Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: RFC: changing the developer profile: FEATURES="test" -> FEATURES="test-fail-continue"

2010-06-07 Thread Thilo Bangert
you make valid points regarding the overall improvement of the handling of test suites. I am not opposed to something like that being done... it still seems like there is agreement around the fact that something needs to be done about src_test. currently you cant run a system which generally en

Re: [gentoo-dev] RFC: Moving more developer data to LDAP, for scalability/redundancy (away, foward, permissive, SMTP password, plan) [WAS: Suggestion to ask devs to change their bugzilla name]

2010-06-11 Thread Thilo Bangert
> This thread belongs to gentoo-project. perhaps its time to reduce the number of mailinglists again. IMHO it doesnt hurt to have this thread on gentoo-dev and the volume of messages and their tone here has been sufficiently normal to again allow for more subjects. just my 2 cents kind regards

Re: [gentoo-dev] Suggestion related with dropping keywords policy

2010-06-11 Thread Thilo Bangert
Pacho Ramos said: > Hello > > Let my explain the problem and my suggestion to handle it better (at > least from my point of view) with an example: > > Sometime ago I bumped bluez version from 4.39-r2 to 4.60, with that > bump, a new and *optional* RDEPEND on sys-libs/libcap-ng was added. > Since

Re: [gentoo-dev] Adding AdobeFlash-10{,.1} licenses to EULA group

2010-06-23 Thread Thilo Bangert
Domen Kožar said: > This should probably be updated: > > http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/gentoo-amd64-faq.xml#flash Thanks for noticing this. Everybodies input makes Gentoo a great place to be! Now, if you want that extra chocolate chip cookie, please head over to https://bugs.gentoo.org and rep

Re: [gentoo-dev] Policy for late/slow stabilizations

2010-06-28 Thread Thilo Bangert
Markos Chandras said: > On Sun, Jun 27, 2010 at 08:15:32PM +0200, Auke Booij wrote: > > On Sun, Jun 27, 2010 at 7:16 PM, Markos Chandras wrote: > > > What? I am talking about exotic arches and I didn't say to drop to > > > entire stable tree. Just to shrink it in order to keep it up to > > > dat

[gentoo-dev] Re: [gentoo-dev-announce] Security stabilisations

2010-07-17 Thread Thilo Bangert
Christian Faulhammer said: > Hi, > > please avoid having stabilisation requests > like http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=327877, blocking a > security bug. That way, architecture teams may not see the severity > directly and it slips, leaving users with vulnerable versions longer > than nee

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Add --hash-style=gnu to LDFLAGS

2010-08-11 Thread Thilo Bangert
Markos Chandras said: > On Tue, Aug 10, 2010 at 06:31:52PM -0400, Mike Frysinger wrote: > > On Tue, Aug 10, 2010 at 5:53 PM, Markos Chandras wrote: > > >> It seems like few of our fellow developers don't know how to track > > >> down > > >> packages that don't respect LDFLAGS. Adding -Wl,--hash-st

Re: [gentoo-dev] RFC: Reviving GLEP33

2010-08-12 Thread Thilo Bangert
Ben de Groot said: > On 7 August 2010 02:18, Brian Harring wrote: > > The thing you're ignoring out of this g55 idiocy is that people don't > > particularly seem to want it. There has been an extremely vocal > > subgroup of paludis/exherbo devs pushing for it while everyone else > > seems to hav

Re: [gentoo-dev] status of releng project

2010-08-12 Thread Thilo Bangert
Ben de Groot said: > On 9 August 2010 14:29, Mike Frysinger wrote: > > sure would be nice if someone picked up the installer again ... > > No, it wouldn't. Best leave that dead and buried. Could you explain why you think so? > > Cheers, > Ben signature.asc Description: This is a digitally

Re: [gentoo-dev] status of releng project

2010-08-12 Thread Thilo Bangert
> 1) I assume most people who are crazy enough to 'install gentoo on > thousands of machines' use some kind of image based installation > process and not a color-by-numbers install vis-a-vis the handbook? > Has anyone written a Gentoo installer that is not image based? > 1.5) There is a hidden ass

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: [gentoo-commits] gentoo-x86 commit in media-libs/mlt: ChangeLog mlt-0.5.4-r1.ebuild

2010-08-14 Thread Thilo Bangert
Richard Freeman said: > On 08/14/2010 10:29 AM, Markos Chandras wrote: > > So do I. Fixing your package and you don't even bother to send a > > *ready to go* patch upstream seems like a bit rude to me as well. > > Perhaps, we do have a complete different point of view in this one. > > Recent examp

