Bug#1071506: release-notes: wireplumber NEWS mentions "no automatic conversion"

2024-05-20 Thread Paul Gevers
Package: release-notes Severity: normal X-Debbugs-CC: wireplum...@packages.debian.org I read the wireplumber NEWS [1] when I upgraded my system. It's probably worth mentioning it somewhere in the release-notes. Paul [1]

Bug#987017: release-notes: Giving many ways to do something *is* useful

2024-04-28 Thread Paul Gevers
Hi, [Release Team member hat on] On 27-04-2024 11:48 p.m., Manny wrote: As an aptitude user, I was bothered by the lack of aptitude ways of doing things in the upgrade guide. I anything, I prefer the Release Notes to move to using one tool in the instructions, without insinuating that it's

Bug#1069417: upgrade procedure instructs users to run “apt update” but neglects upgrading

2024-04-22 Thread Paul Gevers
Hi Holger, On 22-04-2024 9:05 a.m., Holger Wansing wrote: A patch for above two issues is attached (against the bookworm branch; any such changing needs to be ported to master/trixie as well). Feel free to push. Bonus points if you remove the deleted text from translations too (where you're

Re: Bug#1069417: upgrade procedure instructs users to run “apt update” but neglects upgrading

2024-04-22 Thread Paul Gevers
Hi On 22-04-2024 1:40 p.m., RL wrote: I think that whole chapter [2] could be improved. Can we please do this for trixie only? Changing the text now is going to kill translations. Paul OpenPGP_signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Bug#1059509: release-notes: script -t is deprecated, should we recommend --log-timing?

2023-12-27 Thread Paul Gevers
Package: release-notes Severity: minor Note to self. I just stumbled upon $(man script): """ -t[file], --timing[=file] Output timing data to standard error, or to file when given. This option is deprecated in favour of --log-timing where the file argument is not

Bug#1055767: release-notes and sphinx: incompatible formatting of manpage links in bookworm and trixie

2023-11-11 Thread Paul Gevers
Hi, On 10-11-2023 22:31, Holger Wansing wrote: So the situation is: with the current source code we cannot have the release-notes correct on the Debian website and at the same time have succeeding pipelines on Salsa, when people are doing changes. Need to investigate, how to proceed here...

Bug#1055027: Document workaround for potentially unusable pipewire-jack

2023-10-29 Thread Paul Gevers
Hi On 29-10-2023 19:14, Nicholas D Steeves wrote: When I switched to Pipewire for bookworm I learned that pipewire-jack wasn't yet ready for general use due to broken sample rate pass-through, as well as frequent Ardour hangs. Thus I filed a bug (#1054019), tested the proposed workaround, and

Bug#932957: #932957 Please migrate Release Notes to reStructuredText

2023-08-24 Thread Paul Gevers
Hi Holger, On 29-07-2023 21:29, Holger Wansing wrote: I have worked out the last big blocker for this migration now. That is, to allow the build on wolkenstein, which is happening via the parts/7release-notes script in webmaster-team/cron git repo. I have just requested webmaster to switch

Bug#1040458: bookworm: please document that /etc/init.d/rsyslog is gone

2023-07-06 Thread Paul Gevers
Hi, On 06-07-2023 10:01, g1 wrote: On servers that run sysvinit instead of systemd, after upgrading from bullseye to bookworm rsyslogd doesn't start at boot anymore, unless orphan-sysvinit-packages is installed. Perhaps it's worth mentioning in the RN, otherwise people might discover that

Bug#932957: no longer build arch-dependent variants of r-n?

2023-06-25 Thread Paul Gevers
Hi Holger, On 25-06-2023 14:11, Holger Wansing wrote: I have reduced the build chain to only build one generic arch-independent variant of r-n, for all languages. It has all the content, and it's just named "Release Notes for Debian 12 (bookworm)" no longer mentioning any arch name in

Bug#932957: no longer build arch-dependent variants of r-n?

2023-06-21 Thread Paul Gevers
Hi Holger, On 18-06-2023 14:32, Holger Wansing wrote: We could just skip the last part of the URL and point to http://mirrors.kernel.org/debian/dists/bookworm/main/.. and that's it. I agree. Paul OpenPGP_signature Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Bug#932957: Please migrate Release Notes to reStructuredText

2023-06-14 Thread Paul Gevers
Hi, On 20-05-2023 23:26, Holger Wansing wrote: And the last point is the integration into the debhelper tools: I don't know if it is required, to have the release-notes fit for building as a whole package with sbuild or debuild or similar. Salsa tries to build it via CI at every push, but

Bug#992113: release-notes: Initial availability of Bazel build system in Debian

2023-06-08 Thread Paul Gevers
Control: tag -1 patch moreinfo Hi, On 29-05-2023 06:22, Paul Gevers wrote: 2.2.x Initial availability of the Bazel build system The [Bazel](https://bazel.build/) build system is available in Debian starting with this release. This is a bootstrap variant that will not include local versions

