Re: NEW handling: About rejects, and kernels

2005-04-04 Thread Andreas Barth
use currently it would not be allowed. > > Where does it say that such images are not allowed? For sarge, I'm quite convinced that we're not going to do such a big change (and you can translate it to "not allowed by $team", if you want). For etch, things are different

Re: How to find out why a package was removed from testing?

2005-04-01 Thread Andreas Barth
y maintainers. Actually, this was discussed in Vancouver, and has been agreed at - but well, implementation of other issues had preference (the plan is to both send a daily summary to debian-testing-changes and to mail the individual maintainers; perhaps replacing maintainers with bugs is a good idea

Re: How to find out why a package was removed from testing?

2005-04-01 Thread Andreas Barth
/ftp.debian.org/testing/hints/ Cheers, Andi -- http://home.arcor.de/andreas-barth/ PGP 1024/89FB5CE5 DC F1 85 6D A6 45 9C 0F 3B BE F1 D0 C5 D1 D9 0C -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: NEW handling: About rejects, and kernels

2005-03-25 Thread Andreas Barth
you re-read the discussion after Anthonys announcement of the changes, Marco is right here. Cheers, Andi -- http://home.arcor.de/andreas-barth/ PGP 1024/89FB5CE5 DC F1 85 6D A6 45 9C 0F 3B BE F1 D0 C5 D1 D9 0C -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: *** SPAM *** Re: NEW handling: About rejects, and kernels (Was: Re: NEW handling ...)

2005-03-24 Thread Andreas Barth
etting software released. That was at least the decision in all GRs where people didn't hide the intents ("editorial changes"). Cheers, Andi -- http://home.arcor.de/andreas-barth/ PGP 1024/89FB5CE5 DC F1 85 6D A6 45 9C 0F 3B BE F1 D0 C5 D1 D9 0C -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: blog location changed (who can change it on planet.d.o?)

2005-03-22 Thread Andreas Barth
* Arnaud Vandyck ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [050322 18:20]: > As you can read[1] I changed my blog. But I don't remember who can > change the RSS feed on planet.d.o. Any DD can. Log into gluck, and take a look at /org/planet.debian.org/README Cheers, Andi -- http://home.arcor.de/an

Re: How to define a release architecture

2005-03-22 Thread Andreas Barth
* Wouter Verhelst ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [050322 13:35]: > On Tue, Mar 22, 2005 at 01:28:18PM +0100, Andreas Barth wrote: > > * Wouter Verhelst ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [050322 13:05]: > > > In the general case, as I have said before, I don't think anyone would > >

Re: How to define a release architecture

2005-03-22 Thread Andreas Barth
ge like 'packages for m68k, mips, mipsel, arm, and hppa will > be announced when ready' if the delay would become unacceptable, or so. I have heared that the current scripts used on security.debian.org do not really support this. Cheers, Andi -- http://home.arcor.de/andreas-bart

Re: Do not make gratuitous source uploads just to provoke the buildds!

2005-03-21 Thread Andreas Barth
* Wouter Verhelst ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [050321 00:25]: > On Thu, Mar 17, 2005 at 10:40:43AM +0100, Andreas Barth wrote: > > If we don't wait for an arch, it gets out-of-sync quite soon, and due to > > e.g. legal requirements, we can't release that arch. (In other words, i

Re: The 98% and N<=2 criteria

2005-03-21 Thread Andreas Barth
eers, Andi -- http://home.arcor.de/andreas-barth/ PGP 1024/89FB5CE5 DC F1 85 6D A6 45 9C 0F 3B BE F1 D0 C5 D1 D9 0C -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: The 98% and N<=2 criteria

2005-03-21 Thread Andreas Barth
* Peter 'p2' De Schrijver ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [050321 16:55]: > On Mon, Mar 21, 2005 at 03:09:26PM +0100, Andreas Barth wrote: > > * Wouter Verhelst ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [050321 15:05]: > > > On Sun, Mar 20, 2005 at 03:16:08PM +0100, Andreas Barth wrote: > > >

Re: *** SPAM *** Re: NEW handling: About rejects, and kernels (Was: Re: NEW handling ...)

2005-03-21 Thread Andreas Barth
* Matthew Wilcox ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [050321 17:05]: > I'm not going to volunteer for them as I intend to leave Debian > shortly after sarge releases. Why do you intend to leave Debian? Cheers, Andi -- http://home.arcor.de/andreas-barth/ PGP 1024/89FB5CE5 DC F1 85 6D A6 45 9

Re: NEW handling: About rejects, and kernels (Was: Re: NEW handling ...)

