Bug#678679: Spice, current status and the fueture in Debian

2012-06-27 Thread Ron
Michael and I all agree that the experimental package is the only viable candidate for Wheezy. But you will lose that option if you do not upload it very, very soon. The freeze happens in the next few days. Ron -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-ctte-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject

Re: #682010 re celt and mumble referred to the TC

2012-07-19 Thread Ron
, is not in my usual definition of wisdom, and the crux of my disagreement with the crusade that Chris has embarked on here. Since he didn't bother to wait for Josh and I to discuss that further, now we're here ... Sorry, Ron -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-ctte-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject

Bug#682010: #682010 re celt and mumble referred to the TC

2012-07-19 Thread Ron
On Thu, Jul 19, 2012 at 12:55:59PM +0100, Ian Jackson wrote: Ron writes (Re: #682010 re celt and mumble referred to the TC): You understand this is a fairly arbitrary 'daily' snapshot of an experimental research codec, from ~2.5 years ago, that nobody has looked at since that day

Re: mumble and celt, #682010, TC

2012-07-19 Thread Ron
with problems as they come up. Since Ron is listed as co-maintainer for mumble do you feel you have the authority to do this ? I imagine Ron would object, so you would in any case need a TC ruling to arbitrate between you. *sigh* Why would you imagine this? I already told you I have

Bug#682010: re celt and mumble referred to the TC

2012-07-20 Thread Ron
. There may be some way that people can build their own from source or override the 'security' feature on their windows machine to install one from someone else, but someone who actually uses windows will probably have to answer that if you need more details. Ron [We might want to avoid cc'ing

Re: Bug#682010: re celt and mumble referred to the TC

2012-07-20 Thread Ron
On Fri, Jul 20, 2012 at 08:14:48AM -0400, Chris Knadle wrote: On Friday, July 20, 2012 07:54:21, Ian Jackson wrote: Chris Knadle writes (Re: Bug#682010: re celt and mumble referred to the TC): On Thursday, July 19, 2012 19:07:52, Ron wrote: ... What we'd like to do

Re: Bug#682010: re celt and mumble referred to the TC

2012-07-20 Thread Ron
On Fri, Jul 20, 2012 at 08:49:54AM -0400, Chris Knadle wrote: On Friday, July 20, 2012 08:32:01, Ron wrote: On Fri, Jul 20, 2012 at 08:14:48AM -0400, Chris Knadle wrote: On Friday, July 20, 2012 07:54:21, Ian Jackson wrote: […] How will this interact with mumble in other distros, who

Re: Bug#682010: re celt and mumble referred to the TC

2012-07-20 Thread Ron
On Fri, Jul 20, 2012 at 03:25:00PM +0100, Ian Jackson wrote: Ron writes (Bug#682010: re celt and mumble referred to the TC): Making a binary release for windows users is bottlenecked behind Thorvald too right now. The problem goes something like this: This is not relevant

Bug#682010: [mumble] Communication failures due to CELT codec library removal

2012-07-20 Thread Ron
sure the mumble servers can communicate with? * Involved parties ** chris.kna...@coredump.us, Ron r...@debian.org, 682...@bugs.debian.org, Nicos Gollan gt...@spearhead.de, Thorvald Natvig thorv...@natvig.com The above is my current understanding of this bug. Please correct anything

Re: roaraudio dispute

2012-07-20 Thread Ron
of the dependency from ices2 to roaraudio. I have seen this: http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=676541 and the package changelog: * Stop build-depending on libroar-dev or suggesting roaraudio-server. Requested by Ron Lee. But I don't seem to be able to find

Bug#682010: [mumble] Communication failures due to CELT codec library removal

2012-07-20 Thread Ron
On Fri, Jul 20, 2012 at 02:48:07PM -0700, Don Armstrong wrote: I've updated the summary with the suggested changes (at the end). On Sat, 21 Jul 2012, Ron wrote: I think that's roughly right. If there's anything more people need clarified or answered, just ask. [...] And I'm still