Re: Release Notes: Unknown reference "newreleasename"

2023-06-07 Thread Paul Gevers
Hi, On 07-06-2023 13:40, Martin Bagge / brother wrote: Noticed that was added in the upgrading section of the release notes (looks to be introduced via #1035089) and I can parse that (or can I?) but make validate does not pass clean with it. Thanks, I thought I fixed that... Yes I did, in

Bug#1033065: release-notes: i386 notes should specify minimum CPU requirements

2023-06-05 Thread Paul Gevers
Hi, On 05-06-2023 04:38, Martin-Éric Racine wrote: On a related issue, something in dpkg or apt should check the CPU features and refuse to perform an upgrade/dist-upgrade on an host whose CPU doesn't meet the new baseline requirements. Please file a bug with the respective packages.

Re: release notes mentioning dropped support?

2023-06-04 Thread Paul Gevers
-information.en.html#no-longer-supported-hardware On 24-05-2021 06:55, Paul Gevers wrote: Hi Kernel team, I happen to own a QNAP (armel) and I spotted in the changelog that it's not going to be supported in bullseye. I was wondering, is that something that should be mentioned in the release notes

Bug#1033065: release-notes: i386 notes should specify minimum CPU requirements

2023-06-04 Thread Paul Gevers
Hi Martin-Éric, On 04-06-2023 21:28, Martin-Éric Racine wrote: As previously stated, the Geode LX (but not older Geodes) does fulfill the baseline requirement for i686. NOPL, PAE and others were marked by Intel as optional features. If what the new Debian baseline really means is something that

Bug#1034344: Bug#1028002: dash: sid dash globs no longer allow [^...] to negate a class; upcoming breaking change from bullseye

2023-05-29 Thread Paul Gevers
Hi, On 29-05-2023 12:51, Max Nikulin wrote: I am unaware of another dash implementation. Do you mean ash from which dash was forked? No, I understood from Andrej that dash *internally* has two ways to do the matching. One embedded implementation, and one using system library calls. Which

Bug#1036907: release-notes: dash in bookworm drops debconf selector for /bin/sh

2023-05-29 Thread Paul Gevers
Hi Andrej, On 29-05-2023 11:22, Andrej Shadura wrote: I wasn’t 100% sure, but I have now verified and yes, dash reclaims /bin/sh on upgrades. Ack (and a bit of ugh). I could have handled that smarter and given users one release to adjust, but I guess it’s probably a bit late for that?

Bug#1034344: Bug#1028002: dash: sid dash globs no longer allow [^...] to negate a class; upcoming breaking change from bullseye

2023-05-29 Thread Paul Gevers
Hi, On 29-05-2023 12:02, Max Nikulin wrote: Strictly speaking, behavior of circumflex is *unspecified* in POSIX: ... A bracket expression     starting with an unquoted character produces unspecified     results. Right. Maybe better to say it now matches the other implementation (dash has

Bug#1036907: release-notes: dash in bookworm drops debconf selector for /bin/sh

2023-05-29 Thread Paul Gevers
HI, On 29-05-2023 11:42, Justin B Rye wrote: Either way, we'll need to amend that release-notes entry for ^-handling, and presumably we'll want a new entry about this to go along with that one. That was exactly my idea too. Paul OpenPGP_signature Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Bug#1036907: release-notes: dash in bookworm drops debconf selector for /bin/sh

2023-05-29 Thread Paul Gevers
Control: tags -1 moreinfo Hi Andrej, You know: thanks. On 29-05-2023 11:02, Andrej Shadura wrote: I think the release notes should probably mention that dash 0.5.11+git20210903+057cd650a4ed-4 has dropped all debconf code to allow using a different shell as /bin/sh. Does this only effects

Bug#992113: release-notes: Initial availability of Bazel build system in Debian

2023-05-28 Thread Paul Gevers
Hi Olek, First and foremost, I'm sorry this bug report dropped completely from the radar during the major part of bullseye being stable. On 11-08-2021 21:28, Olek Wojnar wrote: If possible, please include the following in section 2.2 (What's new in the distribution?) of the release notes for

Bug#1034344: Bug#1028002: dash: sid dash globs no longer allow [^...] to negate a class; upcoming breaking change from bullseye

2023-05-28 Thread Paul Gevers
Control: tags -1 pending patch Hi, On Thu, 13 Apr 2023 11:48:10 +0200 Paul Gevers wrote: On 12-04-2023 16:57, Santiago Ruano Rincón wrote: > If the current behaviour > would be part of bookworm, a NEWS entry would be great. And a release note would be worth it too I guess. Our (c

Bug#1035065: Bookworm release notes: sssd cache becomes invalid on upgrade

2023-05-28 Thread Paul Gevers
Hi, On 28-04-2023 18:04, Paul Gevers wrote: On 28-04-2023 16:38, Harald Dunkel wrote: AFAIU the sssd cache becomes invalid on the upgrade to Bookworm due to a new format. If you are using the company account to login on your laptop you might get locked out at upgrade time. This affects FreeIPA

