Re: Minutes from the "32bit architectures in Debian"-bof

2015-09-05 Thread Andreas Barth
* Helmut Grohne (hel...@subdivi.de) [150831 16:49]: > On Thu, Aug 20, 2015 at 03:04:17PM +0200, Andreas Barth wrote: > > minutes from the "32bit architectures in Debian" bof right now. > > It is my understanding that it was also agreed that mips and mipsel >

Re: Minutes from the "32bit architectures in Debian"-bof

2015-08-26 Thread Andreas Barth
* Russ Allbery (r...@debian.org) [150825 03:09]: > Andreas Barth writes: > > > - for i386, there is still sold new hardware with 32bit-only. Are > > there open issues for i386 (apart from the 32bit-generic ones)? > > Discussion that we need to get rid of it o

Re: Minutes from the "32bit architectures in Debian"-bof

2015-08-26 Thread Andreas Barth
* Florian Weimer (f...@deneb.enyo.de) [150823 17:02]: > * Andreas Barth: > > > Specific issues: > > - for i386, there is still sold new hardware with 32bit-only. Are > > there open issues for i386 (apart from the 32bit-generic ones)? > > FWIW, for x32, the securit

Minutes from the "32bit architectures in Debian"-bof

2015-08-20 Thread Andreas Barth
Hi together, minutes from the "32bit architectures in Debian" bof right now. Andi 32bit architectures in Debian - 32bit architectures are not going away for the forseeable - Compiling/Linking is the memory-using issue - We need a way to compile/link with more memory Proposal A: - Use "cross-c

Re: veto?

2014-11-12 Thread Andreas Barth
* Daniel Pocock (dan...@pocock.pro) [141112 13:42]: > On 12/11/14 13:12, zlatan wrote: > > Please no. > > > > We need less and not more layers of governance/'political' complexity > > in project. Lets stop acting like government and more like community. > > > If a veto facility is created effect

Re: Release Team Sprint Results

2014-11-10 Thread Andreas Barth
* Steve Langasek (vor...@debian.org) [141110 23:06]: > On Mon, Nov 10, 2014 at 09:33:07PM +, Adam D. Barratt wrote: > > [re-adding -devel@] > > > On Mon, 2014-11-10 at 21:20 +, Adam D. Barratt wrote: > > > On Mon, 2014-11-10 at 13:08 -0800, Steve Langasek wrote: > > > > Hi Jonathan, > > >

Re: "done with consensus decisionmaking", "war", "rearguard battles" [was: Re: REISSUED CfV: General Resolution: Init system coupling]

2014-11-09 Thread Andreas Barth
* Don Armstrong (d...@debian.org) [141109 22:22]: > On Sun, 09 Nov 2014, Josh Triplett wrote: > > (After repetition of the exact wording of the "We aren't convinced" > > wording that ended up passing, and people pointing out that it *will* be > > interpreted as TC opposition to the switch, which su

Re: Arch-dependent files in /usr/share

2014-11-02 Thread Andreas Barth
* Steve Langasek (vor...@debian.org) [141102 19:39]: > On Sun, Nov 02, 2014 at 06:33:15PM +0100, Jakub Wilk wrote: > > I found a number of arch!=all packages shipping /usr/share files that vary > > with architecture in a way indicating an FHS violation. > > > Steve Langasek > >systemd-shim >

Re: Built-Using, again…

2014-10-16 Thread Andreas Barth
* Thorsten Glaser (t.gla...@tarent.de) [141016 09:39]: > On Wed, 15 Oct 2014, Andreas Barth wrote: > > > Buildd administration — @buildd.debian.org > > lists a couple of people. And also a working mail address. Contacting > > people via a role account is always prefered.

Re: Built-Using, again…

2014-10-15 Thread Andreas Barth
* Paul Wise (p...@debian.org) [141015 17:22]: > [ powerpc buildd admins ] > According to LDAP it appears to be wouter, he, pkern. This list is incomplete. There are more people, especially there is a group who is buildd admin on all buildds, and tends to fix problems if they are known. (However, t

Re: Built-Using, again…

2014-10-15 Thread Andreas Barth
* Thorsten Glaser (t...@mirbsd.de) [141013 12:05]: > sbuild/buildd runs apt-get update, but not apt-get *upgrade, > before each build. But I assume this should not be changed > either… > > So we need either a technical, or a policy-ical, or a human, > solution to this problem, right? Or we just h

Re: Built-Using, again…

2014-10-15 Thread Andreas Barth
* Thorsten Glaser (t.gla...@tarent.de) [141015 16:20]: > On Wed, 15 Oct 2014, Cyril Brulebois wrote: > > > Thorsten Glaser (2014-10-15): > > > Who are powerpc buildd admins, again? > > > > Still listed at the same location since last time you asked: > > Yeah, I tend to forget it. > > > https

