Bug#1831: pgp-i bug..

1995-11-09 Thread Niels
the number of bits isn't correctly set at 768 bits when you choose 2 (and maybe 1 and 3, haven't tested that). niels

Bug#3314: On request of Bruce: /etc/rc.boot/0serial way too optimistic

1996-06-17 Thread Niels
rts: a Compaq Deskpro has only COM1, my computer has COM1 and COM2, other computers have internal modems on COM[34]. Niels -- Planet Internet Holding XXTP Support Engineer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> I do not spe

Bug#3315: Bug in /etc/init.d/networks on 11-6 disks

1996-06-17 Thread Niels
no default gateway, don't attempt to add a route to it. Niels -- Planet Internet Holding XXTP Support Engineer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> I do not speak for my employer - they are perfectly able to do that.

Porter roll call for Debian Stretch

2016-08-17 Thread niels
have -fPIE/-pie enabled by default. """ Niels, on behalf of the release team [0] Enabling -fPIE/-fpie by default would harden debian systems against certain attacks. See https://lintian.debian.org/tags/hardening-no-pie.html for more det

Re: DD's, Debian Mentors needs you!

2024-07-07 Thread Niels Thykier
butions to Debian will be even more impactful when he can sponsor the packages he feels are ready. https://nm.debian.org/process/1305/ [...] Thanks for supporting Phil. :) Best regards, Niels

Re: Produce extra build artifacts during package builds

2024-08-02 Thread Niels Thykier
r putting it into the build helper. I think this boils down to the use-case would be invoked in practice where exactly the logic goes. But I feel it is again a problem that is very solvable once we have the infrastructure in-place and a proper idea of how to play out the use-case. Dear, sbuild/pbuilder maintainers, feel free to give me a holler on this and lets fix this with a prototype somewhere. Best regards, Niels

Re: Produce extra build artifacts during package builds

2024-08-02 Thread Niels Thykier
Simon McVittie: On Fri, 02 Aug 2024 at 18:17:52 +0200, Niels Thykier wrote: Simon McVittie: In the design that I prototyped, it's declarative, loosely inspired by the equivalent Gitlab-CI feature: - the maintainer can write patterns into debian/build-artifacts for package-specific q

Machine readable contributor information (was: Re: Request for feedback on draft: DEP-18: Enable true open collaboration on all Debian packages)

2024-08-05 Thread Niels Thykier
am happy to work on the client side of this problem. I already took a stab at something similar (see [1], currently stuck on getting a single source of truth data source), so it would fit into the work I am doing anyway. Best regards, Niels [0]: I mean a dedicated `JSON` or `YAML` file in

Re: Removing more packages from unstable

2024-08-20 Thread Niels Thykier
discussion, so we are clear on it and also who is the authoritative source for future changes. In my book, debian-devel consensus gathering is slow and can be quite draining, so we should not use it for "day-to-day" operational matters. To me, that implies having a team with authori

Re: DEP5 and spdx shortname of license

2024-09-08 Thread Niels Thykier
migration to fully compliant SPDX names. Best regards, Niels

Re: For those who care about stable updates

2006-03-09 Thread Niels Larsen
On Thursday 09 March 2006 11:32, Martin Schulze wrote: > I'm sorry to announce this but you'll have to find a new person who works > on updating Debian stable and who is willing to cope with black holes and > ftpmasters. > James Troup as ftpmaster rejected my recent request to become an.. Then

Re: Bits from the DPL: Freedom and etch hik :-) At skimme, ny mail

2006-08-28 Thread Niels Larsen
On Monday 28 August 2006 20:35, Anthony Towns wrote: > Hello, world! > > As a project, Debian is heavily committed to the ideals of free software. > That's not news to anyone reading this, I'm sure, as it's something > we've constantly worked to improve, whether that be by establishing our > Social

Re: Automatic ITP closing.

2009-09-21 Thread Niels Thykier
have not been able to see this script. David did not say anything about why the script was not still active when he replied. ~Niels PS: I had more luck contacting David using da...@axiombox.com rather than the debian mail. signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Bug#551965: ITP: eclipse-rse -- Eclipse Remote System Explorer (RSE)

2009-10-21 Thread Niels Thykier
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Niels Thykier * Package name: eclipse-rse Version : 3.1 Upstream Author : DSDP TM Development Team * URL : http://www.eclipse.org/dsdp/tm/ * License : Eclipse Public License Version 1.0 ("EPL") Programming

Re: Team uploads.