Bug#1036658: release-notes: 5.1.8. rsyslog creates fewer log files - mail.log is not dropped

2023-05-28 Thread Paul Gevers
Hi, On 24-05-2023 16:36, Michael Biebl wrote: Am 24.05.23 um 15:25 schrieb Christoph Anton Mitterer: Anyway... if everyone agrees that we should leave out the rotated files and leave that up to the user (which a note bout that being the case in the release notes)... it would IMO be safer. I

Bug#1033065: release-notes: i386 notes should specify minimum CPU requirements

2023-05-28 Thread Paul Gevers
Hi, On 11-05-2023 20:20, Paul Gevers wrote: Please review my proposal here: https://salsa.debian.org/ddp-team/release-notes/-/merge_requests/166 The release notes now document that the baseline has been bumped. Paul OpenPGP_signature Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Bug#1033730: [release-notes] adduser changes in bookworm

2023-05-27 Thread Paul Gevers
Control: tags -1 patch pending Hi, On 28-04-2023 10:22, Marc Haber wrote: On Thu, Apr 27, 2023 at 11:00:59PM +0200, Holger Wansing wrote: Maybe we just want some more generic text like: I'm fine with that. I created this text with Marc:

Bug#1036786: add note about ganeti being broken by kernel bug

2023-05-26 Thread Paul Gevers
Package: release-notes Hi, As just agreed with carnil, in section "5.4 Known severe bugs" we want the bug against the kernel to mention it affects ganeti Paul OpenPGP_signature Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Bug#1035336: release-notes: libgdal-perl dropped in Bookworm

2023-05-23 Thread Paul Gevers
Control: tags -1 patch Hi, On 01-05-2023 11:06, Francesco P. Lovergine wrote: The ubiquitous geospatial GDAL library dropped the XS-based Perl binding. I have a proposal for the text here: https://salsa.debian.org/ddp-team/release-notes/-/merge_requests/176 Paul OpenPGP_signature

Re: some questions about the Greek translation of the release notes

2023-05-23 Thread Paul Gevers
Hi galas, On 21-05-2023 14:53, galas wrote: I am Emmanuel Galatoulas, long term contributor to the Greek translation of the Installation Guide as well as of the Release Notes. Thanks for the translation. say for amd64, I realised that there are some untranslated bits here and there, which

Bug#1032268: release-notes: upgrading a xen VM to bookworm will change network interface name to predictable scheme

2023-05-23 Thread Paul Gevers
Control: tags -1 patch Hi, On 02-03-2023 15:41, Laura Arjona Reina wrote: The interface had changed its name from eth0 to enX0, I guess due to this change in systemd v 250: * The predictable naming logic for network interfaces has been extended to generate stable names from Xen netfront

Bug#992116: release-notes: Add breakage from merged-/usr-via-aliased-dirs

2023-05-23 Thread Paul Gevers
control: tags -1 patch On 01-05-2023 15:04, Richard Lewis wrote: control: tags + patch Paul OpenPGP_signature Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Bug#1030119: release-notes: openssh-server: fills the log with "deprecated reading of user environment enabled"

2023-05-23 Thread Paul Gevers
Control: tags -1 patch trixie Hi, On 01-05-2023 16:57, Richard Lewis wrote: Was there an update on this bug against release-notes: the MR against openssh at https://salsa.debian.org/ssh-team/openssh/-/merge_requests/21/diffs doesnt seem to be merged - has this been parked? It sure looks like

Bug#1034412: release-notes: Information about manpages-l10n for bookworm release notes

2023-05-23 Thread Paul Gevers
Control: tags -1 patch Hi, On 29-04-2023 23:17, Richard Lewis wrote: So something like: I made some changes and created the MR here: https://salsa.debian.org/ddp-team/release-notes/-/merge_requests/174 Paul OpenPGP_signature Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Bug#1033511: release-notes: mention the switch from old polkit .pkla files to JavaScript .rules

2023-05-23 Thread Paul Gevers
Control: tags -1 patch On 21-05-2023 17:02, Richard Lewis wrote: MR submitted here: https://salsa.debian.org/ddp-team/release-notes/-/merge_requests/170 Paul OpenPGP_signature Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Bug#1036358: release-notes: Debian 12 expected to be last release w/ installer for i386

2023-05-23 Thread Paul Gevers
Hi, On 20-05-2023 16:21, Justin B Rye wrote: When do we stop producing official Release Notes? You mean when do we stop accepting changes to the Release Notes and stop building them? Once the release is EOL. However, I don't expect a lot of people to look for new versions after a while. You

Bug#932957: #932957 Please migrate Release Notes to reStructuredText

2023-05-23 Thread Paul Gevers
Hi Holger, On 18-05-2023 22:39, Holger Wansing wrote: I worked on this recently, and I have something like a prototype ready. Thanks a lot for working on this. I'm a bit swamped with last minute things that need to happen before the release of bookworm, so I don't expect to have time to