Re: Reverting to GNOME for jessie's default desktop

2014-08-08 Thread Andreas Barth
* Olav Vitters (o...@vitters.nl) [140808 19:12]: > [ support for init systems bedside systemd ] > There was also a question what should happen if *upstream* removes > support. That's not up to Debian Developers to patch back. Such was > discussed and clarified. One of the questions that was voted

Re: systemd-sysv/shim in testing

2014-07-27 Thread Andreas Barth
* Russ Allbery (r...@debian.org) [140727 21:51]: > The timing of migration of the new version of systemd to testing, like > questions about testing migration in general, is really a release team > decision. And the release team has done a decision for the normal case when bugs are release critical

Re: Source Requirements

2014-04-29 Thread Andreas Barth
* Dimitri John Ledkov (x...@debian.org) [140429 23:34]: > On 29 April 2014 21:02, Thomas Koch wrote: > > On Tuesday, April 29, 2014 02:26:49 AM Scott Kitterman wrote: > >> Recently there have been a number of questions about source requirements > >> for the Debian archive. The FTP master view of

Re: Ifupdown dysfunctional, is a Provides: interface possible please?

2014-03-29 Thread Andreas Barth
* Stephen Powell (zlinux...@wowway.com) [140329 15:05]: > On Sat, 29 Mar 2014 01:34:27 -0400 (EDT), Andrei POPESCU wrote: > > > > Or connman. > > Frankly, I think that the claim that ifupdown is dysfunctional is an > exaggeration at > best and untrue at worst. I am not claiming that it is bug f

Re: [RFH] Local wanna-build and buildd setup in unstable

2014-01-26 Thread Andreas Barth
* Adam D. Barratt (a...@adam-barratt.org.uk) [140126 22:03]: > On Sun, 2014-01-26 at 21:13 +0100, Karsten Merker wrote: > > Most older documentation states something like "if > > things are unclear, just log in and take a look at the official > > Debian wanna-build installation", but that is of cou

Re: RFH: sane-backends FTBFS on buildds, but not in pbuilder

2014-01-18 Thread Andreas Barth
Hi, * John Paul Adrian Glaubitz (glaub...@physik.fu-berlin.de) [140118 18:26]: > Unfortunately, this package currently fails to build on the buildds > while it builds fine when building in a pbuilder environment [1]. Did you try to build it with dpkg-buildpackage -B (i.e. not building binary-all-

Re: Role of Release Goals

2013-12-15 Thread Andreas Barth
* Niels Thykier (ni...@thykier.net) [131215 12:36]: > In practise, it has not worked out so well. In my experience, many > of the Wheezy release goals became "second-rate" goals - we simply > failed to follow up on those goals as we promised, we would. To me, > release goals became "that outsta

Re: EFI in Debian

2012-07-07 Thread Andreas Barth
* Steve Langasek (vor...@debian.org) [120707 22:54]: > On Fri, Jul 06, 2012 at 10:14:01AM +0200, Josselin Mouette wrote: > > If OTOH we have to pay a fee just for our software to work on platforms > > that just happen to be using Microsoft’s certificate, this is clearly > > abusive. I would object

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

2012-06-12 Thread Andreas Barth
* David Kalnischkies (kalnischk...@gmail.com) [120612 18:03]: > You need to upgrade to support MultiArch, > but you need MultiArch to upgrade… > (beside, how would the detection for such a message look like?) We had discussed to export foreign-arch packages to the arches packages files at debconf.

Re: Handling of changelogs and bin-nmus

2012-06-12 Thread Andreas Barth
* Raphael Hertzog (hert...@debian.org) [120612 13:10]: > 1/ we modify dpkg to ignore differences on /usr/share/doc/*/changelog.*gz > for multi-arch: same packages Doesn't sound too bad to me, at least for short-term (where I'd tend to take the changelog-version of the main architecture on installa

Re: [xml/sgml-pkgs] Bug#676686: libxslt1.1: libxslt1.1 binNMU broke multi-arch installability

2012-06-12 Thread Andreas Barth
* Guillem Jover (guil...@debian.org) [120612 09:00]: > I disagree placing it in the dpkg database is not helpful, for a user > or other programs wanting to access that structured package metadata > it's obviously easier and better to do something like > «dpkg --show-changelog foo» or «dpkg-query --

Re: [xml/sgml-pkgs] Bug#676686: libxslt1.1: libxslt1.1 binNMU broke multi-arch installability

2012-06-12 Thread Andreas Barth
* Ian Jackson (ijack...@chiark.greenend.org.uk) [120611 13:21]: > Guillem Jover writes ("Re: [xml/sgml-pkgs] Bug#676686: libxslt1.1: libxslt1.1 > binNMU broke multi-arch installability"): > > As I mentioned in the long ref-counting thread, I strongly disagree this > > is a correct solution, it ju

