Re: Compatibility between Debian amd64 and other distributions

2006-09-26 Thread Andreas Jochens
Hello Frans, Frans Pop wrote: Andreas Jochens wrote: The proposed glibc patch will break the installer. The installer does not have the symlink from /usr/lib64 to /usr/lib. (This is not by accident. It has been decided following some discussion.) The symlink currently is there actually

Re: Compatibility between Debian amd64 and other distributions

2006-09-25 Thread Andreas Jochens
the build process, will break if the native libraries are not in /usr/lib. It would be a _lot_ of work to change the whole distribution to use /usr/lib64 instead of /usr/lib as the location of the native libraries. Regards Andreas Jochens -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject

Re: Bug#367962: Please don't ship a /lib64 symlink in the package on amd64

2006-05-19 Thread Andreas Jochens
. Anything which makes it easier to violate this simple policy will lead to a mixed usage of /usr/lib and /usr/lib64 and consequently to problems which could be difficult to disentangle later. This is just my personal opinion. Regards Andreas Jochens -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: Bug#367962: Please don't ship a /lib64 symlink in the package on amd64

2006-05-19 Thread Andreas Jochens
On 06-May-19 11:02, Goswin von Brederlow wrote: Andreas Jochens [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Anything which makes it easier to violate this simple policy will lead to a mixed usage of /usr/lib and /usr/lib64 and consequently to problems which could be difficult to disentangle later

Re: Bug#365203: rootskel: Please support the ppc64 architecture

2006-04-30 Thread Andreas Jochens
/control as 'wontfix'. Regards Andreas Jochens -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

The Debian package name for the ppc64 architecture is 'ppc64'

2005-09-23 Thread Andreas Jochens
'. Regards Andreas Jochens -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [Debian-ppc64-devel] You can't host a full Debian archive on Alioth

2005-09-20 Thread Andreas Jochens
. Hopefully this will be acceptable. Regards Andreas Jochens -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [Debian-ppc64-devel] You can't host a full Debian archive on Alioth

2005-09-20 Thread Andreas Jochens
On 05-Sep-20 19:01, Bastian Blank wrote: On Tue, Sep 20, 2005 at 05:44:34PM +0200, Andreas Jochens wrote: I currently have no other place to host a public archive for the native 64-bit Debian-ppc64 port. Because of this, I did not yet delete the debian-ppc64 archive from alioth as you

Will the amd64 port be rejected because of the 98% rule?

2005-08-22 Thread Andreas Jochens
, for amd64 to get anywhere near to the requested 98% mark again. Will the amd64 port be rejected if more than two percent of the unmodified source packages from 'unstable' fail to compile? If not, what does the 98% rule really mean? Regards Andreas Jochens -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL

Re: Will the amd64 port be rejected because of the 98% rule?

2005-08-22 Thread Andreas Jochens
On 05-Aug-22 11:48, Andreas Barth wrote: * Andreas Jochens ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [050822 11:36]: I understand that the amd64 port has to be recompiled for the final inclusion into the official archive because the current amd64 packages have not been built by DDs. But currently more than 10

Re: Results of the meeting in Helsinki about the Vancouver proposal

2005-08-22 Thread Andreas Jochens
which are already available on the regular powerpc architecture. Regards Andreas Jochens -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Bug Squashing: List of remaining FTBFS bugs for amd64/sarge

2005-05-06 Thread Andreas Jochens
On 05-May-06 00:24, Steve Langasek wrote: On Fri, May 06, 2005 at 08:58:27AM +0200, Andreas Jochens wrote: A few things you might want to do with this list here: ... - post it to debian-devel so people can poke through these for the BSP this weekend The new list of FTBFS bugs will still

Re: Bug#306639: batik: FTBFS: JAVA_HOME_DIRS incorrect

2005-04-28 Thread Andreas Jochens
and will try to upload fixes as soon as possible. Thank you for all the fixes to my reports which you already uploaded and for your work in general! Regards Andreas Jochens -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Bug#306639: batik: FTBFS: JAVA_HOME_DIRS incorrect

2005-04-28 Thread Andreas Jochens
arches including i386. I think those are 'serious' FTBFS bugs, even for packages in 'contrib'. What should be done with those? I agree that those should be RC, since they are not about packages we don't distribute. Thank you for clarifying this. Regards Andreas Jochens P.S.: Thanks a lot

Re: Bug#306254: axe: FTBFS: Failed to satisfy Build-Depends dependency for axe: libxaw-dev

2005-04-28 Thread Andreas Jochens
On 05-Apr-28 12:21, H. S. Teoh wrote: On Mon, Apr 25, 2005 at 11:42:50AM +0200, Andreas Jochens wrote: E: Package libxaw-dev has no installation candidate E: Failed to satisfy Build-Depends dependency for axe: libxaw-dev The new version 6.1.2-14 in 'sid' does not have this problem

Sarge release for amd64 - Please help to fix the remaining bugs

2005-04-25 Thread Andreas Jochens
has to be completed] Last update: 2005-04-24 Andreas Jochens [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Sarge release for amd64 - Please help to fix the remaining bugs

