Re: Lintian based autorejects

2009-11-03 Thread Luk Claes
r upload accepted in the archive. The automated upload rejections are just an additional hurdle to be able to get your upload into the archive, so should certainly be fixed in whatever upload you do IMHO. Cheers Luk -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org

xulrunner, poppler, gnome and gupnp transitions

2009-11-08 Thread Luk Claes
e new dependencies. Cheers Luk -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org

Re: xulrunner, poppler, gnome and gupnp transitions

2009-11-08 Thread Luk Claes
Mike Hommey wrote: > On Sun, Nov 08, 2009 at 12:53:18PM +0100, Mike Hommey wrote: >> On Sun, Nov 08, 2009 at 12:48:11PM +0100, Luk Claes wrote: >>> Hi >>> >>> Currently there are 4 rather big transitions going on, none of which is >>> ready to transi

Re: xulrunner, poppler, gnome and gupnp transitions

2009-11-10 Thread Luk Claes
Mike Hommey wrote: > On Sun, Nov 08, 2009 at 12:48:11PM +0100, Luk Claes wrote: >> Hi >> >> Currently there are 4 rather big transitions going on, none of which is >> ready to transition. Following are the things that currently are an >> issue or that show

Re: Build logs from local builds

2009-11-11 Thread Luk Claes
iscarded it quite uncomfortable, and a waste of time, disk space and >> bandwidth. > > On the other side it prevents uploading unbuildable packages. Exactly. This is one of the reasons binaryless uploads are not considered atm. Cheers Luk -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-

Re: Build logs from local builds

2009-11-11 Thread Luk Claes
So if it did not fail in the middle of a file, you can manually upload the rest of the files with whatever ftp client you like (when you use the ftp upload queue), you just have to make sure to only upload the changes file at the end. I've also experienced that the ssh upload queue does not

Re: Build logs from local builds

2009-11-11 Thread Luk Claes
, if we're going to this direction, then let > dput/dupload simply "ignore" .deb in the .changes, and the archive > queue processes still accepts these "partial" uploads (still checking > the .deb are in the .changes, of course), we'd have the best of both >

Re: Build logs from local builds

2009-11-11 Thread Luk Claes
ing and uploading would work that would need some effort, though it should not be that hard AFAICS. Cheers Luk -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org

Re: GR proposal: the AGPL does not meet the DFSG (take 2)

2009-11-11 Thread Luk Claes
lications. >-- The code is modified to interact with the user using a network > connection > with extremely low throughput. Why would that cause any problem? It's not because one needs to provide the source that it has to be downloaded AFAICS? >-- The code is modif

Re: xulrunner, poppler, gnome and gupnp transitions

2009-11-14 Thread Luk Claes
for instance. Thanks for looking at the listed issues though. > Le dimanche 08 novembre 2009 à 12:48 +0100, Luk Claes a écrit : >> - anjuta not yet built on all arches > > This is a consequence of the subversion FTBFS on said architectures. It > can be given-back once svn

Re: Bits from the FTPMaster meeting

2009-11-16 Thread Luk Claes
lem, but would make it smaller though. I guess patches against wanna-build are welcomed. Cheers Luk -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org

Re: Bits from the FTPMaster meeting

2009-11-16 Thread Luk Claes
em > away makes sense? Something that can not be answered without some hard > data. Noone is stopping anyone of preparing a service that would accept source only uploads as a go between to find out at least some numbers and solve the problem some are having with bandwidth or unre

Re: Bits from the FTPMaster meeting

2009-11-17 Thread Luk Claes
ink it's good to waste buildd time on failing to build packages. I also don't think anyone is stopped from setting up a service that allows source-only uploads as a go-between. Cheers Luk -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org

Re: Bits from the FTPMaster meeting

2009-11-18 Thread Luk Claes
Andreas Tille wrote: > On Wed, Nov 18, 2009 at 07:41:51AM +0100, Luk Claes wrote: >> I think one would be surprised how many packages get used on 'exotic' >> architectures. Most users don't specifically search for a piece of >> software, they want to hav

Re: Bits from the FTPMaster meeting

2009-11-18 Thread Luk Claes
Clint Adams wrote: > On Wed, Nov 18, 2009 at 07:41:51AM +0100, Luk Claes wrote: >> I don't think it's good to waste buildd time on failing to build packages. >> I also don't think anyone is stopped from setting up a service that >> allows source-only uploads a