Re: Handling of changelogs and bin-nmus

2012-06-10 Thread Andreas Barth
* Raphael Hertzog (hert...@debian.org) [120610 20:44]: > On Sun, 10 Jun 2012, Jonathan Nieder wrote: > > Raphael Hertzog wrote: > > > > > As such, I suggest that we handle "binary rebuild" differently: > > > - debian/changelog is left unmodified since it's the source changelog > > > => it define

Re: [xml/sgml-pkgs] Bug#676686: libxslt1.1: libxslt1.1 binNMU broke multi-arch installability

2012-06-10 Thread Andreas Barth
* Philipp Kern (pk...@debian.org) [120610 14:06]: > On Sun, Jun 10, 2012 at 01:52:24PM +0200, Andreas Barth wrote: > > Perhaps we could add the binNMU entry for the moment and fix the rest > > later? Or whatever would make you more happy. Just I'd like to be able > > to

Re: [xml/sgml-pkgs] Bug#676686: libxslt1.1: libxslt1.1 binNMU broke multi-arch installability

2012-06-10 Thread Andreas Barth
* Guillem Jover (guil...@debian.org) [120610 10:08]: > As I mentioned in the long ref-counting thread, I strongly disagree this > is a correct solution, it just seems like a hack to me. Instead I > think we should consider changelog (and copyright as long as it's in > machine parseable format) as d

Re: [xml/sgml-pkgs] Bug#676686: libxslt1.1: libxslt1.1 binNMU broke multi-arch installability

2012-06-09 Thread Andreas Barth
* Henrique de Moraes Holschuh (h...@debian.org) [120609 02:31]: > We'd just have to teach the tool to binNMU all arches when the target > package would need it due to multiarch. Release team requests a binNMU of a > package for some arch, the tool notices it has to do them all because of > multi-a

Re: Idea: mount /tmp to tmpfs depending on free space and RAM

2012-06-07 Thread Andreas Barth
* Wouter Verhelst (wou...@debian.org) [120607 16:06]: > On Fri, Jun 01, 2012 at 07:00:52PM +0300, Serge wrote: > > 2012/6/1 Goswin von Brederlow wrote: > > > So tmpfs would basically never be used despite the benefits. > > > > Well, nobody named the benefits yet. > > - It speeds things up, especi

Re: this bug .. bugs me

2012-06-05 Thread Andreas Barth
* Joey Hess (jo...@debian.org) [120605 17:53]: > I've read over this entire bug, and while there are clearly some hard > problems and a lot of good work shown here, I'm seeing a concerning > trend throughout it. I think the issues are now getting way better, with e.g. hillu uploading new wine vers

Re: amd64 as default architecture

2012-05-20 Thread Andreas Barth
* Marco d'Itri (m...@linux.it) [120520 17:31]: > On May 20, Ben Hutchings wrote: > > > > > No, keep i386 userland only. Though we might consider reducing even > > > > that to a 'partial architecture' that has only libraries (similar to > > > > ia32-libs today, only cleaner). > > > Don't you beli

Re: why do people introduce stup^Wstrange changes to quilt 3.0 format

2012-05-17 Thread Andreas Barth
* Russ Allbery (r...@debian.org) [120517 19:53]: > Tollef Fog Heen writes: > > > Pushing a signed tag and having source packages and binaries built from > > that doesn't rely on 3.0 (git), though. «Just» a repository somewhere > > with hooks that go «oh, a signed tag, let me build a source packa

Re: on the use of chmod/chown in maintainer scripts

2012-05-13 Thread Andreas Barth
* Russ Allbery (r...@debian.org) [120513 18:52]: > Carsten Hey writes: > > * Andreas Barth [2012-05-13 11:06 +0200]: > >> and let dpkg handle all of that? > > > This doesn't look like a task that should be done by dpkg itself; > > instead debhelper or

Re: on the use of chmod/chown in maintainer scripts

2012-05-13 Thread Andreas Barth
* Russ Allbery (r...@debian.org) [120512 23:06]: > Charles Plessy writes: > > > Unless we expect that two different binary packages that can be > > co-installed will distribute the same directory under different > > ownership or permissions for a good reason, why not simply let dpkg > > apply own

Re: switching from exim to postfix

2012-04-30 Thread Andreas Barth
* Russ Allbery (r...@debian.org) [120430 17:09]: > Riku Voipio writes: > > Exim in 2012 not supporting 8BITMIME and thus being the last Major MTA > > forcing quoted-printable conversions to make emails "7bit clean" is > > quite horribly wrong. > > I didn't realize that. I agree, that's an annoy

Re: upstart: please update to latest upstream version

2012-02-26 Thread Andreas Barth
* Uoti Urpala (uoti.urp...@pp1.inet.fi) [120226 00:29]: > Cyril Brulebois wrote: > > Uoti Urpala (26/02/2012): > > > Is there reason to believe this would be a particular problem with > > > systemd? Most of the controversy I've seen surrounding Poettering has > > > been due to people resisting the

