Re: udev and /usr

2009-09-05 Thread Philipp Kern
if initramfs also supports it but I would rather doubt it can build an initramfs with nfs support on its own. See /usr/share/initramfs-tools/scripts/nfs. (If I understood your concerns correctly; I'm doing NFS root with an initrd created by initramfs just fine.) Kind regards, Philipp Kern

Packages-arch-specific maintainance changes

2008-12-06 Thread Philipp Kern
was also communicated with two known downstream users of the file: Ubuntu and debian-ports. Should there be more, it would be nice if a contact could be established with the above mentioned mail address. Kind regards, Philipp Kern on behalf of wbadm [0] http://buildd.debian.org/quinn-diff

Re: Bits from the buildd.debian.org world

2008-12-06 Thread Philipp Kern
some time, though. Kind regards, Philipp Kern -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: About the current state of the Yum package in Lenny

2009-02-15 Thread Philipp Kern
packages. Thanks in advance, Philipp Kern -- .''`. Philipp KernDebian Developer : :' : http://philkern.de Release Assistant `. `' xmpp:p...@0x539.de Stable Release Manager `-finger pkern/k...@db.debian.org

Re: About the current state of the Yum package in Lenny

2009-02-15 Thread Philipp Kern
On Mon, Feb 16, 2009 at 02:35:20AM +0800, Thomas Goirand wrote: Philipp Kern wrote: I'm curious why python-pyme is not sufficient. It's simply a MISTAKE that has been done by the last maintainer of yum, python-pyme is NOT the correct python package, python-gpgme is the right one. python-pyme

Re: -dbg packages; are they actually useful?

2009-03-04 Thread Philipp Kern
in Launchpad pretty helpful as you get meaningful stack traces without user intervention. On the other hand integrating that is an even bigger beast. Kind regards, Philipp Kern [*] The real count currently looks more like 5G/release/arch, but this might not be full coverage due to hickups

Re: Bug#460323: ITP: unreal-assistant -- Unreal Tournament packaging helper

2008-01-13 Thread Philipp Kern
kernels, constant sound chokes and other problems. Kind regards, Philipp Kern -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Bug#608008: bugs.debian.org: Release-critical bugs status pages show incorrect results

2010-12-26 Thread Philipp Kern
, there are several release-critical bugs that are not mentioned in that page at all, to include several critical bugs. You do realize that they are still marked as found in stable, given that you explictly requested all bugs to be shown? Please check the captions on such pages. Thanks Philipp Kern

Re: using perl in preinst script

2010-12-27 Thread Philipp Kern
by contributors. That's also the place where such status changes /:x updates are published. Kind regards Philipp Kern -- 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

Re: using perl in preinst script

2010-12-27 Thread Philipp Kern
-announce has press releases, which aren't as essential to the developers. But if you wonder about $release getting released, then you should subscribe to it, too. They aren't copied to d-d-a. Kind regards Philipp Kern -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject

Re: using perl in preinst script

2010-12-28 Thread Philipp Kern
scripts.) Kind regards Philipp Kern -- 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/slrnihlibe.9bj.tr...@kelgar.0x539.de

Re: using perl in preinst script

2010-12-30 Thread Philipp Kern
On 2010-12-30, Peter Samuelson pe...@p12n.org wrote: On 2010-12-28, Carsten Hey cars...@debian.org wrote: system. The remaining perl library packages could be removed after installing debconf-english. [Philipp Kern] You don't care about non-native speakers? SCNR. That's not how I read

Re: squeeze will have googleearth-package

2011-01-07 Thread Philipp Kern
. And no, you shouldn't go whining about your pet package on -devel to get it included. Thanks Philipp Kern -- 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/slrniiegd1.hgh.tr

Re: squeeze will have googleearth-package

2011-01-07 Thread Philipp Kern
On 2011-01-07, Ben Hutchings b...@decadent.org.uk wrote: On Fri, Jan 07, 2011 at 04:38:57PM +, Philipp Kern wrote: On 2011-01-07, Holger Levsen hol...@layer-acht.org wrote: squeeze will have googleearth-package, it was unblocked yesterday. It won't have a googleearth package, though

Re: squeeze will have googleearth-package

2011-01-07 Thread Philipp Kern
of the initial mail to -devel neither, given that the bug was still open and thus sort of unhandled by us. And next somebody will say CUT would have googleearth-package. That'd be fun. Kind regards Philipp Kern -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject

Re: binNMU for Arch: all packages.