Re: Bits from the FTPMaster meeting

2009-11-18 Thread Luk Claes
ld binary package depending on > the old arch package which otherwise wouldn't be available anymore. From > what I understand (and tried) apt does the right thing and chooses the > most recent versions in cases where it doesn't matter anyway. The solution consists of keeping

Re: Bits from the FTPMaster meeting

2009-11-18 Thread Luk Claes
ak commands to the release file. This could be consolidated in > batches and I can help for this, so that the work load is minimum, compared to > the gain for everybody. As IMHO there is added value in building a package on all release architectures, there is no reason to change dpkg-gen

Re: Bits from the FTPMaster meeting

2009-11-18 Thread Luk Claes
> The buildd would then build all of KDE and the buildd admin could sign > it all in one go. That way you have potentially 0 uninstallable time. It's very unlikely that the builds for all these packages ends up on the same buildd, so in practice that would not work. It could be an improvement though. Cheers Luk -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org

Re: Bits from the FTPMaster meeting

2009-11-19 Thread Luk Claes
Goswin von Brederlow wrote: > Philipp Kern writes: > >> On 2009-11-19, Luk Claes wrote: >>> This could only work if the built package is needed on the same buildd >>> it was built. >> That depends on the assumptions. If the assumption is that the bui

Re: NMU question

2009-11-22 Thread Luk Claes
d > * Rebuild against newer libicu (Closes: XXX) > > to deban/changelog, build with pbuilder, upload with dput --delayed 2, and > drop a mail to maintainer? No, something elso should be done. > Triggering binary-only NMUs on every architecture somehow? Right [1]. Cheers Luk [1] h

gnat-4.4 is blocking most big transitions atm

2009-11-28 Thread Luk Claes
strange build failure when generating the debs, it would be good if someone can reproduce (or not ;-)) any of this build failures (gnat-4.4, cmake, xulrunner) while the mipsel buildds are catching up. Cheers Luk -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of

Re: gnat-4.4 is blocking most big transitions atm

2009-11-28 Thread Luk Claes
Andreas Marschke wrote: > On Saturday 28 November 2009 09:46:51 Luk Claes wrote: >> gnat-4.4 FTBFS on mipsel which is blocking gcc-defaults from migrating >> to testing which is blocking at least the poppler and gnome related >> transitions. xulrunner was reuploaded again

Re: gnat-4.4 is blocking most big transitions atm

2009-11-28 Thread Luk Claes
Mike Hommey wrote: > On Sat, Nov 28, 2009 at 09:46:51AM +0100, Luk Claes wrote: >> Hi >> >> gnat-4.4 FTBFS on mipsel which is blocking gcc-defaults from migrating >> to testing which is blocking at least the poppler and gnome related >> transitions. xulrunner was

Re: Not-For-Us state

2009-12-02 Thread Luk Claes
ing this. But until now I didn't get any response, so my question > is, did I forgot something ? Or sent it to the wrong > people ? > > See the following url too: > https://buildd.debian.org/~luk/status/package.php?p=pdns-recursor > > Hopefully someone can help. I guess

Re: Has Debian abandoned Python?

2009-12-03 Thread Luk Claes
ct on proposals and hopefully agree on a way forward, there won't be much disclosed. I would rather not have sent this mail as some seem to try to block any solution, though I'm sick of all the FUD and useless discussion and hope that this will put things in perspective. Ple

Debian as open project

2009-12-03 Thread Luk Claes
lex issues on the lists. So for these issues we usually have real discussions on IRC, real life, phone or private mail. The final result of these discussions is normally also on the lists as proposals or announcements. So I still think that Debian is an open project. Cheers Luk -- To UNSUBSCR

Re: Has Debian abandoned Python?

2009-12-03 Thread Luk Claes
in the other. > > Many still seem to think that Ubuntu is sufficiently close to Debian > that work done in it should be easily transferrable. If this is not the > case, maybe we need to start treating Ubuntu more like we do Fedora. Because it is sufficiently close, mistakes learnt in on

Re: Debian as open project

2009-12-03 Thread Luk Claes
Stefano Zacchiroli wrote: > On Thu, Dec 03, 2009 at 07:45:30PM +0100, Luk Claes wrote: >> Unfortunately Debian does not seem to be able to also have real >> constructive discussion about complex issues on the lists. So for these >> issues we usually have real discussions on

Re: Has Debian abandoned Python?