2010-03-07 Thread Niels Thykier
sted patch > may solve the problem. > > If others are interested to follow the same approach, I propose to use the > following > wiki page to draft a common reference: http://wiki.debian.org/TeamUpload. > > Have a nice sunday, > > Thank you, I am having a nice Sunday;

Re: Team uploads.

2010-03-08 Thread Niels Thykier
kage has no human uploaders and a list as maintainer (the exception being the QA list) [1], so I believe this has already been taken care of. ~Niels [1] http://lintian.debian.org/tags/no-human-maintainers.html signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Re: About new source formats for packages without patches

2010-03-31 Thread Niels Thykier
could derive a source package of existing format. That would probably also increase the adoption rate, since existing tools would work with those formats. ~Niels I reserve the right to change my opinion on this if the implementation of the VCS-based source format is awesome enough. signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Re: About new source formats for packages without patches

2010-03-31 Thread Niels Thykier
an prefetch it from [1]; I certainly could use some feedback on it. I will also be looking into providing a way to easily review a single 3.0 package (which would be #575394); suggestions are also welcome for that. ~Niels [1] Script: http://www.student.dtu.dk/~s072425/debian/qdebdiff Doc: http://www.student.dtu.dk/~s072425/debian/qdebdiff.html signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Bug#578421: virtual-packages: Retire java-compiler, java2-compiler and java-virtual-machine

2010-04-19 Thread Niels Thykier
es default-jdk-builddep will pull *two* full Java Development Environments. There is a reason for "insanity"; if you are interested then get in contact with the Java Team. Thank you in advance, ~Niels NB: I am subscribed to debian-de...@l.d.o, but not debian-pol...@l.d.o; please CC

Re: proper edit-build-install-test cycle with v3 source packages?

2010-04-22 Thread Niels Thykier
kg-buildpackage as well? I think that should do it (unless the build/clean does weird things). ~Niels signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Re: bindv6only again

2010-05-08 Thread Niels Thykier
the person testing the issue has not already done it, could you convince him/her to file a bug against the plugin? ~Niels signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Bug#581422: ITP: eclipse-mylyn -- Task support for Eclipse

2010-05-12 Thread Niels Thykier
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Niels Thykier Owner: Niels Thykier * Package name: eclipse-mylyn Version : 3.2.1 * URL : http://www.eclipse.org/mylyn * License : EPL v1.0 Programming Lang: Java Description : Task support for Eclipse Mylyn

Re: .deb package for a library generation

2010-08-08 Thread Niels Thykier
l file and add the correct build dependencies there. I apologize for the short answer with no reference to relevant information, but I am really out of time :) I am about to leave DebConf10 (like a lot of other Debian people). ~Niels -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.10 (GN

Re: debuild + xvfb-run + Eclipse

2010-09-27 Thread Niels Thykier
x27;s different about debuild spawning xvfb-run versus spawning > it myself? > Hi Perhaps you could convince your upstream of using a non-eclipse build system with eclipse plugin support (e.g. autotools using the integration plugin provided by the LinuxTools project[1]). ~Niels [1] http://

Bug#600171: ITP: eclipse-jgit -- pure Java implementation of the GIT VCS

2010-10-14 Thread Niels Thykier
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Niels Thykier -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 * Package name: eclipse-jgit Version : 0.9.3 Upstream Author : Eclipse Development Team * URL : http://eclipse.org/jgit/ * License : BSD-like Programming

Re: binNMU for Arch: all packages.

2011-01-15 Thread Niels Thykier
library docs each time the compiler is updated? What does it > give? Hey, It is possible the Java packages could use binNMU for arch: all packages as well. There was some talk about injecting "ABI" versioning in Java Libraries at DebConf10, so we could handle ABI breakage in a similar

Bug#612358: ITP: lpg-generator-java -- Java Runtime support for the LPG parser

2011-02-07 Thread Niels Thykier
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Niels Thykier -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 * Package name: lpg-generator-java Version : 2.0.20 Upstream Author : Philippe Charles * URL : http://lpg.sourceforge.net/ * License : EPL-1.0 Programming

Re: Best practice for cleaning autotools-generated files?