2011-01-15 Thread Philipp Kern
sourceful uploading is the way to go, however, it's frown upon because those are in fact NMUs for packages you don't own. For Haskell that shouldn't be a problem, for others we might like to carve out a policy. Kind regards Philipp Kern -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ

Re: binNMU for Arch: all packages.

2011-01-15 Thread Philipp Kern
package, if he wants to shoot hisself in the foot. It doesn't prevents binNMUs of arch:any packages. You do realize that it's common to do the source:Version dependency stuff in arch:all packages, right? That kind of polemics you just raised doesn't seem helpful to me. Kind regards Philipp Kern

Re: packages with hook interfaces and no documented hook policy

2011-01-17 Thread Philipp Kern
gave there's also [1].) Kind regards Philipp Kern [1] https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/linux/+bug/191514/comments/13 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http

Re: packages with hook interfaces and no documented hook policy

2011-01-17 Thread Philipp Kern
(available in | System/Administration), which has a simple radiobutton in the UI | for enabling unattended upgrades. | | If you would prefer to enable it from the command line, run | sudo dpkg-reconfigure -plow unattended-upgrades. Kind regards Philipp Kern -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ

Re: Upstream stable branches and Debian freeze

2011-02-01 Thread Philipp Kern
, and it depends on how we're convinced of the QA of maintainers and the quality of upstream releases. PostgreSQL did that[3]. For others we'll act on a case-by-case basis.) Kind regards Philipp Kern [1] Ubuntu does it a tad differently. On normal releases their release suite isn't updated. Instead

Re: Misc Developer News (#24)

2011-02-02 Thread Philipp Kern
start linking to the wiki, take the right page: http://wiki.debian.org/ReleaseTimetable And yeah, those pages are usually only updated at release time. That's not necessarily a bad thing, really. Kind regards Philipp Kern -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org

Re: Upcoming FTPMaster meeting

2011-02-03 Thread Philipp Kern
. (But then you're of course still bloating one Package file per arch and there's no compression to help here.) Kind regards Philipp Kern -- 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

Re: Upcoming FTPMaster meeting

2011-02-12 Thread Philipp Kern
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Re: Branching changelogs or not (Was: debian/changelogs, legacy work on packages and other distros)

2011-02-13 Thread Philipp Kern
, which amounts to the branching bit Julien said. I can not tell what argument is better but in any case we should iron out an advise in best packaging practice document to avoid some friction in the release process. I never saw your style before, TBH. Kind regards Philipp Kern

Re: Sourceful uploads [Re: Upcoming FTPMaster meeting]

2011-02-13 Thread Philipp Kern
for source-only uploads. If somebody abuses them, they could be dealt with separately. Kind regards Philipp Kern -- 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

Re: Sourceful uploads [Re: Upcoming FTPMaster meeting]

2011-02-14 Thread Philipp Kern
On 2011-02-13, Tollef Fog Heen tfh...@err.no wrote: ]] Philipp Kern | Actually those build failures are nowadays sent to the PTS for further | distribution (the buildd keyword). I don't know how many are subscribed | to those notifications, though. (After all, they're not automatically | sent

Re: Sourceful uploads [Re: Upcoming FTPMaster meeting]

2011-02-14 Thread Philipp Kern
On 2011-02-13, Felipe Sateler fsate...@debian.org wrote: AFAIK, that service also mails when the build was successful, leading to a lot of noise. Eh no, it never did. Kind regards Philipp Kern -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe

Re: Sourceful uploads [Re: Upcoming FTPMaster meeting]

2011-02-14 Thread Philipp Kern
On 2011-02-14, Raphael Geissert geiss...@debian.org wrote: Philipp Kern wrote: Actually those build failures are nowadays sent to the PTS for further distribution (the buildd keyword). I don't know how many are subscribed to those notifications, though. (After all, they're not automatically

Re: OT: Python (was: Make Unicode bugs release critical?)