Bug#682010: [mumble] Communication failures due to CELT codec library removal

2012-07-20 Thread Ron
... That was an exchange from today, which I only saw just now. Like this wasn't complicated enough already, Ron :/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-ctte-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20120721013556.gv18

Bug#682010: [mumble] Communication failures due to CELT codec library removal

2012-07-22 Thread Ron
On Sat, Jul 21, 2012 at 03:46:34PM -0400, Chris Knadle wrote: The issue I have now is that The Plan that Ron and Thorvald have come up with Will Not Work, depending what the _goal_ is. If the goal is to be able to interoperate with the existing *server* base [which was exactly why this came

Bug#682010: [mumble] Communication failures due to CELT codec library removal

2012-07-23 Thread Ron
On Mon, Jul 23, 2012 at 03:38:44PM +0100, Ian Jackson wrote: Ron writes (Bug#682010: [mumble] Communication failures due to CELT codec library removal): That point is currently still true. Every existing client has the ability to *decode* speex if speex packets arrive. The only thing

Bug#682010: [mumble] Communication failures due to CELT codec library removal

2012-07-23 Thread Ron
the risks and tells me they are happy doing that, then I'm happy to make that happen with no further delay. Is there anything I've still missed? Cheers, Ron -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-ctte-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org

Bug#682010: [mumble] Communication failures due to CELT codec library removal

2012-07-23 Thread Ron
On Mon, Jul 23, 2012 at 02:38:19PM -0400, Chris Knadle wrote: On Monday, July 23, 2012 13:16:55, Ron wrote: On Mon, Jul 23, 2012 at 03:38:44PM +0100, Ian Jackson wrote: […] Maybe that is true for the gamers, but when I asked I didn't get any confirmation that this was what the problem

Bug#682010: [mumble] Communication failures due to CELT codec library removal

2012-07-24 Thread Ron
On Tue, Jul 24, 2012 at 01:17:10PM +0100, Ian Jackson wrote: Ron writes (Re: Bug#682010: [mumble] Communication failures due to CELT codec library removal): My primary concern is with the fact we would be shipping very complicated code, that only about 3 people in the world really

Bug#682010: [mumble] Communication failures due to CELT codec library removal

2012-07-24 Thread Ron
On Tue, Jul 24, 2012 at 06:25:04PM +0100, Ian Jackson wrote: Ron writes (Bug#682010: [mumble] Communication failures due to CELT codec library removal): I understand your line of thinking there, and for 99% of the code in the world, I'd be in complete agreement. I'm not someone who

Bug#682010: Interoperability with speex patch

2012-08-12 Thread Ron
thorough testing of this code told me that they thought it wasn't ... rra Backing up a little bit: Assume that we all decide that it's okay to reintroduce celt. Do we actually have someone who is willing to do the work of reintroducing celt into the archive? I mean, is Ron

Bug#766708: Processed: Re: Bug#766708: breaks multiarch cross building

2014-11-21 Thread Ron
for Jessie. It's definitely desirable to have this on a stable system, since the lock-step requirement of m-a makes it rather more painful to keep this all working on an unstable system where packages are changing rapidly (and because stable deps are kind of an important thing too :) Cheers, Ron

Bug#766708: Processed: Re: Bug#766708: breaks multiarch cross building

2014-11-22 Thread Ron
, at this late stage of the Jessie release. Ron -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-ctte-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: https://lists.debian.org/20141122162145.gu29...@hex.shelbyville.oz

Bug#766708: Processed: Re: Bug#766708: breaks multiarch cross building

2014-11-23 Thread Ron
On Sat, Nov 22, 2014 at 08:51:41PM +, Dimitri John Ledkov wrote: On 22 November 2014 at 16:21, Ron r...@debian.org wrote: Dimitri wrote: Thus multiarch cross tooling is not so relevant for fresh bootstraps, and/or targeting non-debian architectures, or otherwise incomplete systems

