Re: Towards Debian Buster Alpha 4

[John Paul Adrian Glaubitz]

Hi!

On 08/29/2018 06:04 PM, Cyril Brulebois wrote:
>> There is one regression on powerpc/ppc64 (I know, not release architectures)
>> as a result of changes in the kernel packaging (linux-bootwrapper package)
>> that I would like to get fixed before the next upload.
> 
> OK, I'll try to accomodate that. I guess this would mean you don't need
> extra steps on the ports side after the debian-installer upload, if we
> managed to make that happen in the right order?
> 
> Am I correct in assuming you'll need a fixed src:linux in testing?
It turns out the fix was necessary in the kernel-wedge package and
Ben has pushed something which I have tested to work:

> https://salsa.debian.org/installer-team/kernel-wedge/commit/2cd28c2b28c1af73b03bbc9d9a26c9ff4ae2aa43

So someone just needs to merge this.

Adrian

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Re: Towards Debian Buster Alpha 4

[Holger Wansing]

Hi,

Cyril Brulebois  wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> Cyril Brulebois  (2018-07-31):
> > Being back from a rather busy quarter, I'd like to resume releasing d-i
> > more frequently. I'd like to publish a new alpha somewhen during the
> > next few days/weeks (if that's fine with debian-cd).
> > 
> > If you have changes pending in master branches that need uploading, or
> > specific packages that need to reach testing, please mention which, and
> > why.
> > 
> > On the release team side, there's an ongoing qt transition. I'll assess
> > whether/when it makes sense to freeze all udeb-producing packages once
> > I've received feedback regarding needed packages.
> 
> Turns out August was pretty busy as well… and I haven't been able to prepare
> things as I wanted. Thankfully Holger's been invested with some extra powers
> and we now have a huge bunch of packages uploaded. Let's see if I can manage
> to make the new alpha happen in the next few days or weeks.

As of now, I uploaded most of the packages with translation updates, and 
some more trivial uploades too.
(There are again a few translation updates pending, but I would not intend
to upload them for the Alpha 4).
There are still some more d-i packages to upload, but I don't want to do that 
myself (at the moment).
So, from my point, I would be ready for Alpha 4 so far :-)


Ah, maybe upload installation-guide?
Would be a good time for that. Also, to get installation-guide back into
testing (has been removed two months ago).


And:
I want to point to one package, on which I had to do some fix-ups today:
bterm-unifont.
Version 1.5 has been uploaded 5 months ago by bubulle, but apparently he
forgot to push the changes to VCS.
I did that today, which meant to revert Kibi's latest changes, set a tag
for 1.5, and re-apply Kibi's changes again for 1.6, to get the whole thing
into a clean state again.
I hope I got it all right.
This just for your information, to explain the backward-forward-dance.



Holger


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Re: Towards Debian Buster Alpha 4

[Steve McIntyre]

On Wed, Aug 29, 2018 at 02:53:16PM +0200, Cyril Brulebois wrote:
>Hi,
>
>Cyril Brulebois  (2018-07-31):
>> Being back from a rather busy quarter, I'd like to resume releasing d-i
>> more frequently. I'd like to publish a new alpha somewhen during the
>> next few days/weeks (if that's fine with debian-cd).
>> 
>> If you have changes pending in master branches that need uploading, or
>> specific packages that need to reach testing, please mention which, and
>> why.
>> 
>> On the release team side, there's an ongoing qt transition. I'll assess
>> whether/when it makes sense to freeze all udeb-producing packages once
>> I've received feedback regarding needed packages.
>
>Turns out August was pretty busy as well… and I haven't been able to prepare
>things as I wanted. Thankfully Holger's been invested with some extra powers
>and we now have a huge bunch of packages uploaded. Let's see if I can manage
>to make the new alpha happen in the next few days or weeks.

OK! :-)

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Re: Towards Debian Buster Alpha 4

[Cyril Brulebois]

John Paul Adrian Glaubitz  (2018-08-29):
> On 08/29/2018 02:53 PM, Cyril Brulebois wrote:
> > Turns out August was pretty busy as well… and I haven't been able to prepare
> > things as I wanted. Thankfully Holger's been invested with some extra powers
> > and we now have a huge bunch of packages uploaded. Let's see if I can manage
> > to make the new alpha happen in the next few days or weeks.
> 
> There is one regression on powerpc/ppc64 (I know, not release architectures)
> as a result of changes in the kernel packaging (linux-bootwrapper package)
> that I would like to get fixed before the next upload.