2009-12-03 Thread Luk Claes
f changes if necessary" process. But we so much > fear that the "private decision taking / announce on d-d-a" process will > be used again that people ask that all discussions are public. Yes, the fear is so big that many seem to think so called decisions are unquestionable ex

Re: [MBF] Handling python2.4 removal

2009-12-24 Thread Luk Claes
on-elementtree > Matthias Klose >python2.4-doc no reverse (build) dependencies > Python Modules Packaging Team > >python-wsgiref (U) no reverse (build) dependencies Cheers Luk -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org

Re: apt is no longer in base system created by debootstrap? (Re: Bug#562143: fails on cowbuilder --create)

2009-12-26 Thread Luk Claes
ges installed. Note that the build essential set is not directly related to priorities of packages... Cheers Luk > At Wed, 23 Dec 2009 07:53:54 +0100, > Soeren Sonnenburg wrote: >> [1 ] >> On Wed, 2009-12-23 at 15:28 +0900, Junichi Uekawa wrote: >>> Sounds like a bug for

Re: apt is no longer in base system created by debootstrap? (Re: Bug#562143: fails on cowbuilder --create)

2009-12-26 Thread Luk Claes
Julien Cristau wrote: > On Sat, Dec 26, 2009 at 23:43:44 +0100, Luk Claes wrote: > >> Junichi Uekawa wrote: >>> It seems like apt is not installed with debootstrap anymore. >>> And it seems to be staying like this. >>> >>> I'm not sure when

Re: Where did Bacula 1.38.11-7+b1 come from?

2007-02-22 Thread Luk Claes
age not being binNMUable is also a bug that should be fixed ofcourse... and which is RC after being binNMUed ;-) Cheers Luk -- Luk Claes - http://people.debian.org/~luk - GPG key 1024D/9B7C328D Fingerprint: D5AF 25FB 316B 53BB 08E7 F999 E544 DE07 9B7C 328D signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Re: binNMUs and version dpkg-dev dependency

2007-05-12 Thread Luk Claes
d Sid all have the necessary version. > So can this build-dependency be dropped in packages using it? Yes, it is not needed anymore and can be dropped. Cheers Luk -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED]

2007-05-12 Thread Luk Claes
Manoj Srivastava wrote: > Hi, > > I would like to backport SELinux related packages to Etch, and > thus would like to get my key into the backports key ring.What do I > need to do to enable that? Send a message to the Subject you used :-) Cheers Luk -- To UNSUBS

Re: Bug Squashing Party -- May 17th - 20th

2007-05-15 Thread Luk Claes
ht want to read the section Testing-only bugs at [0] on why lenny-only bugs might also be interesting to fix. Cheers Luk [0] http://people.debian.org/~vorlon/rc-bugsquashing.html -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Two proposals for a better Lenny (testing related).

2007-06-12 Thread Luk Claes
versioning instead of less RC bugs, better udeb handling, automate easy hinting, ease library transitions etc. which would IMHO help CUT. Cheers Luk -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Two proposals for a better Lenny (testing related).

2007-06-12 Thread Luk Claes
removing experimental would bring us anything but a more experimental unstable... Cheers Luk -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Two proposals for a better Lenny (testing related).

2007-06-12 Thread Luk Claes
Gustavo Franco wrote: On 6/12/07, Luk Claes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Gustavo Franco wrote: > On 6/12/07, Joey Hess <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> Gustavo Franco wrote: I don't get it at all why removing experimental would bring us anything but a more experimental

Re: Two proposals for a better Lenny (testing related).

2007-06-12 Thread Luk Claes
Gustavo Franco wrote: Hi Luk, On 6/12/07, Luk Claes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Gustavo Franco wrote: (...) > * Switch unstable (release) for not automatic updates They are only automatic as far as the Release Team wants them to be as explained earlier... I'm not writing ab

Re: Two proposals for a better Lenny (testing related).

2007-06-12 Thread Luk Claes
Gustavo Franco wrote: On 6/12/07, Luk Claes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Gustavo Franco wrote: > Hi Luk, > > On 6/12/07, Luk Claes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> Gustavo Franco wrote: >> >> > The benefit of the approach above from a RM point of view

Re: Automated mails to maintainers of packages with serious problems

2007-06-21 Thread Luk Claes
ght question if the package should > not be simply removed or uploaded to experimental. But you can simply > ignore that package, so again, the annoyance should be minimal. You should usertag these dummy RC bugs and ignore these when sending mails. Cheers Luk -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [

Re: Intend to orphan pscan.

