Re: First autoremovals happen in about 8 days

2013-10-15 Thread Kevin Chadwick
xxxterm: bugs 718074, flagged for removal in 8.3 days

I use debian offline so it is of no consequence to me however I
just wanted to say.

xxxterm (now xombrero) is by far my favourite browser and rediculously
faster than any other browser whilst still being highly useful and with
better whitelisting control (javascript, cookies) by default too. Not a
user interface for everyone in being primarily keyboard based but
highly functional.

In fact where firefox is almost useless on an old thinkpad, xombrero
is quite snappy.

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Re: First autoremovals happen in about 8 days

2013-10-08 Thread intrigeri
Hi Bill,

Bill Allombert wrote (07 Oct 2013 22:04:21 GMT) :
 I am concerned that in the event a package is removed from testing,
 the people most interested with restoring the package will miss the
 removal, since the package will stay installed on their systems.

I believe there are good chances that this kind of people realize that
there's a problem at some point, if they're particularly interested in
this package: either they're directly affected by the RC bugs
affecting this package (it was removed for a reason, uh), or they'll
miss some new feature implemented in a newer upstream version and will
wonder why it's not in testing yet, or they'll suffer from some other
bug and will have a look at the PTS.

In all of this cases, $PACKAGE is not in testing anymore is likely
to be a stronger help is needed signal for them than the mere
presence of RC bugs.

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Re: First autoremovals happen in about 8 days

2013-10-08 Thread Geoffrey Thomas

On Mon, 7 Oct 2013, Bill Allombert wrote:


I am concerned that in the event a package is removed from testing,
the people most interested with restoring the package will miss the
removal, since the package will stay installed on their systems.


Would this be addressed by building some mechanism (making tombstone 
packages comes to mind, but there are many options) for apt to prompt to 
remove packages that were removed in the archive?


I find myself having to do some package-origin queries with aptitude and 
some cross-checking with the PTS _anyway_ when upgrading a 
nontrivially-complicated system (including one that ever ran testing) 
between releases, so this seems like it's likely to be worth building 
regardless.


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Re: First autoremovals happen in about 8 days

2013-10-08 Thread Steven Chamberlain
On 07/10/13 23:04, Bill Allombert wrote:
 I am concerned that in the event a package is removed from testing,
 the people most interested with restoring the package will miss the
 removal, since the package will stay installed on their systems.
 This, then, cause stable releases to be missing packages that users
 are depending on, which reduce the value of the distribution.

`aptitude search '?obsolete'` is useful after upgrading a system to a
new stable release, a trick I learned from:
http://raphaelhertzog.com/2011/02/07/debian-cleanup-tip-2-get-rid-of-obsolete-packages/

Not directly related to this:  a side effect of running debsecan is that
if I see security issues accumulating for some package, I would likely
check the PTS to see why it remains unfixed, or decide to remove or
replace the package with something else that's still maintained.

So if `aptitude search '?obsolete'` was run periodically, like debsecan,
it could email the system admin when new items appear on the obsoletes
list.  I imagine that'd be a good way to notify of the situation being
described here?

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Re: First autoremovals happen in about 8 days

2013-10-08 Thread Charles Plessy
Le Mon, Oct 07, 2013 at 10:51:42PM -0300, Lisandro Damián Nicanor Pérez Meyer a 
écrit :
 
 I really doubt that possibly interested people will subscribe to all the 
 packages they are interested in.

Hello everybody,

in one way or the other, there will always be some people who miss the
information because it is sent in a channel that they are not familiar with.

I think that the best solution is to have the information available in a
systematic manner, and then let people rely on that source to automate display
or messaging in the communication channel that is suitable for the use case
that they want to support.

This would make it easy for volunteers to write a script that periodically
sends emails to this list about upcoming removals, or to add this information
to the periodical WNPP email, so that it does not add to the traffic.

By the way, I think that the automated removals (and the automated autopkg
testing) are a big step forward.  Let me take this opportunity to thank to the
Release team for this !

Have a nice day,

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Re: First autoremovals happen in about 8 days

2013-10-08 Thread Henrique de Moraes Holschuh
On Tue, 08 Oct 2013, Geoffrey Thomas wrote:
 Would this be addressed by building some mechanism (making tombstone
 packages comes to mind, but there are many options) for apt to
 prompt to remove packages that were removed in the archive?

It is already addressed by the user-oriented package management frontends.
E.g.  aptitude lists them separately.

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Re: First autoremovals happen in about 8 days

2013-10-07 Thread Bill Allombert
On Sun, Oct 06, 2013 at 09:52:17AM +0200, Niels Thykier wrote:
 Hi,
 
 This is a friendly reminder.  If you are listed below, then the listed
 packages of yours will be automatically removed from testing within 15
 days.  The first batch of automatic removals will happen in about 8
 days.
 
 Please remember that fixing your RC bug(s) can sometimes be as
 simple as correcting the metadata of the bugs (see also #725321[0]) or
 (where inflated) downgrade the severity of the bug.
 
 This mail was a one-time public service annoucement; I *do not*
 intend to send out reminders in the future.  Remember that you can
 pull the same data from [1] or [2].

