Re: Is a README.Source required for the new package formats?

2009-11-19 Thread Adam D. Barratt
On Thu, 2009-11-19 at 15:24 -0800, Rodrigo Gallardo wrote: lintian is complaining about a package of mine I just converted to 3.0 (quilt) that: W: rep-gtk source: patch-system-but-no-source-readme [...] But, since dpkg-source will extract this package into the preferred form for

Re: Package upgrade in Debian without corresponding changelog entry

2010-01-29 Thread Adam D. Barratt
On Sat, 2010-01-30 at 10:20 +1100, Ben Finney wrote: Occasionally I notice a package upgrade on a host, but the Debian changelog for the package has no corresponding changelog entry for the new release. The most recent example is ‘mercurial’: = $ PACKAGE=mercurial $ dpkg-query -W

Re: Bug#570980: reportbug general bug filing recommendation (was Re: Bug#570980: man sbin man pages are in section 1 instead of section 8

2010-02-22 Thread Adam D. Barratt
# Cc to -devel for information after the reassign merge 570980 348864 thanks Holger Levsen wrote, Monday, February 22, 2010 5:19 PM clone 570991 -1 reassign -1 lintian retitle -1 please add a check against commands in /sbin using section 1 manpages fwiw, there *was* such a lintian check,

Re: Bug#391171: ITP: grepcidr -- Filter IP addresses matching IPv4 CIDR/network

2006-10-05 Thread Adam D. Barratt
On Thursday, October 05, 2006 9:06 AM, Ryan Finnie [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Ryan Finnie [EMAIL PROTECTED] * Package name: grepcidr Erm... didn't you already submit this as #391168? :) Regards, Adam -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL

Re: xv and xorg

2006-10-05 Thread Adam D. Barratt
Jiri Klouda wrote, Thursday, October 05, 2006 6:57 AM [...] I just wanted to ask when xv is going to be updated or what is holding it up or if someone has some suggestion how I could upgrade and still get it working (some experimental xv package?) or do I need to compile from sources? xv was

Bug#391359: general: packages.debian.org package view could have a link to see the source changelog.

2006-10-06 Thread Adam D. Barratt
reassign 391359 qa.debian.org thanks On Friday, October 06, 2006 9:51 AM, Raúl Sánchez Siles [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Package: general Severity: wishlist With aptitude changelog is quite easy to know the latest modifications of a package, but it quite often refers to new upstream release.

Re: ftp upload queue?

2006-10-09 Thread Adam D. Barratt
On Monday, October 09, 2006 6:42 AM, Thomas Bushnell BSG [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Aurélien GÉRÔME [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: As soon as I send a mail, the deamon restarts... Good news! ;) Yep. Thanks magic elves! I've never really pictured aj as an elf... ;-) Adam -- To UNSUBSCRIBE,

Re: Why weren't the GR voting mails sent to debian-devel-announce?

2006-10-09 Thread Adam D. Barratt
On Mon, 2006-10-09 at 12:56 -0600, Oleksandr Moskalenko wrote: According to the chapter 3.3 of the Dev. reference the GR calls for votes should've been sent to the debian-devel-announce, but in reality they weren't. It seems that the only way to get those would be to subscribe to debian-vote

Re: Bug mass filling

2006-10-19 Thread Adam D. Barratt
On Thu, 2006-10-19 at 19:51 +0200, Mike Hommey wrote: On Thu, Oct 19, 2006 at 07:36:27PM +0200, Andreas Barth [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Doesn't policy violation warrant Critical severity? No. Please see the top of http://release.debian.org/etch_rc_policy.txt for which bugs are

Re: Bug mass filling

2006-10-19 Thread Adam D. Barratt
On Thu, 2006-10-19 at 10:00 -0700, Kevin B. McCarty wrote: Tshepang Lekhonkhobe wrote: Doesn't policy violation warrant Critical severity? No, it only warrants the lowest RC severity, serious [0], unless the bug in addition makes the package or other software (mostly) unusable, causes

Re: ITP: lhapdf -- Les Houches Accord PDF Interface

2007-01-17 Thread Adam D. Barratt
Hendrik Sattler wrote: Am Mittwoch 17 Januar 2007 12:34 schrieb Luca Capello: Please the next time use the X-Debbugs-CC: header [1] instead of [...] Will b.d.o accept those headers in the first lines of a mail body? Yes (at least, it should). See #179340 against debbugs, currently flagged as

Re: about gstreamer0.8 and python2.3 removal

2007-02-09 Thread Adam D. Barratt
On Fri, 2007-02-09 at 20:57 +0200, Tshepang Lekhonkhobe wrote: Hi, It's been a while since someone mentioned removal of gst0.8 and py2.3 and wonder what's going on. python2.3 is no more, as of a month ago today: python2.3 | 2.3.5-3sarge1 |stable | source, alpha, arm, hppa, i386,

Re: Decoupling GNOME 2.30 transitions

2010-05-03 Thread Adam D. Barratt
On Sun, March 28, 2010 12:54, Josselin Mouette wrote: 3 - totem-pl-parser (libtotem-plparser12 → libtotem-plparser17) + evince (libevince1 → libevince2) As discussed on IRC, please go ahead with these: Sourceful uploads: brasero evince gnome-python-desktop

Re: [OSRM] Planning for final Etch point release and archiving of oldstable?

