Re: systemd-timesyncd depends on systemd?

2024-01-16 Thread Colin Watson
being loaded. It looks like > timesyncd isn't being loaded because of a dependency on systemd. What's the output of "sudo dpkg --configure -a"? (This may fix it and return success, or it may return a bunch of errors. In the latter case the output will likely be interesting.)

Re: unixodbc-dev 2.3.11 seems broken

2023-02-11 Thread Colin Watson
rsion in Ubuntu 22.10 is 2.3.11-2). Where did you get it from? The package is clearly broken, but that isn't an Ubuntu problem - perhaps you should reinstall the working version from Ubuntu. -- Colin Watson (he/him) [cjwat...@ubuntu.com] -- Ubuntu-devel-discuss

Re: Wget failures connecting to GitHub on Ubuntu 20

2021-09-18 Thread Colin Watson
gt; $ wget -O main.cxx > https://raw.githubusercontent.com/austin-clifton/cryptopp-chacha-asm-test/main/src/main.cpp This works fine for me on 20.04; perhaps the relevant DigiCert CA is disabled on your system. Try "sudo dpkg-reconfigure ca-certificates" and make s

Re: SBCL : building : Makefile : where to find?

2021-07-15 Thread Colin Watson
d look in debian/rules. (dpkg-buildpackage calls debian/rules with various arguments to build binary packages from a source package.) -- Colin Watson (he/him) [cjwat...@ubuntu.com] -- Ubuntu-devel-discuss mailing list Ubuntu-devel-discuss@lists.ubuntu.com Modify s

Re: Quick Question

2021-06-27 Thread Colin Watson
iewer specifically asks for them, and they wouldn't be used anyway, although of course you should have test-built your fix and confirmed that it actually works. -- Colin Watson (he/him) [cjwat...@ubuntu.com] -- Ubuntu-devel-discuss mailing list Ubuntu-devel-discus

Re: dbgsym missing for focal-updates

2021-03-30 Thread Colin Watson
ease file a bug on https://bugs.launchpad.net/ddeb-retriever/+filebug to remind us to look into it? -- Colin Watson (he/him) [cjwat...@ubuntu.com] -- Ubuntu-devel-discuss mailing list Ubuntu-devel-discuss@lists.ubuntu.com Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-devel-discuss

Re: Found in https://packages.ubuntu.com/focal/i386/libasound2-dev/download

2021-03-28 Thread Colin Watson
ch as apt that will deal with resolving dependencies and fetching the correct version of the package for you. -- Colin Watson (he/him) [cjwat...@ubuntu.com] -- Ubuntu-devel-discuss mailing list Ubuntu-devel-discuss@lists.ubuntu.com Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-devel-discuss

Re: Create a binary Debian package

2021-01-25 Thread Colin Watson
esn't matter for the purposes of my reply. > > On Jan 25, 2021, at 6:51 AM, Colin Watson wrote: > > On Sun, Jan 24, 2021 at 11:21:01PM -0800, Alex Chen wrote: > >> I am trying to create a Debian package, i.e. a .deb file, that can > >> install software in Ubuntu. I

Re: Create a binary Debian package

2021-01-25 Thread Colin Watson
u give it (note that the "./" is important so that apt knows that you're talking about a file name rather than a package name): sudo apt install ./test-package_1.0.0_amd64.deb -- Colin Watson (he/him) [cjwat...@ubuntu.com] -- Ubuntu-devel-discuss mail

Re: Cfengine package

2020-10-06 Thread Colin Watson
nmodified from Debian, and it looks as though Debian fixed this a little while back: https://salsa.debian.org/cfengine-team/cfengine3/-/commit/12c7780fd375b8651631afd179e45b67d1a8b8a6 So this is already fixed for the upcoming Ubuntu 20.10. Thanks, -- Colin Watson (he/him)

Re: and autopkgtest hangs? Re: Build failures without a build log

2020-08-20 Thread Colin Watson
d Launchpad shares cloud infrastructure, but Launchpad doesn't operate autopkgtest as such.) -- Colin Watson (he/him) [cjwat...@ubuntu.com] -- Ubuntu-devel-discuss mailing list Ubuntu-devel-discuss@lists.ubuntu.com Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubu

Re: Build failures without a build log

2020-08-19 Thread Colin Watson
> These are all less than 24 hours old (the builds, the ghc package is older); > I didn't find any older ones but I didn't check every entry. This was a Launchpad infrastructure issue; exact cause not completely clear but it looks like it was a networking problem in one of our data