2011-02-14 Thread Philipp Kern
a bytestream. And the thread was about the problems that can arise of this. Kind regards Philipp Kern -- 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/slrnilidf3.11r.tr...@kelgar

Re: Upcoming FTPMaster meeting

2011-02-14 Thread Philipp Kern
arch:all on each of them. Multiarch would result in the usual set of arch:any binaries. But then so far multiarch didn't happen... ): Kind regards Philipp Kern -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org

Re: Upcoming FTPMaster meeting

2011-02-14 Thread Philipp Kern
for apt. Kind regards Philipp Kern -- 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/slrnilk6g7.2i6.tr...@kelgar.0x539.de

Re: Upcoming FTPMaster meeting

2011-02-14 Thread Philipp Kern
with the chroot apt and dpkg I guess, to speed this up. Kind regards Philipp Kern [*] It's also a bit of cheating if we allow such updates into stable. Why didn't we add other compression formats and other source formats to dpkg in stable then; we did claim that you need to wait a cycle for them

Re: Bug#613788: ITP: dropbox -- secure backup, sync and sharing util

2011-02-17 Thread Philipp Kern
, sync and sharing util You should consider http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=610300 first. Kind regards Philipp Kern -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http

Re: Release file changes

2011-02-21 Thread Philipp Kern
at point release time. (Lucky enough they cannot be changed without invalidating the signatures.) Kind regards Philipp Kern -- 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

Re: Release file changes

2011-02-21 Thread Philipp Kern
and then not fixing it up? And no, just telling people to update their tools in stable is not the way to go here. Kind regards Philipp Kern -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http

Re: [buildd-tools-devel] re buildd's resolver and package's build deps

2011-02-23 Thread Philipp Kern
for other suites e.g. backports. This will disable the stripping. I find this acceptable[0]. Thanks for driving this. Kind regards Philipp Kern [0] I didn't agree with the earlier suggestion of telling people to stop the use of alternatives instead of using predictable behaviour

Re: Release file changes

2011-02-23 Thread Philipp Kern
urgent it should've gone into squeeze. Furthermore it's about Release files which aren't that large anyway. Kind regards Philipp Kern -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http

Re: [buildd-tools-devel] re buildd's resolver and package's build deps

2011-02-23 Thread Philipp Kern
. (The backwards compatible way would be, for buildd, resolve-alternatives=true for resolver=aptitude and false and resolver=apt for the case where none's specified, i.e. previously internal.) Kind regards Philipp Kern signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: Aren't there any checks in place to prevent a package from becoming uninstallable?

2011-02-27 Thread Philipp Kern
-masters not to remove them when there are still quite a bunch of reverse dependencies. Given that NBS removals should show the rdeps too, it'd only be a policy decision. Kind regards Philipp Kern -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe

Re: building crafty (non-free) automagically

2011-03-01 Thread Philipp Kern
contact address (albeit it talks about the (web) pages only, I think that should be fixed). Ciao Philipp Kern [*] But I guess it's still linked from several places. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas

Re: Disable ZeroConf: how to ?

2011-03-02 Thread Philipp Kern
when you install more packages with recommends turned on. (I think equivs could help you there.) After all those are no depends. Kind regards Philipp Kern -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org

Re: Disable ZeroConf: how to ?

2011-03-03 Thread Philipp Kern
. Panopticlick). But then my mileage varies, as yours does, too. We don't like security by obscurity, as you might know. Kind regards Philipp Kern -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org

Re: Ruby changes for Wheezy

2011-03-04 Thread Philipp Kern
. Kind regards Philipp Kern -- 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/slrnin1glp.tkl.tr...@kelgar.0x539.de

Re: Disable ZeroConf: how to ?

