Re: Bug#302827: tetex-bin: fails to install on several architectures

2005-04-06 Thread Frank Küster
Dear release team, since I must go on vacaction for several weeks, and I'm unsure whether there is enough (wo)manpower on debian-tetex-maint to resolve this bug, I recommend that you keep a close look at it. All my activities so far are recorded in the bug log. I have tried to contact the

Re: Fwd: apt-get dist-upgrade will remove metapackages

2005-04-06 Thread Pierre Habouzit
Le Mercredi 6 Avril 2005 00:22, Frans Pop a crit: Is the release team aware of this issue? Will migration to testing of the new vim be blocked automatically until this is solved? the problem is known, and already addressed (see #303266) in fact, the bug is already closed in the current svn

Re: proposed fix to allow security support for fai-kernels in sarge (#297811)

2005-04-06 Thread Holger Levsen
Hi Steve, On Tuesday 05 April 2005 16:54, Steve Langasek wrote: To reiterate our discussion on IRC, I don't think this addresses my concerns, which are that: - Nothing in the package (binary or source) uniquely identifies the kernel-source patchlevel used (including the added ABI name, since

Re: proposed fix to allow security support for fai-kernels in sarge (#297811)

2005-04-06 Thread Holger Levsen
Hi Joey, On Tuesday 05 April 2005 18:26, Martin Schulze wrote: Howto handle security fixes for fai-kernels --- fai-kernels uses the kernel-source-2.4.27 and kernel-source-2.6.8 packages. If these packages get updated with a security fix,

libpng planned changes for etch

2005-04-06 Thread Josselin Mouette
Here is a summary of the important changes I'm planning for libpng in etch. * Removal of the entire libpng source package: libpng2, libpng2-dev, libpng10-0, libpng10-dev. All applications currently linking to libpng 1.0 will have to be rebuilt against libpng 1.2. As sarge's libpng packages

Re: proposed fix to allow security support for fai-kernels in sarge (#297811)

2005-04-06 Thread Martin Schulze
Holger Levsen wrote: On Wednesday 06 April 2005 12:42, Martin Schulze wrote: Hmmm... the only mail address for stable security support on http://www.debian.org/intro/organization is [EMAIL PROTECTED] - [EMAIL PROTECTED] didnt seem appropriate to me. What's wrong with that address?

Re: woody-sarge upgrade removes perl (and a bunch of other stuff)

2005-04-06 Thread Frank Lichtenheld
On Wed, Apr 06, 2005 at 04:09:08PM +0200, Wichert Akkerman wrote: I just looked at upgrading a server from woody to sarge and the result was, well, interesting. The output from apt-get -o Debug::pkgProblemResolver=true dist-upgrade starts off with: Investigating perl Package perl has broken

Re: libpng planned changes for etch

2005-04-06 Thread Thomas Bushnell BSG
Josselin Mouette [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: * Removal of the libpng3 binary package, as only 2 packages in sarge still depend on this one. Maybe we can keep it, though, as some third-party binaries could require libpng.so.3. I get rather a longer list from apt-get rdepends; which two are you

Re: woody-sarge upgrade removes perl (and a bunch of other stuff)

2005-04-06 Thread Daniel Burrows
On Wednesday 06 April 2005 11:26 am, Frank Lichtenheld wrote: - It is a apt-get bug only, aptitude handles the same situation just   fine. But both apt-get from woody and sarge bail out. That's really weird, because aptitude does nearly the same thing as apt-get when calculating upgrades.

Re: proposed fix to allow security support for fai-kernels in sarge (#297811)

2005-04-06 Thread Holger Levsen
Hi, btw, no need to cc: me, i'm subscribed to release, the bug and the package :-) On Tuesday 05 April 2005 16:54, Steve Langasek wrote: - Nothing in the package (binary or source) uniquely identifies the kernel-source patchlevel used (including the added ABI name, since ABI name !=

Re: woody-sarge upgrade removes perl (and a bunch of other stuff)

2005-04-06 Thread Andre Lehovich
On Wed, 6 Apr 2005, Frank Lichtenheld wrote: - It is a apt-get bug only, aptitude handles the same situation just fine. But both apt-get from woody and sarge bail out. Is apt-get a supported upgrade route from Woody to Sarge? The release notes [1] recommend using aptitude instead. [1]

Re: proposed fix to allow security support for fai-kernels in sarge (#297811)

2005-04-06 Thread Holger Levsen
resent as I go the debian-security-private-address wrong, please follow reploy-to: Hi, btw, no need to cc: me, i'm subscribed to release, the bug and the package :-) On Tuesday 05 April 2005 16:54, Steve Langasek wrote: - Nothing in the package (binary or source) uniquely identifies the

Re: woody-sarge upgrade removes perl (and a bunch of other stuff)

2005-04-06 Thread Luk Claes
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Andre Lehovich wrote: On Wed, 6 Apr 2005, Frank Lichtenheld wrote: - It is a apt-get bug only, aptitude handles the same situation just fine. But both apt-get from woody and sarge bail out. Is apt-get a supported upgrade route from Woody to

Re: woody-sarge upgrade removes perl (and a bunch of other stuff)

2005-04-06 Thread Steve Langasek
On Wed, Apr 06, 2005 at 07:22:41PM +0200, Luk Claes wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Andre Lehovich wrote: On Wed, 6 Apr 2005, Frank Lichtenheld wrote: - It is a apt-get bug only, aptitude handles the same situation just fine. But both apt-get from woody and sarge

Re: proposed fix to allow security support for fai-kernels in sarge (#297811)

2005-04-06 Thread Steve Langasek
On Wed, Apr 06, 2005 at 07:18:06PM +0200, Holger Levsen wrote: On Tuesday 05 April 2005 16:54, Steve Langasek wrote: - Nothing in the package (binary or source) uniquely identifies the kernel-source patchlevel used (including the added ABI name, since ABI name != patchlevel) as we now

Re: Bug#302827: tetex-bin: fails to install on several architectures

2005-04-06 Thread Steve Langasek
reassign 302827 jadetex thanks On Wed, Apr 06, 2005 at 09:10:28AM +0200, Frank Küster wrote: since I must go on vacaction for several weeks, and I'm unsure whether there is enough (wo)manpower on debian-tetex-maint to resolve this bug, I recommend that you keep a close look at it. All my