2011-03-16 Thread Niels Thykier
nd that these really > are upstream packages. > While I have not used it myself, it seems dpkg-source can (partly) help you here by using the "extend-diff-ignore" option in debian/source/options.[1] ~Niels [1] http://raphaelhertzog.com/2011/01/28/3-ways-to-not-clutter-your-debi

Re: libjpeg-turbo transition

2014-07-09 Thread Niels Thykier
Mike, Thank you for your efforts. If you plan on doing this transition for Jessie, please do keep the "5th of September" deadline in mind[1]. Please also consider filing a transition bug to help us (the release team) get an overview of the affected packages at your earliest convenience

Re: New dash in experimental

2014-10-01 Thread Niels Thykier
up that close to the freeze is that last thing we (i.e. the release team) wants at that point. ~Niels PS: To clarify to all: The freeze will occur in testing, but (unblocked) updates will come from sid. So if sid is broken, it can adversely your ability to get fixes into testing. See the f

Bug#765076: general: No way to have a clean chroot for building packages

2014-10-13 Thread Niels Thykier
s essential, so you would have the same issue in stable (just with a different init system). ~Niels -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: https://lists.debian.org/543bbae1.6030...@thykier.net

Re: Packages using old dpkg tools paths

2014-11-03 Thread Niels Thykier
r > reintroducing the compat symlink for that one alone if the release-team > (CCed) sees fit to that. :/ > > [...] > > Thanks, > Guillem > > Hi Guillem, Could you please re-instate all the compat symlinks for Jessie? Besides the package listed, we are als

Re: Jessie Freeze -> What is the next release name? (jessie+1)

2014-11-08 Thread Niels Thykier
> Regards, > > Osamu > > The release name of Jessie+1 will be announced tomorrow morning (09:15-10:15 UTC) at the Release update at the Cambridge mini-DebConf. ~Niels signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Re: debootstrap loading both libept1 AND libept1.4.12, .. and fails!

2012-04-17 Thread Niels Thykier
l/apt.html > [...] > > Any idea how to fix this / work around this??? > > Thanks, > Mike > For transitions, wait till the relevant packages have been rebuilt. In other cases, the package may be broken or an uncoordinated transition may have started. In the latter case, please c

Candidates for removal from testing

2012-05-13 Thread Niels Thykier
the respective *@packages.qa.debian.org emails. Thanks, Niels (on behalf of the Release Team) [1] The tools are available from: svn://svn.debian.org/svn/collab-qa/rc-buggy-leaf-packages -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.12 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with

Re: udeb and data.tar.xz files?

2012-05-14 Thread Niels Thykier
; > Hi, Lintian is outdated (#664600) and the fix has been commited to the git repository[1] ~Niels [1] http://anonscm.debian.org/gitweb/?p=lintian/lintian.git;a=commitdiff;h=ec4e5cbf5ceea35db5948be21d3b03d696607b0f -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debi

Re: udeb and data.tar.xz files?

2012-05-14 Thread Niels Thykier
On 2012-05-14 22:01, Ted Ts'o wrote: > On Mon, May 14, 2012 at 09:51:43PM +0200, Niels Thykier wrote: >> >> Lintian is outdated (#664600) and the fix has been commited to the git >> repository[1] > > I saw a bug report requesting that packages that failed the l

Re: tech-ctte help needed: main dependencies on non-free/contrib

2012-07-17 Thread Niels Thykier
em if they are there. One run with non-free+contrib and one without - the "newly" uninstallable between the two runs should be set you are looking for. It does not catch issues like "foo-nonfree | foo", but they would be caught by your other query. ~Niels -- To UNSUBSCRIBE,

Re: Some doubts about patching

2012-07-28 Thread Niels Thykier
or Squeeze: Can I filter the bugs to > find only those corresponding to Wheezy? > > [...] Hi, http://bugs.debian.org/release-critical/ has a "Only bugs relevant to testing" link, which may be what you are looking for. ~Niels -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@li

Re: packages with E: md5sum-mismatch in the archive

2012-09-20 Thread Niels Thykier
; And ports should be checked, too. > > Andreas > > [...] > > I am doing a lintian run for amd64 + i386 on stable for starters (limited to md5sum-mismatch). I think that (plus the normal sid runs) should cover most issues. ~Niels -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian

