Re: A concrete proposal for rolling implementation

2011-05-04 Thread sean finney
Hiya, On Wed, May 04, 2011 at 10:25:35PM +0200, Stefano Zacchiroli wrote: > On Wed, May 04, 2011 at 02:24:12PM +0200, Josselin Mouette wrote: > > What to do during freezes > > - > > If we want to do something different though, there is a simple recipe: > > allow package

Re: glibc: causes segfault in Xorg

2011-05-05 Thread sean finney
Hi, On Wed, May 04, 2011 at 10:56:27PM -0500, Steve M. Robbins wrote: > > And furthermore, even if Debian chooses to "fix" this, upstreams will > > be forced to eventually cater to the default glibc behavior for every > > other libc distro out there that does not have their own "fix" (and > > non-

Re: A concrete proposal for rolling implementation

2011-05-09 Thread sean finney
Hi Teodor/Bruce, On Mon, May 09, 2011 at 05:48:25PM +0300, Teodor MICU wrote: > I've been disappointed at first to read that so many approve this > "rolling" implementation that in fact is just "c-u-t", constantly > usable testing [1]! Outside of the freeze period it doesn't really > matter and on

Re: bug reporting workflow is outdated

2011-05-23 Thread sean finney
On Mon, May 23, 2011 at 01:47:22AM +0200, Goswin von Brederlow wrote: > > I suggest that we can make an HTTP based bug reporting method. > > The only advantage of this would be for systems that firewall outgoing > mail conections but allow http or have a http proxy but no smarthost. and that's a

Re: Behaviour of dpkg-source with "3.0 (quilt)" and VCS and automatic patches

2011-06-01 Thread sean finney
On Wed, Jun 01, 2011 at 02:39:42PM +0200, Goswin von Brederlow wrote: > And note that as maintainer or for the VCS copy you can allways > configure debian/soruce/local-options to unapply patches if you so > desire. This is something i've been doing quite happily and I think it is a pretty decent c

Re: How to close bug #620550?

2011-08-08 Thread sean finney
gelog for reference: php5 (5.1.6-4) unstable; urgency=high [sean finney] * no longer build against GPL'd gdbm library (closes: #390452). -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscri

Re: Mistake in postrm preventing functioning of newer package (stable/testing/unstable)

2011-09-09 Thread sean finney
On Fri, Sep 09, 2011 at 11:37:41AM +0200, David Paleino wrote: > I just wanted to (try to) fix it for the biggest number of people possible. > Maybe I'll just leave stable as-is, and try the solution I described within > testing/unstable :/ Another option, as awful as it sounds, is to nuke (or sur

Re: how to handle *.ucf files in /etc/apache2/conf.d?

2011-09-16 Thread sean finney
On Fri, Sep 16, 2011 at 08:38:37AM +0200, Heiko Schlittermann wrote: > > a) having apache to ignore *.ucf* generally > b) just change in /etc/apache2/apache2.conf > include conf.d/ >into > include conf.d/*.conf >and ask all packages placing files there to

Re: load of apache module for a package

2011-09-19 Thread sean finney
hi olivier, On Mon, Sep 19, 2011 at 10:38:22AM +0200, olivier sallou wrote: > Hi, > I need some apache modules for a package. > > Should I use a2enmod in postinst script, or, is there any debhelper/deb file > way to do it? i don't know of any helper utilities for this, so you might need to do th

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