Re: Dependencies of ubuntu-desktop

2020-07-26 Thread Colin Watson
to do that in practice; it meant that if you were intentionally diverging from one part of the prescribed default system in such a way that required removing a lower metapackage, you ended up removing all the upper metapackages as well, and that ended up being rather a hassle. -- Colin Watson (

Re: Request: snap updating in Software Updater app

2020-06-11 Thread Colin Watson
ese ? > > Should I file a feature-request somewhere, or is this > mailing list the only channel for that ? You can file bug reports (which include feature requests) for that application using "ubuntu-bug update-manager". -- Colin Watson (he/him) [cjw

Re: When will PHP be upgraded to 7.4.5 for focal?

2020-05-31 Thread Colin Watson
Launchpad. -- Colin Watson (he/him) [cjwat...@ubuntu.com] -- Ubuntu-devel-discuss mailing list Ubuntu-devel-discuss@lists.ubuntu.com Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-devel-discuss

Re: PT-BR translation

2020-04-14 Thread Colin Watson
On Tue, Apr 14, 2020 at 09:13:48PM +0100, Colin Watson wrote: > On Sun, Apr 12, 2020 at 12:54:07PM -0400, Kinder wrote: > > How do I contribute to the ubuntu PT-BR translation? preferably the command > > "man"? > > Speaking as the upstream maintainer of man, the

Re: PT-BR translation

2020-04-14 Thread Colin Watson
ole distribution in one place. It usually doesn't result in translations being shared with other distributions. -- Colin Watson [cjwat...@ubuntu.com] -- Ubuntu-devel-discuss mailing list Ubuntu-devel-discuss@lists.ubuntu.com Modify settings or unsubs

Re: State of libeigen3-dev in Ubuntu Focal

2020-02-25 Thread Colin Watson
e /ubuntu, not /debian, so https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/eigen3. (https://launchpad.net/debian exists mainly as a convenience and as a by-product of the way we sync changes from Debian; it's not part of Debian's development workflow.) The simplest thing would be to run "ubuntu-bug eigen3"

Re: State of libeigen3-dev in Ubuntu Focal

2020-02-25 Thread Colin Watson
long as they meet the criteria for feature freeze (which it sounds like this would, as long as it doesn't come with other changes); it just has to be something that an Ubuntu developer does manually rather than something that will happen without human intervention.

Re: Memory Leak proftpd-basic Version 1.3.5e-1build1

2019-12-11 Thread Colin Watson
"buff/cache" in top(1) or free(1) output is, and what you've described so far sounds like normal behaviour to me. -- Colin Watson [cjwat...@ubuntu.com] -- Ubuntu-devel-discuss mailing list Ubuntu-devel-discuss@lists.ubuntu.com Modify settings o

Re: ZFS feature flags

2019-10-19 Thread Colin Watson
set to the unversioned level would be made, particularly given GRUB's rather slow and unpredictable release cycle and the widespread practice of backporting features by distribution maintainers. -- Colin Watson [cjwat...@ubuntu.com] -- Ubuntu-devel-discus

Re: Question on apt-get update

2019-09-26 Thread Colin Watson
e? Separating out descriptions was in fact done later: it saves a fair chunk of disk space if you're using multiarch, in which you have (e.g.) both amd64 and i386 Packages files, but the descriptions are large and mostly shared between them. -- Colin Watson [c

Re: Dead acute + c still produces ć instead of the more widely used ç

2019-08-05 Thread Colin Watson
an. Given that this is (as far as I can tell) supposed to depend on the locale, there should be no need to play off different groups of people against each other like this. -- Colin Watson [cjwat...@ubuntu.com] -- Ubuntu-devel-discuss mailing list Ubuntu-devel-discuss@lists.ubuntu.com Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-devel-discuss

Re: dmeventd Changes Not Available

2019-07-26 Thread Colin Watson
.18.04.1/+changelog This is https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/update-manager/+bug/655917. I've fixed it in 19.04 and above, but the fix hasn't (yet?) been backported to 18.04. The bug is purely in update-manager, and doesn't have any bearing on the safety of the upgrade. -- Colin Watson

Re: grub2 package is still on version 2.02, although version 2.04 solves a big bug

2019-07-16 Thread Colin Watson
stalling Ubuntu on those problematic UEFIs > possible for unexperienced users again. Upgrading stable releases to 2.04 is extremely unlikely, but the Ubuntu grub2 maintainers can and do cherry-pick individual fixes instead. I suggest filing a bug against the Ubuntu grub2 pac

Re: I would like to contribute to debianutils

2019-07-06 Thread Colin Watson
ages to this list to avoid being responsible for too much noise sent to Debian maintainers for packages that they didn't prepare. However, in this case our version of debianutils is an unmodified copy of the one in Debian, and it would be very much better for this sort of change not to

Re: anyone still use 'import-bug-from-debian'?