2011-03-04 Thread Philipp Kern
ways. Kind regards Philipp Kern -- 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/slrnin1nhc.tt1.tr...@kelgar.0x539.de

Re: Bug#615056: ITP: wolf4sdl -- SDL-Port of Wolfenstein 3-D and Spear of Destiny

2011-03-05 Thread Philipp Kern
are interested, I'd like to maintain the package within the pkg-games team. regardless of the license it may be illegal to distribute this in Germany. Only if it ships with game content. If it's just the engine I guess it should be fine. Kind regards Philipp Kern -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email

Re: Automatic debug packages

2011-03-08 Thread Philipp Kern
also suggested back then that it should just part of the normal build process. Then DDs would upload ddebs just like the buildds would. The throw-away part isn't really connected with that. Kind regards Philipp Kern -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org

Re: cdn.debian.net as a project service?

2011-03-10 Thread Philipp Kern
to different addresses depending on your geolocalization nowadays ? security is, ftp.debian.org isn't. It's even special as it's a mirror that's synced pretty early. Kind regards Philipp Kern -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe

Re: Removal of wanna-build from sbuild

2011-03-10 Thread Philipp Kern
and there are no reports of it, well, then there aren't any. buildd packages regularly just explode with variables being unknown and similar. Kind regards Philipp Kern -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas

Re: Removal of wanna-build from sbuild

2011-03-10 Thread Philipp Kern
wb used on buildd with the one shipped in sbuild. Just let me know your preferences. The two codebases don't have much in common, given that the sbuild one was heavily refactored. Kind regards Philipp Kern -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject

Re: new scripts and patches for devscripts

2011-03-10 Thread Philipp Kern
no technical reason for it. Kind regards Philipp Kern -- 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/slrninia01.49h.tr...@kelgar.0x539.de

Re: Removal of wanna-build from sbuild

2011-03-10 Thread Philipp Kern
On 2011-03-10, Bernd Zeimetz be...@bzed.de wrote: On 03/10/2011 06:56 PM, Philipp Kern wrote: On 2011-03-10, Hector Oron hector.o...@gmail.com wrote: I was planning to start using a wanna-build instance, but i was not sure which one to use. As I have not yet started to use any of them I have

Re: Removal of wanna-build from sbuild

2011-03-11 Thread Philipp Kern
any output, AIUI. buildd configuration can be distilled out of [1]. Kind regards Philipp Kern [1] https://buildd.debian.org/docs/buildd-setup.txt -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org

Re: Removal of wanna-build from sbuild

2011-03-11 Thread Philipp Kern
://git.debian.org/?p=debian-release/release-tools.git;a=blob;f=scripts/wb;hb=HEAD Kind regards Philipp Kern -- 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/slrnink3rq.5nv.tr

Re: new Contents generator on ftp-master

2011-03-12 Thread Philipp Kern
be a release goal. Kind regards Philipp Kern -- 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/slrninn4dl.954.tr...@kelgar.0x539.de

Re: Mirror problems?

2011-03-14 Thread Philipp Kern
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Re: Mirror problems?

2011-03-15 Thread Philipp Kern
only update every one to two months. Kind regards Philipp Kern -- 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/slrninuegf.6fn.tr...@kelgar.0x539.de

Re: Cross compiler ITP (armel)

2011-03-22 Thread Philipp Kern
set. Kind regards Philipp Kern -- 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/slrnioh8hj.f4q.tr...@kelgar.0x539.de

Re: Bug#595427: wnpp: ITP: winetricks -- Quick and dirty script to download and install variousredistributable runtime libraries

2011-03-23 Thread Philipp Kern
things from outside of Debian, typically with a potentially non-DFSG license (Microsoft redistributable dlls being one of the most common). But that does not conern Debian. The winetricks itsef is LGPL and DSFG compliant. Ew, you certainly know what contrib is about, right? Kind regards Philipp

