscher (2014-08-19): > On Tue, 19 Aug 2014 14:49:42 -0600 > Ryan Burchett wrote: > > > Hello! My apologies if this is the wrong email to contact for my issue. > > debian-u...@lists.debian.org would have been better. > > > I would absolutely love to use Debian. I cannot do this however.

Re: python-openssl unavailable in sid

2014-08-20 Thread Cyril Brulebois
Brian May (2014-08-21): > Can somebody please tell me why python-openssl and python3-openssl isn't > available in sid? […] > It appears that the packages produced have changed to architecture > dependant packages, seriously wondering if maybe this got DAK confused. > > > (this problem is prevent

Re: Automatization

2014-08-22 Thread Cyril Brulebois
Hi, Diogene Laerce (2014-08-22): > Is it possible to automatize the installation process of Debian ? I > mean being able to install without user intervention ? sure: https://www.debian.org/releases/stable/amd64/apb But please get in touch with a user support list next time, like debian-user@ or

Re: Jessie without systemd as PID 1?

2014-08-29 Thread Cyril Brulebois
Svante Signell (2014-08-29): > I'm about to install Debian Jessie/testing on a brand new (powerful) > computer and don't want to have systemd running as PID 1. Is the only > way to do that now is to install with the installer, getting > systemd-sysv as PID 1, and later install sysvinit-core, syste

Re: More tasks option in Tasksel: what tasks do you want there?

2014-09-07 Thread Cyril Brulebois
Thomas Goirand (2014-09-07): > During Debconf14, I could chat with Joey about the future of Tasksel, > and having a "More option" task, which would lead to a new screen which > would propose more tasks. > > Before anyone can implement this plan, we have to make sure that we all > agree on what ki

Re: More tasks option in Tasksel: what tasks do you want there?

2014-09-07 Thread Cyril Brulebois
Steve McIntyre (2014-09-08): > This is (almost) exactly what's being worked on after discussions at > DebConf. By removing some of the less useful tasks, we'll be able to > add some extra more useful options. At some point it would really be nice to have a summary of what happened or what was dis

Re: [bal...@balintreczey.hu: Accepted xbmc 2:13.2+dfsg1-2~exp0 (source all amd64) into experimental

2014-09-30 Thread Cyril Brulebois
David Weinehall (2014-09-30): > The latest upload of xbmc seems a bit botched; this is the > changelog in its entirety: > > > xbmc (2:13.2+dfsg1-2~exp0) UNRELEASED; urgency=medium > . >* > > Now, there is nothing wrong with terse and succinct changelogs, > but I'd say this is a bit *too*

Your behaviour on Debian lists

2014-10-07 Thread Cyril Brulebois
Thorsten Glaser (2014-10-07): > Yeah, but Md is an arsehole anyway and requires printf to be > a /bin/sh builtin instead of just adding /usr/bin to $PATH, > especially now that the initrd mounts /usr already anyway, > and CTTE decided to rather offend me than Md because he is > maintainer of the m

Re: Any news about Blends in tasks selection (Was: Debian Installer Jessie Beta 2 release)

2014-10-13 Thread Cyril Brulebois
Hi Andreas, Andreas Tille (2014-10-08): > On Sun, Oct 05, 2014 at 09:11:24PM +0200, Cyril Brulebois wrote: > > The Debian Installer team[1] is pleased to announce the second beta > > release of the installer for Debian 8 "Jessie". > > ... > > thanks for yo

Re: Any news about Blends in tasks selection (Was: Debian Installer Jessie Beta 2 release)

2014-10-14 Thread Cyril Brulebois
Hi again Andreas, Andreas Tille (2014-10-14): > On Tue, Oct 14, 2014 at 06:02:11AM +0200, Cyril Brulebois wrote: > > well to be honest the whole blend story came as a surprise. > > Ahhh, this in turn is surprising for me since the first "version" of > this bug i

Re: Built-Using, again…

2014-10-15 Thread Cyril Brulebois
Thorsten Glaser (2014-10-15): > Who are powerpc buildd admins, again? Still listed at the same location since last time you asked: https://www.debian.org/intro/organization https://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/2014/07/msg00446.html KiBi. signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: Doxygen and embedded jquery problem, how to solve?