2010-05-08 Thread Adam D. Barratt
On Sat, May 8, 2010 18:06, Frans Pop wrote: I would have expected a final point release for Etch to have happened by now (since security support was ended back in February). My personal interest is of course the D-I updates included for that release. Regrettably, sorting out etch hasn't had

Re: Waiting for SCons 2.0: rebuild test

2010-06-04 Thread Adam D. Barratt
Hi, On Fri, 2010-06-04 at 16:30 +0200, Luca Falavigna wrote: So, I rebuilt reverse dependencies of SCons to spot some problems, and I published my results online. Here is a brief summary: * 58 packages build-depending on SCons * 53 packages built successfully (2 of them needed sourceful

Re: chromium-browser from experimental has included h.264 by default?

2010-08-10 Thread Adam D. Barratt
On Tue, 2010-05-11 at 20:55 +0200, Moritz Muehlenhoff wrote: On 2010-05-11, Reinhard Tartler siret...@debian.org wrote: Surely not. Chromium ships a *private* copy of ffmpeg, more precisely, a fork of ffmpeg called ffmpeg-mt. Debian does not include ffmpeg-mt because of bug #575600 (tagged

sendmail 8.1.4.4-1(was: Re: Richard A Nelson (Rick) cow...@debian.org MIA)

2010-11-07 Thread Adam D. Barratt
On Tue, 2010-11-02 at 08:09 +0100, Harald Jenny wrote: On Mon, Nov 01, 2010 at 04:48:08PM -0700, Richard A Nelson wrote: On Mon, 1 Nov 2010, Harald Jenny wrote: Could you give us a quick overview what the current state of packaging sendmail and libmilter is? Do you need any help? Is there

Re: sendmail 8.1.4.4-1(was: Re: Richard A Nelson (Rick) cow...@debian.org MIA)

2010-11-08 Thread Adam D. Barratt
[please drop -devel from further follow-ups; this is drifting further off-topic there] On Sun, November 7, 2010 22:05, Harald Jenny wrote: On Sun, Nov 07, 2010 at 12:52:06PM +, Adam D. Barratt wrote: On Tue, 2010-11-02 at 08:09 +0100, Harald Jenny wrote: On Mon, Nov 01, 2010 at 04:48:08PM

Re: distinguish between core and main?

2011-06-05 Thread Adam D. Barratt
On Sun, 05 Jun 2011 18:02:14 +0200, Harald Dunkel wrote: Debian already classifies packages in different priorities, to be used today when package updates are pushed into testing, for example. You appear to have confused package priority and upload urgency. Testing migration is affected by

Re: Bug#629276: NFS needs same dispensation to use DES as AFS

2011-06-08 Thread Adam D. Barratt
On Wed, 8 Jun 2011 08:09:45 +0100, Lars Wirzenius wrote: On Wed, Jun 08, 2011 at 04:00:15PM +1000, Brian May wrote: On 7 June 2011 15:56, Steve Langasek vor...@debian.org wrote: I would recommend asking the stable release manager.  He might say yes. What email address do I use? (I always

Re: A few observations about systemd

2011-07-18 Thread Adam D. Barratt
On Mon, 18 Jul 2011 13:54:45 +0200, Tollef Fog Heen wrote: Just for the record: Hurd's no longer in unstable and hasn't been for a while. Hurd very much is still in unstable - hppa was the h.{3} architecture which we dropped. Regards, Adam -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to

Re: [Lennart Poettering] Re: A few observations about systemd

2011-07-19 Thread Adam D. Barratt
On Tue, 2011-07-19 at 19:48 +, Uoti Urpala wrote: There was a discussion about whether future Debian would be based on kFreeBSD, and kFreeBSD failed that on its own merits, not due to any consideration of systemd (or actually there wasn't much of a discussion, but that was only because

Re: No bzcat the installing the weekly/daily builds of GNU/Linux installer.

2011-07-19 Thread Adam D. Barratt
On Tue, 2011-07-19 at 22:09 +0200, Svante Signell wrote: I'm about to file a bug, but wanted your opinion first. When installing the netinst from today and yesterday, and the latest weekly build CD1, installation of the base system fails due to bzcat missing. Is this known already? Yes. It's

Re: [Lennart Poettering] Re: A few observations about systemd

2011-07-19 Thread Adam D. Barratt
On Tue, 2011-07-19 at 20:51 +, Uoti Urpala wrote: Adam D. Barratt adam at adam-barratt.org.uk writes: On Tue, 2011-07-19 at 19:48 +, Uoti Urpala wrote: There was a discussion about whether future Debian would be based on kFreeBSD, and kFreeBSD failed that on its own merits, not due