2005-03-21 Thread Andreas Barth
ly great if we can manage to keep the heat out, that would help us all to do a better (and more enjoyable) job. Thanks for your attention, Andi -- http://home.arcor.de/andreas-barth/ PGP 1024/89FB5CE5 DC F1 85 6D A6 45 9C 0F 3B BE F1 D0 C5 D1 D9 0C -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECT

Re: The 98% and N<=2 criteria

2005-03-21 Thread Andreas Barth
* Wouter Verhelst ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [050321 15:05]: > On Sun, Mar 20, 2005 at 03:16:08PM +0100, Andreas Barth wrote: > > Well, the toolchain is perhaps not the part where they turn up most > > likely, but it's the part that creates most of the workload and delays. > Uh.

Re: Bits (Nybbles?) from the Vancouver release team meeting

2005-03-20 Thread Andreas Barth
that the usual child tools for cracking the systems don't work. Cheers, Andi -- http://home.arcor.de/andreas-barth/ PGP 1024/89FB5CE5 DC F1 85 6D A6 45 9C 0F 3B BE F1 D0 C5 D1 D9 0C -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: my thoughts on the Vancouver Prospectus

2005-03-20 Thread Andreas Barth
e doing such a good job. Cheers, Andi -- http://home.arcor.de/andreas-barth/ PGP 1024/89FB5CE5 DC F1 85 6D A6 45 9C 0F 3B BE F1 D0 C5 D1 D9 0C -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Bits (Nybbles?) from the Vancouver release team meeting

2005-03-20 Thread Andreas Barth
mirror both archives, and I'd rather > not waste a few GB on duplicated files. I don't know if it's a good idea, but it might make use to write a customized "mirror" script that just creates the appropriate symlinks on the partial mirrors on your machine again. Cheers

Re: Buildd redundancy (was Re: Bits (Nybbles?) from the Vancouver...)

2005-03-20 Thread Andreas Barth
ldd admins noticing it. Cheers, Andi -- http://home.arcor.de/andreas-barth/ PGP 1024/89FB5CE5 DC F1 85 6D A6 45 9C 0F 3B BE F1 D0 C5 D1 D9 0C -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: The 98% and N<=2 criteria (was: Vancouver meeting - clarifications)

2005-03-20 Thread Andreas Barth
th architectures that don't need to be able to be in sync with others in testing - and, noauto_weak on the individual buildds is the correct way for that. Cheers, Andi -- http://home.arcor.de/andreas-barth/ PGP 1024/89FB5CE5 DC F1 85 6D A6 45 9C 0F 3B BE F1 D0 C5 D1 D9 0C -- To U

Re: Bits (Nybbles?) from the Vancouver release team meeting

2005-03-20 Thread Andreas Barth
all or both. Cheers, Andi -- http://home.arcor.de/andreas-barth/ PGP 1024/89FB5CE5 DC F1 85 6D A6 45 9C 0F 3B BE F1 D0 C5 D1 D9 0C -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [Proposal] $arch release assistants

2005-03-20 Thread Andreas Barth
before with the people already working on it). Also, anybody is free to e.g. subscribe to the debian-release mailing list. We usually notice people who are doing a great job. Cheers, Andi -- http://home.arcor.de/andreas-barth/ PGP 1024/89FB5CE5 DC F1 85 6D A6 45 9C 0F 3B BE F1 D

Re: The 98% and N<=2 criteria

2005-03-20 Thread Andreas Barth
he workload and delays. Cheers, Andi -- http://home.arcor.de/andreas-barth/ PGP 1024/89FB5CE5 DC F1 85 6D A6 45 9C 0F 3B BE F1 D0 C5 D1 D9 0C -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Do not make gratuitous source uploads just to provoke the buildds!

2005-03-17 Thread Andreas Barth
* Mike Fedyk ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [050317 19:30]: > Andreas Barth wrote: > >If we don't wait for an arch, it gets out-of-sync quite soon, and due to > >e.g. legal requirements, we can't release that arch. (In other words, if > >an arch is too long ignored for test

Re: Relaxing testing requirements (was: summarising answers to Vancouver critique)

2005-03-17 Thread Andreas Barth
chitectures we actually release) instead of 1. Cheers, Andi -- http://home.arcor.de/andreas-barth/ PGP 1024/89FB5CE5 DC F1 85 6D A6 45 9C 0F 3B BE F1 D0 C5 D1 D9 0C -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: .d.o machines which are down (Re: Questions for the DPL candidates)

2005-03-17 Thread Andreas Barth
* Andreas Barth ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [050317 10:54]: > Ah, so why is vore down now for some time now? If it's so easy to that should read as auric of course. Cheers, Andi -- http://home.arcor.de/andreas-barth/ PGP 1024/89FB5CE5 DC F1 85 6D A6 45 9C 0F 3B BE

