Bug#766708: breaks multiarch cross building

2014-10-26 Thread Wookey
, although I don't actually think that's a good idea either. Wookey -- Principal hats: Linaro, Emdebian, Wookware, Balloonboard, ARM http://wookware.org/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-ctte-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org

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

2014-10-31 Thread Wookey
to keep the cross-binutils and cross-gcc packages in sync. these bugs ? It seems to me that it would be easy to come up with a workflow that allowed Matthias to usertag these kind of bugs and hand them over to the cross teams. Sounds reasonable to me. Asking Wookey whether he would like

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

2014-11-03 Thread Wookey
+++ Helmut Grohne [2014-11-01 10:38 +0100]: On Sat, Nov 01, 2014 at 01:46:48AM +, Wookey wrote: To me that sounds like this method is actually the current de-facto default in Debian - it is certainly at least on a par. I don't think that a feature being de-facto default is a good

Re: Bug#766708: breaks multiarch cross building

2014-11-06 Thread Wookey
that it was not invented for escalation in the war between makefiles and command arguments.) The 4.9.2-1 gcc 4.9 upload adds the override directive. Wookey -- Principal hats: Linaro, Emdebian, Wookware, Balloonboard, ARM http://wookware.org/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-ctte-requ

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

2014-11-20 Thread Wookey
was not the only problem there: missing work on britney and wanna-build means they wouldn't have migrated in time independently of this issue and I was not able to persuade the release team to make a special exception on 'release goal' grounds. Wookey -- Principal hats: Linaro, Debian, Wookware, ARM http

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

2014-11-20 Thread Wookey
rules. IMHO it makes a lot more sense to maintain it in gcc packagig where it already is rather than do it outside as a big quilt stack, but that won't work if the maintainer doesn't apply patches. I just filed 770413, for example. Wookey -- Principal hats: Linaro, Debian, Wookware, ARM http

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

2014-11-23 Thread Wookey
-buildable at all and whose cross-build-deps are installable: (e.g. test on 100 packages here: http://people.linaro.org/~wookey/buildd/testing/sbuild/latest/status.html ) Yes there is plenty of stuff that doesn't cross-build but that's not because these toolchains are particularly 'incomplete

Bug#766708: supported GCC based cross compilers in Debian

2014-11-28 Thread Wookey
to understand it, and still claiming that he is able to simplify it. I'm not sure who you are referring to here, but just to clarify: the mentors for that project were Hector Oron and Marcin Juszkiewicz, not me. Earlier this year, and last time at the bootstrap sprint in Paris, Wookey committed to work

Bug#766708: counterfeiting the summary of the bootstrap sprint

2014-12-04 Thread Wookey
+++ Matthias Klose [2014-12-04 20:41 +0100]: So in the last email Wookey enumerates a lot of things what he did during the last months. Maybe he should have mentioned his ballerina lessons used for his performances during the DebConf talks too. However ever all of these have in common

Bug#771070: requirements for cross toolchain packages in the distribution

2014-12-18 Thread Wookey
, but I've gone on long enough already :-) Wookey -- Principal hats: Linaro, Debian, Wookware, ARM http://wookware.org/ -- 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

Bug#771070: requirements for cross toolchain packages in the distribution

2014-12-27 Thread Wookey
+++ Ben Longbons [2014-12-18 12:23 -0800]: On Thu, Dec 18, 2014 at 8:36 AM, Wookey woo...@wookware.org wrote: MA-built vs in-arch --- I guess an interesting question is 'what does the cross-compiler actually _use_ the foreign arch libc for'? Does it need its own

Re: Bug#797533: New CTTE members

2015-09-10 Thread Wookey
+++ Don Armstrong [2015-09-10 09:57 -0500]: > On Wed, 09 Sep 2015, Wookey wrote: > > Well, maybe. Maybe there were discussions to that effect I didn't see. > > In that case fair enough. The impression given was of a somewhat slow > > process and members not having time to rev

Re: Bug#797533: New CTTE members

2015-09-09 Thread Wookey
it gives a little external perspective. Wookey -- Principal hats: Linaro, Debian, Wookware, ARM http://wookware.org/

Re: Bug#797533: New CTTE members

2015-09-09 Thread Wookey
+++ Steve Langasek [2015-09-09 12:17 -0700]: > On Wed, Sep 09, 2015 at 05:30:03PM +0100, Wookey wrote: > > > So what I learned from this is that, as currently operating, the > > committee is incapable of making quick 'overrule unreasonableness' > > decisions.

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

2016-10-25 Thread Wookey
e've done a lot in the last few years to improve that situation. I invite the TC to reflect on how this would have played out if global had had a different maintainer. This is (or should be) about attitude, responsiveness, and helpfulness, at least as much as the technical (htags) debate. Wookey

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

2016-10-19 Thread Wookey
with, but asking the TC to rule seems like a more correct way to try and unbung this situation. Wookey -- Principal hats: Linaro, Debian, Wookware, ARM http://wookware.org/ signature.asc Description: Digital signature

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

2016-11-14 Thread Wookey
d. only 2 files generated: GPATH GTAGS global 6.5.4 (upstream release) works on both. ( I also found 844330 in the process, which is just a packaging update issue ) Wookey -- Principal hats: Linaro, Debian, Wookware, ARM http://wookware.org/ signature.asc Description: Digital signature

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

2016-11-25 Thread Wookey
lude details of the known issues in one of the 'please can we have a new version' bugs. I think it's more useful to have the current state of play avalable than for me to keep messing with it privately. Wookey -- Principal hats: Linaro, Debian, Wookware, ARM http://wookware.org/ signature.asc Description: Digital signature