Re: A few observations about systemd

2011-08-01 Thread Adam D. Barratt
On Mon, 2011-08-01 at 16:49 +0600, Andrey Rahmatullin wrote: On Sun, Jul 24, 2011 at 10:52:13PM +0100, Simon McVittie wrote: even init.d has a documented (and what's more, actually *working*) implementation of not starting daemons at boot. It's called 'remove the *** symlink'. If

Re: A few observations about systemd

2011-08-01 Thread Adam D. Barratt
On Mon, 2011-08-01 at 17:14 +0600, Andrey Rahmatullin wrote: On Sun, Jul 31, 2011 at 08:27:04PM +, Clint Adams wrote: I would be glad if all services (at least network-enabled or especially insecure for other reasons) didn't start by default. Maybe everyone would be happy if there

Re: Bug#637892: ITP: python-formalchemy -- auto-generation and customizable form

2011-08-17 Thread Adam D. Barratt
On Wed, 17 Aug 2011 18:18:09 +0800, Liang Guo wrote: On Wed, Aug 17, 2011 at 5:39 PM, Shell Xu shell909...@gmail.com wrote: And, I almost finish my job. But which bugnumber should I fill into changelog? The new one or both? Thanks for help. You can close both bug in debian/changelog You

Re: Buildd vs. Cowbuilder: broken symlink in procps dev package on one architecture

2011-08-22 Thread Adam D. Barratt
On Mon, 2011-08-22 at 12:19 +0200, Michael Prokop wrote: * Cyril Brulebois [Mon Aug 22, 2011 at 12:02:17PM +0200]: Michael Prokop m...@debian.org (22/08/2011): 1) What's the proper way to address this issue in squeeze? a) Build a i386 package with broken symlink? b) Build

Re: *-config programs and multi-arch

2011-09-16 Thread Adam D. Barratt
On Fri, 16 Sep 2011 11:06:05 +0200, Adam Borowski wrote: Thus, please, could we get a $(TRIPLET)-pkg-config binary that does know all the magic needed? I insist on this name because this is what the whole rest of the toolchain does. Just as well that's the name pkg-config upstream already

Re: Minified files and source code requirement

2011-10-26 Thread Adam D. Barratt
On Wed, 2011-10-26 at 21:00 +0200, Raphael Hertzog wrote: On Wed, 26 Oct 2011, Julien Cristau wrote: Just because it's not GPL doesn't mean DFSG can be ignored. Well, minified or not, my point is that it's code. And DFSG#2 refers to source code not to preferred form of modification. It

Re: Trivia: very old files on incoming.debian.org

2011-11-08 Thread Adam D. Barratt
On Wed, 2011-11-09 at 06:34 +0900, Iustin Pop wrote: Not sure where else to send this… but while checking for a small upload I did I saw some very old files on incoming. If you check sorted by date, http://incoming.debian.org/?C=M;O=A, you'll see some very old things (1997, 2003, 2007, etc…).

Re: Two groups of users, one distro in the middle

2011-11-16 Thread Adam D. Barratt
On Thu, 17 Nov 2011 01:21:17 +0700, Jonas Smedegaard wrote: On 11-11-16 at 07:08pm, Bernd Zeimetz wrote: On 11/15/2011 01:48 AM, Paul Wise wrote: I personally wonder if we should change our policy instead of forcing these two upstream communities into conflict. I think we should for these

Re: Two groups of users, one distro in the middle

2011-11-16 Thread Adam D. Barratt
[with apologies for the original broken reply] On Thu, 17 Nov 2011 01:21:17 +0700, Jonas Smedegaard wrote: On 11-11-16 at 07:08pm, Bernd Zeimetz wrote: On 11/15/2011 01:48 AM, Paul Wise wrote: I personally wonder if we should change our policy instead of forcing these two upstream

Re: Distribution and support for Debian-502-i386-netinst

2011-11-17 Thread Adam D. Barratt
On Thu, 2011-11-17 at 21:08 +0100, Marc Haber wrote: Additionally, the new[1] tg3 driver broke compatibility with the tg3 chip built into IBM's HS12. [...] [1] Why the heck do we allow changes like this in stable point releases? Increasing the range of hardware on which a Debian stable

Re: buildd on Armel, PowerPC and S390(x)? agree on narrowing error, why?

2011-12-09 Thread Adam D. Barratt
On Fri, 09 Dec 2011 10:41:35 +0100, Steffen Möller wrote: Gcc 4.6.2-5 on amd64 does not complain at all. I do not know the version of gcc on the buildds. The build logs will tell you which version of gcc and other toolchain packages were used. Regards, Adam -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to

Re: Boost defaults change (1.46.1 -- 1.48)

2011-12-27 Thread Adam D. Barratt
On Tue, 2011-12-27 at 10:52 -0600, Steve M. Robbins wrote: On Tue, Dec 27, 2011 at 10:42:07AM +0100, Rene Engelhard wrote: Will 1.46 be around long enough that reverting to 1.46 is an option there? Absolutely, 1.46 is an option. That's why I suggested it. Debian has been releasing with at

Re: Bug#654888: ITP: glances -- Glances is a CLI curses based system monitoring tool.

