Re: Debian v2.1 (Slink) Deep Freeze

1999-01-21 Thread Wichert Akkerman
Previously Steve Dunham wrote: Brian White [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: pilot-link31806 pilot-link: Can't build from source This bug was filed against the 0.9.0 package and the 0.8.11 package is installed in slink. Thanks, I'll add it to my exclusion list tomorrow when I wake up.

Re: Debian v2.1 (Slink) Deep Freeze

1999-01-21 Thread Michael Shields
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], Brian White [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: ivtools 31966 Post Inst error I sent in a patch for this; it's a trivial fix. -- Shields.

Re: Debian v2.1 (Slink) Deep Freeze

1999-01-20 Thread Brian White
After considerable delay, Slink is almost ready for release. As such, it will go into the deep freeze on Wednesday, January 20th. New uploads will be _greatly_ restricted. Also, the following packages will be removed because of release-critical bugs still open against them: Unless

Re: Debian v2.1 (Slink) Deep Freeze

1999-01-20 Thread Brian White
Debian v2.1 (Slink) Deep Freeze After considerable delay, Slink is almost ready for release. As such, it will go into the deep freeze on Wednesday, January 20th. Brian, will you please consider to do a ftp.debian.org bug hunting *before* doing any deep freeze

Re: Debian v2.1 (Slink) Deep Freeze

1999-01-20 Thread Brian White
dpkg 17624 dpkg: installs regular dir when .deb contains symlink ! 21182 dpkg: dpkg can go into an infinite loop with --force-configure-any 28519 dpkg: dpkg creates circular symlinks 28817 dpkg takes no care over

Re: Debian v2.1 (Slink) Deep Freeze

1999-01-20 Thread Martin Schulze
Brian White wrote: nonus.debian.org 21423 Dpkg-ftp can't handle alternative distributions This is important?? I don't know what this bug is referring to, but there is a new dpkg-ftp which can handle multiple servers. I wrote a dpkg-multiftp method for the same reasn, the new dpkg-ftp

Re: Debian v2.1 (Slink) Deep Freeze

1999-01-20 Thread Paul Slootman
On Tue 19 Jan 1999, Branden Robinson wrote: XFree86 3.3.2.3a-8pre9v4 is available at http://master.debian.org/~branden/xfree86/ . This doesn't seem to have the patches CRITICAL to the alpha port yet! I sent you a note around 7th January about this, saying where you could find the patches I

Re: Debian v2.1 (Slink) Deep Freeze

1999-01-20 Thread Santiago Vila
On 19 Jan 1999, James Troup wrote: [...] We regularly do and have been clearing out release critical bugs against ftp.debian.org ever since the freeze. [The exceptions being certain ``release critical'' bugs filed by Santiago, [...] Please do not confuse release critical with severity:

Re: Debian v2.1 (Slink) Deep Freeze

1999-01-20 Thread Steve Dunham
Brian White [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: pilot-link31806 pilot-link: Can't build from source This bug was filed against the 0.9.0 package and the 0.8.11 package is installed in slink. Steve [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Debian v2.1 (Slink) Deep Freeze

1999-01-19 Thread Brian White
Debian v2.1 (Slink) Deep Freeze After considerable delay, Slink is almost ready for release. As such, it will go into the deep freeze on Wednesday, January 20th. New uploads will be _greatly_ restricted. Also, the following packages will be removed because of release

Re: Debian v2.1 (Slink) Deep Freeze

1999-01-19 Thread Santiago Vila
On Tue, 19 Jan 1999, Brian White wrote: Debian v2.1 (Slink) Deep Freeze After considerable delay, Slink is almost ready for release. As such, it will go into the deep freeze on Wednesday, January 20th. Brian, will you please consider to do a ftp.debian.org bug hunting

Re: Debian v2.1 (Slink) Deep Freeze

1999-01-19 Thread Wichert Akkerman
Previously Brian White wrote: After considerable delay, Slink is almost ready for release. As such, it will go into the deep freeze on Wednesday, January 20th. New uploads will be _greatly_ restricted. Also, the following packages will be removed because of release-critical bugs still open