Re: RFC: Making mail-transport-agent Priority: optional

2011-10-15 Thread Andreas Barth
* Neil Williams (codeh...@debian.org) [111015 22:23]: > The problem with "Standard" is that it is currently (and heavily) biased > towards multi-user servers and most of the replies in this thread which > decry the absence of an MTA would appear to come from those principally > concerned with serve

Re: Bits from dpkg developers - dpkg 1.16.1

2011-10-02 Thread Andreas Barth
* Florian Weimer (f...@deneb.enyo.de) [111002 21:59]: > Couldn't we get rid of static libraries altogether, replacing static > linking with ahead-of-time dynamic linking? Could you explain what this means for people not so deep into that? (E.g. how is the linking done? When? What does that mean fo

Re: Maintainers, porters, and burden of porting

2011-09-11 Thread Andreas Barth
* Kurt Roeckx (k...@roeckx.be) [110910 15:38]: > We changed this some time ago and made $arch readable by anybody, > the mbox's are at: > buildd.debian.org:/org/buildd.debian.org/mbox/ > > We've ask the security team to use wb-t...@buildd.debian.org > instead, which is not public available. Ok wi

Re: Maintainers, porters, and burden of porting

2011-09-08 Thread Andreas Barth
* Stefano Zacchiroli (z...@debian.org) [110908 19:53]: > On Thu, Sep 08, 2011 at 07:34:41PM +0200, Andreas Barth wrote: > > Yes. Because one of the most frequent users is the security team > > asking where this and that security build is. We don't want that > >

Re: Maintainers, porters, and burden of porting

2011-09-08 Thread Andreas Barth
* Stefano Zacchiroli (z...@debian.org) [110908 19:22]: > I think maintainers should be empowered more to fiddle with the > Architecture list of their packages, but also that they should give > some sort of explanation (as simple as bug report pointers) for the > architectures they do not su

Re: kernel.org compromised

2011-09-03 Thread Andreas Barth
* Joerg Jaspert (jo...@debian.org) [110903 12:44]: > > > Yeah, yeah. We've beaten that horse to death, and our side lost. I also > > advocate that all debs should be signed, but that was not the will of the > > ftp-masters the last time the issue was up for discussion. > > Thats wrong. > Since

Re: Maintainers, porters, and burden of porting

2011-08-31 Thread Andreas Barth
* Lucas Nussbaum (lu...@lucas-nussbaum.net) [110831 12:07]: > On 31/08/11 at 11:40 +0200, Andreas Barth wrote: > > * Lucas Nussbaum (lu...@lucas-nussbaum.net) [110831 07:34]: > > > Being in the second set would be fine, and would not be a step towards > > > being thrown

Re: Maintainers, porters, and burden of porting

2011-08-31 Thread Andreas Barth
* Lucas Nussbaum (lu...@lucas-nussbaum.net) [110831 07:34]: > Regarding architectures, we made releases with a semi-official status on > two occasions at least (etch-m68k and kfreebsd in squeeze). I hope you see the difference between etch-m68k and kbsd. Kbsd is "too new", whereas etch-m68k was (

Re: Maintainers, porters, and burden of porting

2011-08-31 Thread Andreas Barth
* Lucas Nussbaum (lu...@lucas-nussbaum.net) [110831 10:56]: > Also, in the case of architectures targetted at embedded systems (I'm > thinking about mips and mipsel), what is important is that Debian > infrastructure supports the development of those architectures, but I > don't think that there's

Re: Maintainers, porters, and burden of porting

2011-08-29 Thread Andreas Barth
* Russ Allbery (r...@debian.org) [110829 20:42]: > Samuel Thibault writes: > > Lucas Nussbaum, le Mon 29 Aug 2011 16:49:17 +0200, a écrit : > > >> Those packages should be set Not-For-Us anyway, no? So they still need > >> an action from porters or buildd maintainers. > > > We want to avoid Not-

Re: Maintainers, porters, and burden of porting

2011-08-29 Thread Andreas Barth
* Lucas Nussbaum (lu...@lucas-nussbaum.net) [110829 13:10]: > If you take a list of packages that failed on $PORTER_ARCH, but built > fine on at least two or three other architectures, do you really expect > to get many false positives (i.e, non-arch-specific problems)? If we have methods which pr

Re: Maintainers, porters, and burden of porting

2011-08-29 Thread Andreas Barth
* Lucas Nussbaum (lu...@lucas-nussbaum.net) [110829 08:59]: > I'd like to reinforce the fact that it's the porters' responsibility > to investigate porters issues, and propose the following > responsibilities: > (1) It is the responsibility of porters to: > - track architecture-specific bugs (

Re: Bug#638322: nfs-common: rpc.statd binds to udp port 631 preventing cups startup

2011-08-20 Thread Andreas Barth
* Henrique de Moraes Holschuh (h...@debian.org) [110820 14:39]: > Yes. And we can easily maintain a current one for Debian-packaged software, > although the initial build of such a blacklist will take some work. Actually, the existing interface net.ipv4.ip_local_port_range seems to work quite wel