2012-01-08 Thread Adam D. Barratt
On Fri, 2012-01-06 at 16:25 +0100, Nicolargo wrote: Glances is a CLI curses based monitoring tool for GNU/Linux or BSD OS. Glances uses the libstatgrab library to get information from your system. It is developed in Python and uses the python-statgrab lib. You can have a look on CPU, LOAD,

Re: Outstanding /dev/.udev bugs for /run migration

2012-01-13 Thread Adam D. Barratt
On Thu, 2012-01-12 at 22:11 +, Roger Leigh wrote: There are 19 packages still using /dev/.udev after udev transitioned to /run/udev. Unless there are any objections, I'd like to raise the severity of these bugs from important to serious, given that the /run migration is a release goal.

Re: Ownership issue when repacking source in get-orig-source target

2012-01-13 Thread Adam D. Barratt
On Fri, 2012-01-13 at 22:07 +0100, Andreas Tille wrote: I was concerned about an issue Charles Plessy reported in a recent thread on Debian Med when he realised that the directories in the unpacked tarball are featuring his UID/GID. I simply looked into the uscan source how it is be done

Re: history transparency

2012-02-09 Thread Adam D. Barratt
On 09.02.2012 08:45, Philip Ashmore wrote: Right now it's difficult/impossible to recreate a snapshot of Debian as it was (updates included) when the bug was reported. I think Debian needs a way to be able to pick a point in history and obtain at least the versions + patches of all the source

Re: Summary: dpkg shared / reference counted files and version match

2012-02-11 Thread Adam D. Barratt
On Fri, 2012-02-10 at 17:35 -0800, Russ Allbery wrote: I think we have to do something saner with changelog files eventually regardless, but I'm curious: how did Ubuntu deal with the binNMU problem that Guillem identified? If you binNMU a library on amd64 but not on i386, as near as I can

Re: Bug#658728: linux-image-3.2.0-1-amd64: No more sound - please reopen

2012-02-11 Thread Adam D. Barratt
On Sat, 2012-02-11 at 03:34 -0600, Jonathan Nieder wrote: Hi Hans, Hans-J. Ullrich wrote: I saw this bug was already closed by you. I don't know where you got that impression. Bug 658728 is still open, and there is not a patch available yet. Also, debian-devel is not the correct

Re: upstart: please update to latest upstream version

2012-02-21 Thread Adam D. Barratt
On Tue, 2012-02-21 at 22:28 +0100, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote: On Feb 21, 2012, at 10:12 PM, Steve Langasek wrote: There is a discussion about it here [1]. [1] http://undacuvabrutha.wordpress.com/2011/04/29/why-ubuntu-should-continue-with-upstart-for-11-10/ Not sure why you

Re: upstart: please update to latest upstream version

2012-02-25 Thread Adam D. Barratt
On Sat, 2012-02-25 at 00:51 +0100, Svante Signell wrote: On Fri, 2012-02-24 at 15:42 -0800, Steve Langasek wrote: [...] Why not simply implement the early boot event driven parts in init as proposed earlier, and get rid of these non-portable commercial stuff. Are you really committed to

Re: upstart: please update to latest upstream version

2012-02-25 Thread Adam D. Barratt
On Sat, 2012-02-25 at 11:36 +0100, Svante Signell wrote: On Sat, 2012-02-25 at 09:37 +, Adam D. Barratt wrote: On Sat, 2012-02-25 at 00:51 +0100, Svante Signell wrote: On Fri, 2012-02-24 at 15:42 -0800, Steve Langasek wrote: Are you really committed to Debian? Maybe you should work

Re: Linux kernel hardening - link restrictions

2012-03-03 Thread Adam D. Barratt
On 02.03.2012 10:47, Holger Levsen wrote: On Freitag, 2. März 2012, Kees Cook wrote: + * The new kernel version includes security restrictions on links, +These restrictions may cause some legitimate programs to fail. +In particular, if the 'at' package is installed, you should

Re: debian-multimedia.org considered harmful, Was: Unofficial repositories on 'debian' domains

2012-03-10 Thread Adam D. Barratt
On Sat, 2012-03-10 at 11:44 +0100, Eric Valette wrote: I ask you a question: what are the version of the packeges in debian unstable and in debian-multimedia.org trying to be factual. I know the answer, I just would like someone from debian to write it down ;-) I know the version already

Re: wrong correspondence between Packages and Translation-en [was: Re: Description-less Packages indices]

2012-03-10 Thread Adam D. Barratt
On Sat, 2012-03-10 at 18:53 +0100, Davide Prina wrote: Packages (P) and Translation-en (T) have some differences, I don't understand that there are correct: * some packages are in P, but not in T (today I don't found one); * some packages are in T, but not in P (lib32z1); Which architecture

Re: Bug#669275: ITP: mkgltempdir -- Utility to create a directory owned by the gLExec target user