OK, I'll try to accomodate that. I guess this would mean you don't need
extra steps on the ports side after the debian-installer upload, if we
managed to make that happen in the right order?

Am I correct in assuming you'll need a fixed src:linux in testing?


Cheers,
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Re: Towards Debian Buster Alpha 4

[John Paul Adrian Glaubitz]

On 08/29/2018 02:53 PM, Cyril Brulebois wrote:
> Turns out August was pretty busy as well… and I haven't been able to prepare
> things as I wanted. Thankfully Holger's been invested with some extra powers
> and we now have a huge bunch of packages uploaded. Let's see if I can manage
> to make the new alpha happen in the next few days or weeks.

There is one regression on powerpc/ppc64 (I know, not release architectures)
as a result of changes in the kernel packaging (linux-bootwrapper package)
that I would like to get fixed before the next upload.

I neeed some help from Ben though since I haven't found a suitable solution
yet. Should be a small patch though once I know how to fix it and I try to
get it committed as soon as possible not to block Alpha 4.

Adrian

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Re: Towards Debian Buster Alpha 4

[Cyril Brulebois]

Hi,

Cyril Brulebois  (2018-07-31):
> Being back from a rather busy quarter, I'd like to resume releasing d-i
> more frequently. I'd like to publish a new alpha somewhen during the
> next few days/weeks (if that's fine with debian-cd).
> 
> If you have changes pending in master branches that need uploading, or
> specific packages that need to reach testing, please mention which, and
> why.
> 
> On the release team side, there's an ongoing qt transition. I'll assess
> whether/when it makes sense to freeze all udeb-producing packages once
> I've received feedback regarding needed packages.

Turns out August was pretty busy as well… and I haven't been able to prepare
things as I wanted. Thankfully Holger's been invested with some extra powers
and we now have a huge bunch of packages uploaded. Let's see if I can manage
to make the new alpha happen in the next few days or weeks.


Cheers,
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D-I release manager -- Release team member -- Freelance Consultant


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Re: Towards Debian Buster Alpha 4

[Hideki Yamane]

Hi,

On Tue, 31 Jul 2018 02:06:40 +0200
Cyril Brulebois  wrote:
> If you have changes pending in master branches that need uploading, or
> specific packages that need to reach testing, please mention which, and
> why.

 I failed to upload debootstrap 1.0.107 but will do it after DebConf.
 And will upload 1.0.108 with some fixes (not apply speedup patches).


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Re: Towards Debian Buster Alpha 4

[Philip Hands]

Hi Cyril,

Cyril Brulebois  writes:

> Hi,
>
> Being back from a rather busy quarter, I'd like to resume releasing d-i
> more frequently. I'd like to publish a new alpha somewhen during the
> next few days/weeks (if that's fine with debian-cd).
>
> If you have changes pending in master branches that need uploading, or
> specific packages that need to reach testing, please mention which, and
> why.

I seem to have volunteered to do something about getting the blends
selection in d-i to be a thing.

What do you think about reinstating my "simplified-tasksel" stuff as a
starting point?  At least that would allow the blends tasks to be put
back in, without normal users being bothered with a vast menu.[1]

On the other hand, some sort of multi-level menu in tasksel might well
be better, but I've not really worked out what that should look like.

If we come up with something better, and then I'll try to make that a
reality, but I'd like to hear what you think is going to be acceptable.

Cheers, Phil.

[1] I can choose one of the variants of that and do it as a
pu/... branch against the current master -- I was looking at the
previous versions that were done in the heat of the moment, and failing
to decide which version would be preferable, so that's another reason
I'm looking for feedback about it.
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Towards Debian Buster Alpha 4

[Cyril Brulebois]

Hi,

Being back from a rather busy quarter, I'd like to resume releasing d-i
more frequently. I'd like to publish a new alpha somewhen during the
next few days/weeks (if that's fine with debian-cd).

If you have changes pending in master branches that need uploading, or
specific packages that need to reach testing, please mention which, and
why.

On the release team side, there's an ongoing qt transition. I'll assess
whether/when it makes sense to freeze all udeb-producing packages once
I've received feedback regarding needed packages.


Cheers,
-- 
Cyril Brulebois (k...@debian.org)
D-I release manager -- Release team member -- Freelance Consultant


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