2019-02-13 Thread Colin Watson
sed, but probably used enough to justify keeping it around. -- Colin Watson [cjwat...@ubuntu.com] -- Ubuntu-devel-discuss mailing list Ubuntu-devel-discuss@lists.ubuntu.com Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-devel-discuss

Re: dpkg-query --load-avail not working?

2018-05-28 Thread Colin Watson
t up to date, which apt doesn't do by default. You can use "dselect update" in place of "apt update" to update the available file as well as doing the other index-update tasks. -- Colin Watson [cjwat...@ubuntu.com] -- Ubuntu-devel-d

Re: Proposal: Let's drop i386

2018-05-13 Thread Colin Watson
2 has never been in Ubuntu. But in any case x32 is an entirely different ABI, which is unrelated to the ISA baseline selected for i386. -- Colin Watson [cjwat...@ubuntu.com] -- Ubuntu-devel-discuss mailing list Ubuntu-devel-discuss@lists.ubuntu.com Modify setti

Re: Proposal: Let's drop i386

2018-05-13 Thread Colin Watson
On Sun, May 13, 2018 at 02:33:08PM -0400, Jeremy Bicha wrote: > On Sun, May 13, 2018 at 1:57 PM, Colin Watson <cjwat...@ubuntu.com> wrote: > > IIRC Steam is also relevant, and I guess that would involve talking to > > Valve? > > I think our users would be better served

Re: Proposal: Let's drop i386

2018-05-13 Thread Colin Watson
t may well involve building some more biarch libraries along the way, but it would give us an exit strategy that doesn't involve dropping things like Wine. IIRC Steam is also relevant, and I guess that would involve talking to Valve? -- Colin Watson [c

Re: Ubuntu packaging: package libxcomposite-dev

2018-05-07 Thread Colin Watson
unstable as well, so it would be best to report it there first and then it can trickle down. (A minor problem like this wouldn't meet the criteria for stable updates, but it could be fixed for later releases.) Thanks, -- Colin Watson [cjwat...@ubuntu.com] -

Re: extlinux dependent issue

2018-04-28 Thread Colin Watson
/bionic/extlinux, while > all belongs to the same upstream source. This is routine when only some of the binaries are actually used for main-like purposes. (syslinux is used for Ubuntu ISO images when booting in BIOS mode.) -- Colin Watson [cjwat...@ubunt

Re: Ubuntu-devel-discuss Digest, Vol 135, Issue 11

2018-02-11 Thread Colin Watson
buntu One is login.ubuntu.com, providing account management and single sign-on to a number of sites. It has basically no bearing on cross-distribution installation/upgrade. -- Colin Watson [cjwat...@ubuntu.com] -- Ubuntu-devel-discuss mailing list Ubuntu-deve

Re: debmirror compatibility with Kali

2018-01-18 Thread Colin Watson
version of debmirror you have installed * the full contents of the debmirror wrapper script you're running (editing out any secrets if necessary, but there probably aren't any) -- Colin Watson [cjwat...@debian.org] -- Ubuntu-devel-discuss mailing list

Re: On Lists and Iterables

2017-12-17 Thread Colin Watson
HE > GAIN? It will no doubt depend on the benchmark, and rather than cherry-picking a single one it's likely more interesting to look at either a wide range of benchmarks, or at the specific application in question. Counterpoint, which also links to much more data: https://lwn.net/Article

Re: On Lists and Iterables

2017-12-17 Thread Colin Watson
pretty weird when anyone who isn't, say, my bank manager or something refers to me using a title. You don't seem to do that for other people in general, so I assume you're trying to make some kind of point, but I'm afraid it escapes me.) -- Colin Watson [cjwat...@u

