Re: Bits from the Release Team: ride like the wind, Bullseye!

2019-10-03 Thread Ben Hutchings
On Sun, 2019-07-21 at 10:55 -0300, Ivo De Decker wrote: > Hi Ben, > > Sorry for not getting back to you about this earlier. > > On 7/7/19 3:43 PM, Ben Hutchings wrote: > > On Sun, 2019-07-07 at 02:47 +0100, Jonathan Wiltshire wrote: > > [...] > > > No binary maintainer uploads for bullseye > > >

Re: process-upload issue (was: Re: Bits from the Release Team: ride like the wind, Bullseye!)

2019-08-11 Thread Ben Hutchings
On Mon, 2019-08-05 at 19:25 +0100, Adam D. Barratt wrote: > [CC += ftpmaster] > > On Mon, 2019-08-05 at 17:49 +0100, Ben Hutchings wrote: > > On Sun, 2019-07-21 at 10:55 -0300, Ivo De Decker wrote: > > [...] > > > We are aware that src:linux is a special case here. I added an > > > exception for

process-upload issue (was: Re: Bits from the Release Team: ride like the wind, Bullseye!)

2019-08-05 Thread Adam D. Barratt
[CC += ftpmaster] On Mon, 2019-08-05 at 17:49 +0100, Ben Hutchings wrote: > On Sun, 2019-07-21 at 10:55 -0300, Ivo De Decker wrote: > [...] > > We are aware that src:linux is a special case here. I added an > > exception for the arch:all binaries from src:linux. When the next > > ABI bump in 

Re: Bits from the Release Team: ride like the wind, Bullseye!

2019-08-05 Thread Ben Hutchings
On Sun, 2019-07-21 at 10:55 -0300, Ivo De Decker wrote: [...] > We are aware that src:linux is a special case here. I added an exception > for the arch:all binaries from src:linux. When the next ABI bump in > unstable happens, feel free to let me know, so that I can check if it > works as

Re: Bits from the Release Team: ride like the wind, Bullseye!

2019-07-21 Thread Ivo De Decker
Hi Ben, Sorry for not getting back to you about this earlier. On 7/7/19 3:43 PM, Ben Hutchings wrote: On Sun, 2019-07-07 at 02:47 +0100, Jonathan Wiltshire wrote: [...] No binary maintainer uploads for bullseye = The release of buster also means the

Re: Bits from the Release Team: ride like the wind, Bullseye!

2019-07-07 Thread Sam Hartman
> "Ben" == Ben Hutchings writes: Ben> On Sun, 2019-07-07 at 02:47 +0100, Jonathan Wiltshire wrote: Ben> [...] >> No binary maintainer uploads for bullseye >> = >> >> The release of buster also means the bullseye release cycle

Re: Bits from the Release Team: ride like the wind, Bullseye!

2019-07-07 Thread Ben Hutchings
On Sun, 2019-07-07 at 02:47 +0100, Jonathan Wiltshire wrote: [...] > No binary maintainer uploads for bullseye > = > > The release of buster also means the bullseye release cycle is about to begin. > From now on, we will no longer allow binaries uploaded by

Re: bits from the release team

2006-01-09 Thread Chris Bannister
On Tue, Jan 03, 2006 at 06:43:28PM -0500, Brian Nelson wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Marco d'Itri) writes: On Jan 04, Adam Heath [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Not to mention that 2.6.15 requires a newer udev. Who knows what other newer things newer kernels might require. OTOH, old kernel

Re: bits from the release team

2006-01-04 Thread Sven Luther
Sorry for the long mail, but i believe there is something important all the way done, so if you cannot be bothered to read it all; please go down to the point marked *IMPORTANT*. On Tue, Jan 03, 2006 at 10:05:04PM -0800, Steve Langasek wrote: You have been harranguing the ftp team to approve new

Re: bits from the release team

2006-01-04 Thread Sven Luther
On Wed, Jan 04, 2006 at 08:58:09AM +0100, Andreas Barth wrote: well, the kernel is definitly about the same level as the toolchain and standard/base - changes can have very easily impact on the installer, and it is not an option to remove the package if it is broken. Nope, still it is more in

Re: bits from the release team

2006-01-04 Thread Tollef Fog Heen
* Sven Luther | I believe it has also an influence on the place where the source package is | ohold (alioth svn repo over whatever strange stuff ubuntu uses), and they said | we should use their system. yeah, git, really strange stuff in the world of Linux kernel development. Available from