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

2016-11-16 Thread Wookey
On 2016-11-16 06:02 +1030, Ron wrote: > On Mon, Nov 14, 2016 at 04:55:06PM +0000, Wookey wrote: > > On 2016-10-25 07:29 +0200, Tollef Fog Heen wrote: > > > > > > FWIW, it worked fine in a test run I just did (on linux-4.9 rc 1), and > > > last time I used it

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

2016-11-17 Thread Wookey
y package without > reverse dependencies. I'm really afraid that a side-effect of the TC > discussion will be yet-another release without an up-to-date src:global. Thank you for some sanity on this matter. Wookey -- Principal hats: Linaro, Debian, Wookware, ARM http://wookware.org/

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

2016-12-08 Thread Wookey
On 2016-12-01 22:56 +0100, Philip Hands wrote: > Wookey <woo...@wookware.org> writes: > > On 2016-11-30 16:56 +, Ian Jackson wrote: > > > >> > And this last bit (integration with system web server) is the > >> > functionality that had securit

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

2016-12-08 Thread Wookey
s safe but the same shoddy code in v6 cannot be let out. Did htmake+htconfig stop people entering $pattern in the form? > It is what we now have enabled in the package that Wookey uploaded to > experimental. Indeed. Bugs (and even better patches) are welcome. > > Also, for people tha

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

2016-12-09 Thread Wookey
accepted :-) > Wookey: if you want the complete git history, right back to the very first > package in 1999, you can grab it from the Vcs-Git URL in the sid package. > I'm not going to go Full Bruce and rage delete it, but eventually I should > decruft alioth and remove it from there,

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

2016-12-09 Thread Wookey
On 2016-12-09 11:58 +0900, Shigio YAMAGUCHI wrote: > Hello all, > 2016 19:05:55 +, Wookey wrote: > > The .cgi scripts are generated from .in files which are correctly > > parameterised with @PERLPATH@ and @GLOBALPATH@ etc. Upstream > > unhelpfully ships pre-generated

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

2016-12-09 Thread Wookey
On 2016-12-08 17:03 +0100, Didier 'OdyX' Raboud wrote: Sorry missed this in all yesterday's mail. > Wookey, Vincent, Punit: would any of you be willing to receive the 'global' > package maintainer hat? (which would of course come with the possibility to > share and change the maintain

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

2016-12-09 Thread Wookey
On 2016-12-08 17:33 +, Wookey wrote: > On 2016-12-08 23:32 +1030, Ron wrote: > > But it also outputs a .htaccess enabling execution in the directory > > where the output is generated, whether you want to use it from there > > or not (and adds a second CGI, and a bunch of

Re: Bug#841294: global maintainer : Draft ballot

2016-12-14 Thread Wookey
- Reaffirm Ron Lee as 'global' maintainer (§6.1.2) > > - Option B - Declare Wookey as 'global' maintainer (§6.1.2) > > - Option C - Decline to rule, consider case closed > > - Option FD - Further discussion The package was offered for adoption, and Punit and I have adopted it. 6.5.5

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

2016-11-30 Thread Wookey
ment that the debian packaging shouldn't either. I certainly don't think that the fact that this was done once is a good reason to stop packaging new releases. Wookey -- Principal hats: Linaro, Debian, Wookware, ARM http://wookware.org/ signature.asc Description: Digital signature

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

2016-11-30 Thread Wookey
ionality that had security concerns raised by Ron [etc.] > > So, to be clear, it is this functionality which is dropped in the > package that you and Wookey uploaded to experimental/delayed ? Said package is available as of today: https://buildd.debian.org/status/package.php?p=global=experimen

Bug#881339: marked as done (allow node-babel-preset-env to build depend on itself)

2018-02-22 Thread Wookey
-dependency at the same version is much more of a problem than self-dependency at older versions). Anyway, Pirate - I suggest you ask about this on debian-devel where we can have a pulic discussion about policy and whether there is anything special about this case which makes it not sui

Re: Bug#914897: debootstrap, buster: Please disabled merged /usr by default

2018-12-06 Thread Wookey
ut I'd just like to say that everything Wouter said makes a whole lot of sense to me. We know how to do this sort of transition, and yes it takes some time, but that's OK. Using usrmerge to try and shortcut this, producing the awkward 'dual-state' issues does not seem to me to be a good way to go.

Re: Bug#994275: Reverting breaking changes in debianutils

2021-09-25 Thread Wookey
le thing has been the opportunity for whichy wordplay :-) Cheers Wookey -- Principal hats: Linaro, Debian, Wookware, ARM http://wookware.org/ signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Bug#994275: Draft resolution for reverting changes in debianutils

2021-10-17 Thread Wookey
ckage to another does not need to be printed on every usage of that binary. Indeed it is actively unhelpful to do so. Wookey -- Principal hats: Linaro, Debian, Wookware, ARM http://wookware.org/ signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Bug#994275: Reverting breaking changes in debianutils

2021-10-26 Thread Wookey
On 2021-10-24 19:08 +, Clint Adams wrote: > On Sun, Oct 17, 2021 at 02:33:44PM +0100, Wookey wrote: > > I think causing build failures is enough reason to say this. I don't > > suppose that mine is the only one. Yes those builds are buggy and > > should not do this, and w

Bug#1007717: Native source package format with non-native version

2022-03-16 Thread Wookey
sure Ian is right that there is a trend towards git from tarballs and dscs, but I just question whether we know it is 'the vast majority'? Are there really now very few maintainers using the 'classic tooling'? How do we know? Wookey -- Principal hats: Debian, Wookware, ARM http://wookware.org/ sign

Bug#994388: dpkg currently warning about merged-usr systems

2022-04-08 Thread Wookey
t if it's not done we are just stuck. Wookey -- Principal hats: Debian, Wookware, ARM http://wookware.org/ signature.asc Description: PGP signature