Re: packages with E: md5sum-mismatch in the archive

2012-09-23 Thread Niels Thykier
On 2012-09-20 21:03, Niels Thykier wrote: > On 2012-09-20 18:52, Andreas Beckmann wrote: >> On 2012-09-18 09:30, Andreas Beckmann wrote: >>> Just to give a short impression what we can find here: >> >>> guile-1.6-dev_1.6.8-10.1 >>> /usr/lib/libguile-ltd

Candidates for removal from testing (2013-06-04)

2013-06-04 Thread Niels Thykier
deadline for these[2], but if time permits I may follow up with deadline and a filtered list. Fun fact: According to UDD[3], 79 RC bugs is a bit over 10% of all RC bugs affecting Jessie. Thanks, ~Niels [1] We normally filter out certain type of RC bugs (incl. but not limited to license issues), where we

Re: How should we do for font-adobe-copyrighted-fragment error?

2013-06-10 Thread Niels Thykier
for your explanation. > > Best regards, 2013-6-10(Mon) > The "wiki" would probably be [1]. As for lintian.d.o being 404 atm. We had a technical (software-only) problem. The site should be back to normal in a couple of days once lintian has had time to process

Re: Mass bug filing for shared library broken symlinks detected by piuparts

2013-06-30 Thread Niels Thykier
se positive for this being a shared library. I have a feeling the particular case is just a left-over (i.e. now unused) symlink rather than something that effects the functionality of the package. ~Niels -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "u

Candidates for removal from testing (2013-06-30)

2013-06-30 Thread Niels Thykier
w-popcon-lt-500.txt") are not dealt with before the 8th of July, the packages will be removed from testing. Note that "dealt with" may also include downgrading a severity-inflated bug or fixing affected versions in the BTS. For reference, the original list is also included. Thanks, N

Re: Candidates for removal from testing (2013-06-30)

2013-07-01 Thread Niels Thykier
On 2013-07-01 09:05, Mathieu Malaterre wrote: > On Sun, Jun 30, 2013 at 11:32 PM, Niels Thykier wrote: >> #678383 [pixelmed]: pixelmed: FTBFS with Java7 (uses internal Java API) > > Would it be possible to filter out (in the future?) any bugs that are > marked as pending ? I

Re: Candidates for removal from testing (2013-06-30)

2013-07-01 Thread Niels Thykier
On 2013-07-01 08:21, Lucas Nussbaum wrote: > Hi, > > Thanks a lot for this work. > > On 30/06/13 at 23:32 +0200, Niels Thykier wrote: >> We are considering removing the following packages from testing as >> they have unfixed RC bugs filed against them. The pack

Re: Candidates for removal from testing (2013-06-30) [Results]

2013-07-07 Thread Niels Thykier
despite the bug being fixed/downgraded etc. (or if you are fixing it now), please reply to this mail or ping me over IRC (#d-release) within the next 10 hours. ~Niels "Adam C. Powell, IV" elmerfem (U) Alexander Reichle-Schmehl ht Alexandre Quessy toonloop (U) Andreas Tille

Re: Candidates for removal from testing (2013-06-30) [Results]

2013-07-07 Thread Niels Thykier
On 2013-07-08 01:34, Andreas Tille wrote: > Hi, > > On Mon, Jul 08, 2013 at 01:10:51AM +0200, Niels Thykier wrote: >> >> Andreas Tille >>camitk (U) > > A fixed version is since two days in >http://ftp-master.debian.org/new.html > > >

Re: UTF-8 in jessie

2013-08-12 Thread Niels Thykier
ecessary to display languages that we support at the installation. > > Have a nice Debconf ! > ~Niels [1] http://lintian.debian.org/tags/file-name-is-not-valid-UTF-8.html -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/520895a6.1090...@thykier.net

Re: Introducing dgit - git integration with the Debian archive

2013-08-23 Thread Niels Thykier
uilt)' format package whose maintainer > wouldn't mind a bunch of crazy (perhaps abortive) NMUs to > experimental, which I can therefore use for testing ? I promise not > to upload to sid by mistake. > > Volunteers welcome :-). > > Ian. > > If you promise to a

Roll call for porters of architectures in sid and testing

2013-09-01 Thread Niels Thykier
r the following architectures and I intend to continue this for the lifetime of the jessie release: For , I - test (most|all) packages on this architecture - fix toolchain issues - triage arch-specific bugs - fix arch-related bugs - maintain buildds - ... ""&

Re: Less dinstall FTW?