Re: bits from the release team

2006-01-04 Thread Sven Luther
On Wed, Jan 04, 2006 at 12:39:09PM +0100, Tollef Fog Heen wrote: * Sven Luther | I believe it has also an influence on the place where the source package is | ohold (alioth svn repo over whatever strange stuff ubuntu uses), and they said | we should use their system. yeah, git, really

Re: bits from the release team

2006-01-04 Thread martin f krafft
also sprach Brian Nelson [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2006.01.04.0043 +0100]: Why don't we use RHEL's kernel, or collaborate with them to maintain a stable kernel tree, or something? I doubt RH has the same concept of stability as we do, and I surely don't want a plethora of potentially untested or buggy

Re: bits from the release team

2006-01-04 Thread Gabor Gombas
On Wed, Jan 04, 2006 at 12:23:31AM -0200, Felipe Augusto van de Wiel (faw) wrote: Perhaps the idea of maintain a kernel with other distros is not bad, if Ubuntu shows up as a candidate, I would like to add Progeny, Linspire, Xandros, DCC Alliance Fan Club and also other Debian

Re: bits from the release team

2006-01-04 Thread Maximilian Attems
On Wed, Jan 04, 2006 at 01:51:17PM +0100, Gabor Gombas wrote: snipp Packaging at least -rc kernels for unstable might be a good idea for Debian too. That would provide more testing coverage for -rc releases, and this is what upstream needs the most. the -rc kernels are build in experimental,

Re: bits from the release team

2006-01-04 Thread Norbert Tretkowski
* Gabor Gombas wrote: Packaging at least -rc kernels for unstable might be a good idea for Debian too. That would provide more testing coverage for -rc releases, and this is what upstream needs the most. We already had some -rc releases in experimental for 2.6.14 and 2.6.15. Norbert -- To

Re: bits from the release team

2006-01-04 Thread Gabor Gombas
On Wed, Jan 04, 2006 at 02:26:51PM +0100, Maximilian Attems wrote: the -rc kernels are build in experimental, staging area for unstable and without any potential d-i breakage. Ah, nice, I did not notice it. Perhaps it should get some more publicity to attract more testers :-) Gabor --

Re: bits from the release team

2006-01-04 Thread Sven Luther
On Wed, Jan 04, 2006 at 01:11:00PM -0500, Joey Hess wrote: Sven Luther wrote: For the installer, sure, but the generation of the d-i kernel .udebs is only marginally of their relevance, and furthermore they don't want the responsability associated with it, and as proof i can show you that

Re: bits from the release team

2006-01-03 Thread Sven Luther
On Tue, Jan 03, 2006 at 09:24:19PM +0100, Andreas Barth wrote: N-117 = Mon 30 Jul 06: freeze essential toolchain, kernels Why do you put the kernel together with the essential toolchain freeze, it should be together with the rest of base, i believe. N-110 = Mon 7 Aug 06: freeze base,

Re: bits from the release team

2006-01-03 Thread Andreas Barth
Hi, thanks for your mail. I just want to point out that we published the timeline already back in October, but of course, that shouldn't refrain us from changing it if this is necessary. :) [re-arranged the quote] * Sven Luther ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [060103 22:03]: On Tue, Jan 03, 2006 at

Re: bits from the release team

2006-01-03 Thread Margarita Manterola
On 1/3/06, Sven Luther [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Why do you put the kernel together with the essential toolchain freeze, it should be together with the rest of base, i believe. [...] We will have a kernel which is outdated by two versions at release time with this plan, since there are about

Re: bits from the release team

2006-01-03 Thread Maximilian Attems
On Tue, Jan 03, 2006 at 10:02:05PM +0100, Sven Luther wrote: On Tue, Jan 03, 2006 at 09:24:19PM +0100, Andreas Barth wrote: N-117 = Mon 30 Jul 06: freeze essential toolchain, kernels Why do you put the kernel together with the essential toolchain freeze, it should be together with the rest

Re: bits from the release team

2006-01-03 Thread Sven Luther
On Tue, Jan 03, 2006 at 10:31:38PM +0100, Andreas Barth wrote: Hi, thanks for your mail. I just want to point out that we published the timeline already back in October, but of course, that shouldn't refrain us from changing it if this is necessary. :) Yeah, i was already chidded (?) that