2005-04-25 Thread Andreas Jochens
the latest ppp makes it into sarge. Again, thanks for looking at my list of amd64 related FTBFS bugs. Regards Andreas Jochens -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Sarge release for amd64 - Please help to fix the remaining bugs

2005-04-25 Thread Andreas Jochens
Steve Langasek wrote: portslave- pppd.h: No such file or directory Hmm, you may want to re-check this against current versions of ppp and portslave. I just re-checked this again and now portslave builds fine in testing, thanks. Regards Andreas Jochens -- To UNSUBSCRIBE

Re: Sarge release for amd64 - Please help to fix the remaining bugs

2005-04-25 Thread Andreas Jochens
Hello Kurt, thank you for the clarifications. On 05-Apr-25 19:49, Kurt Roeckx wrote: On Mon, Apr 25, 2005 at 11:32:25AM +0200, Andreas Jochens wrote: gnustep-base - + does not build with gcc-3.3 (needs gcc = 3.4) It looks like it builds fine with gcc-3.3. But if my memory is any

Re: Sarge release for amd64 - Please help to fix the remaining bugs

2005-04-25 Thread Andreas Jochens
Andrew M.A. Cater wrote: On Mon, Apr 25, 2005 at 11:32:25AM +0200, Andreas Jochens wrote: Debian sarge release for the amd64 architecture --- At the amd porters irc meeting on 2005-04-23 07:00 UTC, the amd64 porting team decided to release

Re: Status of 'sarge' for the amd64 architecture

2005-04-23 Thread Andreas Jochens
Hello Steve, thank you for your reply to my status report. Steve Langasek wrote: Andreas Jochens wrote: It will only be necessary to describe the current situation in the official release documents and include pointers to the separate amd64 archive, which will be provided by the amd64

Status of 'sarge' for the amd64 architecture

2005-04-22 Thread Andreas Jochens
documents and include pointers to the separate amd64 archive, which will be provided by the amd64 porting team anyway. Regards Andreas Jochens P.S.: The above statements represent my personal view only. Other members of the amd64 porting team may view things differently, of course. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE

Re: [Webmin-maintainers] Bug#304208: usermin-contrib: FTBFS: FileManager.java:6: package netscape.javascript does not exist

2005-04-12 Thread Andreas Jochens
On 05-Apr-12 09:30, Jaldhar H. Vyas wrote: Andreas Jochens wrote: When building 'usermin-contrib' on i386/unstable with sun-j2sdk1.4, I get the following error: So don't do that then. The build depends is for j2sdk1.4 (i.e. Blackdown.) 'j2sdk1.4' is virtual package which is provided

Re: [Webmin-maintainers] Bug#304208: usermin-contrib: FTBFS: FileManager.java:6: package netscape.javascript does not exist

2005-04-12 Thread Andreas Jochens
? Thank you for your fast reply and sorry for the noise. Regards Andreas Jochens -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [Debian-ppc64-devel] Call For Help - Please support the ppc64 architecture

2005-03-17 Thread Andreas Jochens
are already in version 2.3.4 have been dropped for this. Only about 30 patches out of more than 100 had to be kept. The newer glibc version works quite well so far. Two other packages needed a small patch to properly run with glibc-2.3.4. Regards Andreas Jochens -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email

Call For Help - Please support the ppc64 architecture

2005-03-16 Thread Andreas Jochens
. Every help will be appreciated, of course. Please help the ppc64 port by including support for the ppc64 architecture in 'dpkg' and other packages. Many thanks to all package maintainers who already applied patches to their packages to support the ppc64 architecture. Regards Andreas Jochens [1

Re: Bug#263743: Call For Help - Please support the ppc64 architecture

2005-03-16 Thread Andreas Jochens
On 05-Mar-16 21:16, Scott James Remnant wrote: On Wed, 2005-03-16 at 20:27 +0100, Andreas Jochens wrote: This is a call for help from the 'ppc64' porters. Which group? According to Sven Luther's e-mail to debian-devel there are currently two competing efforts for this port

Re: Bug#263743: Call For Help - Please support the ppc64 architecture

2005-03-16 Thread Andreas Jochens
On 05-Mar-16 22:01, Scott James Remnant wrote: On Wed, 2005-03-16 at 22:48 +0100, Andreas Jochens wrote: On 05-Mar-16 21:16, Scott James Remnant wrote: On Wed, 2005-03-16 at 20:27 +0100, Andreas Jochens wrote: This is a call for help from the 'ppc64' porters. Which group

Re: [Debian-ppc64-devel] Call For Help - Please support the ppc64 architecture

2005-03-16 Thread Andreas Jochens
require this. The compiler in the current ppc64 archive is fully biarch, i.e. it can produce 64 bit and 32 bit binaries. There is also a 64 bit and a 32 bit glibc version in the archive. Regards Andreas Jochens -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble

Re: Bug#263743: Call For Help - Please support the ppc64 architecture

2005-03-16 Thread Andreas Jochens
the choosen name. Regards Andreas Jochens -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Bug#263743: Call For Help - Please support the ppc64 architecture

2005-03-16 Thread Andreas Jochens
in this case. I did not yet hear a single vote for the package name 'powerpc64' from anybody who is actively involved in the p(ower)pc64 port. Regards Andreas Jochens -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]