Re: .d.o machines which are down (Re: Questions for the DPL candidates)

2005-03-17 Thread Andreas Barth
e down now for some time now? If it's so easy to replace a broken machine, why don't you just do it? (And, BTW, you might be on vacation, sick, ... - we need more than just one machine.) Cheers, Andi -- http://home.arcor.de/andreas-barth/ PGP 1024/89FB5CE5 DC F1 85 6D A6 45 9C 0F 3B BE F1 D0 C5 D1 D9 0C -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: .d.o machines which are down (Re: Questions for the DPL candidates)

2005-03-17 Thread Andreas Barth
ok from James to do so yet. > > That would cut the number of sparc buildds down to one, when two are > > required for RC archtectures under the new proposal. > That's ok because two buildd's can run on the one machine. It has 6 cpu's. That still doesn't suffic

Re: Do not make gratuitous source uploads just to provoke the buildds!

2005-03-17 Thread Andreas Barth
* Mike Fedyk ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [050316 20:55]: > Andreas Barth wrote: > >If that happens for a too long period, we might consider such an > >architecture to be too slow to keep up, and will eventually discuss > >about kicking it out of the architectures we wait for testin

Re: Bits (Nybbles?) from the Vancouver release team meeting

2005-03-16 Thread Andreas Barth
ant to become a release assistent. Cheers, Andi -- http://home.arcor.de/andreas-barth/ PGP 1024/89FB5CE5 DC F1 85 6D A6 45 9C 0F 3B BE F1 D0 C5 D1 D9 0C -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Vancouver meeting - clarifications

2005-03-15 Thread Andreas Barth
* Thomas Bushnell BSG ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [050315 20:15]: > Andreas Barth <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > | - the release architecture must have N+1 buildds where N is the number > > | required to keep up with the volume of uploaded packages > > The reason for this p

Re: Bits (Nybbles?) from the Vancouver release team meeting

2005-03-15 Thread Andreas Barth
ments. Cheers, Andi -- http://home.arcor.de/andreas-barth/ PGP 1024/89FB5CE5 DC F1 85 6D A6 45 9C 0F 3B BE F1 D0 C5 D1 D9 0C -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Vancouver meeting - clarifications

2005-03-15 Thread Andreas Barth
sufficient algorithm knowhow in the debian developer community > to solve the scalability problems. Anyone who provides better scalability for britney is welcome. Cheers, Andi -- http://home.arcor.de/andreas-barth/ PGP 1024/89FB5CE5 DC F1 85 6D A6 45 9C 0F 3B BE F1 D0 C5 D1 D9 0C -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Vancouver meeting - clarifications

2005-03-15 Thread Andreas Barth
Hi, * Tollef Fog Heen ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [050315 12:40]: > * Andreas Barth > | (And, BTW, newraff is a quite mature box. Of course, there is always > | more and better hardware available, but newraff is already a very good > | machine. And, we want to give the testing migration

Re: Bits (Nybbles?) from the Vancouver release team meeting

2005-03-15 Thread Andreas Barth
er in the long term to make some "synchronize" runs outside of current britney, as that might be better in terms of speed and memory usage. Cheers, Andi -- http://home.arcor.de/andreas-barth/ PGP 1024/89FB5CE5 DC F1 85 6D A6 45 9C 0F 3B BE F1 D0 C5 D1 D9 0C -- To UNSUBSCRI

Re: Bits (Nybbles?) from the Vancouver release team meeting

2005-03-15 Thread Andreas Barth
* Steve Langasek ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [050315 00:00]: > Colin mentioned the possibility of adding an "Architecture:" field > instead. That seems better than an etch-ignore tag anyway, for what you > want to achieve here. Yes, that sounds well. Cheers, Andi -- http://ho

Re: Vancouver meeting - clarifications

2005-03-15 Thread Andreas Barth
* Tollef Fog Heen ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [050315 10:50]: > * Andreas Barth > | For example, the more architectures are included the longer the migration > | testing script takes. We are already at the limit currently (and also > | have out-of-memory issues from time to time).

Vancouver meeting - clarifications

2005-03-14 Thread Andreas Barth
these issues. Please accept my apologies for the missing information in the first mail. Cheers, Andi -- http://home.arcor.de/andreas-barth/ PGP 1024/89FB5CE5 DC F1 85 6D A6 45 9C 0F 3B BE F1 D0 C5 D1 D9 0C -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Do not make gratuitous source uploads just to provoke the buildds!