2007-06-30 Thread Luk Claes
s that maintainer agrees. Now to the core: A package cons that ships /usr/bin/cons and a package pscan that ships /usr/bin/pscan makes sense and these binaries and project names exist for a long time. Why do you think a rename of the files /usr/bin/cons and /usr/bin/pscan in emboss is out of the ques

Re: Considerations for 'xmms' removal from Debian

2007-07-08 Thread Luk Claes
e forward > to maintain the package if it is orphaned. If not, the package will > be dropped eventually. It probably doesn't put any burden on Debian QA as we will probably just ignore it, till someone takes it over or we decide to ask for removal. The reason is that the package has no re

Re: Considerations for 'xmms' removal from Debian

2007-07-08 Thread Luk Claes
ead upstream is not sufficient cause to drop a package perse. Though it should be sufficient to think about dropping or migrating the package... Cheers Luk -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: NMU's for non RC bugs

2007-07-17 Thread Luk Claes
atch for all the bugs will probably be clear enough anyway for these kind of bugs. Cheers Luk -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Changes detected by lintian on rebuilt packages

2008-07-13 Thread Luk Claes
#x27;s worth to MBF for... > * Trigger binNMU's for the affected packages (when lintian reports less > issues > on the rebuilt package) [2]. No, we are not going to binNMU to get less lintian warnings/errors unless you could convince us it's worth it for particular clas

Re: [Pkg-xen-devel] Xen status in lenny?

2008-07-14 Thread Luk Claes
start over again. I don't think we should stop it, rather make it happen soon. Cheers Luk -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Standard way to disable services

2008-07-26 Thread Luk Claes
andard way to do that. > >> The standard way is to remove the symlinks in /etc/rc?.d > > No, the standard way is to *rename* the S symlinks to K symlinks. One draw back is that it's not obvious what used to be an S link if you want to reenable them, that's why I rename them

Re: Lenny frozen

2008-07-28 Thread Luk Claes
means that you shouldn't try to fix these kind of bugs via testing-proposed-updates as they wouldn't be accepted anyway as they don't get the usual testing from aging in unstable... Cheers Luk > Le dimanche 27 juillet 2008 à 16:00 +0200, Marc 'HE' Brockschmidt a >

Re: Packages getting marked not-for-us

2008-08-07 Thread Luk Claes
ugh some not as short-term as others... Long term issues should be in Packages-arch-specific. Some NFUs are used for long-term (non-)issues currently, though that's not at all what it's supposed to be used for. It would be better if that just changed... Cheers Luk -- To UNSUBSCR

Bug#495643: Catalan DDTP issues

2008-08-19 Thread Luk Claes
ould rather be able to file bugs against 'User's next to (pseudo)packages which would probably solve the pseudo packages problem in a cleaner way, would make them dynamic as they should be IMHO and would not have the disadvantage of namespace issues... Cheers Luk -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, em

Re: packages up for adoption

2008-08-26 Thread Luk Claes
James Troup wrote: > * quinn-diff I would like to take this one. Cheers Luk -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Release Update: freeze guidelines, testing, BSP, rc bug fixes

2008-09-01 Thread Luk Claes
Daniel Burrows wrote: > On Mon, Sep 01, 2008 at 08:01:29AM +0200, Luk Claes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> was > heard to say: >> Release notes >> ~ >> There is still quite a lot of work to be done on the lenny release notes. >> Coordination for this

[Fwd: Re: document procedure to recover from "/dev/hda became /dev/sda" boot failure]

2008-10-04 Thread Luk Claes
-- Hi Can someone please propose a text (under a GPL v2 license) regarding this issue for inclusion in the release notes? Thanks already. Luk --- End Message ---

Re: dists/etch/Release.gpg missing from DVD images

2008-10-04 Thread Luk Claes
Hi Is it still the case that one needs to manually add an (gpg checking) exception for DVD images for upgrades from etch to lenny? If so, can someone please provide a text (license: GPL v2) for inclusion in the release notes? Thanks already. Luk -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: dists/etch/Release.gpg missing from DVD images

2008-10-04 Thread Luk Claes
Jens Seidel wrote: > On Sat, Oct 04, 2008 at 05:53:22PM +0200, Luk Claes wrote: >> Is it still the case that one needs to manually add an (gpg checking) >> exception for DVD images for upgrades from etch to lenny? If so, can >> someone please provide a text (license: GPL v2)

