Re: [cut-team] Time to merge back ubuntu improvements!

2013-01-14 Thread Neil McGovern
On Sat, Jan 12, 2013 at 06:55:04PM +0100, Svante Signell wrote: Of course there was a reason for introducing testing. And I did not propose it to go away either. It should stay for packages marked as being part of unstable at freeze time. Probably a separate repo for frozen unstable is needed.

Re: [cut-team] Time to merge back ubuntu improvements!

2013-01-14 Thread Svante Signell
On Mon, 2013-01-14 at 13:44 +, Neil McGovern wrote: On Sat, Jan 12, 2013 at 06:55:04PM +0100, Svante Signell wrote: Of course there was a reason for introducing testing. And I did not propose it to go away either. It should stay for packages marked as being part of unstable at freeze

Re: [cut-team] Time to merge back ubuntu improvements!

2013-01-14 Thread Martin Eberhard Schauer
[0] http://wiki.debian.org/ReleaseProposals Nice page, will study it in more detail in due time. I did not see my proposal there, is it possible to add new information to that page? It's a wiki. Just create an account an log in. Martin -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to

Re: [cut-team] Time to merge back ubuntu improvements!

2013-01-12 Thread Svante Signell
On Fri, 2013-01-11 at 16:05 +0100, Stefano Zacchiroli wrote: [ dropping -www, setting Mail-Followup-To: cut-team ] On Thu, Jan 10, 2013 at 04:06:00PM -0500, Michael Gilbert wrote: On Sat, Jan 5, 2013 at 12:36 AM, Thomas Goirand wrote: On 01/05/2013 01:28 AM, alberto fuentes wrote: The

Re: [cut-team] Time to merge back ubuntu improvements!

2013-01-12 Thread Jonas Smedegaard
Quoting Svante Signell (2013-01-12 13:59:02) On Fri, 2013-01-11 at 16:05 +0100, Stefano Zacchiroli wrote: [ dropping -www, setting Mail-Followup-To: cut-team ] On Thu, Jan 10, 2013 at 04:06:00PM -0500, Michael Gilbert wrote: On Sat, Jan 5, 2013 at 12:36 AM, Thomas Goirand wrote: On

Re: [cut-team] Time to merge back ubuntu improvements!

2013-01-12 Thread Thomas Preud'homme
Le samedi 12 janvier 2013 15:21:24, Jonas Smedegaard a écrit : I recommend instead of redefining logic of unstable, branch off new suites with new logic. ...and then back to that issue of maintainers should concentrate on the release again: I do sincerely worry that additional suites

Re: [cut-team] Time to merge back ubuntu improvements!

2013-01-12 Thread Thomas Goirand
On 01/12/2013 08:59 PM, Svante Signell wrote: On Fri, 2013-01-11 at 16:05 +0100, Stefano Zacchiroli wrote: Doesn't this diminish significantly the advantages of CUT? Back in the days of the CUT discussion, one of the main issues associated to testing is that it stops rolling during freezes.

Re: [cut-team] Time to merge back ubuntu improvements!

2013-01-12 Thread Svante Signell
On Sat, 2013-01-12 at 15:50 +0100, Thomas Preud'homme wrote: Le samedi 12 janvier 2013 15:21:24, Jonas Smedegaard a écrit : I recommend instead of redefining logic of unstable, branch off new suites with new logic. ...and then back to that issue of maintainers should concentrate on

Re: [cut-team] Time to merge back ubuntu improvements!

2013-01-12 Thread Adam D. Barratt
On 12.01.2013 16:11, Svante Signell wrote: Or to say it differently: experimental being really for new stuff unstable unfrozen always: - stable+1 if no freeze - stable+2 if in freeze - and stable+1=unstable at the freeze time. This is similar to what used to happen before the testing suite

Re: [cut-team] Time to merge back ubuntu improvements!

2013-01-12 Thread Svante Signell
On Sat, 2013-01-12 at 17:14 +, Adam D. Barratt wrote: On 12.01.2013 16:11, Svante Signell wrote: Or to say it differently: experimental being really for new stuff unstable unfrozen always: - stable+1 if no freeze - stable+2 if in freeze - and stable+1=unstable at the freeze time.

Re: [cut-team] Time to merge back ubuntu improvements!

2013-01-11 Thread Stefano Zacchiroli
[ dropping -www, setting Mail-Followup-To: cut-team ] On Thu, Jan 10, 2013 at 04:06:00PM -0500, Michael Gilbert wrote: On Sat, Jan 5, 2013 at 12:36 AM, Thomas Goirand wrote: On 01/05/2013 01:28 AM, alberto fuentes wrote: The few people on the list seems happy with it. If this is working

Re: [cut-team] Time to merge back ubuntu improvements!