2013-09-06 Thread Niels Thykier
of dinstalls (although, I don't have particularly strong opinions in regards 2 vs 4 dinstalls per day). For those interested, I believe #703366 might be worth a read on that topic[1]. >>From this very limited POV the proposal appears to be an improvement. > > Helmut >

Re: detecting autopkgtest

2013-09-16 Thread Niels Thykier
running the tests at build time. > > Cheers > Hey, Personally, I just added a small sh script to set a few ENV variables then called the upstream test target (see [1]). ~Niels [1] http://anonscm.debian.org/gitweb/?p=lintian/lintian.git;a=blob;f=debian/

Re: Roll call for porters of architectures in sid and testing (Status update)

2013-09-19 Thread Niels Thykier
On 2013-09-01 09:33, Niels Thykier wrote: > Hi, > > As we announced in [LAST-BITS], we would like to get a better idea of > that status of the ports, to make an informed decision about which > port can be released with jessie. One of the steps is to get an > overview of which

Re: Upcoming changes in Tcl/Tk packaging

2013-09-25 Thread Niels Thykier
intian data file called "data/fields/obsolete-packages". (Though, that is not a remark about whether the renaming should be done in this case) ~Niels -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/5242b354.5000...@thykier.net

Re: Bits from the Release

2013-09-25 Thread Niels Thykier
On 2013-09-03 13:49, Stefano Zacchiroli wrote: > On Sun, Aug 25, 2013 at 05:09:22PM +0200, Niels Thykier wrote: >> How you can help (NEW-TEST-HELP) >> >> >> Add tests to your packages. The full specification for these >> tests

Re: Automatic removal of packages from testing

2013-09-30 Thread Niels Thykier
On 2013-09-30 17:33, Tshepang Lekhonkhobe wrote: > On Mon, Sep 30, 2013 at 5:13 PM, Joey Hess wrote: >> Niels Thykier wrote: >>> [KEY-PACKAGES] >>> http://udd.debian.org/cgi-bin/key_packages.yaml.cgi >> >> If you're curious, as I was, how this list is

Re: automake transition breakages

2013-09-30 Thread Niels Thykier
is there's a new warning for > configure.in being deprecated. So for a well maintained package or a > good upstream this isn't going to be a problem. > >> [...] > For the record, Lintian should have a check for this[1]. From what we can detect (assuming no false-posit

Results of the porter roll call (Was: Roll call for porters of architectures in sid and testing)

2013-10-02 Thread Niels Thykier
his email *promptly* (CC'ing me explicitly is fine) with your concerns or corrections. At this time, I have *not* updated the arch qualification table yet. I will do that in a couple of days. We will also follow up on this in the next bits from the release team. ~Niels [AP] http://release.

First autoremovals happen in about 8 days

2013-10-06 Thread Niels Thykier
imes be as simple as correcting the metadata of the bugs (see also #725321[0]) or (where inflated) downgrade the severity of the bug. This mail was a "one-time public service annoucement"; I *do not* intend to send out "reminders" in the future. Remember that you can pull th

Re: First autoremovals happen in about 8 days

2013-10-06 Thread Niels Thykier
On 2013-10-06 13:09, Steven Chamberlain wrote: > Hi, > > On 06/10/13 08:52, Niels Thykier wrote: >>kfreebsd-8: bugs 720470,717959,720476, flagged for removal in 14.7 days > > Not sure why that's appearing in this list because: > 1. the package was removed from te

Re: First autoremovals happen in about 8 days

2013-10-09 Thread Niels Thykier
idea I cannot volunteer to do it. I already have a sufficient "d-release" backlog ... :-/ Even the current implementation was "out-sourced". On a related note, kudos to Ivo De Decker for being the "Do'er" behind automatic removals! ~Niels -- To UNSUB

Re: Bits from the Release Team (Jessie freeze info)

2013-10-13 Thread Niels Thykier
On 2013-10-13 19:24, Thomas Goirand wrote: > Hi Niels, > Hi, > First of all, thanks a lot for planning this well in advance. Much > appreciated. This changes a lot compared to what happened in NYC! :) > You are welcome, :) > On 10/13/2013 11:01 PM, Niels Thykier wrote: >

Re: Bits from the Release Team (Jessie freeze info)