Re: Python2 demotion (moving from main to universe) in progress

2017-12-15 Thread Colin Watson
On Fri, Dec 15, 2017 at 03:38:20AM +0100, Xen wrote: > Colin Watson schreef op 09-12-2017 13:51: > > Even as somebody generally very sympathetic to the needs of > > localisation, I've got this wrong because Python 2 had just too many > > ways to make mistakes in t

Re: Cannot find required packages

2017-12-13 Thread Colin Watson
the new names (which have existed for some years, so it should be an easy change to make). -- Colin Watson [cjwat...@ubuntu.com] -- Ubuntu-devel-discuss mailing list Ubuntu-devel-discuss@lists.ubuntu.com Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-devel-discuss

Re: Python2 demotion (moving from main to universe) in progress

2017-12-09 Thread Colin Watson
On Sat, Dec 09, 2017 at 12:47:28PM +0100, Xen wrote: > Colin Watson schreef op 09-12-2017 0:24: > > there are good reasons behind many of the changes in Python 3 > > You know, an appeal to "good reasons" is really a blanket statement that > betrays the absence of any g

Re: Python2 demotion (moving from main to universe) in progress

2017-12-08 Thread Colin Watson
the skeleton of a plan. I feel quite safe in saying that for most Python programs it would be a great deal easier than this. -- Colin Watson [cjwat...@ubuntu.com] -- Ubuntu-devel-discuss mailing list Ubuntu-devel-discuss@lists.ubuntu.com Modify set

Re: Bug#881692: command-not-found: I re-wrote command-not-found

2017-11-16 Thread Colin Watson
e(). You should normally call this before calling bindtextdomain() and textdomain(): setlocale(LC_ALL, ""); (The gettext manual does cover this, but possibly you were looking at some different bit of it.) -- Colin Watson [cjwat...@ubuntu.com

Re: aptitude's libicu56 dependency

2017-10-04 Thread Colin Watson
ot;artful" flavor of ubuntu. I've just checked, and aptitude doesn't appear to be linked with libicu56 in artful. Exactly what command are you running that shows that this linkage exists? -- Colin Watson [cjwat...@ubuntu.com] -- Ubuntu-devel-discuss mai

Re: Launchpad builder changes: schroot and LXD

2017-09-06 Thread Colin Watson
On Wed, Sep 06, 2017 at 01:36:46PM +0100, Colin Watson wrote: > No thanks - I already have fixes for both the powerpc and CPC cases > working their way through the deployment pipeline. ... and these are now fixed on production. -- Colin Watson

Re: Launchpad builder changes: schroot and LXD

2017-09-06 Thread Colin Watson
builds? A priviledged lxd container alone is not enough > there. No thanks - I already have fixes for both the powerpc and CPC cases working their way through the deployment pipeline. -- Colin Watson [cjwat...@ubuntu.com] -- Ubuntu-devel-disc

Re: What happened to the *-dbg packages in Ubuntu 17.04?

2017-04-07 Thread Colin Watson
e it able to handle using the same extension for both. -- Colin Watson [cjwat...@ubuntu.com] -- Ubuntu-devel-discuss mailing list Ubuntu-devel-discuss@lists.ubuntu.com Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-devel-discuss

Re: git workflows for general Ubuntu development

2016-11-14 Thread Colin Watson
(perhaps not fatal, but not necessarily trivial) associated with having more than one potential importer, not to mention the duplicated effort. -- Colin Watson [cjwat...@ubuntu.com] -- Ubuntu-devel-discuss mailing list Ubuntu-devel-discuss@lists.ubuntu.com Modify sett

Re: gdlib-config command missing in yakkety

2016-11-04 Thread Colin Watson
upstream of us by Debian a little while back: https://tracker.debian.org/news/770159 I believe you're supposed to use pkg-config instead nowadays. -- Colin Watson [cjwat...@ubuntu.com] -- Ubuntu-devel-discuss mailing list Ubuntu-devel-discuss@lists.ub

Re: Future and impact of ongoing projects in Linux world

2016-10-05 Thread Colin Watson
hone, but potentially interesting on e.g. a multi-user tablet and would have been pretty important if click packages had ever made it to the desktop in a big way. -- Colin Watson [cjwat...@ubuntu.com] -- Ubuntu-devel-discuss mailing list Ubuntu-devel-

Re: gimp cage tool - fix in 16.04?

