Re: powerpc64, multiarch vs biarch and etch ...

2006-06-03 Thread Goswin von Brederlow
Steve Langasek [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Tue, May 30, 2006 at 01:26:16PM +0200, Sven Luther wrote: On Tue, May 30, 2006 at 12:05:26PM +0200, Andreas Barth wrote: another month has passed and DebConf happened, so we have a few more changes to announce. Release Goals =

Re: powerpc64, multiarch vs biarch and etch ...

2006-06-03 Thread Goswin von Brederlow
Raphael Hertzog [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Wed, 31 May 2006, Sven Luther wrote: Maybe, but biarch are what we have now, and what can be made to work. I asked this same question 6+ month ago, and you gave me the same reply, and multi-arch has not progressed an inch since then. This is

Re: powerpc64, multiarch vs biarch and etch ...

2006-06-03 Thread Goswin von Brederlow
Raphael Hertzog [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Wed, 31 May 2006, Sven Luther wrote: In the last 6 months we had: - multiarch support added to ld by Aurelien jarno And Aurelien Jarno telling us he was sick of nothing happening in early april, and wanting to drop it all. And apparently

Re: powerpc64, multiarch vs biarch and etch ...

2006-06-03 Thread Steve Langasek
On Sat, Jun 03, 2006 at 09:37:35AM +0200, Goswin von Brederlow wrote: And multiarch lacked (for a long time) a bit of momentum. It goes better now, but it's clearly too late for etch. The ability to NMU packages would have added a hell of a lot of momentum. That would have been the help

Postgresql-related updates

2006-06-03 Thread Martin Schulze
Moin! DSA 1087 introduced a stricter parsing of specially encoded data streams in postgresql. Martin Pitt pointed out that psycopg and python-pgsql still use \' for '-encoding instead of '' which is the only accepted encoding after installing this security upeate. Hence, both package should

Re: bits from the release team: release goals, python, X.org, amd64, timeline

2006-06-03 Thread Andreas Barth
* Bill Allombert ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [060602 16:57]: On Fri, Jun 02, 2006 at 08:59:58AM +0200, Andreas Barth wrote: * Thomas Bushnell BSG ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [060601 18:22]: The python team has essentially ignored questions about when this transition will happen, or answered them by

release updates and the general audience

2006-06-03 Thread Andreas Barth
Hi, the target group for our release updates are our developers. However, we have seen in the past more than once journalists picking up the release update and writing articles about them. Not only once there have been slightly suboptimal stories, e.g. with overemphasizing some issues (which

Re: release updates and the general audience

2006-06-03 Thread Andreas Barth
* martin f krafft ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [060603 12:17]: Btw: debian-publicity@lists.debian.org is a dead list and also not really of interest wrt this issue. Please see bug report 369018 - d-publicity exists again (and I also receive mails send there). Cheers, Andi --

Re: release updates and the general audience

2006-06-03 Thread Martin Schulze
Andreas Barth wrote: the target group for our release updates are our developers. However, we have seen in the past more than once journalists picking up the release update and writing articles about them. Not only once there have been slightly suboptimal stories, e.g. with overemphasizing

3 removals for xfce

2006-06-03 Thread Simon Huggins
Hi, I asked on IRC but noone seemed to respond so I'm asking again here. Could someone please remove: xfce4-notes-plugin #370111 xfce4-datetime-plugin #370113 xfce4-cpufreq-plugin #370114 from etch? Basically we've updated to a new shiny release of xfce4 and these

Re: Postgresql-related updates

2006-06-03 Thread Martin Schulze
Martin Schulze wrote: DSA 1087 introduced a stricter parsing of specially encoded data streams in postgresql. Martin Pitt pointed out that psycopg and python-pgsql still use \' for '-encoding instead of '' which is the only accepted encoding after installing this security upeate. Hence,

Re: [Pkg-xfce-devel] 3 removals for xfce

2006-06-03 Thread Stefan Ott
Hi On Sat, Jun 03, 2006 at 02:42:57PM +0100, Simon Huggins wrote: Hi, I asked on IRC but noone seemed to respond so I'm asking again here. Could someone please remove: xfce4-notes-plugin #370111 xfce4-datetime-plugin #370113 xfce4-cpufreq-plugin #370114 from etch?

Re: [Pkg-xfce-devel] 3 removals for xfce

2006-06-03 Thread Emanuele Rocca
Hello Stefan, * Stefan Ott [EMAIL PROTECTED], [2006-06-03 18:03 +0200]: On Sat, Jun 03, 2006 at 02:42:57PM +0100, Simon Huggins wrote: Could someone please remove: xfce4-notes-plugin #370111 xfce4-datetime-plugin #370113 xfce4-cpufreq-plugin #370114 from etch? I'm

Re: powerpc64, multiarch vs biarch and etch ...

2006-06-03 Thread Goswin von Brederlow
Steve Langasek [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Sat, Jun 03, 2006 at 09:37:35AM +0200, Goswin von Brederlow wrote: And multiarch lacked (for a long time) a bit of momentum. It goes better now, but it's clearly too late for etch. The ability to NMU packages would have added a hell of a lot of

Re: release updates and the general audience

2006-06-03 Thread Holger Levsen
Hi, On Saturday 03 June 2006 12:42, Martin Schulze wrote: Naturally, journalists should be subscribed to debian-announce and debian-news. debian-announce has seen very little posts in the last two years, mostly only about point releases. So no wonder journalists are subscribed to