2013-10-13 Thread Niels Thykier
t would no longer be applicable for a "carte blanche" unblock. The note referenced above is about embedding all the upstream changes in a "Debian patch" and only bumping the Debian revision (while keeping the "upstream version" unchanged). Basically, it i

Re: Bits from the Release Team (Jessie freeze info)

2013-10-13 Thread Niels Thykier
On 2013-10-13 17:01, Niels Thykier wrote: > > Freeze date and Freeze Policy for Jessie > > > We are happy to announce that we will freeze Jessie at 23:59 UTC on > the 5th of November 2014. > > To avoid any confusion around exactl

Re: First autoremovals happen in about 8 days

2013-10-15 Thread Niels Thykier
On 2013-10-15 15:35, Andreas Tille wrote: > Hi Niels, > > [sorry for the late reply I was on vac] > Hi, No worries. > On Sun, Oct 06, 2013 at 09:52:17AM +0200, Niels Thykier wrote: >> >> Andreas Tille >>gdpc: bugs 713652, flagged for removal in 8

Re: Bits from the Release Team (Jessie freeze info)

2013-10-21 Thread Niels Thykier
On 2013-10-19 16:38, Jeremiah C. Foster wrote: > Hello, > > On Sun, Oct 13, 2013 at 05:01:31PM +0200, Niels Thykier wrote: > > [snip freeze policy] > Hi, I s/-arm/-ports/'ed the CC, since I figured the rest of the porters would find the answer equally interesting. &g

Re: Bits from the Release Team (Jessie freeze info)

2013-10-29 Thread Niels Thykier
On 2013-10-29 16:05, Ian Jackson wrote: > Niels Thykier writes ("Bits from the Release Team (Jessie freeze info)"): >> Results of porter roll-call >> === > ... >> Summary table: >> Arch

Re: [Question] lin-guider: block ITP 727532 by RFS 727618

2013-10-29 Thread Niels Thykier
In the top of the bug should also see the "Blocking fix for" (or "Fix blocked by" if you access #727532) that links to the other bug (as long as it is open). ~Niels -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe

Potential issues for most ports (Was: Re: Bits from the Release Team (Jessie freeze info))

2013-11-03 Thread Niels Thykier
On 2013-10-29 17:48, Ian Jackson wrote: > Niels Thykier writes ("Re: Bits from the Release Team (Jessie freeze info)"): >> [...] >> As mentioned we are debating whether the "5 DDs" requirement still makes >> sense. Would you say that we should abolish the

Re: Potential issues for most ports

2013-11-03 Thread Niels Thykier
On 2013-11-03 15:49, Thorsten Glaser wrote: > Niels Thykier dixit: > >> [...] >> Until we have a clear definition of "actively maintained ports", I would >> recommend porters to err on the side of being verbose over being silent. > > I’ve held off on the

Re: Potential issues for most ports

2013-11-03 Thread Niels Thykier
On 2013-11-03 16:54, Niels Thykier wrote: > On 2013-11-03 15:49, Thorsten Glaser wrote: >> > Niels Thykier dixit: >> > >>> >> [...] >>> >> Until we have a clear definition of "actively maintained ports", I would >>> >

Re: Potential issues for most ports (Was: Re: Bits from the Release Team (Jessie freeze info))

2013-11-04 Thread Niels Thykier
On 2013-11-03 16:03, Steven Chamberlain wrote: > On 03/11/13 10:54, Niels Thykier wrote: >> Come to think of it; maybe we should have a BTS page for each of the >> ports (e.g. a pseudo package in the BTS). > > We've had this on kfreebsd, due it to having been

Re: Potential issues for most ports (Was: Re: Bits from the Release Team (Jessie freeze info))

2013-11-04 Thread Niels Thykier
On 2013-11-03 23:04, Steve Langasek wrote: > On Sun, Nov 03, 2013 at 11:54:34AM +0100, Niels Thykier wrote: >> [...] > >> I suppose a "sponsor-only" DD could be sufficient, provided that the >> sponsor knows the porters well enough to be willing to sign off on

Re: release goal proposal: enable hardening build flags

2011-10-19 Thread Niels Thykier
org/viewvc/secure-testing/hardening/subgoal-important.txt?view=log > > http://anonscm.debian.org/viewvc/secure-testing/hardening/subgoal-dsa.txt?view=log > Hi, I am pleased to say this release goal has been approved for Wheezy. Please remember to use the right usertag[1]. ~Niels [1] http://lists.debi