2016-09-26 Thread Colin Watson
it is in 2.8.18, although it should be in 2.9.4 (an unstable-series release). It might be worth asking upstream whether it can be fixed in the 2.8 series. -- Colin Watson [cjwat...@ubuntu.com] -- Ubuntu-devel-discuss mailing list Ubuntu-devel-discuss@lists.ubuntu.com Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-devel-discuss

Re: Changes missing from yakkety-changes list?

2016-06-16 Thread Colin Watson
-changes lists, only changes that are explicitly uploaded to Ubuntu. While it's true that a small number of people might be interested, it would be extremely noisy and we've generally felt that it isn't worth the noise. -- Colin Watson [cjwat...@u

Re: Unable to apt-get changelog on ubuntu because changelog.ubuntu.com is down

2016-04-13 Thread Colin Watson
On Wed, Apr 13, 2016 at 01:45:51PM +0900, kanbe kota wrote: > It seems http://changelogs.ubuntu.com/changelogs is down now. Yes, it suffered a catastrophic disk failure. Our sysadmins are working on restoring service. -- Colin Watson [cjwat...@ubuntu.

Re: deboostrap eg : 14.04.1

2016-03-09 Thread Colin Watson
p from trusty without trusty-updates, which corresponds to 14.04(.0). You can then apply updates on top of that, which will get you to whatever is latest (not necessarily the latest point release, but rather rolling stable updates). You can't get to a specific point

Re: Re: about upstart

2016-01-06 Thread Colin Watson
sion.d/99upstart. -- Colin Watson [cjwat...@ubuntu.com] -- Ubuntu-devel-discuss mailing list Ubuntu-devel-discuss@lists.ubuntu.com Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-devel-discuss

Re: systemd-fsck@.service

2015-12-02 Thread Colin Watson
ct the udev database for information about a particular device. (There may be some better way.) -- Colin Watson [cjwat...@ubuntu.com] -- Ubuntu-devel-discuss mailing list Ubuntu-devel-discuss@lists.ubuntu.com Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-devel-discuss

Re: Last minute sync of a new Debian package

2015-10-18 Thread Colin Watson
tml I agree that this seems unlikely to pose a problem. I've synced it. -- Colin Watson [cjwat...@ubuntu.com] -- Ubuntu-devel-discuss mailing list Ubuntu-devel-discuss@lists.ubuntu.com Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/lis

Re: Fwd: user space probe in ubuntu 14.04

2015-09-15 Thread Colin Watson
e actual package name with "dpkg -S".) The information that Gareth provided indicated that they already had mysql-server-core-5.5-dbgsym installed, so perhaps this problem is entirely explained by the NT_STAPSDT bit above. -- Colin Watson [cjwat...@ubuntu.com] -- Ubuntu-devel-discuss mailing list Ubuntu-devel-discuss@lists.ubuntu.com Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-devel-discuss

Re: problems about dependency of mysql-server-5.5-dbgsym

2015-09-15 Thread Colin Watson
re going to enable ddeb repositories, you need to enable a set of them that matches the ordinary binary repositories you're using. -- Colin Watson [cjwat...@ubuntu.com] -- Ubuntu-devel-discuss mailing list Ubuntu-devel-discuss@lists.ubuntu.com Modify setti

Re: Kernel install in boot with GRUB

2015-07-14 Thread Colin Watson
://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=329994). I'd like to see everything collected in /boot, indeed, but somebody is going to need to go through base-installer and kernel packaging revision history in some detail to work out all of the ramifications. -- Colin Watson

Re: Kernel install in boot with GRUB

2015-07-14 Thread Colin Watson
. There's support for this, but it's disabled by default, I think for historical compatibility of some kind. Preseeding base-installer/kernel/linux/link_in_boot=true should enable it, though. -- Colin Watson [cjwat...@ubuntu.com] -- Ubuntu-devel-discuss mailing

Re: Kernel install in boot with GRUB

2015-07-14 Thread Colin Watson
to the point of selecting a boot loader. -- Colin Watson [cjwat...@ubuntu.com] -- Ubuntu-devel-discuss mailing list Ubuntu-devel-discuss@lists.ubuntu.com Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-devel-discuss

Re: Building against libsmbclient-dev:armhf

2015-06-11 Thread Colin Watson
libsmbclient) endif(SAMBA_INCLUDE_DIR AND SAMBA_LIBRARIES) mark_as_advanced(SAMBA_INCLUDE_DIR SAMBA_LIBRARIES) ## end samba confiuration I suspect this would work fine if it did something based on cmake's pkg-config support instead. -- Colin Watson [cjwat