Re: What you can do for "Lenny"

2008-10-06 Thread Luk Claes
on your package to be migrated to "Lenny". >> * You are wasting the buildd's time. > > Is there any plan to fix things to allow separate uploads to testing and > unstable for Lenny+1? It's already existing, but we like packages to be tested *before* they en

Re: What you can do for "Lenny"

2008-10-06 Thread Luk Claes
Russell Coker wrote: > On Tuesday 07 October 2008 07:25, Luk Claes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >>> Is there any plan to fix things to allow separate uploads to testing and >>> unstable for Lenny+1? >> It's already existing, but we like packages to be

Re: List of RC-buggy source packages by maintainer/uploader

2008-10-06 Thread Luk Claes
this? Contact the release team to see if it's possible to unblock the dependency or if an upload to tpu is preferred. In this case, please upload to testing-proposed-updates. Cheers Luk -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: List of RC-buggy source packages by maintainer/uploader

2008-10-07 Thread Luk Claes
gt; > Seems to be fixed in t-p-u, but hasn't migrated to testing yet. [1] says > "Unblock request by luk ignored due to version mismatch". Is that normal? > > [1] http://packages.qa.debian.org/m/matplotlib.html Yes, quite normal when the t-p-u version has migrat

Re: Bug reports of DFSG violations are tagged 'lenny-ignore'?

2008-10-20 Thread Luk Claes
gs won't get fixed. As always we don't object that lenny-ignore bugs would get fixed before lenny. Cheers Luk -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Bug reports of DFSG violations are tagged 'lenny-ignore'?

2008-10-20 Thread Luk Claes
Manoj Srivastava wrote: > On Tue, Oct 21 2008, Luk Claes wrote: > >> Manoj Srivastava wrote: >>> On Mon, Oct 20 2008, Stefano Zacchiroli wrote: >>> >>>> On Mon, Oct 20, 2008 at 09:38:00PM +0200, Adeodato Simó wrote: >>>> ... and if it is *not*

Re: qmail and related packages in NEW

2008-12-01 Thread Luk Claes
elease Team or the QA Teams have any objection to qmail > being included in Lenny? We are in a freeze, having the latest release preparations, so introducing completely new packages in the release is not an option. I'm also not convinced that introducing yet another MTA which seems infer

Re: Packages still depending on GTK+ 1.2

2008-12-05 Thread Luk Claes
lthough we made some progress. Personally I would like to get rid of it before Squeeze preferably with ported applications or alternatives. Cheers Luk -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Problem with bts2ldap and therefore bts.turmzimmer.net ?

2008-12-11 Thread Luk Claes
; ;-) It was a problem in the interaction of the BTS with the archive AFAIK, so not only bts.turmzimmer.net, but also for instance all the version graphs were affected. It was already known for days, Don was investigating together with FTP Team was the last update I got. Cheers Luk -- To UNSUBSCRI

Re: Problem with bts2ldap and therefore bts.turmzimmer.net ?

2008-12-11 Thread Luk Claes
Olivier Berger wrote: > Hi. > > Le jeudi 11 décembre 2008 à 19:24 +0100, Luk Claes a écrit : >> Neil Williams wrote: >>> On Thu, 11 Dec 2008 11:32:47 + >>> Neil Williams wrote: >>> >>>> The graph on the Unofficial RC bugs count page ha

Re: First call for votes for the Lenny release GR

2008-12-17 Thread Luk Claes
r have suggested quite some different things which could have made it cleaner instead IMHO. > Seems liek there was plenty of time to change things, and add > some of the power set options on to the ballot. If I had added options > willy-nilly, you would have screamed again of ab

Help needed with the GPG Key Signing Coordination page

2009-01-05 Thread Luk Claes
amp;rev=0&sc=0 Cheers Luk -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org

Re: open bugs against removed packages still in stable

2007-07-24 Thread Luk Claes
ossibly being fixed in a release update, I would close them mentioning that the package has been removed. Cheers Luk -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Considerations for 'xmms' removal from Debian

2007-08-12 Thread Luk Claes
S for the core functionality. If you don't like audacious to get many more users because of it, we might indeed consider other replacements... Cheers Luk