Bug#1034248: release-notes: Document that GTK4 apps are not accessible with screen reader

2023-05-11 Thread Paul Gevers
Control: tags -1 pending Hi, For final review: https://salsa.debian.org/ddp-team/release-notes/-/merge_requests/167 Paul OpenPGP_signature Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Bug#1033065: release-notes: i386 notes should specify minimum CPU requirements

2023-05-11 Thread Paul Gevers
Control: tags -1 patch pending Hi, Please review my proposal here: https://salsa.debian.org/ddp-team/release-notes/-/merge_requests/166 Paul OpenPGP_signature Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Bug#1028149: bookworm: ntp has been replaced by ntpsec

2023-05-07 Thread Paul Gevers
Control: close -1 Hi, On 01-05-2023 15:12, Richard Lewis wrote: proposed text is at https://salsa.debian.org/ddp-team/release-notes/-/merge_requests/156 This was merged two weeks ago. Paul OpenPGP_signature Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Bug#1034248: Request for review of release-notes item: GTK4 apps are not accessible with screen reader

2023-05-07 Thread Paul Gevers
Dear a11y users and experts, In bug 1034248 [1] against the release notes it has been brought up that GNOME isn't as accessible as it was before (I recall it already wasn't great and a11y prefer MATE already). Can you please review and comment on the proposed text below? title: GNOME has

Bug#1035613: release-notes: Maybe typo? "`arch`-based" in 5.3.3

2023-05-07 Thread Paul Gevers
Control: tags -1 confirmed Hi, On 06-05-2023 15:22, Hideki Yamane wrote: ^ No-longer-supported hardware For a number of `arch`-based devices that were supported in , it is no longer

Bug#1035616: release-notes: Duplicate paragraph

2023-05-07 Thread Paul Gevers
Control: tags -1 confirmed Hi, On 06-05-2023 17:35, Hendrik Boom wrote: These paragraphs use similarity to make it very clear how necessary action differ between the two cases. I would retain them as is. The intent of these paragraphs is to remind us to pick *either* before the release.

Bug#1035401: tmux as an alternative to screen

2023-05-03 Thread Paul Gevers
Hi, On 02-05-2023 22:52, Marc Haber wrote: the release notes in the "preparing a safe environment" chapter recommend running in screen. Since tmux has reached some matureness in the mean time, it might be a good idea to mention tmux along screen. Let's not do this for bookworm as that part of

Bug#1033478: release-notes: about #922981 at section 5.2 in the bookworm release-notes

2023-05-03 Thread Paul Gevers
Control: tags -1 confirmed Hi Patrice, Thanks for caring about the release notes. On 25-03-2023 18:08, Patrice Duroux wrote: I think that this issue have been closed by ca-certificates-java/20220719 migrated to testing in 2022-07-25 and testing has now 20230103. This list will be updated

Bug#1012174: Inconsistent advice wrt security archive

2023-05-03 Thread Paul Gevers
Hi Richard, On 01-05-2023 16:26, Richard Lewis wrote: I dont think the 'errata' page above is in the release-notes repository (?) That's correct, but that's also why the original reporter filed the bug against both www.debian.org and release-notes. It lives here:

Bug#1035065: Bookworm release notes: sssd cache becomes invalid on upgrade

2023-04-28 Thread Paul Gevers
Package: release-notes Hi Harald, On 28-04-2023 16:38, Harald Dunkel wrote: AFAIU the sssd cache becomes invalid on the upgrade to Bookworm due to a new format. If you are using the company account to login on your laptop you might get locked out at upgrade time. This affects FreeIPA and maybe

Bug#1033730: [release-notes] adduser changes in bookworm

2023-04-28 Thread Paul Gevers
Hi Holger, Again, thanks for working on the notes. On 27-04-2023 23:00, Holger Wansing wrote: Developers also can find out there, which changes are planned for Debian's next release after bookworm (trixie), enabling them to do necessary changes to their packages and code during the bookworm

Bug#1034412: release-notes: Information about manpages-l10n for bookworm release notes

2023-04-27 Thread Paul Gevers
Hi, On 27-04-2023 22:07, Holger Wansing wrote: Control: tags -1 + patch I would like to propose the attached patch for this report (mostly grabbed from Helge's text). + Greatly expanded translations of man pages + +Thank to many efforts of our translators, the translation

Bug#1034248: release-notes: Document that GTK4 apps are not accessible with screen reader

2023-04-27 Thread Paul Gevers
Hi Holger, Thanks for doing the leg work. On 27-04-2023 21:50, Holger Wansing wrote: + Accessibility: GNOME GTK4 apps with reduced screen reader support + + Many GNOME apps have switched from GTK3 to GTK4. Sadly, GTK4 is much + less accessible with the Orca screen