2013-01-11 Thread ryan
On Jan 11, 2013, at 7:05 AM, Stefano Zacchiroli z...@debian.org wrote: I probably should have already sent a message a while ago on this, but yes the monthly snapshots have been put on hiatus during the freeze. The official d-i betas and release candidates are recommended now so that they get

Re: [cut-team] Time to merge back ubuntu improvements!

2013-01-10 Thread Michael Gilbert
On Sat, Jan 5, 2013 at 12:36 AM, Thomas Goirand wrote: On 01/05/2013 01:28 AM, alberto fuentes wrote: The few people on the list seems happy with it. If this is working well, it needs a little more love on debian.org and a 'testing-cut' link in the repos pointing to latest cut, so it can be

Re: Time to merge back ubuntu improvements!

2013-01-05 Thread Neil Williams
On Sat, 05 Jan 2013 14:03:25 +0800 Thomas Goirand z...@debian.org wrote: On 01/05/2013 09:50 AM, Paul Wise wrote: Please check out these links if you want to make this happen. Probably an initial target of supporting oldstable for the same length of time as stable (instead of just a

Re: Time to merge back ubuntu improvements!

2013-01-05 Thread Mike Gabriel
Hi Neil, On Sa 05 Jan 2013 09:58:48 CET Neil Williams wrote: On Sat, 05 Jan 2013 14:03:25 +0800 Thomas Goirand z...@debian.org wrote: On 01/05/2013 09:50 AM, Paul Wise wrote: Please check out these links if you want to make this happen. Probably an initial target of supporting oldstable

Re: Time to merge back ubuntu improvements!

2013-01-05 Thread Mike Gabriel
Hi Thomas, On Sa 05 Jan 2013 07:03:25 CET Thomas Goirand wrote: On 01/05/2013 09:50 AM, Paul Wise wrote: Please check out these links if you want to make this happen. Probably an initial target of supporting oldstable for the same length of time as stable (instead of just a year) is a good

Re: Time to merge back ubuntu improvements!

2013-01-05 Thread Mike Gabriel
Hi pabs, On Sa 05 Jan 2013 02:50:47 CET Paul Wise wrote: On Sat, Jan 5, 2013 at 5:09 AM, Mike Gabriel wrote: Slightly different approach: However, for serious server deployments we in Debian might want to think about supporting older releases a little longer than atm. A scheme like

Re: Updates in the very-old-stable (was: Time to merge back ubuntu improvements!(

2013-01-05 Thread Thomas Goirand
On 01/06/2013 02:02 AM, Mike Gabriel wrote: Hi Thomas, I agree. It would be nice if it was at least possible to upload security updates right now to old-stable, even if that wasn't officially supported. At least, this would be a nice way to go forward (eg: based on best effort, and without

Re: Updates in the very-old-stable (was: Time to merge back ubuntu improvements!(

2013-01-05 Thread Neil Williams
On Sun, 06 Jan 2013 02:44:42 +0800 Thomas Goirand z...@debian.org wrote: On 01/06/2013 02:02 AM, Mike Gabriel wrote: Hi Thomas, I agree. It would be nice if it was at least possible to upload security updates right now to old-stable, even if that wasn't officially supported. At

Re: Time to merge back ubuntu improvements!

2013-01-04 Thread Thomas Preud'homme
Le vendredi 4 janvier 2013 05:44:57, The Wanderer a écrit : That doesn't seem to match my experience. I most commonly encounter apt-listbugs bug lists via 'apt-get dist-upgrade'. If I say no in response to the list of bugs, and then run 'apt-get dist-upgrade' again, I see the same list of

Re: Time to merge back ubuntu improvements!

2013-01-04 Thread The Wanderer
On 01/04/2013 09:15 AM, Thomas Preud'homme wrote: Le vendredi 4 janvier 2013 05:44:57, The Wanderer a écrit : That doesn't seem to match my experience. I most commonly encounter apt-listbugs bug lists via 'apt-get dist-upgrade'. If I say no in response to the list of bugs, and then run

Re: Time to merge back ubuntu improvements!

2013-01-04 Thread alberto fuentes
Im adding the cut-team to the loop. Original message: http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/2013/01/msg00082.html On Thu, Jan 3, 2013 at 8:15 PM, Carlos Alberto Lopez Perez clo...@igalia.com wrote: AFAIK there is already an ongoing effort to provide an usable updated rolling release of Debian.

Re: Time to merge back ubuntu improvements!

2013-01-04 Thread Mike Gabriel
Hi Alberto, hi all, On Do 03 Jan 2013 19:18:27 CET alberto fuentes wrote: Ubuntu has done some poor decisions but it has done some other that are okay. We should consider merging some of them back. Im thinking about the 6 months release thing. Without further ado, here's the proposal

Re: Time to merge back ubuntu improvements!