Re: Anti-feature: installing and replacing applications on update

2015-01-29 Thread Colin Watson
legs? Enhances would probably be a marginally better field to use, but since it's informational it doesn't really matter that much. -- Colin Watson [cjwat...@ubuntu.com] -- Ubuntu-devel-discuss mailing list Ubuntu-devel-discuss@lists.ubuntu.com Modify

Re: Bug #518056 in Launchpad

2015-01-24 Thread Colin Watson
packages are on-screen keyboard packages specific to the Unity 8 desktop and are probably not installed on your system. The bug was formerly marked as affecting gtk+2.0, but was changed to just Ubuntu without an explanation of why in the accompanying comment #38. I've reverted that change. -- Colin

Re: dpkg packaging problems

2015-01-02 Thread Colin Watson
in gcc, or are there platforms where +x is required ? https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/40587/why-are-shared-libraries-executable reports it as being necessary on HP-UX. It's indeed not needed on Linux except for the odd special case, though. -- Colin Watson

Re: ASUS T100 with 64-bit Ubuntu

2014-11-19 Thread Colin Watson
from that, once the kernel is booted, the existing 64-bit userspace should work fine. I posted a list of what I think we need to do here: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu-cdimage/+bug/102/comments/86 -- Colin Watson [cjwat...@ubuntu.com] -- Ubuntu

Re: root and capabilities list

2014-10-19 Thread Colin Watson
capabilities have slightly better take-up in userspace than the very diffuse ones, although even then there tend to be obstacles such as not quite all filesystems supporting them, so in practice everyone ends up having to cope with both methods of escalating privileges anyway. -- Colin Watson

Re: Ubiquity Crashing with non-English Language Selections

2014-08-11 Thread Colin Watson
are selected at the first screen. Does anyone have any idea how to: 1.) Correct this issue (ideal) Do you have crash logs? -- Colin Watson [cjwat...@ubuntu.com] -- Ubuntu-devel-discuss mailing list Ubuntu-devel-discuss@lists.ubuntu.com Modify settings

Re: Please somebody remove skype from partner repository, aka Bug 1280109

2014-08-10 Thread Colin Watson
here, although it looks as though the new protocol may be in a better state. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Skype_protocol appears to have some details on this. -- Colin Watson [cjwat...@ubuntu.com] -- Ubuntu-devel-discuss mailing list Ubuntu-devel-discuss

Re: Bash man page typo

2014-06-25 Thread Colin Watson
it probably doesn't need any particular system-specific information) you could use this link: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/bash/+filebug?no-redirect Thanks, -- Colin Watson [cjwat...@ubuntu.com] -- Ubuntu-devel-discuss mailing list Ubuntu

Re: GHC haskell support for arm64 and ppc64el

2014-04-05 Thread Colin Watson
On Fri, Apr 04, 2014 at 05:04:18PM +0100, Colin Watson wrote: At this point there is a pretty good chance that I'll be able to get arm64 GHC bootstrapped in the archive in time for 14.04. $ rmadison -s trusty ghc ghc | 7.6.3-9 | trusty/universe | source, amd64, arm64, armhf, i386, powerpc

Re: GHC haskell support for arm64 and ppc64el

2014-03-27 Thread Colin Watson
much; it still leaves us bootstrapping from scratch. -- Colin Watson [cjwat...@ubuntu.com] -- Ubuntu-devel-discuss mailing list Ubuntu-devel-discuss@lists.ubuntu.com Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-devel

Re: GHC haskell support for arm64 and ppc64el

2014-03-06 Thread Colin Watson
On Wed, Mar 05, 2014 at 05:18:16PM +, Colin Watson wrote: The best information I can find is in https://ghcarm.wordpress.com/2014/01/18/unregisterised-ghc-head-build-for-arm64-platform/, which does suggest that there might be some hope, but it's not at all clear whether GHC will get beyond

Re: GHC haskell support for arm64 and ppc64el

2014-03-05 Thread Colin Watson
know. -- Colin Watson [cjwat...@ubuntu.com] -- Ubuntu-devel-discuss mailing list Ubuntu-devel-discuss@lists.ubuntu.com Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-devel-discuss