Bug#1034473: release-notes for Bookworm: additional line-break within command

2023-04-16 Thread Paul Gevers
Dear Holger, On 16-04-2023 12:39, Holger Wansing wrote: Chapter 5.1.5 of the release-notes has two command examples, which contain an additional line-break, so the command does not work - strictly spoken:

Bug#1028149: bookworm: ntp has been replaced by ntpsec

2023-04-15 Thread Paul Gevers
Hi, On 15-04-2023 17:31, Richard Lewis wrote: if no-one else does, i can draft some text that says - ntp is dropped (do we know why?). ntpsec is a direct replacement, but there is also chrony - and, if you do not need the strong guarantees of correct clock, systemd-timesyncd is part of a

Bug#1021490: bookworm: please mention users must migrate off dmraid

2023-04-10 Thread Paul Gevers
Control: tags -1 patch On 09-10-2022 15:15, Chris Hofstaedtler wrote: please add a note to the bookworm release notes, stating that users need to migrate off dmraid during or before the bookworm cycle. New systems cannot be installed with it. bookworm will still have the dmraid package, so

Bug#1033065: release-notes: i386 notes should specify minimum CPU requirements

2023-03-19 Thread Paul Gevers
Hi Martin-Éric, On 16-03-2023 20:20, Martin-Éric Racine wrote: The release notes for i386 should specify the minimum CPU requirements. Thanks for letting us know. If we raise the baseline, historically we mention it in the release notes. I (as a member of the release team) wasn't aware we

Bug#1030040: release-notes: usrmerge and dist-upgrade

2023-02-01 Thread Paul Gevers
Hi Justin, Thanks for bringing this up. On 30-01-2023 17:05, Justin B Rye wrote: a) Doing a combined dist-upgrade and usrmerge is so reliable that everybody should simply do it this way (thus using the latest usrmerge). That's what I think has to be the case. So unless we

bookworm and the release notes

2023-01-29 Thread Paul Gevers
Dear all, As I hope you are all aware, we are rapidly approaching of the release of Debian 12 'bookworm'. This means that we also want to get the release notes [1, 2] for bookworm into shape and translated. Following the process that I proposed and used during the buster and bullseye

Bug#987017: recommends 3 different ways to find obsolete packages, pick one

2022-12-18 Thread Paul Gevers
Hi On 15-04-2021 19:39, Antoine Beaupré wrote: I actually forgot that bullseye itself introduces yet another one: apt list ~obsolete But (I'm running bookworm): paul@mulciber ~/release-team/release-notes $ apt list ~obsolete Listing... Error! E: input:2-9: error: Expected end of file

Bug#990086: release-notes: deprecations not obvious from table of contents [was: apt-key is deprecated in bullseye, how to manage keys instead]

2022-12-18 Thread Paul Gevers
Control: close -1 Hi, On Mon, 21 Jun 2021 08:42:58 +0300 Andrei POPESCU wrote: Control: retitle -1 release-notes: deprecations not obvious from the table of contents Control: severity -1 minor On Du, 20 iun 21, 09:40:14, Julian Andres Klode wrote: > > I suggested wording for it in

Bug#1004862: neglected note in dist-upgrade documentation, section 4

2022-12-18 Thread Paul Gevers
Control: tag -1 pending patch Hi all, On Wed, 2 Feb 2022 16:16:24 +0100 "L.Schmidt" wrote: Package apt-get is a placeholder for https://www.debian.org/releases/stable/amd64/release-notes/ch-upgrading.en.html#backup as it's with apt-get dist-upgrade that the potential problem manifests. The

Bug#1002501: release-notes: Quotes (" and ') in commands in PDF release notes are "smart" (”*” / ’hold$’) so don't copy/paste

2022-12-15 Thread Paul Gevers
Control: tag -1 help Hi Alan, Thanks for your report. On 23-12-2021 12:34, alan wrote: As the subject says really. Quotes (" and ') in commands in the PDF Release Notes are "smart"/slanted (e.g. ”*” / ’hold$’) so when commands are copied from the pdf and pasted into a shell, they don't work.

Re: Bug# 983357: Why is it not mentioned in bullseye release notes / installation guide?

2022-02-09 Thread Paul Gevers
Hi, Subject: 983357: Why is it not mentioned in bullseye release notes / installation guide? For at least the release notes, because nobody asked the editors to include it. On 09-02-2022 21:04, Chuck Zmudzinski wrote: However, this is a well-known problem, but neither the Bullseye release

Bug#995397: Dropped support for 32-bit Xen PV guests should be mentioned in i386 release notes

2021-10-14 Thread Paul Gevers
Hi, Sorry for the delay, but the below text is appreciated. On 30-09-2021 22:59, Andy Smith wrote: > Thanks. I am not sure whether it fits in "Items not limited to the > upgrade process" or under "Obsolescence and deprecation", but how > about: I think the second one makes more sense. >