Re: Debian v2.1 (Slink) Deep Freeze

1999-01-19 Thread Brandon Mitchell
On Tue, 19 Jan 1999, Wichert Akkerman wrote: xbase 30852 X packages do not upgrade automatically due to name change. xdm 29360 xdm: Stopped X without warning/asking xlib6 31610 xlib6: requires gcc but declares no dependency (dpkg

Re: Debian v2.1 (Slink) Deep Freeze

1999-01-19 Thread Jason Gunthorpe
On Tue, 19 Jan 1999, Brian White wrote: dpkg 17624 dpkg: installs regular dir when .deb contains symlink ! 21182 dpkg: dpkg can go into an infinite loop with --force-configure-any 28519 dpkg: dpkg creates circular symlinks

Re: Debian v2.1 (Slink) Deep Freeze

1999-01-19 Thread Santiago Vila
On Tue, 19 Jan 1999, Brandon Mitchell wrote: On Tue, 19 Jan 1999, Wichert Akkerman wrote: Branden has a release candidate for X ready somewhere, and I urge everyone to test that! The site is: http://master.debian.org/~branden/xfree86/ Mmm, what about the needed compatibility packages?

Re: Debian v2.1 (Slink) Deep Freeze

1999-01-19 Thread Brandon Mitchell
On Tue, 19 Jan 1999, Santiago Vila wrote: On Tue, 19 Jan 1999, Brandon Mitchell wrote: On Tue, 19 Jan 1999, Wichert Akkerman wrote: Branden has a release candidate for X ready somewhere, and I urge everyone to test that! The site is: http://master.debian.org/~branden/xfree86/

Re: Debian v2.1 (Slink) Deep Freeze

1999-01-19 Thread Raphael Hertzog
Le Tue, Jan 19, 1999 at 11:15:39AM -0700, Jason Gunthorpe écrivait: Is anyone actually working on these? Should they really hold up the release? Wichert said, he will have a look. nonus.debian.org 21423 Dpkg-ftp can't handle alternative distributions This is important?? This bug is not

Re: Debian v2.1 (Slink) Deep Freeze

1999-01-19 Thread Santiago Vila
On Tue, 19 Jan 1999, Brandon Mitchell wrote: On Tue, 19 Jan 1999, Santiago Vila wrote: Mmm, what about the needed compatibility packages? Will you have some time for this? I think it is absolutely essential for the success of Debian 2.1 that nobody will automagically lose

Re: Debian v2.1 (Slink) Deep Freeze

1999-01-19 Thread Christopher C. Chimelis
Jason Gunthorpe wrote: wu-ftpd-academ30931 wu-ftpd-academ: Can't build from source! I have compiled wu-ftpd-academ from source on saens at least 10 times, I did not get the problems described in the bug. The problem seemed to be Alpha-related. I tried unsuccessfully to port the

Re: Debian v2.1 (Slink) Deep Freeze

1999-01-19 Thread Rob Tillotson
Brian White [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: pilot-link31806 pilot-link: Can't build from source I just tried rebuilding pilot-link, after making the changes in debian/rules suggested in the BTS entry (changing all egcc to gcc), and could not reproduce the bug. I've never dealt with a bug in

Re: Debian v2.1 (Slink) Deep Freeze

1999-01-19 Thread Jules Bean
On Tue, 19 Jan 1999, Santiago Vila wrote: On Tue, 19 Jan 1999, Brandon Mitchell wrote: On Tue, 19 Jan 1999, Santiago Vila wrote: Mmm, what about the needed compatibility packages? Will you have some time for this? I think it is absolutely essential for the success of Debian

Re: Debian v2.1 (Slink) Deep Freeze

1999-01-19 Thread Raphael Hertzog
Le Tue, Jan 19, 1999 at 08:04:32AM -0500, Brian White écrivait: fileutils 30184 fileutils: chown broken on symlinks This bug is for potato only. You should consider using Wichert's list of release critical bug... Cheers, -- Raphaël Hertzog 0C4CABF1

Re: Debian v2.1 (Slink) Deep Freeze

1999-01-19 Thread Santiago Vila
On Tue, 19 Jan 1999, Jules Bean wrote: On Tue, 19 Jan 1999, Santiago Vila wrote: [ ... ] Please, remember that we need also pseudopackages xfnt100, xfnt75, etc. Otherwise dselect will not select the new ones in favour of the old ones unless the user had some package which