Re: GHC haskell support for arm64 and ppc64el

2014-03-05 Thread Colin Watson
On Wed, Mar 05, 2014 at 04:55:08PM +, Gianfranco Costamagna wrote: Il Mercoledì 5 Marzo 2014 17:47, Colin Watson cjwat...@ubuntu.com ha scritto: I spent considerable time a while back trying to bootstrap ghc on ppc64el and I'm afraid I got nowhere.  Realistically, in the absence

Re: Those extra packages on the live CD

2014-02-17 Thread Colin Watson
). What's the purpose of having those packages loose on the disk instead of installing them and have them in compressed squashfs file? They're installed conditionally depending on exactly what the installer needs to do. -- Colin Watson [cjwat...@ubuntu.com

Re: apt and pdiff files

2014-02-17 Thread Colin Watson
to iterate quickly on deep build stacks and suchlike. I'd like us to do pdiffs, but there's a bit of a shortage of implementation time in the Launchpad team. -- Colin Watson [cjwat...@ubuntu.com] -- Ubuntu-devel-discuss mailing list Ubuntu-devel-discuss

Re: apt and pdiff files

2014-02-17 Thread Colin Watson
to be applicable now. -- Colin Watson [cjwat...@ubuntu.com] -- Ubuntu-devel-discuss mailing list Ubuntu-devel-discuss@lists.ubuntu.com Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-devel-discuss

Re: GHC on ubuntu arm64 and ppc64el

2013-12-17 Thread Colin Watson
in Launchpad! Cheers, -- Colin Watson [cjwat...@ubuntu.com] -- Ubuntu-devel-discuss mailing list Ubuntu-devel-discuss@lists.ubuntu.com Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-devel-discuss

Re: Ubuntu 14.04 LTS and wxwidgets3.0

2013-11-21 Thread Colin Watson
. Do you have any particular policy about LTS and/or new packages? No; new packages that don't have a problem such as the above are imported automatically. -- Colin Watson [cjwat...@ubuntu.com] -- Ubuntu-devel-discuss mailing list Ubuntu-devel-discuss

Re: Planning to create a new distro of Ubuntu.

2013-11-07 Thread Colin Watson
results. -- Colin Watson [cjwat...@ubuntu.com] -- Ubuntu-devel-discuss mailing list Ubuntu-devel-discuss@lists.ubuntu.com Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-devel-discuss

Re: dip: unused group but still available.

2013-09-12 Thread Colin Watson
allocated and can never be removed, although of course we can stop using them. -- Colin Watson [cjwat...@ubuntu.com] -- Ubuntu-devel-discuss mailing list Ubuntu-devel-discuss@lists.ubuntu.com Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman

Re: Confusing about building OpenStack Packages?

2013-09-06 Thread Colin Watson
ImportError: No module named schroot.executor Good question. I've been entirely unable to find this. Adam, can you clarify where this module comes from? -- Colin Watson [cjwat...@ubuntu.com] -- Ubuntu-devel-discuss mailing list Ubuntu-devel-discuss

Re: Reporting bugs directly to Launchpad?

2013-08-02 Thread Colin Watson
people to use the ubuntu-bug tool. There's documentation buried in ReportingBugs for the rare cases where ubuntu-bug can't be used for whatever reason, but if it's at all possible for you to use ubuntu-bug which attaches more information for us, please do. -- Colin Watson

Re: Launchpad builders problem

2013-06-25 Thread Colin Watson
. -- Colin Watson [cjwat...@ubuntu.com] -- Ubuntu-devel-discuss mailing list Ubuntu-devel-discuss@lists.ubuntu.com Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-devel-discuss

Re: kexec and Grub

2013-02-06 Thread Colin Watson
. I suggest trying it first on a non-production system. :-) -- Colin Watson [cjwat...@ubuntu.com] -- Ubuntu-devel-discuss mailing list Ubuntu-devel-discuss@lists.ubuntu.com Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu

Re: APT and dpkg Translations

2013-02-04 Thread Colin Watson
in Debian, even though there'll be some propagation time. -- Colin Watson [cjwat...@ubuntu.com] -- Ubuntu-devel-discuss mailing list Ubuntu-devel-discuss@lists.ubuntu.com Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-devel

Re: man types.h

2013-01-18 Thread Colin Watson
page which documents POSIX guarantees rather than your actual system. -- Colin Watson [cjwat...@ubuntu.com] -- Ubuntu-devel-discuss mailing list Ubuntu-devel-discuss@lists.ubuntu.com Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo

Re: Discovering the package of an open window

2013-01-18 Thread Colin Watson
-PACKAGE-NAME' shows you the source package name. -- Colin Watson [cjwat...@ubuntu.com] -- Ubuntu-devel-discuss mailing list Ubuntu-devel-discuss@lists.ubuntu.com Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-devel

Re: man types.h

2013-01-17 Thread Colin Watson
feature_test_macros(7) (or ftm(7) for short). -- Colin Watson [cjwat...@ubuntu.com] -- Ubuntu-devel-discuss mailing list Ubuntu-devel-discuss@lists.ubuntu.com Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-devel-discuss

Re: auto generated menu.lst file contents

2013-01-07 Thread Colin Watson
it's possible that you could have misconfigured /etc/lsb-release such that the lsb_release command fails with an error. -- Colin Watson [cjwat...@ubuntu.com] -- Ubuntu-devel-discuss mailing list Ubuntu-devel-discuss@lists.ubuntu.com Modify settings

Re: auto generated menu.lst file contents

2013-01-04 Thread Colin Watson
of security support for nearly four years! You should upgrade to something very much newer at the earliest opportunity. Cheers, -- Colin Watson [cjwat...@ubuntu.com] -- Ubuntu-devel-discuss mailing list Ubuntu-devel-discuss@lists.ubuntu.com Modify settings

Re: ubuntu core - kernel installation question

2013-01-04 Thread Colin Watson
or directory [...] This is normal since we have no proc/cpuinfo ... how can I overrule this check on cpuinfo? Is there any reason not to bind-mount /proc into your chroot? We don't support running very much without /proc in place, and certainly not installing packages in general. Cheers, -- Colin

Re: EFF Privacy; hopefully Ubuntu will listen to users

2012-11-07 Thread Colin Watson
pragmatic about how they approach problems, and they don't necessarily have the luxury of going in all guns blazing all the time. -- Colin Watson [cjwat...@ubuntu.com] -- Ubuntu-devel-discuss mailing list Ubuntu-devel-discuss@lists.ubuntu.com Modify settings

Re: DNS caching disabled for 12.10...still

2012-10-17 Thread Colin Watson
reliably without having to restart applications, and allows us to dispatch DNS queries on different links depending on the domain (consider VPNs). -- Colin Watson [cjwat...@ubuntu.com] -- Ubuntu-devel-discuss mailing list Ubuntu-devel-discuss@lists.ubuntu.com

Re: Why are there dependencies that aren't actually dependencies on some packages?

2012-10-04 Thread Colin Watson
to maintain. Cheers, -- Colin Watson [cjwat...@ubuntu.com] -- Ubuntu-devel-discuss mailing list Ubuntu-devel-discuss@lists.ubuntu.com Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-devel-discuss

Re: Linux (or Ubuntu specific) tools to measure number of page faults

2012-05-02 Thread Colin Watson
On Tue, May 01, 2012 at 10:04:47PM -0400, Phillip Susi wrote: Note that you need to explicitly specify /usr/bin/time to prevent the shell builtin time command from being used, which is more limited. Or 'command time'. -- Colin Watson [cjwat...@ubuntu.com

Re: Recent OpenSSL update that breaks cloudfront and rubygems.org?

2012-04-20 Thread Colin Watson
upstream). Since I'm about to be diving head-first into release chaos, I strongly encourage anyone who can to try to figure out a fix that doesn't cause connection to the other sites we just fixed to regress! -- Colin Watson [cjwat...@ubuntu.com] -- Ubuntu-devel

Re: ld changed linking behaviour in precise?

2012-04-18 Thread Colin Watson
? Yes, see https://wiki.ubuntu.com/OneiricOcelot/ReleaseNotes#GCC_4.6_Toolchain ... but not compared to precise a few days ago, as Christoph said. As far as I know, --as-needed has been in place for the lifetime of precise. -- Colin Watson [cjwat...@ubuntu.com

Re: grub2 and Previous Linux versions submenu

2012-04-13 Thread Colin Watson
; then -echo submenu \Previous Linux versions\ { -in_submenu=: - fi done - -if $in_submenu; then - echo } -fi -- Colin Watson [cjwat...@ubuntu.com] -- Ubuntu-devel-discuss mailing list Ubuntu-devel-discuss@lists.ubuntu.com Modify settings or unsubscribe

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