Re: bits from the release team

2006-01-03 Thread Frans Pop
(forgot to CC d-kernel on this) On Tuesday 03 January 2006 22:02, Sven Luther wrote: We will have a kernel which is outdated by two versions at release time with this plan, since there are about 1 kernel upstream release every 2 month. 2.6.8 is not an optimal kernel, but largely due to timing

Re: bits from the release team

2006-01-03 Thread Sven Luther
On Tue, Jan 03, 2006 at 10:32:12PM +0100, Maximilian Attems wrote: On Tue, Jan 03, 2006 at 10:02:05PM +0100, Sven Luther wrote: On Tue, Jan 03, 2006 at 09:24:19PM +0100, Andreas Barth wrote: N-117 = Mon 30 Jul 06: freeze essential toolchain, kernels Why do you put the kernel together

Re: bits from the release team

2006-01-03 Thread Sven Luther
On Tue, Jan 03, 2006 at 11:01:03PM +0100, Frans Pop wrote: (forgot to CC d-kernel on this) On Tuesday 03 January 2006 22:02, Sven Luther wrote: We will have a kernel which is outdated by two versions at release time with this plan, since there are about 1 kernel upstream release every 2

Re: bits from the release team

2006-01-03 Thread Sven Luther
On Tue, Jan 03, 2006 at 06:26:02PM -0300, Margarita Manterola wrote: On 1/3/06, Sven Luther [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Why do you put the kernel together with the essential toolchain freeze, it should be together with the rest of base, i believe. [...] We will have a kernel which is

Re: bits from the release team

2006-01-03 Thread Frans Pop
On Tuesday 03 January 2006 23:01, Sven Luther wrote: Indeed. The d-i team usually says no outright to any kind of proposal of this kind, so it is up to the kernel team to come up with an implementation which convinces them :) Bullshit. We (d-i team, mainly Joey) gave very good reasons why we

Re: bits from the release team

2006-01-03 Thread Sven Luther
On Tue, Jan 03, 2006 at 11:33:44PM +0100, Frans Pop wrote: On Tuesday 03 January 2006 23:01, Sven Luther wrote: Indeed. The d-i team usually says no outright to any kind of proposal of this kind, so it is up to the kernel team to come up with an implementation which convinces them :)

Re: bits from the release team

2006-01-03 Thread Joey Hess
Sven Luther wrote: Indeed. The d-i team usually says no outright to any kind of proposal of this kind, so it is up to the kernel team to come up with an implementation which convinces them :) The release team deserves to be informed about the possibility though. Cite message-ids or irc logs

Re: bits from the release team

2006-01-03 Thread Joey Hess
Sven Luther wrote: And have you added stable-security into the equation ? Your choices of back in april are in part responsible for the abysmal situation in stable-security with regard to kernels during these past months. Pedantically speaking, fjp made no d-i release decisions last April. If

Re: bits from the release team

2006-01-03 Thread Frans Pop
On Tuesday 03 January 2006 23:52, Sven Luther wrote: The current proposal is about simply using the same .udeb organisation and move it inside the linux-2.6 common package, which is something that works out just fine for ubuntu even, but which the current linux-2.6 common package

Re: bits from the release team

2006-01-03 Thread Sven Luther
On Tue, Jan 03, 2006 at 06:09:18PM -0500, Joey Hess wrote: Sven Luther wrote: And have you added stable-security into the equation ? Your choices of back in april are in part responsible for the abysmal situation in stable-security with regard to kernels during these past months.

Re: bits from the release team

2006-01-03 Thread Sven Luther
On Wed, Jan 04, 2006 at 12:13:37AM +0100, Frans Pop wrote: On Tuesday 03 January 2006 23:52, Sven Luther wrote: The current proposal is about simply using the same .udeb organisation and move it inside the linux-2.6 common package, which is something that works out just fine for ubuntu

Re: bits from the release team

2006-01-03 Thread Sven Luther
On Tue, Jan 03, 2006 at 06:04:39PM -0500, Joey Hess wrote: Sven Luther wrote: Indeed. The d-i team usually says no outright to any kind of proposal of this kind, so it is up to the kernel team to come up with an implementation which convinces them :) The release team deserves to be informed