Re: Debian v2.1 (Slink) Deep Freeze

1999-01-19 Thread Jules Bean
On Tue, 19 Jan 1999, Santiago Vila wrote: Surely not? Surely the Replace/Provide/Conflict combination will make dselect pick the new ones? I'm sorry but I'm afraid this is not the case. I hate to say this, but please read the packaging manual and/or the policy manual. I think you

Re: Debian v2.1 (Slink) Deep Freeze

1999-01-19 Thread Marcus Brinkmann
On Tue, Jan 19, 1999 at 02:54:58PM +0100, Wichert Akkerman wrote: dpkg-dev 25537 dpkg-dev: dpkg-genchanges does not allow quot;-quot; in the architecture This is important for the Hurd only, and should be in Wicherts exception list. It is irrelevant for the slink release. Worst

Re: Debian v2.1 (Slink) Deep Freeze

1999-01-19 Thread Christopher C. Chimelis
Rob Tillotson wrote: I just tried rebuilding pilot-link, after making the changes in debian/rules suggested in the BTS entry (changing all egcc to gcc), and could not reproduce the bug. The bug is really for potato and is Alpha-based (again). I'll look into this one now as well. It

Re: Debian v2.1 (Slink) Deep Freeze

1999-01-19 Thread Ben Collins
On Tue, Jan 19, 1999 at 02:54:58PM +0100, Wichert Akkerman wrote: ftp.debian.org14898 courtney has problematic license 31282 upgrade-1386 directory in Incoming 31578 cfengine needs to be in frozen cfengine has been reuploaded for slink; this bug

Re: Debian v2.1 (Slink) Deep Freeze

1999-01-19 Thread James Troup
Santiago Vila [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Could somebody explain me, why, oh why, do we have to wait more than two months for trivial ftp.debian.org bugs to be fixed? Perhaps because the more you whine about it the more prone we are to ignore you? -- James

Re: Debian v2.1 (Slink) Deep Freeze

1999-01-19 Thread Christopher C. Chimelis
Rob Tillotson wrote: I just tried rebuilding pilot-link, after making the changes in debian/rules suggested in the BTS entry (changing all egcc to gcc), and could not reproduce the bug. Ok...I fixed this one and am uploading it shortly (NMU binary with patches going to BTS). The rules file

Re: Debian v2.1 (Slink) Deep Freeze

1999-01-19 Thread Branden Robinson
On Tue, Jan 19, 1999 at 08:04:32AM -0500, Brian White wrote: Comments apply to the forthcoming -9 release. Also, the following packages will hold up the final release because of release- critical bugs against them. [...] xbase 30852 X packages do not upgrade automatically due to

Re: Debian v2.1 (Slink) Deep Freeze

1999-01-19 Thread Jules Bean
On 19 Jan 1999, James Troup wrote: Santiago Vila [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Could somebody explain me, why, oh why, do we have to wait more than two months for trivial ftp.debian.org bugs to be fixed? Perhaps because the more you whine about it the more prone we are to ignore you?

Re: Debian v2.1 (Slink) Deep Freeze

1999-01-19 Thread James Troup
Jules Bean [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Bugs against ftp.debian.org are often important - these ones are holding up slink's release (granted, they're not the only things holding it up). No, it's not these ones. Santiago is whining (again) about other bugs. The release critical bugs for

Re: Debian v2.1 (Slink) Deep Freeze

1999-01-19 Thread Wichert Akkerman
Previously Marcus Brinkmann wrote: This is important for the Hurd only, and should be in Wicherts exception list. Thanks, I'll add it. Wichert. -- == This combination of bytes forms a message written to you by

Re: Debian v2.1 (Slink) Deep Freeze

1999-01-19 Thread Wichert Akkerman
Previously Raphael Hertzog wrote: Wichert said, he will have a look. I did, and just uploaded a new NMU (Vincent, I moved your NMU to dpkg-old-NMU in Incoming so I didn't get a conflict with the installation manuals). I'll add the changelog for your viewing pleasure. Wichert. dpkg (1.4.0.33)