Bug#841294: Overrule maintainer of "global" to package a new upstream version

2016-11-08 Thread Ron
On Tue, Nov 08, 2016 at 02:52:29PM +, Ian Jackson wrote: > Ron writes ("Bug#841294: Overrule maintainer of "global" to package a new > upstream version"): > > I think you missed the bit about "comprehending the problem and building > > consensus o

Bug#841294: Overrule maintainer of "global" to package a new upstream version

2016-11-07 Thread Ron
On Mon, Nov 07, 2016 at 12:09:21PM -0800, Nikolaus Rath wrote: > On Nov 07 2016, Ron <r...@debian.org> wrote: > > > I've taken the time to repeat this all again now, because regardless > > of how it got here, I actually have some faith in the new face of the > &

Bug#841294: Overrule maintainer of "global" to package a new upstream version

2016-11-05 Thread Ron
On Thu, Nov 03, 2016 at 09:20:30AM +0100, Philip Hands wrote: > Ron <r...@debian.org> writes: > > > > I can try to clarify that if there's a question in your mind that > > you don't think I touched on there. > > The question that remains is what you actually inten

Bug#841294: Overrule maintainer of "global" to package a new upstream version

2016-11-06 Thread Ron
On Sun, Nov 06, 2016 at 05:09:56PM -0800, Nikolaus Rath wrote: > On Nov 06 2016, Ron <r...@debian.org> wrote: > > On Thu, Nov 03, 2016 at 09:20:30AM +0100, Philip Hands wrote: > >> Ron <r...@debian.org> writes: > >> > > >> > I can

Bug#841294: Overrule maintainer of "global" to package a new upstream version

2016-10-23 Thread Ron
On Sat, Oct 22, 2016 at 05:41:54PM +0200, Vincent Bernat wrote: > ❦ 22 octobre 2016 14:44 +1030, Ron <r...@debian.org> : > > > It seems fair to assume that you aren't seriously asking them to > > endorse the idea of chmod 777 as an acceptable interface for > > dis

Bug#841294: Overrule maintainer of "global" to package a new upstream version

2016-10-24 Thread Ron
On Sun, Oct 23, 2016 at 08:48:53PM +0200, Tollef Fog Heen wrote: > ]] Ron > > > I'm appalled at the status quo. My concern is that we don't make > > that even worse with uninformed decisions. In the absence of good > > information, sometimes the best thing to do is b

Bug#841294: Overrule maintainer of "global" to package a new upstream version

2016-10-25 Thread Ron
On Tue, Oct 25, 2016 at 09:03:40AM +0200, Philip Hands wrote: > Ron <r...@debian.org> writes: > > ... > > That's basically why "just nuke htags now" is starting to look like > > a viable, and even sensible, option. But it's tricky to know who > >

Bug#841294: Overrule maintainer of "global" to package a new upstream version

2016-10-21 Thread Ron
istance is what makes a river crooked, so if we don't want this to end up as some sort of bug infested billabong spreading disease to the people who use it, then we will need some better answers than just "blindly package and upload a new upstream version" - because the minimal work needed to do just that is not the actual problem here. Cheers, Ron

Bug#841294: Overrule maintainer of "global" to package a new upstream version

2016-10-24 Thread Ron
of us have important things to do. So if you don't have anything actually useful to contribute, then please just go away and leave this to the adults to discuss in a mature and sensible fashion. Thank you. Ron

Bug#841294: Overrule maintainer of "global" to package a new upstream version

2016-10-24 Thread Ron
decade after its upstream declared it an obsolete solution, when kms finally made it impossible to keep it working - so I don't underestimate what some people might cling to. Cheers, Ron

Bug#841294: Overrule maintainer of "global" to package a new upstream version

2016-11-15 Thread Ron
ould be fixed in sid now though. Good bug reports are the foundation for getting things fixed, so thanks for setting a good example there. Cheers, Ron