I am concerned that in the event a package is removed from testing,
the people most interested with restoring the package will miss the
removal, since the package will stay installed on their systems.
This, then, cause stable releases to be missing packages that users
are depending on, which reduce the value of the distribution.

This is not a new problem, and it is not entirely clear whether such
early removal will reduce or increase this issue. However we should
address it if we want Debian stable releases to be something users
can rely on.

So while it is possible that the _maintainer_ is not needing a friendly
remainder, other interested third-party might.

Cheers,
Bill.


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Re: First autoremovals happen in about 8 days

2013-10-07 Thread Holger Levsen
Hi,

On Dienstag, 8. Oktober 2013, Bill Allombert wrote:
 So while it is possible that the _maintainer_ is not needing a friendly
 remainder, other interested third-party might.

anyone interested in a package can opt-in via the PTS...


cheers,
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Re: First autoremovals happen in about 8 days

2013-10-07 Thread Lisandro Damián Nicanor Pérez Meyer
On Tuesday 08 October 2013 01:51:41 Holger Levsen wrote:
 Hi,
 
 On Dienstag, 8. Oktober 2013, Bill Allombert wrote:
  So while it is possible that the _maintainer_ is not needing a friendly
  remainder, other interested third-party might.
 
 anyone interested in a package can opt-in via the PTS...

I really doubt that possibly interested people will subscribe to all the 
packages they are interested in.

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First autoremovals happen in about 8 days

2013-10-06 Thread Niels Thykier
Hi,

This is a friendly reminder.  If you are listed below, then the listed
packages of yours will be automatically removed from testing within 15
days.  The first batch of automatic removals will happen in about 8
days.

Please remember that fixing your RC bug(s) can sometimes be as
simple as correcting the metadata of the bugs (see also #725321[0]) or
(where inflated) downgrade the severity of the bug.

This mail was a one-time public service annoucement; I *do not*
intend to send out reminders in the future.  Remember that you can
pull the same data from [1] or [2].

~Niels

[0] You may (or may not) find the following blog post about the BTS
interesting as well:

  http://rhonda.deb.at/blog/debian/on-BTS-usage.html

It is admittedly more focused on stable, but some of the remarks may
still apply to bugs filed against your package.  That post can (also)
help you clean up your package's BTS page and ensuring that your
packages have no open RC bugs still affecting stable.

[1] http://udd.debian.org/cgi-bin/autoremovals.cgi

[2] http://udd.debian.org/cgi-bin/autoremovals.yaml.cgi


   8  8  8 

Adam C. Powell, IV hazel...@debian.org
   babel: bugs 723789, flagged for removal in 12.7 days

A Mennucc1 mennu...@debian.org
   wfrog: bugs 717328, flagged for removal in 8.3 days

AGOSTINI Yves agost...@univ-metz.fr
   libjifty-plugin-comment-perl: bugs 720789, flagged for removal in 8.3 days
   libjifty-plugin-oauth-perl: bugs 720791, flagged for removal in 8.3 days
   libjifty-plugin-wikitoolbar-perl: bugs 720792, flagged for removal in 8.3 
days

Adrian Knoth a...@drcomp.erfurt.thur.de
   timemachine: bugs 713592, flagged for removal in 8.3 days

Agney Lopes Roth Ferraz ag...@debian.org
   hardinfo: bugs 713717, flagged for removal in 8.3 days

Al Nikolov cl...@debian.org
   trac-datefieldplugin: bugs 714985, flagged for removal in 8.3 days
   trac-icalviewplugin: bugs 714985, flagged for removal in 8.3 days
   trac-wikitablemacro: bugs 714985, flagged for removal in 8.3 days

Alastair McKinstry mckins...@debian.org
   gramadoir: bugs 723881, flagged for removal in 13.7 days

Alejandro Garrido Mota garridom...@gmail.com
   libnet-dri-perl: bugs 710954, flagged for removal in 8.3 days

Alessandro De Zorzi l...@nonlontano.it
   libapache2-mod-ruid2: bugs 709465, flagged for removal in 8.3 days
   phamm: bugs 669841, flagged for removal in 8.3 days

Alessio Treglia ales...@debian.org
   din: bugs 718165, flagged for removal in 8.3 days
   jack-rack: bugs 705053,713468, flagged for removal in 8.3 days
   lv2proc: bugs 713715, flagged for removal in 8.3 days
   mp3fs: bugs 713614, flagged for removal in 8.3 days
   timemachine: bugs 713592, flagged for removal in 8.3 days
   transmageddon: bugs 713205, flagged for removal in 8.3 days

Alexander Reichle-Schmehl toli...@debian.org
   nagvis: bugs 709956, flagged for removal in 8.3 days

Alexander Wirt formo...@debian.org
   hotkeys: bugs 713671, flagged for removal in 8.3 days
   nagvis: bugs 709956, flagged for removal in 8.3 days
   nsca: bugs 721644, flagged for removal in 8.3 days
   vlock: bugs 702705, flagged for removal in 11.2 days