Bug#992116: release-notes: Add breakage from merged-/usr-via-aliased-dirs

2021-10-14 Thread Paul Gevers
Hi Justin, On 23-09-2021 21:25, Paul Gevers wrote: > Maybe instead of (bug #985502): >Support for the non-merged-usr layout will be dropped >after Debian bullseye, so all users are doomed. DOOMED! > we can add something like: > "The Debian project i

Bug#995397: Dropped support for 32-bit Xen PV guests should be mentioned in i386 release notes

2021-09-30 Thread Paul Gevers
Hi Andy, On 30-09-2021 17:13, Andy Smith wrote: > I think this issue should be mentioned in the i386 release notes in > the upgrading from buster part. I am happy to propose some text for > that if it is agreed. This indeed sounds like something that could be mentioned under the "issues to be

Re: Bug#994839: marked as done (ch-upgrading.en.html#sufficient-space: a suggestion.)

2021-09-25 Thread Paul Gevers
Hi On 25-09-2021 09:59, Andrei POPESCU wrote: >> If you're really sure, yes, go ahead. Making sure somebody from the >> release team (me) is aware would be *really* appreciated. > > Should that (B)Cc: -release or do you prefer direct message instead? I think the best thing is to make sure that

Re: Bug#994839: marked as done (ch-upgrading.en.html#sufficient-space: a suggestion.)

2021-09-24 Thread Paul Gevers
Hi Andrei, On 24-09-2021 08:18, Andrei POPESCU wrote: > Would you mind if I commit such trivial-but-obvious fixes directly? If you're really sure, yes, go ahead. Making sure somebody from the release team (me) is aware would be *really* appreciated. > Is there something else to consider

Bug#992116: release-notes: Add breakage from merged-/usr-via-aliased-dirs

2021-09-23 Thread Paul Gevers
Hi Guillem, all, On 11-08-2021 23:36, Guillem Jover wrote: > While this breakage is apparently not going to be reverted, the users > deserve to know what they are getting into, to avoid hard to track > bugs and misbehavior. > > To me this would be worth mentioning on its own in addition to the >

Bug#992213: release-notes: Release notes should mention lxc issues with cgroups change

2021-09-23 Thread Paul Gevers
Hi Mike, On 22-08-2021 08:49, Paul Gevers wrote: > On 21-08-2021 23:23, Mike Hommey wrote: >>> Interesting. We heavily use lxc on ci.d.n (all tests run in one) and we >>> haven't experienced this. I'm wondering what the specifics of you >>> system(s) is that trigge

Re: Bug#993819: release-notes: Please document the removal of wicd

2021-09-09 Thread Paul Gevers
Hi Hendrik, On 09-09-2021 21:27, Hendrik Boom wrote: > Here is the text I have included in the current draft upgrade > instructions for Devuan: > > Warning: `wicd` will no longer be available after the upgrade, so if > you use it to connect to the internet through wifi, you will be cut >

Bug#992213: release-notes: Release notes should mention lxc issues with cgroups change

2021-08-22 Thread Paul Gevers
Hi Mike, On 21-08-2021 23:23, Mike Hommey wrote: >> Interesting. We heavily use lxc on ci.d.n (all tests run in one) and we >> haven't experienced this. I'm wondering what the specifics of you >> system(s) is that trigger the issue. Do you have ideas? > > I actually don't. I have some containers

Bug#992213: release-notes: Release notes should mention lxc issues with cgroups change

2021-08-21 Thread Paul Gevers
Hi Mike, On 21-08-2021 23:11, Mike Hommey wrote: > On Sat, Aug 21, 2021 at 10:50:13PM +0200, Paul Gevers wrote: >> Hi Mike, >> >> On 16-08-2021 22:29, Paul Gevers wrote: >>> Hi Mike, >>> >>> Sorry for brevity, I'm in a hurry. >>> >>&

Bug#992213: release-notes: Release notes should mention lxc issues with cgroups change

2021-08-21 Thread Paul Gevers
Hi Mike, On 16-08-2021 22:29, Paul Gevers wrote: > Hi Mike, > > Sorry for brevity, I'm in a hurry. > > On 15-08-2021 23:08, Mike Hommey wrote: >> The release notes has a section about the issues with openstack, but >> there are also problems with lxc. I'm not sure wh

Bug#992213: release-notes: Release notes should mention lxc issues with cgroups change

2021-08-16 Thread Paul Gevers
Hi Mike, Sorry for brevity, I'm in a hurry. On 15-08-2021 23:08, Mike Hommey wrote: > The release notes has a section about the issues with openstack, but > there are also problems with lxc. I'm not sure what the proper > workaround is, but setting `lxc.mount.auto = cgroup:mixed:force` fixed >