2012-04-18 Thread Adam D. Barratt
On Wed, 2012-04-18 at 19:26 +0200, Dennis van Dok wrote: * Package name: mkgltempdir Version : 0.0.3 Upstream Author : Nikhef Grid Security Middleware Team grid-mw-secur...@nikhef.nl * URL : http://wiki.nikhef.nl/grid/GLExec_TransientPilotJobs The link to the

Re: [Pkg-javascript-devel] Node.js and it's future in debian

2012-05-02 Thread Adam D. Barratt
On Wed, 2012-05-02 at 17:53 +0100, Wookey wrote: +++ Patrick Ouellette [2012-05-01 23:12 -0400]: Of course the #! line is not the issue. The issue is two upstream maintainers separated by years and miles selected the same generic name for their binary file. Compounding the issue, some

Re: switching from exim to postfix

2012-05-07 Thread Adam D. Barratt
On Mon, 2012-04-30 at 13:14 +0300, Riku Voipio wrote: On Sat, Apr 28, 2012 at 07:12:42PM -0700, Russ Allbery wrote: There's nothing particularly wrong with Exim; it works just fine. Exim in 2012 not supporting 8BITMIME and thus being the last Major MTA forcing quoted-printable conversions

Re: Bug#632240: pylucene status

2012-05-12 Thread Adam D. Barratt
On 20.04.2012 17:16, Dmitry Nezhevenko wrote: On Fri, Apr 20, 2012 at 08:50:24AM -0700, Jeff Breidenbach wrote: You can package a modern pylucene and take over as the maintainer. Nothing would make me happier. Thanks a lot! I'll try to do this Any news on that? I'm looking at old FTBFS

Re: Wheezy release: CDs are not big enough any more...

2012-05-17 Thread Adam D. Barratt
On 17.05.2012 07:54, Neil Williams wrote: On Thu, 17 May 2012 04:36:40 +0200 Adam Borowski kilob...@angband.pl wrote: On Wed, May 16, 2012 at 02:47:54PM +0200, Goswin von Brederlow wrote: Can someone set the default to xz and recompile all of Debian or at least base and create a repository

Re: Migration path for 'Multi-Arch:allowed' packages

2012-06-11 Thread Adam D. Barratt
On Mon, 2012-06-11 at 15:40 -0400, Michael Gilbert wrote: Also, limitations in the existing testing migration tools are making wine not considered for wheezy, since those tools don't check whether dependencies for 'Multi-Arch: allowed' packages are satisfied by packages on other architectures.

On the (ab)use of the Urgency field

2012-06-19 Thread Adam D. Barratt
Hi, I realise everyone's waiting for news of the freeze (we're working on it...) but please bear in mind that this is not an appropriate use of the Urgency field: * Urgency high to beat the freeze. As mentioned in the last mail we sent to d-d-a (and several at various points before that)

Re: The future (or non-future) of ia32-libs

2012-06-22 Thread Adam D. Barratt
On 22.06.2012 15:31, Roger Leigh wrote: On Fri, Jun 22, 2012 at 09:32:15PM +0800, Thomas Goirand wrote: On 06/22/2012 05:34 PM, Goswin von Brederlow wrote: Step 1: upgrade/dist-upgrade with ia32-libs (wine, ...) held back Step 2: dpkg --add-architecture i386 apt-get update Step 3:

Re: Introducing http.debian.net, Debian's mirrors redirector

2012-06-26 Thread Adam D. Barratt
On 26.06.2012 06:13, Raphael Geissert wrote: For some reason, there no longer are pdiffs for stable, so it has to download the whole files on every update. Were there ever pdiffs for stable? They seem a little redundant, given that the packages files only change every couple of months or

Re: delete file with dcut on ftp master

2012-06-28 Thread Adam D. Barratt
On 28.06.2012 06:15, Frank Habermann wrote: i have uploaded a package with dput to ftp-master yesterday. I did some mistackes in the package and want to upload it again with dput. But second time it does not work. I got a message to that i must delete old files with dcut. So i do a dcut: dcut

Re: ARM port(s) BoF at DebConf

2012-07-19 Thread Adam D. Barratt
On Thu, 2012-07-19 at 20:09 +0100, Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton wrote: On Thu, Jul 19, 2012 at 6:35 PM, Steve McIntyre st...@einval.com wrote: Both armel and armhf are doing well, covering ~96% of the archive. We [...] (*1) and if someone _really_ wants a debug build of that particular

Re: unblock vs freeze exception usertags [Was: Bits from the nippy Release Team]

2012-07-27 Thread Adam D. Barratt
On Fri, 2012-07-27 at 15:42 -0400, Yaroslav Halchenko wrote: On Fri, 27 Jul 2012, Adam D. Barratt wrote: bug - reportbug release.debian.org and selecting the unblock option will set the correct usertags for you. what is the difference between those two user tags and if there is any should

Re: [juht...@iki.fi: Are you MIA?]