Re: Cross compiler ITP (armel)

2011-03-23 Thread Philipp Kern
being replaced from testing? It doesn't need to. All we want is compliance on the archive side so that the sources are not expired away, as long as that binary is carried in a suite. No need to involve britney at that point. Kind regards Philipp Kern -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ

Re: MBF alert: packages with very long source / .deb filenames

2011-03-25 Thread Philipp Kern
your use case above much, since any mirror seeded from files from CDs needs a further sync step. And on that Windows you get your own share of fun on an OS that's case-insensitive, I guess. Kind regards Philipp Kern -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject

Re: ddebs

2011-03-25 Thread Philipp Kern
update the library, otherwise it becomes useless. I imagine there can't be given that the binaries of our source package might not be co-installable. Is there a rationale why this was done differently from Ubuntu? Kind regards Philipp Kern -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ

Re: Meeting Minutes, FTPMaster meeting March 2011

2011-03-27 Thread Philipp Kern
is also the reason why we need binary-all after all, it's not guaranteed that we see all arch:all packages in the union of the Packages files of all architectures.) Kind regards Philipp Kern -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble

Re: Meeting Minutes, FTPMaster meeting March 2011

2011-03-28 Thread Philipp Kern
why it's more of a problem than it used to be. I'd be sad to lose you as a buildd admin. I'm not actually sure why you threaten us with it, though. Kind regards Philipp Kern signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: Meeting Minutes, FTPMaster meeting March 2011

2011-03-28 Thread Philipp Kern
onto social problems... ) Kind regards Philipp Kern -- 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/slrnip1fts.2td.tr...@kelgar.0x539.de

Re: Meeting Minutes, FTPMaster meeting March 2011

2011-03-28 Thread Philipp Kern
as the keys are following the rules the ftp-masters set for them. We'll still monitor the expiry and if you don't react quickly enough do it ourselves. Kind regards Philipp Kern [0] scripts/debian/buildd-* in http://ftp-master.debian.org/git/dak.git/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ

Re: Meeting Minutes, FTPMaster meeting March 2011

2011-03-30 Thread Philipp Kern
On Wed, Mar 30, 2011 at 11:55:39AM +0200, Bastian Blank wrote: On Mon, Mar 28, 2011 at 10:19:32PM +, Philipp Kern wrote: I talked with Joerg at the meeting and we agreed that arch-based admin keyrings aren't needed. If you feel so strongly about it, I think you should take it up

Re: expected stable-updates but got squeeze-updates

2011-03-31 Thread Philipp Kern
didn't fix it yet: pkern@franck:~/ftp/ftp/dists$ egrep -i '(codename|suite)' squeeze{,-updates}/Release squeeze/Release:Suite: stable squeeze/Release:Codename: squeeze squeeze-updates/Release:Suite: squeeze-updates squeeze-updates/Release:Codename: squeeze-updates Kind regards Philipp Kern

Re: MBF alert: packages with very long source / .deb filenames

2011-04-03 Thread Philipp Kern
completion. (And yes, that really auto-completes on a stock Squeeze install.) Kind regards Philipp Kern -- 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/slrniphjq3.as3

Re: replacement of merkel services in DDPortfolio

2011-04-05 Thread Philipp Kern
list (i.e. those activated on the machines in question). So it's probably mainly master/ravel. Kind regards Philipp Kern -- 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

Re: Back to technical discussion? Yes! (was: network-manager as default? No!)