2005-03-14 Thread Andreas Barth
* Goswin von Brederlow ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [050314 15:35]: > Andreas Barth <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > * Hamish Moffatt ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [050314 01:45]: > >> On Sun, Mar 13, 2005 at 11:16:56PM +0100, Andreas Barth wrote: > >> > Our goal is that the queue

Re: Bits (Nybbles?) from the Vancouver release team meeting

2005-03-14 Thread Andreas Barth
oo late now, as RC3 should be more or less building). Cheers, Andi -- http://home.arcor.de/andreas-barth/ PGP 1024/89FB5CE5 DC F1 85 6D A6 45 9C 0F 3B BE F1 D0 C5 D1 D9 0C -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Bits (Nybbles?) from the Vancouver release team meeting

2005-03-14 Thread Andreas Barth
on the porter list might also be enough - or enough bug reports coming from that arch. Or whatever. I don't expect that to be the blocking critieria for any arch. Cheers, Andi -- http://home.arcor.de/andreas-barth/ PGP 1024/89FB5CE5 DC F1 85 6D A6 45 9C 0F 3B BE F1 D0 C5 D1 D9 0C -

Re: Bits (Nybbles?) from the Vancouver release team meeting

2005-03-14 Thread Andreas Barth
the timeframe, I seriously doubt that we can do multiarch in time for etch. Cheers, Andi -- http://home.arcor.de/andreas-barth/ PGP 1024/89FB5CE5 DC F1 85 6D A6 45 9C 0F 3B BE F1 D0 C5 D1 D9 0C -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Bits (Nybbles?) from the Vancouver release team meeting

2005-03-14 Thread Andreas Barth
; archive), or does it imply that all packages in base (or base + > build-essential) > need to be buildable from unmodified source? This is a legal/DFSG requirement: We can't distribute binaries without source. Cheers, Andi -- http://home.arcor.de/andreas-barth/ PGP 1024/89FB5CE5 DC

Re: Do not make gratuitous source uploads just to provoke the buildds!

2005-03-14 Thread Andreas Barth
* Hamish Moffatt ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [050314 01:55]: > On Mon, Mar 14, 2005 at 12:01:59AM +0100, Andreas Barth wrote: > > It is a highly ordered list, more or less libs+base first, than devel, > > shells, > > perl, python. After that graphics, admin, utils. Just to look at

Re: Do not make gratuitous source uploads just to provoke the buildds!

2005-03-14 Thread Andreas Barth
* Hamish Moffatt ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [050314 01:45]: > On Sun, Mar 13, 2005 at 11:16:56PM +0100, Andreas Barth wrote: > > Our goal is that the queue gets empty from time to time, and so, > > priority shouldn't prevent a package from being built. > > How often should the

Re: Do not make gratuitous source uploads just to provoke the buildds!

2005-03-13 Thread Andreas Barth
o, non-US and embedded. The large ones like gnome and kde are in the middle of the list. Please see wanna-builds source for the full list. Cheers, Andi -- http://home.arcor.de/andreas-barth/ PGP 1024/89FB5CE5 DC F1 85 6D A6 45 9C 0F 3B BE F1 D0 C5 D1 D9 0C -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email

Re: Do not make gratuitous source uploads just to provoke the buildds!

2005-03-13 Thread Andreas Barth
* Andreas Barth ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [050313 23:15]: > * Thomas Bushnell BSG ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [050312 02:05]: > > If, perhaps, there was a clear indication of the buildd ordering > > policy, then it could be properly used. Until then, I go on the basis > > of guesswo

Re: Do not make gratuitous source uploads just to provoke the buildds!

2005-03-13 Thread Andreas Barth
ut kicking it out of the architectures we wait for testing migration at all, or even kicking it out of testing at all. Not waiting for such an arch has happened and might happen again. Cheers, Andi -- http://home.arcor.de/andreas-barth/ PGP 1024/89FB5CE5 DC F1 85 6D A6 45 9C 0F 3B BE F1

Re: Do not make gratuitous source uploads just to provoke the buildds!

2005-03-13 Thread Andreas Barth
cal... If you take a look at http://buildd.debian.org/stats/graph2-week-big.png, you can e.g. see for mipsel exactly at which date the slow and at which the fast machine became available again. The fast machine alone is able to keep up with the usual upload rates. Cheers, Andi -- http://home.

Re: Do not make gratuitous source uploads just to provoke the buildds!

2005-03-13 Thread Andreas Barth
t; I'm trying to work out why package *section* matters at all. Package name > is a bit odd, too, but including the section in there is just totally whack. Because we want packages in base to be preferred, as well as packages in libs. Cheers, Andi -- http://home.arcor.de/andreas-barth/

Re: Do not make gratuitous source uploads just to provoke the buildds!