Re: unclear release-notes section

2021-08-14 Thread Paul Gevers
Hi, On 14-08-2021 20:41, Marco Möller wrote: > What's about this version: > > > For the Debian release "bullseye", the repository providing security > updates is now addressed as bullseye-security > The format which was used in the past is no more supported, therefore do > not write

unclear release-notes section

2021-08-14 Thread Paul Gevers
Hi all, Justin, On IRC there was a remark about our security archive section. It currently reads: For bullseye, the security suite is now named bullseye-security instead of buster/updates and users should adapt their APT source-list files accordingly when

Bug#992025: release-notes: Add section on switching init system

2021-08-14 Thread Paul Gevers
Hi Matthew, On 09-08-2021 22:53, Matthew Vernon wrote: > Not currently (I imagine something like it will end up there > eventually); I think it warrants being in the release notes because it's > quite a significant change from Buster (where non-systemd inits were > largely unusable on desktop

Bug#992157: release-notes: warn about SSH at the start of the upgrade paragraph

2021-08-13 Thread Paul Gevers
Package: release-notes Severity: normal Tags: patch Hi, On IRC I was trigger that we may want to add a warning at the start of the paragraph 4.4.4 (minimal upgrade). I prepared the attached patch. Paul >From 36acbddbf23c96a9ba141ac2a06e17789e3e45a9 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Paul Gev

Re: release-notes, issues - using without role=...

2021-08-13 Thread Paul Gevers
Hi Martin, On 13-08-2021 23:53, Martin Bagge / brother wrote: > While translating the issues file I noticed that three occurences of > fail2ban uses as tag instead of the more common role="package">. Looks like only these three lines in the entire repo > does it like this. Might be an

Bug#992051: security archive layout change needs more configuration changes

2021-08-10 Thread Paul Gevers
same. > Do we need to mention fnmatch patterns (AKA globs) when the example > doesn't use them? I guess not. We don't need to write APT's documentation here. Do you agree with the attached patch? Paul From ff677aa0be71b9a27d4d6d343f9ed1b14bcc086f Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Paul Gevers Date:

Bug#992051: security archive layout change needs more configuration changes

2021-08-10 Thread Paul Gevers
Control: tags -1 patch Hi all, On 10-08-2021 07:55, Paul Gevers wrote: > Yesterday I noticed that the layout change of the security impacts more > than just the apt *sources* as my system wasn't updating perl, > libencode-perl and exiv2. I already enabled the new security archive > l

Bug#992051: security archive layout change needs more configuration changes

2021-08-09 Thread Paul Gevers
Package: release-notes Hi, I just sent this message to the security team, the release notes need adapting. Paul Forwarded Message Subject: security archive layout change warrants announcement Date: Tue, 10 Aug 2021 07:44:07 +0200 From: Paul Gevers To: Debian Security Team

Bug#992025: release-notes: Add section on switching init system

2021-08-09 Thread Paul Gevers
Hi, On 09-08-2021 18:55, Matthew Vernon wrote: > Hi, > > Sorry, correct patch this time :-/ > > Regards, > > Matthew Short question (I'm low on time for this tonight): don't we have this documented on the Wiki somewhere? It feels a bit long for the release notes. Paul OpenPGP_signature

Bug#991969: D-I: news for Bullseye: help with firmware installation

2021-08-06 Thread Paul Gevers
Hi, On 06-08-2021 21:52, Holger Wansing wrote: > I would like to add a paragraph to the release-notes, describing a bit the > new "install-firmware" mechanism via modalias, with a link to the new doc > in the installation-guide, for those who experience problems. > > Please find a patch

Re: release-notes: no new ssh connections during upgrade

2021-08-06 Thread Paul Gevers
Hi Justin, all, On 06-08-2021 19:23, Justin B Rye wrote: > Thinking about the overall structure, it might work better to move the > "good news" part to the start... > > >No new SSH connections possible during upgrade > > Although existing Secure Shell (SSH)

release-notes: no new ssh connections during upgrade

2021-08-06 Thread Paul Gevers
works after the partial upgrade b) with openssh-server upgraded, the downtime for accepting new connections is greatly reduced. Paul From 6f71007b1c0bf282dc3a9a17c5b958b1489e9ace Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Paul Gevers Date: Fri, 6 Aug 2021 17:50:07 +0200 Subject: [PATCH] issues.dbk: no new ssh

Bug#991781: RFR: fail2ban can't send e-mail using mail from bsd-mailx

2021-08-05 Thread Paul Gevers
Hi, Thanks for the reviews. On 05-08-2021 06:37, Justin B Rye wrote: > Has bullseye added extra providers for mailx? I don't know. I'm not aware of it. > On buster there's > only bsd-mailx and mailutils. Mind you, fail2ban only Suggests > mailx, so maybe it's assuming some more complicated

Bug#991781: RFR: fail2ban can't send e-mail using mail from bsd-mailx

2021-08-04 Thread Paul Gevers
: Paul Gevers Date: Wed, 4 Aug 2021 09:59:34 +0200 Subject: [PATCH] issues.dbk: fail2ban and mail from bsd-mailx don't work together Closes: #991781 --- en/issues.dbk | 23 +++ 1 file changed, 23 insertions(+) diff --git a/en/issues.dbk b/en/issues.dbk index a01b2967..4eab01ef