Re: Debian's Linux kernel continues to regress on freedom

2007-09-12 Thread Luk Claes
lly modify the RFC text. Note that it still would be perfectly possible to restrict the use of 'RFC' for these modifications... Cheers Luk -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

OT: modifying licenses (Re: Debian's Linux kernel continues to regress on freedom)

2007-09-13 Thread Luk Claes
in wording and not mention GNU (though the actual procedure you describe may be similar). http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-faq.html#ModifyGPL Paraphrasing Luk Claes: besides we as Debian only want our users the freedom to be able to if they wanted it, to willy-nilly modify the

Re: seemingly random SATA disk lockup with ICH5: amazing way to ask for more info on the BTS

2007-09-14 Thread Luk Claes
imes it's a great help if bug submitters test if the problem still occurs in the latest version... Cheers Luk -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: volatile.debian.org: Does Debian still support it?

2007-09-26 Thread Luk Claes
didn't use this library and know nothing about complexity of timezones support in computing systems. It is really hard piece of technology. It's only logical to NOT start reading a patch of more than 38K lines, so it's far easier if one would explain beforehand why it's tha

Re: Debian Menu transition status

2007-10-09 Thread Luk Claes
doesn't need to go through three niveaus before one reaches frequently used programs? If not would it be possible to consider making a section with the most used installed programs (based on popcon for instance)? Cheers Luk -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of

Re: why MIA database restricted only for DDs

2007-10-16 Thread Luk Claes
ase stating if a person is MIA or not and just that > info? It might be quite useful to us, non-DDs, it won't invade > anyone's privacy and I don't think it would be difficult to implement. If a person is really MIA they will loose their DD status, either voluntary or forc

Re: 0-day NMUs, DELAYED/n uploads

2007-10-17 Thread Luk Claes
n say there is consensus for bugs older than 7 days. There is also no real problem with the process for bugs newer than that, but I would advise to focus on the first category. The most important thing is of course to respect the maintainer and please try to make sure your NMU is well tested. Cheers Luk -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Orphaned packages with quite some users

2007-10-31 Thread Luk Claes
Hi Below you'll find a list of longtime orphaned packages with quite some users. It would be great if people could adopt packages that are still usefull and give alternatives and/or migration plans for packages that are rather obsolete or not really usefull anymore. Cheers Luk

Re: Orphaned packages with quite some users

2007-10-31 Thread Luk Claes
Bernd Zeimetz wrote: >> http://packages.qa.debian.org/x/xmms-crossfade.html > > If I remember right gtk-1 is supposed to be removed from lenny, so xmms > will be gone, too. Yes, but this source package also builds audacious-crossfade which probably should stay? Cheers Luk --

Re: Orphaned packages with quite some users

2007-10-31 Thread Luk Claes
Michal Čihař wrote: > Hi > > Dne Wed, 31 Oct 2007 17:21:24 +0100 > Luk Claes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> napsal(a): > >> Below you'll find a list of longtime orphaned packages with quite some >> users. It would be great if people could adopt packages that are still

Re: Bug#438665: Orphaned packages with quite some users

2007-10-31 Thread Luk Claes
Bart Samwel wrote: > tag 438665 wontfix > merge 438665 445900 > thanks > > Clint Adams wrote: >> reopen 438665 >> quit >> >> On Wed, Oct 31, 2007 at 06:22:11PM +0100, Luk Claes wrote: >>> That sounds like the Dependens should be a Recommends, if s

Re: Orphaned packages with quite some users

2007-10-31 Thread Luk Claes
Thomas Viehmann wrote: > Luk Claes wrote: >> http://packages.qa.debian.org/a/autobook.html > Based on the submitter's observation in #328219, maybe we should remove > autobook? > If it's non-free and increasingly outdated and doesn't have anone > wanting t

Re: Orphaned packages with quite some users

2007-10-31 Thread Luk Claes
Ben Goodger wrote: > On 31/10/2007, Luk Claes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> http://packages.qa.debian.org/libg/libglade.html >> http://packages.qa.debian.org/libv/libvncserver.html > > > AFAIK these are unofficially or officially deprecated: > libglade is

Re: SPARC build failure of texlive-bin

2007-11-15 Thread Luk Claes
d log. To make sure buildds won't wait forever they stop the build proces, default it's 150 minutes, though it can be configured per package. Cheers Luk -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: About dpkg-shlibdeps checks

2007-11-23 Thread Luk Claes
at hand). Nowadays there are better alternatives to uploading to unstable for archive wide testing IMHO. Uploading to experimental is a good thing to have some initial testing on many architectures, though I would go for a rebuild of the whole archive for testing things like this for all packages..