2005-03-13 Thread Andreas Barth
he problem is clearly that gnucash is in the "Extra" priority > instead of the "Optional" section where it belongs. I'll request the > ftpmasters to change it. Our goal is that the queue gets empty from time to time, and so, priority shouldn't prevent a packag

Re: Do not make gratuitous source uploads just to provoke the buildds!

2005-03-13 Thread Andreas Barth
d is (in this order, first difference wins) - >= standard - not uncompiled - priority of the package - priority of the section - name That all is BTW visible from the code (or you could just ask). Cheers, Andi -- http://home.arcor.de/andreas-barth/ PGP 1024/89FB5CE5 DC F1 85 6D A6 45 9

Re: is xprint still used by mozilla, etc?

2005-03-11 Thread Andreas Barth
0 and 1200 > dpi... It's trivially seen if you print to a real high-quality device, as the 600dpi the too-large pixles can be seen. However, for usual purposes, you don't need it. Cheers, Andi -- http://home.arcor.de/andreas-barth/ PGP 1024/89FB5CE5 DC F1 85 6D A6 45 9C 0F

Re: mipsel drop / buildd situation Was: [Fwd: Re: GTK+2.0 2.6.2-3 and buildds running out of space]

2005-03-08 Thread Andreas Barth
arge, the number of architectures is not the holding problem. For post-sarge, there has been some discussion inside the release team and the ftpmasters that will be published soon. Cheers, Andi -- http://home.arcor.de/andreas-barth/ PGP 1024/89FB5CE5 DC F1 85 6D A6 45 9C 0F 3B BE F1 D0 C

Re: Let's stop feeding the NVidia cuckoo

2005-03-08 Thread Andreas Barth
> > There are sure to be borderline cases, but it usually isn't all that hard > to tell the difference between appalling style and deliberate obfuscation. My guide for freedom issues within Debian is the SC and the DFSG. What is yours? Cheers, Andi -- http://home.arcor.de/andrea

Re: Let's stop feeding the NVidia cuckoo

2005-03-08 Thread Andreas Barth
out invoking > the DFSG. Agreed. Especially as "it's too horibly broken" is by itself a serious bug. Cheers, Andi -- http://home.arcor.de/andreas-barth/ PGP 1024/89FB5CE5 DC F1 85 6D A6 45 9C 0F 3B BE F1 D0 C5 D1 D9 0C -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: debootstrap-farm (was: Automatic building of (parts of) the archive)

2005-03-06 Thread Andreas Barth
mmand, compared to standard debootstrap? Actually, I added all extra things in that to the commands listed, so just use the normal debootstrap, and everything works. Cheers, Andi -- http://home.arcor.de/andreas-barth/ PGP 1024/89FB5CE5 DC F1 85 6D A6 45 9C 0F 3B BE F1 D0 C5 D1 D9 0C -

Re: Let's stop feeding the NVidia cuckoo

2005-03-04 Thread Andreas Barth
ned as "the author's most preferred source > of making modifications". No. There are people running around claiming this, but that doesn't make it truth. Cheers, Andi -- http://home.arcor.de/andreas-barth/ PGP 1024/89FB5CE5 DC F1 85 6D A6 45 9C 0F 3B BE F1 D0

Re: the ongoing xfree86 buildd saga

2005-02-23 Thread Andreas Barth
ing. > > What would it take for multibuild to succeed? or something else? > People who care and have the will to finish it. As always. Cheers, Andi -- http://home.arcor.de/andreas-barth/ PGP 1024/89FB5CE5 DC F1 85 6D A6 45 9C 0F 3B BE F1 D0 C5 D1 D9 0C -- To UNSUBSCRIBE,

Re: Let's remove mips, mipsel, s390, ...

2005-02-22 Thread Andreas Barth
e > :-) I think this is possible with some special option to apt. In fact, I think this would make a nice target - but, as it is with nice targets, they're usually not the things that are implemented, but just the pressing targets. :) Cheers, Andi -- http://home.arcor.de/andreas-barth/

Re: Let's remove mips, mipsel, s390, ...