2014-10-29 Thread Cyril Brulebois
Scott Kitterman (2014-10-29): > Would another option be to use "built-using" the doxygen version in > question. Since effectively this is embedded code from the doxygen > package if I understand it correctly. Using doxygen to regenerate > things is the preferred form of modification and all the

Re: debootstrap and cdebootstrap vs systemd

2014-11-06 Thread Cyril Brulebois
Simon Richter (2014-11-06): > I've run into a bit of a problem building a root filesystem for an ARM > system where the kernel shipped by the vendor is 2.6 based. As systemd > does not work there, I tried installing a sysvinit based system using > --include and --exclude to (c)debootstrap. > > In

Re: free choice in installer?

2014-11-10 Thread Cyril Brulebois
Jonas Smedegaard (2014-11-10): > If we had the *option* of init system choice at install time (even if > completely hidden from default UI only activated by a commandline > option), I believe that would radically limit complaints. We already have, Simon mentioned one way to do it. You can also

Re: Should fast-evolving packages be backports-only?

2014-11-11 Thread Cyril Brulebois
Rebecca N. Palmer (2014-11-11): > It has been recently stated [0-1] that backports is enabled by > default in Jessie. Yes, and that's a bug. See #764982. > 1. Does that mean that if pkgX is in jessie-backports but not > jessie, "apt-get install pkgX" will install it from -backports? Yes. And th

Re: Should fast-evolving packages be backports-only?

2014-11-11 Thread Cyril Brulebois
Scott Kitterman (2014-11-11): > As long as apt prefers a version from stable over a version from > backports when both are available (unless instructed to install from > backports) why is this a problem? > > It seems more user friendly to me for a package that's been > specifically ask for to en

Re: Debian maintainers for Enlightenment?

2012-04-13 Thread Cyril Brulebois
Adding said list to Cc… Svante Signell (13/04/2012): > Are the Debian Maintainers for Enlightenment packages active? There has > not been any packaging updates since 2011-04-25 (almost a year) while > upstream has made several releases since then. > > http://packages.qa.debian.org/e/e17.html giv

Re: eglibc 2.14 for wheezy?

2012-04-14 Thread Cyril Brulebois
Svante Signell (14/04/2012): > As the title says, are there plans to use eglibc 2.14 for wheezy?? > It has been out for some time now. Again, ask the maintainers. Not dd@. Mraw, KiBi. signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: smaller than 0 but not negative (Re: question about "Conflicts:"

2012-05-02 Thread Cyril Brulebois
Holger Levsen (02/05/2012): > *grin* > > btw, is the concept of numbers smaller than zero but not negative known/used > anywhere outside of debian/dpkg? Something like that? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Signed_zero Mraw, KiBi. signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: Bug#673071: ITP: vodstok -- Voluntary Distributed Storage Kit

2012-05-16 Thread Cyril Brulebois
Jonathan Wiltshire (16/05/2012): > Viral? I hope this is just a translation artefact; can you explain > exactly what you mean by it? Quite a shock for a project advertised as licensed under the BSD! (INSTALL.txt says GPLv2 though.) Mraw, KiBi. signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: What to do with bug reports against non-existing/removed packages

2012-05-18 Thread Cyril Brulebois
Daniel Leidert (18/05/2012): > Our bug tracker contains items for packages, which do (not longer) > exist. What should happen to them? I see, that it might be a good idea > to keep them for the case, a package is re-introduced. But this might > happen only for a few packages. Most of them got remo

Bug#673505: general: xorg and xserver-xorg 7.6+13 always made X and gnome-shell dead

2012-05-19 Thread Cyril Brulebois
Xueqian (19/05/2012): > Package: general > Severity: important > > Recently, I have upgrade packages xorg, xserver-xorg, > xserver-xorg-input-all and x11-common from 7.6+12 to 7.6+13. See “Follow-up with more info” on: http://x.debian.net/howto/report-bugs.html Mraw, KiBi. signature.asc De

Re: 'php5-suhosin' is missing for wheezy

2012-05-19 Thread Cyril Brulebois
Alain SAURAT (19/05/2012): > This package is only avaible for squeeze and sid, is it normal ? Yes, see: http://packages.qa.debian.org/p/php-suhosin/news/20120320T163911Z.html > I have dist-upgrade my server from squeeze to wheezy and my php > won't run and send a lot of mail via cron to me. B