2012-09-10 Thread Adam D. Barratt
On 10.09.2012 12:47, Ian Jackson wrote: Juhapekka Tolvanen writes ([juht...@iki.fi: Are you MIA?]): I sent that E-Mail 2012-08-10 and I still haven't got any answer. Hence, it is obvious and evident that Debian-developer is MIA. Please, follow your own protocols to handle the situation. I

Re: mass bug filing about packages manipulating conffiles (policy 10.7.3) (was: Re: mass bug filing about packages manipulating/deleting shipped files)

2012-09-19 Thread Adam D. Barratt
On 19.09.2012 08:44, Andreas Beckmann wrote: If noone objects, I'll go ahead with filing these bugs with Severity: serious since this is a violation of a must directive. Do we have an idea of how many such bugs there are affecting wheezy currently? Apologies if that was answered earlier in

Re: Debian should move away from MD5 (and at best also from SHA1) (in secure APT and friends)

2012-10-12 Thread Adam D. Barratt
On 12.10.2012 01:30, Christoph Anton Mitterer wrote: I further looked around: e.g. the Release file seems to only use MD5 not so good :( You didn't look very far / well. $ wget -O- -q http://ftp.debian.org/debian/dists/squeeze/Release | grep -v ^ Origin: Debian Label: Debian Suite:

Re: Debian should move away from MD5 (and at best also from SHA1) (in secure APT and friends)

2012-10-12 Thread Adam D. Barratt
On 12.10.2012 12:49, Christoph Anton Mitterer wrote: On Fri, 2012-10-12 at 10:09 +0800, Paul Wise wrote: I further looked around: e.g. the Release file seems to only use MD5 not so good :( Wrong, the Release file has had all 3 since sarge. woody had MD5 SHA-1. Then what's this:

Re: Discarding uploaded binary packages

2012-10-26 Thread Adam D. Barratt
On 26.10.2012 01:13, Peter Miller wrote: It may be possible to address both concerns in a different way. 1. Implement PPAs. The code is open source, get it working first, and enhance it later. 2. DDs and DMs upload source-only to their individual PPA(s). The PPA build farm builds the

Re: discrepancy: rc_policy.txt and policy

2012-10-28 Thread Adam D. Barratt
On 28.10.2012 07:17, Osamu Aoki wrote: Policy states In addition, the packages in main must not require or recommend a package outside of main for compilation or execution (thus, the package must not declare a Pre-Depends, Depends, Recommends, Build-Depends, or Build-Depends-Indep

Re: Bug#691624: ITP: dput-ng -- next generation Debian package upload tool

2012-10-28 Thread Adam D. Barratt
On 28.10.2012 13:06, Arno Töll wrote: On 28.10.2012 13:57, Florian Weimer wrote: Does it prevent uploading security updates to the main archive by default? Adam, with his Release Team hat on, suggested us to prevent this for t-p-u likewise. I think it was p-u, but more as a grumble about an

Re: Candidates for removal from testing (2012-11-14)

2012-11-14 Thread Adam D. Barratt
On Thu, 2012-11-15 at 11:20 +0800, Paul Wise wrote: On Thu, Nov 15, 2012 at 5:02 AM, Niels Thykier wrote: We are considering removing the following packages from testing as they have unfixed RC bugs filed against them. The packages can be found in the attached dd-list. ... Alexander

Pronunciation (was: Re: Naming Debian Versions on debian.org web site.)

2012-11-15 Thread Adam D. Barratt
On 15.11.2012 20:52, RalfGesellensetter wrote: Last message speaks of wheezy (rhyming to squeeze, confusingly) They don't rhyme, at least in English; the final sound of squeeze is closer to z. (As opposed to squeezy, which would indeed rhyme, but isn't a Debian release... :-) ) Regards,

Re: debian mate

2012-11-20 Thread Adam D. Barratt
On 20.11.2012 22:27, Russ Allbery wrote: Michael Schmitt tcwardr...@gmail.com writes: That may be common thinking, agreed. But I am that extremely worried about the current upgrade solution in wheezy, sorry... I think Debian should try to get it in. We are way, way too late in the release

Re: Accepted bonnie++ 1.97 (source amd64)

2012-11-23 Thread Adam D. Barratt
On 23.11.2012 08:47, Russell Coker wrote: Format: 1.8 Date: Fri, 15 Jan 2010 20:26:55 +1100 Really? Source: bonnie++ Binary: bonnie++ Architecture: source amd64 Version: 1.97 Distribution: wheezy [...] bonnie++ (1.97) wheezy; urgency=medium I'm afraid I've removed that upload from

Re: Candidates for removal from testing (2012-11-30)

2012-11-30 Thread Adam D. Barratt
On 30.11.2012 13:03, Simon McVittie wrote: Suggested options include: A) Consider the new ABI to be right. Recompile every package that mentions the affected structs (including everything that subclasses GstElement), unless it has already been compiled against GLib 2.32 on every

Re: Really, ...