2011-04-05 Thread Philipp Kern
On 2011-04-05, Andrew O. Shadoura bugzi...@tut.by wrote: Of course, man guessnet. Just few lines. Last time I looked guessnet was orphaned, though. Kind regards Philipp Kern -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact

Re: [Pkg-samba-maint] Default size limits for /run (/var/run) and /run/lock (/var/lock)

2011-04-12 Thread Philipp Kern
on their machines by setting a sane tmpfs size limit.) Kind regards Philipp Kern -- 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/slrniq9d38.phd.tr...@kelgar.0x539.de

Re: Default size limits for /run (/var/run) and /run/lock (/var/lock)

2011-04-13 Thread Philipp Kern
on such a machine. Kind regards Philipp Kern -- 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/slrniqbfk4.rnn.tr...@kelgar.0x539.de

Re: /usr/bin/python2 again

2011-04-13 Thread Philipp Kern
to PEP-0394 it doesn't feel like wasted time if we want to foster cross-distro compatibility. Kind regards Philipp Kern -- 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

Re: Bug#622922: ITP: apparmor -- AppArmor Mandatory Access Control system userspace tools

2011-04-16 Thread Philipp Kern
and SWIG bindings for the AppArmor libraries. Will we get it turned on in the stock kernel? Last time I looked that was refused because it eats RAM to have it available but not turned on. Kind regards Philipp Kern -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject

Re: Static libraries in development packages

2011-04-16 Thread Philipp Kern
of the problem are running because the library pages can't be shared anymore. But of course linking might make smarter decisions. Kind regards Philipp Kern -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org

Re: some suggestions towards a Debian .desktop policy [Was: Warm up discussion about desktop files]

2011-04-20 Thread Philipp Kern
a shell. The one called gnome-shell? SCNR Philipp Kern -- 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/slrniqu310.59r.tr...@kelgar.0x539.de

Re: limits for package name and version (MBF alert: ... .deb filenames)

2011-04-24 Thread Philipp Kern
than +squeeze then, so +debXY won't do.) Kind regards Philipp Kern -- 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/slrnir7uh2.3eh.tr...@kelgar.0x539.de

Re: limits for package name and version (MBF alert: ... .deb filenames)

2011-04-24 Thread Philipp Kern
of codenames post-squeeze. (OTOH it needs to be greater than +squeeze then, so +debXY won't do.) Maybe +rXY as in r for release? r s, though. ;-) Kind regards Philipp Kern -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas

Re: Crypto consolidation in debian ?

2011-04-26 Thread Philipp Kern
not exactly a Fedora feature that's proposed there, which are tracked with progress separately for each release.) Kind regards Philipp Kern -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http

Re: DM upload permissions in detail

2011-04-26 Thread Philipp Kern
upload rights? the first UID with an email address is used by dak. It can be changed manually if there is a good reason for such a change. Please file a bug report against ftp.debian.org if you need such a change. The first being the one with the newest self-sig? Kind regards Philipp Kern

Re: Bits from the Release Team - Kicking off Wheezy

2011-04-27 Thread Philipp Kern
add a *lot* more people to the relevant points in the process. (And yes, new testing would require transition hand-holding from unstable to it as usual.) Kind regards Philipp Kern -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact

Re: Bits from the Release Team - Kicking off Wheezy

2011-04-28 Thread Philipp Kern
getting the old frozen back and uploading there directly. And regarding your I'd help with transitions, we'd also need people who do the uploads to release p-u together with casing the builds for it.) Kind regards Philipp Kern -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org

Re: Bits from the Release Team - Kicking off Wheezy

2011-04-28 Thread Philipp Kern
that's constantly installable with d-i. The unofficial d-i snapshots probably help with that. I think those are efforts well spent. That said I think d-i itself should release more often, too. Kind regards Philipp Kern [0] GNOME, KDE, Ubuntu, you name it… [1] 2.30+really2.28 or epochs. And a reverse

Re: Bits from the Release Team - Kicking off Wheezy

2011-04-28 Thread Philipp Kern
which can cope with testing, of course. At least if they're wired up to at least get announcements if something's screwing up systems gravely. That channel seems to be missing, though. Kind regards Philipp Kern -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject

Re: Bits from the Release Team - Kicking off Wheezy

2011-04-30 Thread Philipp Kern
architectures yet department, I presume.) Kind regards Philipp Kern -- 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/slrnirnfn6.j3h.tr...@kelgar.0x539.de