Alexandre Quessy alexan...@quessy.net
   supercollider: bugs 713670, flagged for removal in 8.3 days

Anders Lennartsson and...@lennartsson.se
   setpwc: bugs 717129, flagged for removal in 8.3 days

Andreas Barth a...@not.so.argh.org
   dpkg-sig: bugs 723867, flagged for removal in 13.4 days

Andreas Hildebrandt andreas.hildebra...@uni-mainz.de
   ball: bugs 720681,718144, flagged for removal in 8.3 days

Andreas Rottmann ro...@debian.org
   g-wrap: bugs 713203, flagged for removal in 8.3 days

Andreas Tille ti...@debian.org
   gdpc: bugs 713652, flagged for removal in 8.3 days
   gwyddion: bugs 713565, flagged for removal in 8.3 days
   praat: bugs 713597, flagged for removal in 8.3 days
   r-other-mott-happy: bugs 709190,713284, flagged for removal in 8.3 days

Andrei Zavada johnhom...@gmail.com
   aghermann: bugs 713574, flagged for removal in 8.3 days

Andres Mejia ame...@debian.org
   vdpau-video: bugs 713612, flagged for removal in 8.3 days

Andrew Lee (李健秋) ajq...@debian.org
   lxappearance-obconf: bugs 722112, flagged for removal in 8.3 days
   lxlauncher: bugs 722110, flagged for removal in 8.3 days
   scim-chewing: bugs 707442, flagged for removal in 8.3 days

Andrew McMillan a...@debian.org
   davical: bugs 717043, flagged for removal in 8.3 days

Andrey Rahmatullin w...@wrar.name
   mpdscribble: bugs 710066, flagged for removal in 8.3 days

Andy Spencer andy753...@gmail.com
   aweather: bugs 713613, flagged for removal in 8.3 days

Angel Abad an...@debian.org
   libjavascript-packer-perl: bugs 711629, flagged for removal in 8.3 days

Ansgar Burchardt ans...@debian.org
   libjavascript-packer-perl: bugs 711629, flagged for removal in 8.3 days

Arjan Oosting ar...@debian.org
   drift: bugs 713313, flagged for removal in 8.3 days

Ask Hjorth Larsen asklar...@gmail.com
   python-ase: bugs 717989, 

Re: First autoremovals happen in about 8 days

2013-10-06 Thread Steven Chamberlain
Hi,

On 06/10/13 08:52, Niels Thykier wrote:
kfreebsd-8: bugs 720470,717959,720476, flagged for removal in 14.7 days

Not sure why that's appearing in this list because:
1. the package was removed from testing over a month ago at the request
of the maintainer, and
2. when that happened the bugs listed were closed?

Perhaps this is because the script does not notice 1. and therefore
despite 2. it still thinks affected versions are in testing?

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Re: First autoremovals happen in about 8 days

2013-10-06 Thread Niels Thykier
On 2013-10-06 13:09, Steven Chamberlain wrote:
 Hi,
 
 On 06/10/13 08:52, Niels Thykier wrote:
kfreebsd-8: bugs 720470,717959,720476, flagged for removal in 14.7 days
 
 Not sure why that's appearing in this list because:
 1. the package was removed from testing over a month ago at the request
 of the maintainer, and
 2. when that happened the bugs listed were closed?
 
 Perhaps this is because the script does not notice 1. and therefore
 despite 2. it still thinks affected versions are in testing?
 
 Regards,
 

Hey,

Thanks for reporting this.

It looks like this is caused by kfreebsd-8 being marked with
Extra-Source-Only: yes, presumably because something lists it in
Built-Using.  For most parts it means the package is already removed
but not all tools seem to recognise this e.g. the PTS, the BTS
(allegedly) and by extension the auto-removal script.

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Re: First autoremovals happen in about 8 days

2013-10-06 Thread Cyril Brulebois
Niels Thykier ni...@thykier.net (2013-10-06):
 It looks like this is caused by kfreebsd-8 being marked with
 Extra-Source-Only: yes, presumably because something lists it in
 Built-Using.  For most parts it means the package is already removed
 but not all tools seem to recognise this e.g. the PTS, the BTS
 (allegedly) and by extension the auto-removal script.

$ apt-cache show debian-installer-7.0-netboot-kfreebsd-amd64|grep 
Built-Using|grep -o 'kfreebsd\S\+'
kfreebsd-8
kfreebsd-9

Mraw,
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Re: First autoremovals happen in about 8 days

2013-10-06 Thread Steven Chamberlain
On 06/10/13 08:52, Niels Thykier wrote:
 Laszlo Boszormenyi (GCS) g...@debian.org
vice: bugs 693641, flagged for removal in 8.3 days

Bug #693641 is another interesting edge case:

Found in version vice/2.3.dfsg-4 (testing, unstable, stable)
Fixed in version vice/2.4.dfsg-1 (unstable)
Marked as done

But it didn't quite build everywhere - kfreebsd-amd64 and s390 still
have out-of-date 2.3.dfsg-4 binaries in sid.  I'm not sure if this logic
was intended, but it actually makes sense:  the fixed version cannot
migrate to testing and replace the buggy one.

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