Re: [Mageia-dev] mentors + apprentices

2012-01-10 Thread Olav Vitters
On Mon, Jan 09, 2012 at 01:04:47AM -0500, andre999 wrote: We have a newly qualified packager, kamil, who is already maintaining over 160 packages. He is largely responsible for the considerabe decrease in unmaintained packages in the last few days, although many other packagers have

Re: [Mageia-dev] [packages-commits] [194095] Update to 3.7.0

2012-01-10 Thread philippe makowski
2012/1/9 Jani Välimaa jani.vali...@gmail.com: If you need to fix a typo in previous commit, use svn propedit: svn propedit --revprop -r release svn:log svn+ssh://svn.mageia.org/svn/packages thanks I didn't know that or I forgot

[Mageia-dev] Signature verification of sources

2012-01-10 Thread Buchan Milne
I think we should be in the position to be able to verify the origin of any software we provide to users. While we have cryptographic verification of the RPMS (both 'binary' and src), and we store the hashes of the sources, AFAIK we do very limited verification of any signatures provided by

Re: [Mageia-dev] [RFC] Moving various packages/codecs to tainted

2012-01-10 Thread Pascal Terjan
On Tue, Jan 10, 2012 at 03:20, Anssi Hannula an...@mageia.org wrote: The problem is that that balance was achieved by sticking packages in PLF/main/contrib semi-randomly. For example, H.264 decoders and MPEG-4 video encoders are in main/core, while e.g. AAC audio decoders are in PLF/tainted.

Re: [Mageia-dev] mentors + apprentices

2012-01-10 Thread Josh King
On 01/10/2012 04:17 AM, Olav Vitters wrote: On Mon, Jan 09, 2012 at 01:04:47AM -0500, andre999 wrote: We have a newly qualified packager, kamil, who is already maintaining over 160 packages. He is largely responsible for the considerabe decrease in unmaintained packages in the last few days,

[Mageia-dev] please stop doing bugs for updating magia 1

2012-01-10 Thread Luis Daniel Lucio Quiroz
AS i understand we are not a rolling distribution, so i dont get why i'm getting tickets to update release. What I mean, if you consider an update, like the one i did squid 3.1.12 to 3.1.15 please explain why. Otherwhise i gues it is better you cand use Mageia cauldron SRPM and do backport

Re: [Mageia-dev] please stop doing bugs for updating magia 1

2012-01-10 Thread Christian Lohmaier
Hi Luis, *, On Mon, Jan 9, 2012 at 5:47 AM, Luis Daniel Lucio Quiroz dlu...@okay.com.mx wrote: AS i understand we are not a rolling distribution, so i dont get why i'm getting tickets to update release. What I mean, if you consider an update, like the one i did squid 3.1.12 to 3.1.15 please

Re: [Mageia-dev] please stop doing bugs for updating magia 1

2012-01-10 Thread Guillaume Rousse
Le 10/01/2012 19:12, Christian Lohmaier a écrit : And using a fixed upstream release surely is preferable over adding patches manually, isn't it? No. Adding bugfix-specific patches ensure you just fix specific issues, whereas updating software version usually doesn't offer any kind of garanty

Re: [Mageia-dev] Signature verification of sources

2012-01-10 Thread Johnny A. Solbu
On Tuesday 10 January 2012 11:50, Buchan Milne wrote: I think we should be in the position to be able to verify the origin of any software we provide to users. I think this is a good initiative. Does other distros do this? Perhaps we can ask other distros to start doing the same, and thus give

Re: [Mageia-dev] Signature verification of sources

2012-01-10 Thread Dan Fandrich
On Tue, Jan 10, 2012 at 08:00:35PM +0100, Johnny A. Solbu wrote: I think this is a good initiative. Does other distros do this? Perhaps we can ask other distros to start doing the same, and thus give upstream developers a reason for signing. I believe at least some source-based distros (e.g.

[Mageia-dev] Display manager

2012-01-10 Thread Paiiou
The Provides most of the display manager shows dm. This is not the case of xdm and lxdm. Should we not add?

Re: [Mageia-dev] [RFC] Moving various packages/codecs to tainted

2012-01-10 Thread Maarten Vanraes
Op dinsdag 10 januari 2012 14:07:17 schreef Pascal Terjan: [...] I agree with pterjan on this

Re: [Mageia-dev] Signature verification of sources

2012-01-10 Thread P. Christeas
On Tuesday 10 January 2012, Buchan Milne wrote: I think we should be in the position to be able to verify the origin of any software we provide to users. ... Just a reminder: a git-based build process would implicitly cover that aspect, since the comit SHAs would be traceable back to the code

Re: [Mageia-dev] [RFC] Moving various packages/codecs to tainted

2012-01-10 Thread Michael Scherer
Le lundi 09 janvier 2012 à 21:08 -0500, David Walser a écrit : Sure, I but I think Mandriva achieved a good balance between respecting patents and not being overly paranoid. I suppose you can't blame a US company like RedHat for being overly paranoid, but as you said, Mandriva hasn't

Re: [Mageia-dev] VirtualBox grief. Upgrading from MGA1 to Cauldron keep failing

2012-01-10 Thread Florian Hubold
Am 09.01.2012 18:28, schrieb Johnny A. Solbu: I have been trying for the last 15 hours to install Cauldron by upgrading from 1. I have cloned my mga1 VirtualBox install for this purpose. I run this command: urpmi -auto --auto-select --replacefiles For some reason it keeps loosing connection

Re: [Mageia-dev] [changelog] [RPM] cauldron core/release gcompris-12.01-1.mga2

2012-01-10 Thread Angelo Naselli
Thanks, you know why :) -- Angelo signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part.

Re: [Mageia-dev] please stop doing bugs for updating magia 1

2012-01-10 Thread Luis Daniel Lucio Quiroz
Le mardi 10 janvier 2012 19:12:29 Christian Lohmaier a écrit : Hi Luis, *, On Mon, Jan 9, 2012 at 5:47 AM, Luis Daniel Lucio Quiroz dlu...@okay.com.mx wrote: AS i understand we are not a rolling distribution, so i dont get why i'm getting tickets to update release. What I mean,

Re: [Mageia-dev] please stop doing bugs for updating magia 1

2012-01-10 Thread Johnny A. Solbu
On Wednesday 11 January 2012 03:28, Luis Daniel Lucio Quiroz wrote: I mean, stop asking updates for mageia 1 just because there is another newversion. May I suggest that next time, say it in so many words. Some of us are not good at reading between the lines, and your original post was

Re: [Mageia-dev] [changelog] [RPM] cauldron core/release gcompris-12.01-1.mga2

2012-01-10 Thread Jose Jorge
Le 10/01/2012 23:03, Angelo Naselli a écrit : Thanks, you know why :) Hé hé, this time Bruno was really fast!

[Mageia-dev] Fosdem 2012 - Mageia stand

2012-01-10 Thread Oliver Burger
Hi there, as you might already know from previous mails or from the blog post published yesterday, Mageia is (again) attending Fosdem this year. http://blog.mageia.org/en/2012/01/10/happy-new-mageia-year/ Aside from participating in some discussion sessions and a talk done by misc, we are also

Re: [Mageia-dev] please stop doing bugs for updating magia 1

2012-01-10 Thread Buchan Milne
On Wednesday, 11 January 2012 06:32:50 Johnny A. Solbu wrote: On Wednesday 11 January 2012 03:28, Luis Daniel Lucio Quiroz wrote: I mean, stop asking updates for mageia 1 just because there is another newversion. May I suggest that next time, say it in so many words. Some of us are not