2012-11-30 Thread Adam D. Barratt
On 30.11.2012 18:43, Thomas Goirand wrote: On 11/30/2012 11:57 PM, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote: I never meant to start any redundant discussion about which init system is best. And, as Russ already pointed out, we're not going to make that decision this time. So please, just leave it for

Re: Feedback

2012-12-25 Thread Adam D. Barratt
On 25.12.2012 15:55, Stephen Powell wrote: (1) Official Debian version numbers are not normally assigned until the release becomes the stable release. I haven't checked when previous release numbers were announced, but wheezy's assigned version was public information some time ago - see

Re: [APT::Clean-Installed 0;] doesn't remove packages from experimental repos

2012-12-26 Thread Adam D. Barratt
On 27.12.2012 07:27, piruthiviraj natarajan wrote: I recently moved from Arch Linux to Debian Wheezy. Is there any way to clean the apt cache for the packages that I am not currently using? [...] Is there anything obvious that I am missing here? Yes - that debian-devel isn't a support

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: Bug#702607: make source code of all Debian projects visible (on gitweb)

2013-03-08 Thread Adam D. Barratt
[quoting the message you're replying to is often helpful...] On 08.03.2013 22:08, Nick Daly wrote: Why is http://anonscm.debian.org/hg [1] 404ing?  It's linked from the main page. [...] [1] http://anonscm.debian.org/hg Missing default document or redirect? Adding a trailing slash works

Re: Bug#703507: ITP: re2 -- fast, safe C++ regular expression library

2013-03-20 Thread Adam D. Barratt
On 20.03.2013 12:21, Peter Pentchev wrote: * Package name: re2 Version : 20130115 Upstream Author : Stefano Rivera stefano.riv...@gmail.com This appears to have been in the archive for a couple of years already - http://packages.qa.debian.org/r/re2.html Regards, Adam --

Re: Bug#703507: ITP: re2 -- fast, safe C++ regular expression library

2013-03-20 Thread Adam D. Barratt
On 20.03.2013 13:59, Andrew Shadura wrote: On 20 March 2013 13:38, Adam D. Barratt a...@adam-barratt.org.uk wrote: This appears to have been in the archive for a couple of years already - http://packages.qa.debian.org/r/re2.html I wonder why is it still in experimental. Maybe it's worth re

Re: R 3.0.0 and required rebuilds of all reverse Depends: of R

2013-03-31 Thread Adam D. Barratt
CC list trimmed and -release added On 31.03.2013 17:45, Dirk Eddelbuettel wrote: A new major release R 3.0.0 will come out on Wednesday April 3rd, as usual according the the release plan and announcements [1]. It contains major internal changes [2] and requires rebuilds of all R packages.

Re: Handling unblocks

2013-04-02 Thread Adam D. Barratt
On 02.04.2013 08:24, Andreas Tille wrote: The only thing I'm wondering about is: Will all unblock requests be handled before the release (either by an unblock or a refusal)? That's the plan, yes. As Neil said, we've unfortunately not been as good as we should have been at saying no (we don't

Re: R 3.0.0 and required rebuilds of all reverse Depends: of R

2013-04-02 Thread Adam D. Barratt
On 02.04.2013 13:52, Vincent Lefevre wrote: I suspect that the length of the freeze is due to the fact that the freeze occurred while too many RC bugs were already open. If so, there was a good reason for that (i.e. pre-announced time-based freeze). As others have said (although ymmv) I don't

Re: R 3.0.0 and required rebuilds of all reverse Depends: of R

2013-04-02 Thread Adam D. Barratt
On 02.04.2013 16:35, Svante Signell wrote: The best solution would be having unstable _never_ frozen, at the cost of another repository during the freeze period. This was proposed some time ago, see http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/2013/01/msg00273.html repeated here for convenience:

Re: Generators for debian/* files?

2013-04-05 Thread Adam D. Barratt
On 05.04.2013 12:45, Johannes Schauer wrote: (Thomas: I cant find the package debian-java you were talking about) That's because it's a group of people, not a package... Regards, Adam -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble?

Re: not co-installable Multi-Arch:same packages

2013-04-27 Thread Adam D. Barratt
On Sat, 2013-04-27 at 01:45 +0200, Andreas Beckmann wrote: a few Multi-Arch: same packages have all their dependencies satisfied, but are not co-installable because they got binNMUs. A sourceful no-change upload to rebuild them should restore co-installability. I've identified 8 source

Re: not co-installable Multi-Arch:same packages

2013-04-27 Thread Adam D. Barratt
On Sat, 2013-04-27 at 09:21 +0100, Adam D. Barratt wrote: On Sat, 2013-04-27 at 01:45 +0200, Andreas Beckmann wrote: a few Multi-Arch: same packages have all their dependencies satisfied, but are not co-installable because they got binNMUs. A sourceful no-change upload to rebuild them

Re: Join the #newinwheezy game

2013-04-30 Thread Adam D. Barratt
On 2013-04-29 10:57, Michael Prokop wrote: according to UDD we've 4451 new source packages in Debian/wheezy[1]. Plenty of them are worth noting and a good way to present the interesting new packages to our users could be if package maintainers/teams just write about them. Would be nice if we

Re: libtiff borken - cannot build anymore?

