Re: Request for TC to rule on a course of action for supporting build-arch

2012-03-17 Thread Russ Allbery
I believe that the discussion of this has reached a conclusion and the dpkg maintainers are moving forward with an implementation. At this point, it seems like the right thing for the Technical Committee to do is to affirm that we agree with the approach arrived at. I propose the following ballot

Re: xz strategies

2012-03-17 Thread Philipp Kern
On Sat, Mar 17, 2012 at 10:36:06PM +0100, Raphael Hertzog wrote: > Since Guillem announced that 1.16.2 should be uploaded to sid shortly, I > did not bother replying. It seems to take a bit longer than announced but > hopefully it's a matter of a few days at most now. It's a matter of a few days f

Re: xz strategies

2012-03-17 Thread Raphael Hertzog
Hi, On Fri, 09 Mar 2012, Philipp Kern wrote: > I'd appreciate if you could go ahead and push the xz strategies patch > for dpkg-deb to unstable. The conversion of d-i udebs to xz > compression blocks on this and should better not be delayed further. > The other components are ready / will be patc

Re: Bug#571776: document symbols

2012-03-17 Thread Russ Allbery
Here is a new proposed patch that incorporates the feedback to date with some other, substantial changes. It's apparent to me from hands-on experimentation with C++ libraries that, at least at the moment, shlibs is likely to have an ongoing existence in the archive. Accordingly, some of the layou