Re: /usr/share/doc/ files and gzip/xz/no compression

2011-08-15 Thread Andreas Barth
* Lars Wirzenius (l...@liw.fi) [110815 23:27]: > On Mon, Aug 15, 2011 at 11:04:51PM +0200, Carsten Hey wrote: > > * Lars Wirzenius [2011-08-15 18:33 +0100]: > > > raw gz xz > > > 584163 134 file sizes (MiB) > > >0421 450 savings compared to raw (Mi

Re: /usr/share/doc/ files and gzip/xz/no compression

2011-08-15 Thread Andreas Barth
* Lars Wirzenius (l...@liw.fi) [110815 19:36]: > 584163 134 file sizes (MiB) Thanks for comparing these numbers. That tells me that at least in the average case we just can continue with gz, and not care much about the relativly small difference to xz. Andi -- To UNSUBSCRIBE,

Re: Introducing Build-Recommends / Build-Core-Depends?

2011-08-15 Thread Andreas Barth
* Joey Hess (jo...@debian.org) [110815 18:32]: > Andreas Barth wrote: > > Also, the binary packages in the debian/control template could have > > Build-Depends specified which means that they should only be built if > > those packages are actually installed (so we could do a

Re: Introduction of a "lock" group

2011-08-15 Thread Andreas Barth
* Roger Leigh (rle...@codelibre.net) [110815 17:12]: > Are these any other downsides we need to consider? One issue is the > existence of badly broken programs³, which make stupid assumptions > about lockfiles. This will break all existing programms on an partial upgrades. There are three ways to

Re: Introducing Build-Recommends / Build-Core-Depends?

2011-08-15 Thread Andreas Barth
* Carsten Hey (cars...@debian.org) [110815 14:36]: > * Andreas Barth [2011-08-15 13:46 +0200]: > > * Carsten Hey (cars...@debian.org) [110815 13:36]: > > > An optional "Build-Depends:" field per binary package as you described > > > is essentially the sa

Re: Introducing Build-Recommends / Build-Core-Depends?

2011-08-15 Thread Andreas Barth
* Carsten Hey (cars...@debian.org) [110815 13:36]: > An optional "Build-Depends:" field per binary package as you described > is essentially the same as the following, with the notable difference, > that the below could appear as it is in the output of, i.e., apt-cache > showsrc without requiring m

Re: Introducing Build-Recommends / Build-Core-Depends?

2011-08-15 Thread Andreas Barth
* Steve McIntyre (st...@einval.com) [110815 12:30]: > Andreas Barth wrote: > >Generic options are usually better IMHO, but well - YMMV. > > Often, yes. But also often at extra cost. No doubt about that. > Where is the added benefit > here - i.e. what are the use cases?

Re: use flags? (was: Re: Introducing Build-Recommends / Build-Core-Depends?)

2011-08-15 Thread Andreas Barth
* Steve McIntyre (st...@einval.com) [110815 12:27]: > Eugene V. Lyubimkin wrote: > >Source: fbreader > >Build-Depends-Core: debhelper (>= 7), libbz2-dev > >Build-Depends-Qt3: libqt3-mt-dev > >Build-Depends-Qt4: libqt4-dev > >Build-Depends-Gtk2: libgtk2.0-dev > I can see this turning into a large m

Re: Introducing Build-Recommends / Build-Core-Depends?

2011-08-13 Thread Andreas Barth
* Joachim Breitner (nome...@debian.org) [110813 16:05]: > Hi, > > just a minor note: > > Am Samstag, den 13.08.2011, 13:28 +0200 schrieb Andreas Barth: > > To mark such packages and to be able to decide when to re-schedule the > > build, all binary-packages get the ad

Re: Introducing Build-Recommends / Build-Core-Depends?

2011-08-13 Thread Andreas Barth
* Colin Watson (cjwat...@debian.org) [110813 15:27]: > On Sat, Aug 13, 2011 at 01:28:36PM +0200, Andreas Barth wrote: > > During bootstraping a new architecture, there are sometimes ugly > > build-dependency-loops (usually involving generating documentation > > for the core

Re: use flags? (was: Re: Introducing Build-Recommends / Build-Core-Depends?)

2011-08-13 Thread Andreas Barth
* Eugene V. Lyubimkin (jac...@debian.org) [110813 14:58]: > On 2011-08-13 13:28, Andreas Barth wrote: > > Building with core Dependencies only > > > > If doing an build of the core functionality only, norecommends is > > added to the environment DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS. This

Introducing Build-Recommends / Build-Core-Depends?