Re: Debian unstable/expirental missing some bnx2 firmwares

2011-10-30 Thread Niels Thykier
; the 3.0.0-2-686-pae kernel. > I know it's experimental, but is there a workaround ? > > Thanks a lot for your help. > > Kind regards, > Sébastien > > Hi, Have you enabled non-free? There is a "firmware-bnx2x" in non-free, which is probably what you are

Orphaning lprfax

2011-11-05 Thread Niels Thykier
days, if no one picks it up. ~Niels [1] Package: lprfax Version: 0.6-28 Installed-Size: 204 Maintainer: Camm Maguire Architecture: i386 Depends: libc6 (>= 2.0), netpbm, magicfilter, ghostscript, transfig, libjpeg-progs, texlive-latex-base, poppler-utils Pre-Depends: lprng (>= 3.6.12), debia

Release goal proposal: Archive-wide build-arch and build-indep support

2011-11-05 Thread Niels Thykier
ign up as an volunteer. - There are up 126 QA uploads waiting to be done. :) - There will probably also be some NMUs. * If filing bugs for this, please use: * User: debian...@lists.debian.org * Usertags: build-arch-target The release goal wiki page is at [4] and the current advocates a

Re: Release goal proposal: Archive-wide build-arch and build-indep support

2011-11-06 Thread Niels Thykier
On 2011-11-05 21:22, Niels Thykier wrote: > > Hi, > > I would like to propose the goal of getting archive-wide support for > the optional debian/rules targets "build-arch" and "build-indep". > The intention is to finally solve issues like #61928

Orphaning mlview

2011-11-07 Thread Niels Thykier
reassign 555034 wnpp retitle 555034 O: mlview - xml editor for GNOME environment thanks Hi, I am hereby orphaning mlview[1] on behalf of Sebastian Bacher. As it is RC buggy and has a very low popcon, I intend to RM within 14 days unless someone picks it up. ~Niels [1] Package: mlview

Re: Release goal proposal: Archive-wide build-arch and build-indep support

2011-11-16 Thread Niels Thykier
On 2011-11-16 11:14, Goswin von Brederlow wrote: > Niels Thykier writes: > >> On 2011-11-05 21:22, Niels Thykier wrote: >>> >>> Hi, >>> >>> I would like to propose the goal of getting archive-wide support for >>> the optional debian/rules

Orphaning emile

2011-12-08 Thread Niels Thykier
y and has extremely low popcon. ~Niels -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/4ee13d6b.5040...@thykier.net

Orphaning genesis -- general-purpose neural simulator

2011-12-08 Thread Niels Thykier
""" If you are interested in adopting this package, please be prepared to fix its outstanding RC bugs. If no one picks this package up within 14 days or so, I will push for its removal on the grounds it that it is RC-buggy. ~Niels -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@list

Candidates for removal from testing

2012-01-25 Thread Niels Thykier
packages are not dealt with before the 11th of Feb., the packages will be removed from testing. Note that "dealt with" may also include downgrading a severity-inflated bug or fixing affected versions in the BTS. Thanks, Niels (on behalf of the Release Team) [0] http://release.debian.org

Re: Candidates for removal from testing

2012-01-27 Thread Niels Thykier
On 2012-01-26 02:45, Paul Wise wrote: > On Thu, Jan 26, 2012 at 2:41 AM, Luk Claes wrote: >> On 01/25/2012 01:24 PM, Niels Thykier wrote: >>> >>> We are considering removing the following packages from testing as >>> they have unfixed RC bugs filed against the

Re: Use of the first person in messages from the computer

2012-02-09 Thread Niels Thykier
[...] I suspect devref 6.5.2.5 is a (possible) source of this impression. As I recall, there are also some Lintian checks about using first person. ~Niels -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas

Re: Multiarch file overlap summary and proposal

2012-02-14 Thread Niels Thykier
intian accepting arch-qualified override files, but I do not see the "strict" (i.e. "must") requirement[1]. Lintian already allows you to do arch-specific overrides and 2.5.5 will even allow architecture wildcards as well[2]. ~Niels [1] Exception being compressed override files, but o

Re: Comments+blank line in debian/control: Clarification in policy or MBF?