Bug#841294: Overrule maitainer of "global" to package a new upstream version

2016-11-20 Thread Ron
satisfying or technically astute rationale, if that's all it boils down to. I'd like to have something a bit more substantial and fair than that to offer the people who'd get burned without notice by this. Cheers, Ron

Bug#841294: Overrule maintainer of "global" to package a new upstream version

2016-11-01 Thread Ron
e that this is the most > reasonable > outcome, given the current situation. This means that global gets updated to > the > latest version, with a NEWS message stating that htags functionality has been > removed and that users that care about htags should install global5 instead. > >

Bug#841294: Overrule maitainer of "global" to package a new upstream version

2016-12-08 Thread Ron
On Mon, Dec 05, 2016 at 10:13:05PM +0100, Philip Hands wrote: > Ron <r...@debian.org> writes: > > > I'm not insisting that's what we should do. But it's certainly an > > option, and it dodges the bullet of having to say "Sucks to be you" > > without

Bug#841294: Overrule maitainer of "global" to package a new upstream version

2016-12-08 Thread Ron
On Thu, Dec 08, 2016 at 02:39:44PM +0100, Vincent Bernat wrote: > ❦ 8 décembre 2016 23:32 +1030, Ron <r...@debian.org> : > > > One is whatever it is that the third-party ggtags wrapper needs, which > > aiui is what Vincent and Punit are most annoyed about. But I don't &

Bug#841294: Overrule maitainer of "global" to package a new upstream version

2016-12-08 Thread Ron
On Thu, Dec 08, 2016 at 03:41:14PM +0100, Vincent Bernat wrote: > ❦ 9 décembre 2016 00:32 +1030, Ron <r...@debian.org> : > > > How much am I supposed to hound you when you give a non-answer? > > Maybe assume good faith and tell me that the answer doesn't fit yo

Bug#841294: Overrule maitainer of "global" to package a new upstream version

2016-12-08 Thread Ron
On Thu, Dec 08, 2016 at 06:24:32PM +0100, Didier 'OdyX' Raboud wrote: > Le jeudi, 8 décembre 2016, 18.14:12 h CET Tollef Fog Heen a écrit : > > Using open like in the code snippet above is pretty much inexcusable in > > this day and age. > > Fair enough, thanks for the

Bug#841294: Overrule maitainer of "global" to package a new upstream version

2016-12-08 Thread Ron
feel like goldilocks, first I'm bad because I didn't respond enough, now I'm bad because I respond too much. But apparently, I should have actually said just a little more in this one too, to explain to you how perl works :) So I'll do that now! > Le jeudi, 8 décembre 2016, 23.32:44 h CET

Bug#841294: Overrule maitainer of "global" to package a new upstream version

2016-12-09 Thread Ron
On Fri, Dec 09, 2016 at 11:58:02AM +0100, Didier 'OdyX' Raboud wrote: > Le vendredi, 9 décembre 2016, 04.55:20 h CET Ron a écrit : > > > If you haven't yet, I urge you to use our standard interface to report > > > such > > > bugs; please make sure issues like this on

Bug#841294: Overrule maitainer of "global" to package a new upstream version

2016-12-09 Thread Ron
On Fri, Dec 09, 2016 at 05:13:48PM +0100, Didier 'OdyX' Raboud wrote: > > What I see as fundamental difference here was your use of #196762 as a single > point of contact for the problem you were facing with groff 1.19, in which > you > explained, commented and followed up on what the problem

Bug#841294: Overrule maitainer of "global" to package a new upstream version

2016-12-04 Thread Ron
Hi Sam, On Wed, Nov 30, 2016 at 11:39:08AM -0500, Sam Hartman wrote: > >>>>> "Ron" == Ron <r...@debian.org> writes: > > Ron> Hi OdyX, > > Ron> On Wed, Nov 16, 2016 at 03:23:47PM +0100, Didier 'OdyX' Raboud wrote: > >> Hi