2005-02-22 Thread Andreas Barth
based on apt. But, I'm not going to hold my breath for that to happen. :) And, as always, patches welcome. Cheers, Andi -- http://home.arcor.de/andreas-barth/ PGP 1024/89FB5CE5 DC F1 85 6D A6 45 9C 0F 3B BE F1 D0 C5 D1 D9 0C -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Let's remove mips, mipsel, s390, ... (Was: [Fwd: Re: GTK+2.0 2.6.2-3 and buildds running out of space])

2005-02-22 Thread Andreas Barth
ed > is a Good Thing. We have security autobuilders since woody. Cheers, Andi -- http://home.arcor.de/andreas-barth/ PGP 1024/89FB5CE5 DC F1 85 6D A6 45 9C 0F 3B BE F1 D0 C5 D1 D9 0C -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Let's remove mips, mipsel, s390, ... (Was: [Fwd: Re: GTK+2.0 2.6.2-3 and buildds running out of space])

2005-02-22 Thread Andreas Barth
t with other arches is that there are too often these useless discussions. _That_ is beyond all the most expansive of them. Cheers, Andi -- http://home.arcor.de/andreas-barth/ PGP 1024/89FB5CE5 DC F1 85 6D A6 45 9C 0F 3B BE F1 D0 C5 D1 D9 0C -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Let's remove mips, mipsel, s390, ... (Was: [Fwd: Re: GTK+2.0 2.6.2-3 and buildds running out of space])

2005-02-21 Thread Andreas Barth
ental need some adjustment. :) Thiemo knows that pretty well :) However, if they are overloaded/broken/whatever, the real implications are quite limited, and it doesn't matter for purposes like preparation of the next stable release. Cheers, Andi -- http://home.arcor.de/andreas-barth/

Re: "The Debian exim 4 packages suck badly" on exim-users@exim.org

2005-02-20 Thread Andreas Barth
; I would consider it an obnoxious bug for the installation of a package to > alter my email configuration. At least make enabling the change a Debconf > question. why, in the default case? Is it also an "obvious bug" to change your apache configuration? Cheers, Andi -- http://

Re: b.d.o -> ldap gateway reeeeaally slow

2005-02-19 Thread Andreas Barth
ndi -- http://home.arcor.de/andreas-barth/ PGP 1024/89FB5CE5 DC F1 85 6D A6 45 9C 0F 3B BE F1 D0 C5 D1 D9 0C -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Take APT 0.6 discussion public!

2005-02-19 Thread Andreas Barth
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Bug#295122: RFA: iproute -- Professional tools to control the networking in Linux kernels

2005-02-13 Thread Andreas Barth
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Re: About valid and invalid user names

2005-02-05 Thread Andreas Barth
r wants usernames to start with numbers. > Allowing the dot is ok. I do think that usernames starting with numbers is > asking for total breakage, though. IMHO even the dot is, eh, difficult. Consider a chown user.group file. Cheers, Andi -- http://home.arcor.de/andreas-barth/ PG

Re: list what's in the NEW queue?

2005-02-02 Thread Andreas Barth
l#s-servers-ftp-master | It is restricted; a mirror is available on merkel. Cheers, Andi -- http://home.arcor.de/andreas-barth/ PGP 1024/89FB5CE5 DC F1 85 6D A6 45 9C 0F 3B BE F1 D0 C5 D1 D9 0C -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Tr

Re: non-ftp way to upload packages

2005-02-01 Thread Andreas Barth
it for > >you ;) > Does it ftp in time for the daily dinstall? The 0-day queue is ftp-ed about 1 hours before dinstall, IIRC. Cheers, Andi -- http://home.arcor.de/andreas-barth/ PGP 1024/89FB5CE5 DC F1 85 6D A6 45 9C 0F 3B BE F1 D0 C5 D1 D9 0C -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [E

Re: non-ftp way to upload packages

2005-01-31 Thread Andreas Barth
> Yes, scp to gluck (or other debian machine) and use dupload/dput from > there. Or just upload into glucks delayed queue into day 0. Cheers, Andi -- http://home.arcor.de/andreas-barth/ PGP 1024/89FB5CE5 DC F1 85 6D A6 45 9C 0F 3B BE F1 D0 C5 D1 D9 0C -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email t

Re: Debian mirror scripts

2005-01-31 Thread Andreas Barth
a to save > traffic it actualy is a bit insignificant compared to the daily > traffic of new sources and debs. > > The good news is that Andreas Barth is working on enabling > Packages/Sources diff files for the Debian archive and that would > reduce Packages/Sources updates to ~30

Re: apply to NM? ha!

2005-01-30 Thread Andreas Barth
t trying to get nearer to it, but well - realistically, we'll never fully reach it. Cheers, Andi -- http://home.arcor.de/andreas-barth/ PGP 1024/89FB5CE5 DC F1 85 6D A6 45 9C 0F 3B BE F1 D0 C5 D1 D9 0C -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: NM queue and groups

2005-01-27 Thread Andreas Barth
e you to the master of the interpretation of the SC. Cheers, Andi -- http://home.arcor.de/andreas-barth/ PGP 1024/89FB5CE5 DC F1 85 6D A6 45 9C 0F 3B BE F1 D0 C5 D1 D9 0C -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: apply to NM? ha!