2013-01-04 Thread Игорь Пашев
What is the defference: 1. Insert a new stage between stable and testing and 2. double the period of automatic migration from unstable to testing? m? :-) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact

Re: Time to merge back ubuntu improvements!

2013-01-04 Thread Harald Jenny
On Fri, Jan 04, 2013 at 10:09:42PM +0100, Mike Gabriel wrote: Hi Alberto, hi all, Hi Mike On Do 03 Jan 2013 19:18:27 CET alberto fuentes wrote: Ubuntu has done some poor decisions but it has done some other that are okay. We should consider merging some of them back. Im thinking about

Re: Time to merge back ubuntu improvements!

2013-01-04 Thread Paul Wise
On Sat, Jan 5, 2013 at 5:09 AM, Mike Gabriel wrote: Slightly different approach: However, for serious server deployments we in Debian might want to think about supporting older releases a little longer than atm. A scheme like veryoldstable - oldstable - stable - testing - unstable From

Re: Time to merge back ubuntu improvements!

2013-01-04 Thread Thomas Goirand
On 01/05/2013 01:28 AM, alberto fuentes wrote: The few people on the list seems happy with it. If this is working well, it needs a little more love on debian.org and a 'testing-cut' link in the repos pointing to latest cut, so it can be set on sources.list and forgotten Yes, we need to

Re: Time to merge back ubuntu improvements!

2013-01-04 Thread Thomas Goirand
On 01/05/2013 09:50 AM, Paul Wise wrote: Please check out these links if you want to make this happen. Probably an initial target of supporting oldstable for the same length of time as stable (instead of just a year) is a good first goal to achieve before adding more supported suites. I

Time to merge back ubuntu improvements!

2013-01-03 Thread alberto fuentes
Ubuntu has done some poor decisions but it has done some other that are okay. We should consider merging some of them back. Im thinking about the 6 months release thing. Without further ado, here's the proposal pre-draft: _Proposal_: Add a new release stage between stable and testing. Called

Re: Time to merge back ubuntu improvements!

2013-01-03 Thread Carlos Alberto Lopez Perez
On 03/01/13 19:18, alberto fuentes wrote: Request for comments! AFAIK there is already an ongoing effort to provide an usable updated rolling release of Debian. http://joeyh.name/code/debian/cut/ http://cut.debian.net/ Isn't this (more or less) what you are asking for? signature.asc

Re: Time to merge back ubuntu improvements!

2013-01-03 Thread gregor herrmann
On Thu, 03 Jan 2013 19:18:27 +0100, alberto fuentes wrote: The only ways to prevent this if you are running the more or less up-to-date testing are: * Pin packages with RC bugs on upgrade. This is: - Non trivial: it makes you understand how bad the bug is and know how the pinning system

Re: Time to merge back ubuntu improvements!

2013-01-03 Thread Andrey Rahmatullin
On Thu, Jan 03, 2013 at 11:45:45PM +0100, gregor herrmann wrote: * Pin packages with RC bugs on upgrade. This is: - Non trivial: it makes you understand how bad the bug is and know how the pinning system works No and yes. No, because apt-listbugs exists and provides a nice

Re: Time to merge back ubuntu improvements!

2013-01-03 Thread gregor herrmann
On Fri, 04 Jan 2013 05:12:03 +0600, Andrey Rahmatullin wrote: * Pin packages with RC bugs on upgrade. This is: - Non trivial: it makes you understand how bad the bug is and know how the pinning system works No, because apt-listbugs exists and provides a nice interface so users

Re: Time to merge back ubuntu improvements!

2013-01-03 Thread Michael Goetze
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 On 01/03/2013 08:15 PM, Carlos Alberto Lopez Perez wrote: http://cut.debian.net/ Isn't this (more or less) what you are asking for? Isn't this (more or less) dead? -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.12 (GNU/Linux) Comment:

Re: Time to merge back ubuntu improvements!

2013-01-03 Thread The Wanderer
On 01/03/2013 06:32 PM, gregor herrmann wrote: On Fri, 04 Jan 2013 05:12:03 +0600, Andrey Rahmatullin wrote: No, because apt-listbugs exists and provides a nice interface so users don't have to care about pinning details for themselves. Can apt-listbugs do anything more than abort the

Re: Time to merge back ubuntu improvements!

2013-01-03 Thread Reinhard Tartler
On Thu, Jan 3, 2013 at 7:18 PM, alberto fuentes paj...@gmail.com wrote: _Proposal_: Add a new release stage between stable and testing. Called usable or whatever name we find fit for it stable - usable - testing - sid Migrate packages after a period* in testing without RC bugs. *a 2-4