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: [gentoo-commits] gentoo-x86 commit in media-libs/mlt: ChangeLog mlt-0.5.4-r1.ebuild

2010-08-14 Thread Thilo Bangert
> So you want me to force everyone to update the package just to respect > the LDFLAGS. yes. IIRC it has been stated on this list before, that a change which changes the resulting binary always needs to be done in a revbump. > Why, since until recently, nobody gave a crap about this > kind of Q

Re: [gentoo-dev] Treecleaner Project: Maintainer-needed page

2010-08-20 Thread Thilo Bangert
Markos Chandras said: > Hi > > The Treecleaners project introduced ( over a month ) and new page[1] to > track maintainer-needed packages. This page is automatically > generated. You can make use of this page to track packages that needs > your love instead of searching bugzilla or grep the entir

Re: [gentoo-dev] Treecleaner Project: Maintainer-needed page

2010-08-20 Thread Thilo Bangert
> > The script is running daily at 4:15 AM (UTC) I think but it only > updates the page when needed. > Using pquery it finds all the maintainer-needed packages. Then it > compares this list to the yesterdays' one and decides if an update to > the page is necessary or not perhaps you can add a ti

[gentoo-dev] Wiki(es) for Gentoo ?!

2010-08-20 Thread Thilo Bangert
Dear all, can somebody summarize what the status is for one or more wikies for gentoo - its users and/or its developers or whatever. I can see this: http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/wiki/ and this: http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=75855 I'd like to know what and where someone interested in

Re: [gentoo-dev] Gentoo calendar for tracking Gentoo events

2010-08-20 Thread Thilo Bangert
Mike Frysinger said: > the front page of http://gentoo.org/ now links to a Google Calendar > (see side bar). this has been around for a while, but it seems it's > been more of an "underground" thing, so it's time to raise its > awareness. > > like other aspects of Gentoo, all Gentoo developers h

Re: [gentoo-dev] Gentoo calendar for tracking Gentoo events

2010-08-20 Thread Thilo Bangert
> > > > has somebody found a way to access the gentoo calendar at google via > > anonymous caldav or a plain ics read only url? i'd like to add the > > gentoo calendar to my favorite calendaring software. > > the link from the Gentoo page shows you the Google calendar ID: > 88di0t0pl2cfau7oak48r

Re: [gentoo-dev] Wiki(es) for Gentoo ?!

2010-08-20 Thread Thilo Bangert
Alex Legler said: > On Fri, 20 Aug 2010 23:01:42 +0200, Thilo Bangert > > wrote: > > Dear all, > > > > can somebody summarize what the status is for one or more wikies for > > gentoo - its users and/or its developers or whatever. > > > > I can see

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: The future of sys-apps/openrc in Gentoo

2010-08-24 Thread Thilo Bangert
> Or you just let a shell handle it. Does most of the things > automatically, has a pretty low memory and startup overhead, and it > tends to be quite human-readable. > > ... why would I want to remove a > stable the biggest complaint about openrc is that its not in stable - go figure. > , eff

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: The future of sys-apps/openrc in Gentoo

2010-08-24 Thread Thilo Bangert
Mike Frysinger said: > On Tuesday, August 24, 2010 08:57:45 Thilo Bangert wrote: > > > , efficient, known-good solution > > > that does what you'd expect it to do and replace it with a new > > > thingy that doesn't provide all the features, is harder to deb

Re: [gentoo-dev] QA last rites for net-misc/omnievents

2010-08-31 Thread Thilo Bangert
Alec Warner said: > On Mon, Aug 30, 2010 at 1:18 PM, Diego E. Pettenò wrote: > > # Diego E. Pettenņ (30 Aug 2010) > > # on behalf of QA team > > # > > # Initial import in 2005 and never bumped; no users in tree; > > What does 'no users in tree' mean? No revdeps? I read this as: nothing in t

Re: [gentoo-dev] CUPS 1.4 and FFMpeg 0.6

2010-09-09 Thread Thilo Bangert
Christian Faulhammer said: > Hi, > > a security stabilisation for Chromium [1] wants Cups 1.4 stable. My > test requests on Planet Gentoo and via identi.ca revealed no real > blockers, although people report that they needed to readd their > printers in order to work. Does anybody here know an

Re: [gentoo-dev] Last rites: dev-php5/ZendOptimizer

2011-03-03 Thread Thilo Bangert
On Thursday 03 March 2011 22:26:38 Ole Markus With wrote: > # Ole Markus With (03 Mar 2011) > # Masked 30 days for removal. > # Fetch restrictions. Does not work with >=dev-lang/php-5.3 > dev-php5/ZendOptimizer i dont run ZendOptimizer currently, but i have used it in the past to run commercial

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