Bug#991721: release-notes: mention known RC bugs in bullseye

2021-08-04 Thread Paul Gevers
Hi Justin, On 04-08-2021 12:06, Justin B Rye wrote: > Paul Gevers wrote: >> To give translators a chance, I have pushed this without review. The >> attached text is what I pushed. Fixes still welcome of course. > > This and #988963 look okay to me anyway, except perhaps f

Bug#991721: release-notes: mention known RC bugs in bullseye

2021-08-04 Thread Paul Gevers
Hi, On 30-07-2021 21:55, Paul Gevers wrote: > I want to collect RC bugs worth mentioning in the release > notes. Here's a proposal for the text and table. Obviously I'll be > filing the table soon and automated. To give translators a chance, I have pushed this without review. The atta

Re: Updating the Galician translation of release-notes

2021-07-31 Thread Paul Gevers
Hi Parodper, On 31-07-2021 20:07, Parodper wrote: > I have updated the Galician translation of the Release Notes to > Galician. Since I can't commit, following the instructions in > README.translators, I ask here. Could someone push them to git? Will do that shortly. > PD - Question to the more

Bug#988963: release-notes: document libgc1c2 situation

2021-07-30 Thread Paul Gevers
Package: libgc1c2 Followup-For: Bug #988963 X-Debbugs-Cc: debian-doc@lists.debian.org Control: reassing -1 release-notes Hi, Please find attached my proposal how to document the issue with libgc1c2 upgrades. Paul >From ace0b20825c99c394844233b73c5601cb09d2bb1 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: P

Bug#991688: mention improved/added man page translations

2021-07-30 Thread Paul Gevers
Hi, On 30-07-2021 18:43, Helge Kreutzmann wrote: > If this is the rule now, fine. It is not. We have multiple items mentioning backports. Paul OpenPGP_signature Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Bug#991721: release-notes: mention known RC bugs in bullseye

2021-07-30 Thread Paul Gevers
rom: Paul Gevers Date: Fri, 30 Jul 2021 21:50:32 +0200 Subject: [PATCH] issues.dbk: known RC bugs --- en/issues.dbk | 36 1 file changed, 36 insertions(+) diff --git a/en/issues.dbk b/en/issues.dbk index ec8b75e8..0ea1b121 100644 --- a/en/issues.dbk +++ b

Bug#990462: Bug#990319: unblock: intel-microcode/3.20210608.2

2021-07-08 Thread Paul Gevers
Hi Justin, On 08-07-2021 07:20, Justin B Rye wrote: >> (https://github.com/intel/Intel-Linux-Processor-Microcode-Data-Files/issues/56) >> and some for Skylake R0/D0 CPUs on systems using a very outdated > > Typo for "so"? Yes, but I think "for some". >> If you held back the update

Bug#990421: Bug#990379: unblock: rdiff-backup/2.0.5-2

2021-06-30 Thread Paul Gevers
Hi all, On 28-06-2021 21:10, Paul Gevers wrote: >> rdiff-backup is a sort of rsync-like backup tool. It happens that the >> version that will be shipped in Bullseye (2.0.5) has a network protocol >> that is incompatible with that of the version that was shipped in Buster >&

Bug#987068: assert "preliminary cgroupv2 support" or fix outstanding bugs (eg: debootstrap+Docker)

2021-06-30 Thread Paul Gevers
Hi Nicholas, On 27-05-2021 09:33, Paul Gevers wrote: > Sorry for being silent on this issue for two weeks, but I lack the > background (and the time to investigate) to turn your messages into > release-notes text so I struggled how to reply. Can you maybe come up > with a proposa

Bug#990462: Bug#990319: unblock: intel-microcode/3.20210608.2

2021-06-30 Thread Paul Gevers
Control: tags -1 moreinfo Hi Sebastian On 29-06-2021 22:41, Sebastian Ramacher wrote: >> Please note that the current plans are that a Debian 10 (buster) >> security update, intel-microcode/3.20210608.2~deb10u1, will be delivered >> to Debian stable in the next couple days through

Re: release notes mentioning dropped support?

2021-06-30 Thread Paul Gevers
Hi, On 16-06-2021 02:31, Ben Hutchings wrote: >>> + >>> +Package: linux-image-marvell >>> +Pin: release a=buster >>> +Pin-Priority: 900 >>> + My system is upgrading as I write this, at least one bug found. The pin line should read: Pin: release n=buster Paul OpenPGP_signature

Re: release note: issue.dbk has 404 link to backports

2021-06-22 Thread Paul Gevers
Hi Y, On 22-06-2021 14:51, Yosuke Otsuki wrote: > JP translation team spotted two links to backports page returned 404 in > peer review. Thanks. > I think following fix it if https://backports.debian.org/backports > , which is > disappeared, originally

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