2005-01-25 Thread Andreas Barth
g/debian-devel-announce/2001/12/msg8.html... > Huh, and here was me thinking those were perfect examples of the sort of > idiocy that just sucks the fun right out of Debian. Agreed. Cheers, Andi -- http://home.arcor.de/andreas-barth/ PGP 1024/89FB5CE5 DC F1 85 6D A6 45 9C

Re: apply to NM? ha!

2005-01-24 Thread Andreas Barth
en though he knows it is wrong. Sorry that I don't use new speak. Cheers, Andi -- http://home.arcor.de/andreas-barth/ PGP 1024/89FB5CE5 DC F1 85 6D A6 45 9C 0F 3B BE F1 D0 C5 D1 D9 0C -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: apply to NM? ha!

2005-01-24 Thread Andreas Barth
- ultimatly - even consider rejecting an applicant for bad social behaviour (in most cases, the applicant has the same attitude towards his AM, which makes the process slow enough so that this is not needed.) Cheers, Andi -- http://home.arcor.de/andreas-barth/ PGP 1024/89FB5CE5 DC

Re: Release update: kde3.3, upload targets, kernels, infrastructure

2005-01-24 Thread Andreas Barth
modutils which needs sarges glibc. We are still at working out an acceptable upgrade path. For i486++-machines, this problem doesn't exist. Cheers, Andi -- http://home.arcor.de/andreas-barth/ PGP 1024/89FB5CE5 DC F1 85 6D A6 45 9C 0F 3B BE F1 D0 C5 D1 D9 0C -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Reboot in postinst

2005-01-21 Thread Andreas Barth
* Colin Watson ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [050121 14:50]: > On Fri, Jan 21, 2005 at 01:06:55PM +0100, Andreas Barth wrote: > > I disagree. You should warn the administrator that he has to do that. > > Especially just restarting ssh is _very_ wrong IMHO, because it can > > easily kill

Re: Reboot in postinst

2005-01-21 Thread Andreas Barth
* Andreas Barth ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [050121 13:10]: > * Tino Keitel ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [050121 13:02]: > > On Fri, Jan 21, 2005 at 11:03:08 +0100, Marc Haber wrote: > > > On 20 Jan 2005 14:45:52 -0800, Thomas Bushnell BSG <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > wrote: > >

Re: Reboot in postinst

2005-01-21 Thread Andreas Barth
ice when the it starts, and an upgrade won't replace libraries > in running services. I disagree. You should warn the administrator that he has to do that. Especially just restarting ssh is _very_ wrong IMHO, because it can easily kill the only access to a remote computer. Take a look how gl

making vacation priority extra?

2005-01-17 Thread Andreas Barth
and I just cannot but agree with it.) Cheers, Andi -- http://home.arcor.de/andreas-barth/ PGP 1024/89FB5CE5 DC F1 85 6D A6 45 9C 0F 3B BE F1 D0 C5 D1 D9 0C -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Is debhelper build-essential?

2005-01-14 Thread Andreas Barth
t for gcc. That would still mean a versioned dependency on build-essential. Cheers, Andi -- http://home.arcor.de/andreas-barth/ PGP 1024/89FB5CE5 DC F1 85 6D A6 45 9C 0F 3B BE F1 D0 C5 D1 D9 0C -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Is debhelper build-essential?

2005-01-13 Thread Andreas Barth
* Anthony Towns (aj@azure.humbug.org.au) [050113 14:20]: > Scott James Remnant wrote: > >What say you? > Rename it to "standard-debian-build-environment". :) It's more a "default-debian-build-environment" :) Cheers, Andi -- http://home.arcor.de/andreas-

Re: RunDinstallHourly

2005-01-11 Thread Andreas Barth
d rather improve our autobuilder network, if that is the blocking point. Cheers, Andi -- http://home.arcor.de/andreas-barth/ PGP 1024/89FB5CE5 DC F1 85 6D A6 45 9C 0F 3B BE F1 D0 C5 D1 D9 0C -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Debianized ndiswrapper-source is better on SourceForge

2005-01-10 Thread Andreas Barth
er this as rude. Cheers, Andi -- http://home.arcor.de/andreas-barth/ PGP 1024/89FB5CE5 DC F1 85 6D A6 45 9C 0F 3B BE F1 D0 C5 D1 D9 0C -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: partial patches - server application

2005-01-06 Thread Andreas Barth
* Florian Weimer ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [050106 11:45]: > * Andreas Barth: > > This means: If the local file dists/sid/main/binary-i386/Packages has > > the sha1-sum of f3a0c1972021af11782c661d1bd5214f1d443868, take the patch > > named 2005-01-04-1633.27 (and this patch h