Re: mozilla.d.n

2011-04-30 Thread Philipp Kern
with the newer version being present in that suite. So a simple pull from X won't work. Kind regards Philipp Kern -- 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/slrniror8b.kn2

Re: Bits from the Release Team - Kicking off Wheezy

2011-05-01 Thread Philipp Kern
is that those users could also easily use testing and that the effort would better be spent to fix bugs in testing more quickly. Kind regards Philipp Kern -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org

Re: Explicitely Cc bug reporters

2009-09-12 Thread Philipp Kern
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Re: Packages that download/install unsecured files

2009-09-18 Thread Philipp Kern
no precedent. (I.e. there is opposition against daily builds entering the archive without real developers signing them.) Kind regards, Philipp Kern -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org

Re: opposition against clamav-data in debian volatile (was: Packages that download/install unsecured files)

2009-09-19 Thread Philipp Kern
On 2009-09-19, Marc Haber mh+debian-de...@zugschlus.de wrote: On Fri, 18 Sep 2009 15:56:07 + (UTC), Philipp Kern tr...@philkern.de wrote: On 2009-09-18, Tom Feiner feiner@gmail.com wrote: Looks like this method works well for clamav-data and other similar packages which needs to update

Re: opposition against clamav-data in debian volatile

2009-09-21 Thread Philipp Kern
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Re: DEB_MAINTAINER_MODE: is it popular and should we document it?

2009-09-27 Thread Philipp Kern
that is later uploaded to the archive from a buildd build doesn't sound right. Maybe the build could then fail in the end through dpkg-buildpackage so that the result cannot be uploaded? Kind regards, Philipp Kern -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject

Re: Bug#550860: ITP: gnaughty -- downloader for adult content

2009-10-14 Thread Philipp Kern
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Re: binNMUs v.s. source-only uploads.

2009-10-28 Thread Philipp Kern
was only binNMUed five days ago). This does not only affect binNMUs but all builds. If a build for, say, hppa arrives on day 9, it won't get much testing. Now you can debate the amount of testing on a specialized package on hppa, though it's basically the same case. Kind regards, Philipp Kern

Re: debian/rules make -f restriction

2009-10-29 Thread Philipp Kern
wherever, feel free to do what you want. Those you (want to) upload into Debian do need to follow policy. Looks like policy is in need of changing here. Kind regards, Philipp Kern -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact

Re: Can linux-any arch and friends be used?

2009-10-29 Thread Philipp Kern
of this are not the buildds.) Kind regards, Philipp Kern -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org

Re: debian/rules make -f restriction

2009-10-29 Thread Philipp Kern
On 2009-10-29, Manoj Srivastava sriva...@debian.org wrote: On Thu, Oct 29 2009, Philipp Kern wrote: On 2009-10-29, Joerg Jaspert jo...@debian.org wrote: It is not an overridable error, and I haven't seen any reason yet to convince me to make it one. You do have some reasons, but none I have

Re: Can linux-any arch and friends be used?

2009-10-30 Thread Philipp Kern
On 2009-10-29, Goswin von Brederlow goswin-...@web.de wrote: Philipp Kern tr...@philkern.de writes: On 2009-10-29, Goswin von Brederlow goswin-...@web.de wrote: We just had a similar issue (Architecture: linux-any) on irc yesterday and the outcome was that linux-any will only work post squeeze

Re: Cross compiler ITP (armel)

2009-11-02 Thread Philipp Kern
to declare against what source package the upload was built to keep that around. Kind regards, Philipp Kern -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org

Re: Minimal kernel version raised to 2.6.27

2009-11-10 Thread Philipp Kern
with older configurations and so packages would need to provide two sets of configuration files (for a start). Uh, so the reboot to get a newer kernel before the upgrade could possibly fail due to outdated configuration files by packages which are not upgraded yet? Kind regards, Philipp Kern

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