2011-08-13 Thread Andreas Barth
Hi, During bootstraping a new architecture, there are sometimes ugly build-dependency-loops (usually involving generating documentation for the core build utilities means you need to have the architecture already available; same with graphical tools). During DebConf, Wookey had a talk which lead

Re: A few observations about systemd

2011-07-25 Thread Andreas Barth
* Simon McVittie (s...@debian.org) [110724 23:52]: > On Sun, 24 Jul 2011 at 21:59:40 +0200, Wouter Verhelst 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 you rem

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

2011-07-21 Thread Andreas Barth
* Joey Hess (jo...@debian.org) [110719 22:52]: > Andreas Barth wrote: > > The decision is already taken that Debian can run on BSD kernels. So > > if someone wants to revert that decision, it'd need an GR. Not the > > other way. > > That decision was made wit

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

2011-07-19 Thread Andreas Barth
* Russ Allbery (r...@debian.org) [110719 01:36]: > Uoti Urpala writes: > > I know I would personally be a lot happier with a Debian that supports > > systemd functionality than with a Debian that can run on a BSD kernel. > > Well, while we're putting stakes in the ground, I suppose I'll hammer mi

Re: throw away debs and source only uploads

2011-06-07 Thread Andreas Barth
* Don Armstrong (d...@debian.org) [110607 18:11]: > On Tue, 07 Jun 2011, Andreas Barth wrote: > > * Don Armstrong (d...@debian.org) [110607 04:25]: > > > On Mon, 06 Jun 2011, Philipp Kern wrote: > > > > I.e. I think we should still allow non-buildd binaries, e.

Re: throw away debs and source only uploads

2011-06-07 Thread Andreas Barth
* Don Armstrong (d...@debian.org) [110607 04:25]: > On Mon, 06 Jun 2011, Philipp Kern wrote: > > I.e. I think we should still allow non-buildd binaries, e.g. for > > those cases you mentioned. > > Non-buildd binaries should still be allowed, but they should be > followed immediately by a binNMU. [

Re: PPAs for Debian

2011-05-03 Thread Andreas Barth
* René Mayorga (rmayo...@debian.org) [110503 22:52]: > On Sat, Apr 30, 2011 at 12:56:15PM +0200, Stefano Zacchiroli wrote: > > On Sat, Apr 30, 2011 at 12:07:24PM +0200, Andreas Barth wrote: > > > > > > I think it would make quite sense to get something like e.g. ppa

Re: Bits from the Release Team - Kicking off Wheezy

2011-05-03 Thread Andreas Barth
* Lucas Nussbaum (lu...@lucas-nussbaum.net) [110503 11:47]: > On 02/05/11 at 16:19 -0700, Russ Allbery wrote: > > Lucas Nussbaum writes: > > > > > [ Note that my position is based on the assumption that we have a share > > > of DDs interested in rolling similar to the share of DDs interested in >

Re: wanna-build / how to sort packages on buildds?

2011-05-02 Thread Andreas Barth
* Scott Kitterman (deb...@kitterman.com) [110502 19:32]: > If one could do something like: > > wb gb libieee1284 mod-wsgi nflog-bindings zinnia . ia64 . !caballero good idea. I'll consider how to do that. Andi -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject o

Re: PPA

2011-05-02 Thread Andreas Barth
* Jan Hauke Rahm (j...@debian.org) [110502 19:22]: > On Mon, May 02, 2011 at 07:16:47PM +0200, Andreas Barth wrote: > > > I guess I'm misunderstanding you here, so please help me out. If a > > > package is being worked on in different PPAs regarding different &

Re: Bits from the Release Team - Kicking off Wheezy

2011-05-02 Thread Andreas Barth
* Marc 'HE' Brockschmidt (h...@ftwca.de) [110502 09:12]: > Pierre Habouzit writes: > > - PPA should focus on: > > * co-installability when endurable; > > * documented and working rollback to unstable (IOW downgrading a > > package to unstable when co-installability is not pos

Re: Bits from the Release Team - Kicking off Wheezy

2011-05-02 Thread Andreas Barth
* Joey Hess (jo...@debian.org) [110501 22:36]: > The problem with the moving target is that it means that d-i betas begin > to be broken as time goes on after their release, starting with the > smallest boot images and moving up to the netinst images. We could e.g. create an copy of testing at the

Re: PPA

2011-05-02 Thread Andreas Barth
* Jan Hauke Rahm (j...@debian.org) [110502 18:34]: > On Sun, May 01, 2011 at 06:34:02PM +0200, Andreas Barth wrote: > > * Raphael Hertzog (hert...@debian.org) [110501 18:23]: > > > - APT entry to add (i.e. URL of the PPA so that the buildd can fetch > > > build-depe

Re: PPA

2011-05-01 Thread Andreas Barth
* Roger Leigh (rle...@codelibre.net) [110501 19:04]: > WRT the signing key, there would need to be some form of trust path > or else the signature would be worthless. If packages are being > uploaded to Debian infrastructure, and are under our control, can't > we use a single signing key? We pres