Re: partial patches - server application

2005-01-06 Thread Andreas Barth
* Andreas Metzler ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [050106 11:10]: > On 2005-01-06 Andreas Barth <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > [...] > > deb http://merkel.debian.org/~aba/debian sid main contrib non-free > > (or any other combination of suites and components you like) > > >

partial patches - server application

2005-01-06 Thread Andreas Barth
Dear all, with ideas and code (and a lot more) from Anthony, I was able to put together the server part for partial patches in a way that it seems to me that it might be included in dak. The resulting files are available from deb http://merkel.debian.org/~aba/debian sid main contrib non-free (or

Re: Ignoring the truth or Hiding problems? (was: Are mails sent to xxxx buildd.debian.org sent to /dev/null ?)

2005-01-05 Thread Andreas Barth
y, so you should ask yourself what mistake you made. Cheers, Andi -- http://home.arcor.de/andreas-barth/ PGP 1024/89FB5CE5 DC F1 85 6D A6 45 9C 0F 3B BE F1 D0 C5 D1 D9 0C

whois 4.6.24+volatile3 accepted into woody-volatile

2005-01-01 Thread Andreas Barth
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Re: Problems to upload

2004-12-17 Thread Andreas Barth
heers, Andi -- http://home.arcor.de/andreas-barth/ PGP 1024/89FB5CE5 DC F1 85 6D A6 45 9C 0F 3B BE F1 D0 C5 D1 D9 0C

Re: Linux Core Consortium

2004-12-12 Thread Andreas Barth
, means only to the few people that have direct access to ftp-master, including a wrapper for the security team. Cheers, Andi -- http://home.arcor.de/andreas-barth/ PGP 1024/89FB5CE5 DC F1 85 6D A6 45 9C 0F 3B BE F1 D0 C5 D1 D9 0C

Re: Are BLOBs source code?

2004-12-12 Thread Andreas Barth
* Goswin von Brederlow ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [041212 21:55]: > Andreas Barth <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > * Goswin von Brederlow ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [041212 20:25]: > >> Compiled in the blob MUST comply to the GPL. The nature of being a > >> blob already seems

Re: Linux Core Consortium

2004-12-12 Thread Andreas Barth
mapping mechanismn. (Just look into katie.conf, you'll see the mappings there.) BTW, there is now at http://people.debian.org/~aba/dak.patch a draft of a patch tackling the necessary changes for *security. However, as this is my first real katie-patch, there might be issues I don't (curr

Re: Are BLOBs source code?

2004-12-12 Thread Andreas Barth
* Goswin von Brederlow ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [041212 20:25]: > Compiled in the blob MUST comply to the GPL. The nature of being a > blob already seems to violate that. Only if the blob is derived from the GPL-code. Cheers, Andi -- http://home.arcor.de/andreas-barth/ PGP 1024/89FB5C

Re: Obfuscated source

2004-12-12 Thread Andreas Barth
comply with the DFSG. I didn't argue against that. I just said that the "preferred form of modification" is _not_ the language of the SC, but the language of one of the licenses that we consider as free. Cheers, Andi -- http://home.arcor.de/andreas-barth/ PGP 1024/89FB5CE5 DC F1 85 6D A6 45 9C 0F 3B BE F1 D0 C5 D1 D9 0C

Re: Obfuscated source

2004-12-12 Thread Andreas Barth
> version of the code for their own work. Thus, it's not the preferred > source code under the GPL. "preferred form for modification" is _only_ a GPL-term and not part of the SC. Cheers, Andi -- http://home.arcor.de/andreas-barth/ PGP 1024/89FB5CE5 DC F1 85 6D A6 45 9C 0F 3B BE F1 D0 C5 D1 D9 0C

historic mails from me - please ignore

2004-12-11 Thread Andreas Barth
Hi, I seem to have un-frozen a couple of historic mails. Sorry for the noise, please ignore them. Cheers, Andi -- http://home.arcor.de/andreas-barth/ PGP 1024/89FB5CE5 DC F1 85 6D A6 45 9C 0F 3B BE F1 D0 C5 D1 D9 0C

amd64: ftp-masters questions (was: -= PROPOSAL =- Release sarge with amd64)

2004-12-11 Thread Andreas Barth
oon. I've now asked someone I trust to find out > what these issues are exactly so hopefully progress will be made on > that soon. Is there any progress on this issue? Cheers, Andi -- http://home.arcor.de/andreas-barth/ PGP 1024/89FB5CE5 DC F1 85 6D A6 45 9C 0F 3B BE F1 D0 C5 D1 D9 0C

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