2012-10-03 Thread Niels Thykier
intian's parser ignores empty lines before/between paragraphs. ~Niels -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/506c09da.7020...@thykier.net

Re: Comments+blank line in debian/control: Clarification in policy or MBF?

2012-10-03 Thread Niels Thykier
e 0.4.0 (April 6th, same year). However, neither change have a bug associated with the changes[1] and I not aware of any copy of either of those versions still existing. While I cannot say for certain, I am guessing it is side effect and not intentional[2]. ~Niels [1] 0.3.0 entry: * Internal c

Candidates for removal from testing

2012-10-18 Thread Niels Thykier
It is also easier for us if we can avoid having to reintroduce a removed package. We will check the DELAYED queues before activing the removal hints, so NMUs in the DELAYED queues will be given a chance to reach unstable. Thanks, Niels (on behalf of the Release Team) The bugs were found using the

Re: Candidates for removal from testing

2012-10-19 Thread Niels Thykier
On 2012-10-19 17:43, Wouter Verhelst wrote: > On Thu, Oct 18, 2012 at 10:32:39AM +0200, Niels Thykier wrote: >> We are considering removing the following packages from testing as >> they have unfixed RC bugs filed against them. The packages can be >> found in the attached dd

Re: Candidates for removal from testing (results)

2012-10-26 Thread Niels Thykier
On 2012-10-18 10:32, Niels Thykier wrote: > > Hi, > > [...] > > If the relevant RC bugs in the affected packages are not dealt with > /before/ Friday the 26th of Oct., the packages will be removed from > testing. Note that "dealt with" may also include downgr

Candidates for removal from testing (2012-10-30)

2012-10-30 Thread Niels Thykier
stable. Thanks, Niels (on behalf of the Release Team) The bugs were found using the tools from: svn://svn.debian.org/svn/collab-qa/rc-buggy-leaf-packages http://release.debian.org/wheezy/freeze_policy.html [1] We intend to do the removal with the 10:00 UTC run of Britney of that day. --8

Re: Candidates for removal from testing (results)

2012-10-30 Thread Niels Thykier
On 2012-10-28 18:47, Stefano Zacchiroli wrote: > On Fri, Oct 26, 2012 at 12:37:38PM +0200, Niels Thykier wrote: >> ax25-apps, fabric, firmware-crystalhd, icewm-themes, ilisp, inguma, >> lustre, mingw-ocaml, noflushd, openvas-plugins-dfsg, php-crypt-gpg, >> phpgacl, python-

Re: Candidates for removal from testing (results)

2012-11-07 Thread Niels Thykier
On 2012-10-30 14:32, Niels Thykier wrote: > Hi, > > [...] > > If the relevant RC bugs in the affected packages are not dealt with > /before/ Wednesday the 7th of Nov.[1], the packages will be removed > from testing. Note that "dealt with" may also include downgradi

Candidates for removal from testing (2012-11-14)

2012-11-14 Thread Niels Thykier
stable. Thanks, Niels (on behalf of the Release Team) The bugs were found using the tools from: svn://svn.debian.org/svn/collab-qa/rc-buggy-leaf-packages http://release.debian.org/wheezy/freeze_policy.html [1] We intend to do the removal with the 10:00 UTC run of Britney of that day. --8

Re: Candidates for removal from testing (2012-11-14)

2012-11-15 Thread Niels Thykier
On 2012-11-15 00:15, Emmanuel Bouthenot wrote: > Hi, > > On Wed, Nov 14, 2012 at 10:02:10PM +0100, Niels Thykier wrote: > [...] > >> Should you need a bit more time than given, please do not hesitate to >> contact us. It is also easier for us if we can avoid having

Re: Candidates for removal from testing (results)

2012-11-20 Thread Niels Thykier
On 2012-11-14 22:02, Niels Thykier wrote: > Hi, > > We are considering removing the following packages from testing as > they have unfixed RC bugs filed against them. [...] > ferm, apt-2p2 and mediawiki-math has been fixed in sid and by the looks of it all of them are al

Candidates for removal from testing (2012-11-30)

2012-11-30 Thread Niels Thykier
stable. Thanks, Niels (on behalf of the Release Team) The bugs were found using the tools from: svn://svn.debian.org/svn/collab-qa/rc-buggy-leaf-packages http://release.debian.org/wheezy/freeze_policy.html [1] We intend to do the removal with the 10:00 UTC run of Britney of that day. --8

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