Re: zlib and biarch/triarch

2012-05-22 Thread Cyril Brulebois
Andrey Rahmatullin (22/05/2012): > > Seeing the trouble broonie has with zlib, why are those > > packages still built anyway? Can’t they please go away? > What are you talking about? Probably that: http://packages.qa.debian.org/z/zlib.html http://packages.debian.org/changelogs/pool/main/z/zli

Re: zlib and biarch/triarch

2012-05-28 Thread Cyril Brulebois
Mark Brown (28/05/2012): > Ask the s390x folks, they asked for them. Though what on earth inspired > them to name the new architecture such that the old architecture name is > a substring of the new name is beyond me... As far as I can tell nobody > is really using the biarch packages on most ar

Re: Orphaning php-codesniffer, then take it over by the PHP PEAR team

2012-05-31 Thread Cyril Brulebois
Jonas Smedegaard (31/05/2012): > I have heard before the argument of the sponsor having responsibility, > but in reality I have *never* heard of sponsors actually being held > responsible for anything but the concrete upload of a specific > packaging release. Suggested reading: http://bugs.debi

Bug#677425: ITP: xserver-xorg-video-modesetting -- X.Org X server -- Generic modesetting driver

2012-06-13 Thread Cyril Brulebois
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Cyril Brulebois * Package name: xserver-xorg-video-modesetting Version : 0.3.0 Upstream Author : Tungsten Graphics, Dave Airlie, Red Hat… * URL : http://cgit.freedesktop.org/xorg/driver/xf86-video-modesetting/ * License

Re: [RFC] Add upstream VCS info to control file

2012-06-14 Thread Cyril Brulebois
Thomas Goirand (14/06/2012): > 1/ […] 2/ […] > 3/ How to achieve it > |=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- > |To acheive this, we would need something like this: > > ||Vcs-Git-Debian-Branch-Name: debian/unstable > ||Vcs-Git: |git://anonscm.debian.org/openstack/nova.git > |||Vcs-Git-Upstream-Branch-Name: master > |V

Re: [xml/sgml-pkgs] Bug#676686: libxslt1.1: libxslt1.1 binNMU broke multi-arch installability

2012-06-14 Thread Cyril Brulebois
Michael Gilbert (14/06/2012): > package (version) sid; urgency=low > > * Binary-only non-maintainer upload; no source changes. > > -- Debian Release Team Tue, 05 Jun > 2012 16:33:05 + > > or some other appropriate binnmu mailing address. This would also > mean rebuilding all of the ot

Re: Fwd: Processing of libavg_1.7.1-1_amd64.changes

2012-06-14 Thread Cyril Brulebois
Dmitrijs Ledkovs (14/06/2012): > I have uploaded libavg_1.7.1-1 into delayed/7 queue. After that it > will hit new, as it was previously removed. Why the seven days delay? It looks to me like you could/should skip that. (dcut has “reschedule” for that.) Mraw, KiBi. signature.asc Description: D

Re: CD sizes again (and BoF reminder!)

2012-07-07 Thread Cyril Brulebois
Ansgar Burchardt (07/07/2012): > Another question is if the release team would consider unblocking > updated packages (with just the switch to xz for binaries). I think > it would be nice to be able to get a useful desktop system using just > the first CD, but I'm not sure if they would make an e

Re: CD sizes again (and BoF reminder!)

2012-07-08 Thread Cyril Brulebois
Wouter Verhelst (08/07/2012): > On Sun, Jul 08, 2012 at 01:17:32AM +0200, Bastian Blank wrote: > > Even grub-legacy? > > Yes; d-i in expert mode still has the ability to explicitly choose for > grub legacy, if you really want to. It looks to me like a current debian-installer build installs grub

Re: Recommends for metapackages

2012-07-11 Thread Cyril Brulebois
Noel David Torres Taño (11/07/2012): > > Your view is irrelevant here: GNOME project considers it essential. > > Gnome view is the one irrelevant. This is Debian GNU/Linux, not Gnome > GNU/Linux. We need to care for our users (both proficient and novice [1]), > not for Gnome developers desires. A

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