Re: PPA

2011-05-01 Thread Andreas Barth
* Roger Leigh (rle...@codelibre.net) [110501 18:46]: > On Sun, May 01, 2011 at 06:34:02PM +0200, Andreas Barth wrote: > > * Raphael Hertzog (hert...@debian.org) [110501 18:23]: > > > On Sun, 01 May 2011, Andreas Barth wrote: > > > How can we submit jobs to a buildd? &g

Re: PPA

2011-05-01 Thread Andreas Barth
* Stéphane Glondu (glo...@debian.org) [110501 18:24]: > Le 01/05/2011 17:16, Andreas Barth a écrit : > > Well yes, but how many autobuilding suites should we add? 50? 100? > > 200? How do we do key management so that we know that the autobuilder > > build the packages that

Re: PPA

2011-05-01 Thread Andreas Barth
* Raphael Hertzog (hert...@debian.org) [110501 18:23]: > On Sun, 01 May 2011, Andreas Barth wrote: > > However, to get that done right for multiple software is not so easy. > > But please prove me wrong - as soon as 2. is done, I'm happy to help > > setting up autobuil

Re: PPA

2011-05-01 Thread Andreas Barth
* Stéphane Glondu (glo...@debian.org) [110501 17:00]: > Le 01/05/2011 15:34, Andreas Barth a écrit : > > 1. How to push from a vcs (git, svn, ...) to ppa? (This should be > > coordinated with ftp-masters, so that the same method could be used > > later on for uploading into

Re: Bug#621833: System users: removing them

2011-05-01 Thread Andreas Barth
* Ian Jackson (ijack...@chiark.greenend.org.uk) [110501 16:39]: > Steve Langasek writes ("Re: Bug#621833: System users: removing them"): > > On Tue, Apr 12, 2011 at 09:31:47PM +0200, sean finney wrote: > > > I second your original proposal though, that packages must not delete > > > system users th

Re: Bits from the Release Team - Kicking off Wheezy

2011-05-01 Thread Andreas Barth
* Stefano Zacchiroli (z...@debian.org) [110501 16:12]: > On Fri, Apr 29, 2011 at 06:05:35PM -0400, Joey Hess wrote: > > > In the Squeeze release we have done better than before by calling for > > > explicit upgrade testing (kudos to the Release Team!), but a specific > > > plan of alpha/beta/... mi

PPA (was: Bits from the Release Team - Kicking off Wheezy)

2011-05-01 Thread Andreas Barth
* Pierre Habouzit (madco...@madism.org) [110501 01:32]: > - link that PPA stuff to the main repository in a way that "merging" > PPA into unstable is just a matter of one single command, or a few. > > - make it easy for users to subscribe to PPAs, meaning you have to > have some kind o

Re: Crypto consolidation in debian ?

2011-05-01 Thread Andreas Barth
* Roger Leigh (rle...@codelibre.net) [110501 15:08]: > Even if the NSS situation changes, surely it's immediately obvious > that a random library function should not tamper with the uid of a > process as a side-effect? Unless the caller explicitly requested > dropping of root privs, no library has

Re: Bits from the Release Team - Kicking off Wheezy

2011-05-01 Thread Andreas Barth
* Marc Haber (mh+debian-de...@zugschlus.de) [110501 14:16]: > On Sat, 30 Apr 2011 16:48:24 +0200, Andreas Barth > wrote: > >Actually, it worked quite well for both volatile and backports to > >start as a non-official service. > > Agreed for backports, violently disagree

Re: wanna-build / how to sort packages on buildds?

2011-05-01 Thread Andreas Barth
* Roger Leigh (rle...@codelibre.net) [110501 12:02]: > I just wanted to add that if you would like more statistics reporting > for this purpose, I'll be happy to add that to sbuild. I only worry about the ~20-40 packages that are currently sitting in some no_auto_build on the buildds. Not more but

Re: Bits from the Release Team - Kicking off Wheezy

2011-05-01 Thread Andreas Barth
* Raphael Hertzog (hert...@debian.org) [110501 08:41]: > Fixing RC bugs in testing and getting new upstream versions that are > ready in testing is not a burden for developers, it's what we're > supposed to do to ensure we can release as quickly as possible. Who is the "we" you are speaking about

Re: wanna-build / how to sort packages on buildds?

2011-05-01 Thread Andreas Barth
* Ingo Jürgensmann (i...@2011.bluespice.org) [110501 11:55]: > On Sun, 1 May 2011 01:36:38 +0200, Andreas Barth wrote: >> Now, what I would like to do is to write that down in a central file >> with categories. > > I would recommend to use a database, really. Sorry, but

Re: Bits from the Release Team - Kicking off Wheezy

2011-04-30 Thread Andreas Barth
* Pierre Habouzit (madco...@madism.org) [110501 01:32]: > back a few versions. I couldn't care about testing any less. And at > work, every person I know either uses just stable or does the same as > me. I know no testing user around me. Of course I'm not pretending I > know the absolute Truth, but

wanna-build / how to sort packages on buildds?