2013-05-20 Thread Adam D. Barratt
On 2013-05-20 17:09, Russ Allbery wrote: Norbert Preining prein...@logic.at writes: On Mo, 20 Mai 2013, Jay Berkenbilt wrote: The build deps that I have are: libgd2-xpm-dev | libgd2-noxpm-dev = libtiff5-dev libgs-dev = libtiff4-dev How should this work out? The

Re: libtiff borken - cannot build anymore?

2013-05-20 Thread Adam D. Barratt
On Mon, 2013-05-20 at 19:02 +0200, Ondřej Surý wrote: On Mon, May 20, 2013 at 6:36 PM, Adam D. Barratt a...@adam-barratt.org.uk wrote: Or that gd needs to not tie its own transition to libtiff, and should go back to using libtiff4 until we're ready to do the tiff transition. JFTR I have

Re: Bug#709237: ITP: meta-suckless-tools -- meta-package installs simple commands for minimalistic window managers

2013-05-21 Thread Adam D. Barratt
On 2013-05-21 20:45, Dmitry Papchenkov wrote: * Package name: meta-suckless-tools Version : 39 Upstream Author : The Suckless Team * URL : http://www.suckless.org/ * License : MIT/X Programming Lang: C Description : meta-package installs simple

Re: 7.0- 7.1: any reasons for switching from {4,5,6}.0.x scheme?

2013-06-17 Thread Adam D. Barratt
On 2013-06-17 17:51, Thijs Kinkhorst wrote: Call it undocumented if you will, it is one of the prominent identifiers of a Debian release and doesn't explain to me why this change couldn't have been announced on d-d-a beforehand so people could adapt. The change was also omitted from the point

Re: buildd dependency problems?

2013-07-18 Thread Adam D. Barratt
On Thu, 2013-07-18 at 12:46 +0200, Daniel Pocock wrote: I notice one of my package fails on hurd-i386, kfreebsd-* and sparc due to various dependencies: https://buildd.debian.org/status/package.php?p=resiprocatesuite=sid and it appears these dependencies have been unavailable for a long

Re: buildd dependency problems?

2013-07-18 Thread Adam D. Barratt
On Thu, 2013-07-18 at 22:59 +0200, Daniel Pocock wrote: On 18/07/13 22:44, Adam D. Barratt wrote: On Thu, 2013-07-18 at 12:46 +0200, Daniel Pocock wrote: I notice one of my package fails on hurd-i386, kfreebsd-* and sparc due to various dependencies: https://buildd.debian.org/status

Re: Grub 2.00 in testing?

2013-07-22 Thread Adam D. Barratt
On Sun, 2013-07-21 at 20:42 -0700, Carl Johnson wrote: Does anybody know what is going on with grub in testing? I have been waiting for 2.00, but it seems to be stuck at 1.99. Grub-common at http://packages.debian.org/jessie/grub-common shows that it is at 1.99-27+deb7u1, but the source

Re: Missing makefile

2013-07-31 Thread Adam D. Barratt
On Wed, 2013-07-31 at 10:53 -0400, Jerry Stuckle wrote: And compiling kernel modules is off-topic for debian-user. It should, however, be on-topic here. Not really, although I realise the longer description on https://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/ could lead you to that conclusion. As the

Re: Bug#718912: ITP: pdfjs -- PDF reader in Javascript

2013-08-06 Thread Adam D. Barratt
On Tue, 2013-08-06 at 14:19 -0700, Shawn Landden wrote: * Package name: pdfjs Version : master Upstream Author : Mozilla * URL : http://mozilla.github.io/pdf.js/ This has been in the archive for a few months already - http://packages.qa.debian.org/p/pdf.js.html

Re: Upcoming stable point release (7.2)

2013-09-22 Thread Adam D. Barratt
On Sun, 2013-09-22 at 21:33 +0200, Kurt Roeckx wrote: On Sun, Sep 22, 2013 at 08:11:10PM +0100, Adam D. Barratt wrote: The next point release for wheezy (7.2) is scheduled for Saturday October 12th. Stable NEW will be frozen during the preceding weekend. Can you please clarify what

Re: update-menus silently failing with Gnome?

2013-09-29 Thread Adam D. Barratt
On Sun, 2013-09-29 at 19:55 +0200, Daniel Pocock wrote: I can see that update-menus is run during the dpkg install and I tried running it again manually. I can even find the .desktop file for Gnome after update-menus has run, it looks OK However, the item just doesn't appear in the menu,

Re: mips64el port build failed list

2013-10-15 Thread Adam D. Barratt
On 2013-10-15 12:33, YunQiang Su wrote: http://192.168.252.248/attempted/0_attempted.txt is the list of packages which have tried to build while failed, which is so called attempted in sbuild. That's a private IP address, so not that helpful to others. :-) There is a file named

Bug#726393: general: Possible malware infections in source packages

2013-10-15 Thread Adam D. Barratt
On 2013-10-15 11:54, Dominik George wrote: [Jarkko Palviainen; attribution lost in quoted mail] http://ftp.fi.debian.org/[...] If you suspect an issue with the Debian archive, please test against ftp.debian.org. That's not particularly great advice. ftp.debian.org is just another

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