Re: Attempted testing propagation status report

2003-11-19 Thread Roland Mas
Steve Langasek, 2003-11-18 08:00:13 +0100 : On Tue, Nov 18, 2003 at 12:29:28AM -0500, Nathanael Nerode wrote: [...] perl: Just waiting for its wait time to go. It's specifically waiting for uploads on mips and mipsel. I'm told (on IRC) that the mipsel build has been ongoing for a few days

Re: Some observations regardig the progress towards Debian 3.1

2003-11-19 Thread Wookey
+++ Yann Dirson [03-11-18 22:54 +0100]: On Tue, Nov 18, 2003 at 07:29:29PM +0100, Adrian Bunk wrote: But that last point raises another issue: does anyone really use testing ? Would anyone use pre-testing after all ? I used testing for a couple of years on my laptop and non-critical

Re: Attempted testing propagation status report

2003-11-19 Thread Roland Mas
Roland Mas, 2003-11-19 14:30:26 +0100 : Steve Langasek, 2003-11-18 08:00:13 +0100 : On Tue, Nov 18, 2003 at 12:29:28AM -0500, Nathanael Nerode wrote: [...] perl: Just waiting for its wait time to go. It's specifically waiting for uploads on mips and mipsel. I'm told (on IRC) that the

Re: Attempted testing propagation status report

2003-11-19 Thread Martin Schulze
Roland Mas wrote: I'm told (on IRC) that the mipsel build has been ongoing for a few days already. And mips has perl in its Not-for-us list, whatever that means (I'm a buildd newbie). So I'm currently building perl 5.8.2-2 by hand on casals.debian.org by hand. Do tell me if it's not needed

Re: Some observations regardig the progress towards Debian 3.1

2003-11-19 Thread Yann Dirson
On Wed, Nov 19, 2003 at 02:03:08PM +, Wookey wrote: Doing my builds on a testing machine, then uploading to unstable can mean I introduce packages compiled against the wrong library versions. Source-only uploads would solve this and I could do test-compiles on some debian machine. Off

Re: Some observations regardig the progress towards Debian 3.1

2003-11-19 Thread Adrian Bunk
On Wed, Nov 19, 2003 at 10:41:05AM +0100, Yann Dirson wrote: ... That could be done either by a rebuild, or, less costly, by a simple unpack/edit-changelog/repack. Repacking breaks with every Depends: somepackage (= ${Source-Version}) In that case, if we had libfoo0_1.0-1 in pre-testing,

Re: Some observations regardig the progress towards Debian 3.1

2003-11-19 Thread Adrian Bunk
On Wed, Nov 19, 2003 at 05:34:53PM +0200, Martin-Éric Racine wrote: ... One example of this is, while Gnome 2.2 has made it to testing, most GTK2/Gnome2 killer apps, like Evolution, are still stuck in Unstable. Why? Two reasons: 1) Ximian cranks out more releases than the Debian

Re: Some observations regardig the progress towards Debian 3.1

2003-11-19 Thread Martin-Éric Racine
On Wed, 19 Nov 2003, Adrian Bunk wrote: On Wed, Nov 19, 2003 at 05:34:53PM +0200, Martin-Éric Racine wrote: * In relation to this, Mozilla 1.3 (IMHO, the last rock-solid built we've had on Debian) was good enough for Testing and should have been allowed to trickle down, instead of