Re: Call for Votes (Re: mixmaster /etc/default/*)

2007-12-06 Thread Steve Langasek
On Sun, Dec 02, 2007 at 10:13:38PM +, Ian Jackson wrote: -8- (1) The REMAIL option should not be supplanted or supplemented by anything in an /etc/default file. The current behaviour of the mixmaster init script, to examine /etc/mixmaster/remailer.conf's REMAIL option,

Re: Call for Votes (Re: mixmaster /etc/default/*)

2007-12-06 Thread Andreas Barth
* Ian Jackson ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [071202 23:14]: -8- (1) The REMAIL option should not be supplanted or supplemented by anything in an /etc/default file. The current behaviour of the mixmaster init script, to examine /etc/mixmaster/remailer.conf's REMAIL option, is

Re: Call for Votes (getaddrinfo)

2007-12-06 Thread Anthony Towns
On Thu, Dec 06, 2007 at 01:58:47AM -0800, Steve Langasek wrote: I do think that this bug warrants fixing in stable, I just don't agree that RCness is the relevant and appropriate standard for whether the TC should override a maintainer. You seem to be ok with overriding the libconfig

Re: Call for Votes (Re: mixmaster /etc/default/*)

2007-12-06 Thread Ian Jackson
Andreas Barth writes (Re: Call for Votes (Re: mixmaster /etc/default/*)): I assume the voting means we are not overriding the maintainer, i.e. this vote doesn't restrict the right of the maintainer to adjust the behaviour as he considers appropriate. Absolutely. For the avoidance of any

Re: Package-created usernames

2007-12-06 Thread Ian Jackson
Bdale Garbee writes (Re: Package-created usernames): The second is whether it's acceptable for a Debian package to *require* a specific username. There seems to be at least an implication that if the namespace clash potential is eliminated or significantly reduced, that this would remove the

Re: Call for Votes (getaddrinfo)

2007-12-06 Thread Kurt Roeckx
On Thu, Dec 06, 2007 at 10:22:51PM +1000, Anthony Towns wrote: Well, okay... but shouldn't it still be happening if that's the case? Unless we've somehow lost a significant number of 10.0.0.0/8 hosts that were pointing at ftp/http.us.d.o at that point and now aren't, ike is still the host

Re: Call for Votes (Re: mixmaster /etc/default/*)

2007-12-06 Thread Ian Jackson
Steve Langasek writes (Re: Call for Votes (Re: mixmaster /etc/default/*)): On Sun, Dec 02, 2007 at 10:13:38PM +, Ian Jackson wrote: [1] Choice K: Keep current behaviour and existing policy, as above. [2] Choice F: Further discussion I agree with the rationale provided by Ian with

Flogging dead horses

2007-12-06 Thread Ian Jackson
Anthony Towns writes (Re: TC voting and amendment procedure): The substantive questions haven't been explored. I've been the only one doing that, and we _remain_ with absolutely no evidence [...] Well, I think it must be clear to you that I (and others on the committee) disagree. The question

Re: Call for Votes (getaddrinfo)

2007-12-06 Thread Ian Jackson
Ian Jackson writes (Call for Votes (getaddrinfo)): -8- 1. RFC3484 s6 rule 9 should not be applied to IPv4 addresses by Debian systems, and we DO overrule the maintainer. 2. RFC3484 s6 rule 9 should not be applied to IPv6 addresses by Debian systems. We do NOT overrule the

Re: Call for Votes (Re: mixmaster /etc/default/*)

2007-12-06 Thread Andreas Barth
* Ian Jackson ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [071206 20:08]: For the avoidance of any doubt, I don't think that decisions of the TC should be interpreted as overruling the maintainer unless that is the only possible interpretation of the resolution's text. In the past it has always been clearly stated

RFC3484 s6 rule 9 should not apply

2007-12-06 Thread Ian Jackson
reassign 438179 glibc thanks The Technical Committee has decided as follows: 1. RFC3484 s6 rule 9 should not be applied to IPv4 addresses by Debian systems, and we DO overrule the maintainer. 2. RFC3484 s6 rule 9 should not be applied to IPv6 addresses by Debian systems. We do NOT

Re: RFC3484 s6 rule 9 should not apply

2007-12-06 Thread Aurelien Jarno
On Thu, Dec 06, 2007 at 08:11:51PM +, Ian Jackson wrote: reassign 438179 glibc thanks The Technical Committee has decided as follows: 1. RFC3484 s6 rule 9 should not be applied to IPv4 addresses by Debian systems, and we DO overrule the maintainer. 2. RFC3484 s6 rule 9

Re: Call for Votes (getaddrinfo)

2007-12-06 Thread Ian Jackson
Ian Jackson writes (Re: Call for Votes (getaddrinfo)): Thus X wins and the resolution between -8- above has been passed, overruling the maintainer. I think we should send our rationales, including dissents, to the bug report. I've collated the opinions that people attached to their votes and

Re: RFC3484 s6 rule 9 should not apply

2007-12-06 Thread Andreas Barth
* Aurelien Jarno ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [071206 21:41]: Please DON'T NMU the glibc, we will do the necessary in the next upload to unstable. Does this also apply to stable? The tech ctte didn't do a decision about stable, though it seems that most of us consider it appropriate. So I would prefer

Re: Call for Votes (getaddrinfo)

2007-12-06 Thread Ian Jackson
Steve Langasek writes (Re: Call for Votes (getaddrinfo)): On Thu, Nov 29, 2007 at 07:51:37PM +, Ian Jackson wrote: This time can we _please_ try to get quorum ? You must send in your vote within 7 days of me sending this message, for it to count, ie by approximately 2007-12-06 19:50

Re: Call for Votes (getaddrinfo)

2007-12-06 Thread Kurt Roeckx
On Thu, Dec 06, 2007 at 08:08:06PM +, Ian Jackson wrote: Ian Jackson writes (Call for Votes (getaddrinfo)): -8- 1. RFC3484 s6 rule 9 should not be applied to IPv4 addresses by Debian systems, and we DO overrule the maintainer. 2. RFC3484 s6 rule 9 should not be applied to

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2007-12-06 Thread Debian Bug Tracking System
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Re: RFC3484 s6 rule 9 should not apply

2007-12-06 Thread Anthony Towns
reassign 438179 tech-ctte thanks On Thu, Dec 06, 2007 at 08:11:51PM +, Ian Jackson wrote: The Technical Committee has decided as follows: This is incorrect. The supermajority requirement was not met, see: http://lists.debian.org/debian-ctte/2007/12/msg00067.html As such, no decision's

Re: Call for Votes (getaddrinfo)

2007-12-06 Thread Anthony Towns
On Fri, Dec 07, 2007 at 01:25:29AM +0100, Kurt Roeckx wrote: 7-day period, which has just expired: X F S M Ian, Manoj X F M S Andi M F AJ F defeats S by 4:0, so S is eliminated. F defeats M by 3:1, so M is eliminated. The remaining non-default

Bug#438179: marked as done (Please provide a way to override RFC3484)

2007-12-06 Thread Debian Bug Tracking System
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