Re: bits from the release team

2006-01-03 Thread Marco d'Itri
On Jan 04, Adam Heath [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Not to mention that 2.6.15 requires a newer udev. Who knows what other newer things newer kernels might require. OTOH, old kernel are buggy and out of date wrt modern hardware, and we lack the manpower to backport for years fixes and new features

Re: bits from the release team

2006-01-03 Thread Adam Heath
On Tue, 3 Jan 2006, Margarita Manterola wrote: On 1/3/06, Sven Luther [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Why do you put the kernel together with the essential toolchain freeze, it should be together with the rest of base, i believe. [...] We will have a kernel which is outdated by two versions at

Re: bits from the release team

2006-01-03 Thread Jonas Smedegaard
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Wed, 4 Jan 2006 00:24:04 +0100 Sven Luther [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: (Without the current method sucks comments please; saying I think the current situation could be improved by... is much more likely to get positive reactions.) This is

Re: bits from the release team

2006-01-03 Thread Brian Nelson
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Marco d'Itri) writes: On Jan 04, Adam Heath [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Not to mention that 2.6.15 requires a newer udev. Who knows what other newer things newer kernels might require. OTOH, old kernel are buggy and out of date wrt modern hardware, and we lack the manpower

Re: bits from the release team

2006-01-03 Thread Sven Luther
On Tue, Jan 03, 2006 at 05:28:15PM -0600, Adam Heath wrote: Not to mention that 2.6.15 requires a newer udev. Who knows what other newer things newer kernels might require. Notice that Linus recently expressed on LKML that udev and other userland breakage on kernel upgrade is not to

Re: bits from the release team

2006-01-03 Thread Sven Luther
On Tue, Jan 03, 2006 at 06:43:28PM -0500, Brian Nelson wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Marco d'Itri) writes: On Jan 04, Adam Heath [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Not to mention that 2.6.15 requires a newer udev. Who knows what other newer things newer kernels might require. OTOH, old kernel

Re: bits from the release team

2006-01-03 Thread Gabor Gombas
On Wed, Jan 04, 2006 at 01:10:49AM +0100, Sven Luther wrote: But yes, udev is the problematic case, altough i run 2.6.14 with sarge udev and it works. AFAIK it should work with the default ruleset. It breaks only with certain custom rules due to a bug in the libsysfs version used by udev. So,

Re: bits from the release team

2006-01-03 Thread Felipe Augusto van de Wiel (faw)
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 01/03/2006 10:13 PM, Sven Luther wrote: On Tue, Jan 03, 2006 at 06:43:28PM -0500, Brian Nelson wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Marco d'Itri) writes: On Jan 04, Adam Heath [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Not to mention that 2.6.15 requires a newer udev.

Re: bits from the release team

2006-01-03 Thread Steve Langasek
On Tue, Jan 03, 2006 at 11:27:25PM +0100, Sven Luther wrote: On Tue, Jan 03, 2006 at 11:01:03PM +0100, Frans Pop wrote: (forgot to CC d-kernel on this) On Tuesday 03 January 2006 22:02, Sven Luther wrote: We will have a kernel which is outdated by two versions at release time with this

Re: bits from the release team

2006-01-03 Thread Steve Langasek
On Wed, Jan 04, 2006 at 12:23:31AM -0200, Felipe Augusto van de Wiel (faw) wrote: 1. http://lkml.org/lkml/2005/12/3/55 Perhaps the idea of maintain a kernel with other distros is not bad, if Ubuntu shows up as a candidate, I would like to add Progeny, Linspire, Xandros, DCC Alliance

Re: bits from the release team

2006-01-03 Thread Sven Luther
On Tue, Jan 03, 2006 at 10:34:43PM -0800, Steve Langasek wrote: On Wed, Jan 04, 2006 at 12:23:31AM -0200, Felipe Augusto van de Wiel (faw) wrote: 1. http://lkml.org/lkml/2005/12/3/55 Perhaps the idea of maintain a kernel with other distros is not bad, if Ubuntu shows up as a

Re: bits from the release team

2006-01-03 Thread Andreas Barth
* Sven Luther ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [060103 23:02]: On Tue, Jan 03, 2006 at 10:31:38PM +0100, Andreas Barth wrote: the other hand side, the difference is only one week - and if nothing is broken by that, we can freeze the kernel at N-110 also. i think comparing the kernel with the toolchain