Re: Bits from the MIA team

2007-12-08 Thread Luk Claes
.. > I also don't think that an inactive co-maintainer should be > a justification to stop a package to migrate to testing. > What is the rationale here? Same as above, the active (co-)maintainer should drop the severity otherwise it's better to orphan the package. Cheers Luk -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Bits from the MIA team

2007-12-08 Thread Luk Claes
Nico Golde wrote: > Hi Luk, > * Luk Claes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2007-12-08 18:21]: >> Nico Golde wrote: >>> Hi Mario, >>> * Mario Iseli <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2007-12-06 21:33]: > [...] >>> What is the purpose of this? If the package is well >

Re: Bits from the MIA team

2007-12-08 Thread Luk Claes
RC bug on monday, this might hold up the testing migration for a > couple of days. Imagine there is a security fix waiting for migration. Do you > want to keep this from migrating? Please don't make the work of the > testing-security team harder ;) By popular demand the MIA Team wi

Re: Bits from the MIA team

2007-12-09 Thread Luk Claes
y mentioned that the team decided to file with severity important instead... Cheers Luk -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Bits from the MIA team

2007-12-10 Thread Luk Claes
Michael Banck wrote: > On Sun, Dec 09, 2007 at 11:31:27PM +0100, Luk Claes wrote: >> Please don't answer when you don't have read the whole thread... It was >> already very clearly mentioned that the team decided to file with >> severity important instead... >

Re: Bug#457353: gdome2-xslt: should not be a Debian-native package

2007-12-23 Thread Luk Claes
nt I feel there is no such a consensus. I thought this consensus was already a fact and that some maintainers just disagree and nobody forced them to change yet... The reasons why it shouldn't be a native package IMHO: * it's not specific to Debian * it wastes bandwidth as every upload con

Re: Bug#457353: gdome2-xslt: should not be a Debian-native package

2007-12-26 Thread Luk Claes
Wouter Verhelst wrote: > On Sun, Dec 23, 2007 at 07:17:16PM +, Neil Williams wrote: >> Luk Claes wrote: >>> Neil Williams wrote: >>>> i.e. native should be a last resort - used only when it is all but >>>> impossible for the package to be used outsid

Re: [proposal] Documenting which revision is installed

2007-12-26 Thread Luk Claes
I personaly prefere Idea 1 over 3 over 2, but as said, i want to have an > consensus and i already heard several other ideas and/or complains. I would prefer 2 over 1 and 3, though I think it's more important to have it included in the file than any particular format :-) Cheers Luk

Re: Opinions needed: reporting lintian overrides

2008-01-02 Thread Luk Claes
ometimes just add an override when > lintian makes a mistake rather than filing a bug, so this gives us a > fighting chance of finding those bugs and fixing them. It also uncovers > some fascinating overrides currently in the archive. Great! Cheers Luk -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email t

Re: Availability of wanna-build sources

2008-01-05 Thread Luk Claes
rent version of > wanna-build in use on our buildds may be found? The current version is the one of the repository you mentioned. If you mean the experimental version, well I suppose that's on one of Ryan's machines. Cheers Luk -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: gnome 1.x removal

2008-01-15 Thread Luk Claes
you'll > have to start taking it over." We can surely keep all old cruft in the archive and never release again (or not with these packages anyway), though I don't think that is preferred from a quality assurance, security nor release point of view... Cheers Luk -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Python 2.6

2010-01-03 Thread Luk Claes
e KDE transition is going on before python 2.6 will be added. Cheers Luk -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org

Re: rebuild test of Debian packages with GCC trunk 20100107

2010-01-13 Thread Luk Claes
d... > > I wouldn't worry about that just yet. Unless we're planning > on switching to gcc-4.5 before the release. And I'm not sure > we're going to have time for that. No, we are having a hard time to get the FTBFS issues with gcc-4.4 (some in combination with eglibc

Re: upload lost ???

2010-02-01 Thread Luk Claes
ean “ACCEPTED” so the package has > not yet been accepted into the archive. > > I see no trace of that upload, for that matters. The upload was rejected as you can see on merkel in /srv/ftp.debian.org/queue/rejected/*.reason Cheers Luk -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org

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