2011-04-30 Thread Andreas Barth
Hi, I have a problem I need to solve in perl within wanna-build: Sometimes we have a few packages we don't want to build on a certain buildds. Sometimes this is because this package needs lots of ram. Or it takes quite long and would waste the parallel building a machine supports. Or whatever els

Re: Bits from the Release Team - Kicking off Wheezy

2011-04-30 Thread Andreas Barth
* Raphael Hertzog (hert...@debian.org) [110430 20:51]: > Hi Andreas, > > On Sat, 30 Apr 2011, Andreas Barth wrote: > > Actually, it worked quite well for both volatile and backports to > > start as a non-official service. As well as building packages in > > non-free. An

Re: mozilla.d.n

2011-04-30 Thread Andreas Barth
* Mike Hommey (m...@glandium.org) [110430 17:57]: > On Sat, Apr 30, 2011 at 02:18:06PM +0200, Andreas Barth wrote: > > * Mike Hommey (m...@glandium.org) [110430 13:28]: > > > On Sat, Apr 30, 2011 at 01:06:57PM +0200, Andreas Barth wrote: > > > > * Mike Hommey (m.

Re: Bits from the Release Team - Kicking off Wheezy

2011-04-30 Thread Andreas Barth
* Arno Töll (deb...@toell.net) [110430 17:46]: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > On 30.04.2011 16:48, Andreas Barth wrote: > > Actually, it worked quite well for both volatile and backports to > > start as a non-official service. As well as building

Re: Bits from the Release Team - Kicking off Wheezy

2011-04-30 Thread Andreas Barth
* Arno Töll (deb...@toell.net) [110430 15:17]: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > On 30.04.2011 14:36, Andreas Barth wrote: > > Feel free to use rolling.debian.net, set it up and have success. Like > > aj did with setting up testing (after froz

Re: Bits from the Release Team - Kicking off Wheezy

2011-04-30 Thread Andreas Barth
* Raphael Hertzog (hert...@debian.org) [110430 14:28]: > On Sat, 30 Apr 2011, Andreas Barth wrote: > > * Raphael Hertzog (hert...@debian.org) [110430 09:46]: > > > > Who is going to install a "rolling" release instead of "testing"? > > > > &

Re: mozilla.d.n (was: Bits from the Release Team - Kicking off Wheezy)

2011-04-30 Thread Andreas Barth
* Mike Hommey (m...@glandium.org) [110430 13:28]: > On Sat, Apr 30, 2011 at 01:06:57PM +0200, Andreas Barth wrote: > > * Mike Hommey (m...@glandium.org) [110430 12:16]: > > > That being said, it would be really helpful to be able to get buildds > > > to bui

mozilla.d.n (was: Bits from the Release Team - Kicking off Wheezy)

2011-04-30 Thread Andreas Barth
* Mike Hommey (m...@glandium.org) [110430 12:16]: > That being said, it would be really helpful to be able to get buildds > to build the mozilla.d.n packages... Would it work to build the packages in unstable? If so, why not uploading them to experimental and re-branding them in mozilla.d.n? And

Re: PPAs for Debian

2011-04-30 Thread Andreas Barth
* Stefano Zacchiroli (lea...@debian.org) [110430 12:56]: > What we lack for that to become a reality is "just" the code. Marc and > Tollef had set up a nice proposal [1] for GSoC this year and were > willing to mentor it, but unfortunately no student has shown up. If > there are people willing to c

Re: Bits from the Release Team - Kicking off Wheezy

2011-04-30 Thread Andreas Barth
* Russ Allbery (r...@debian.org) [110430 09:54]: > I think this is a fairly small portion of our developer base, and most > developers do care about testing and pursue issues, particularly when > informed of them by the excellent mail messages letting people know that > packages haven't migrated as

Re: Bits from the Release Team - Kicking off Wheezy

2011-04-30 Thread Andreas Barth
* Philipp Kern (tr...@philkern.de) [110430 09:49]: > It's not that it isn't meant. Of course we could also look at overlay > solutions. (That said, while I'm very happy about mozilla.debian.net, I > somehow still feel that those packages should be added in a co-installable way > into some officia

Re: Bits from the Release Team - Kicking off Wheezy

2011-04-30 Thread Andreas Barth
* Raphael Hertzog (hert...@debian.org) [110430 09:46]: > > Who is going to install a "rolling" release instead of "testing"? > > If we change our documentation to say that rolling can be used by anyone > who likes a constantly evolving distribution (and can live with the > occasionnal hiccup) and

Re: Bits from the Release Team - Kicking off Wheezy

2011-04-29 Thread Andreas Barth
* Stefano Zacchiroli (z...@debian.org) [110429 14:22]: > In general we need to promote the reduction of (potential) bottlenecks > in Debian rather than the contrary. ... and don't get me wrong: I'm very > well aware that this specific "bottleneck" is a very good feature to > have for the preparatio

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