Re: D-I - Hint requests for RC1

2006-10-16 Thread Frans Pop
On Monday 16 October 2006 19:14, Frans Pop wrote: Open season for udeb hints again... The list below is the major migration in preparation for RC1. General request to RMs: please do not hint any packages with udebs from now on without checking with me. Thanks, FJP pgpKOUJTZPno5.pgp

D-I RC1 - release planning - soft freeze for changes in SVN

2006-10-16 Thread Frans Pop
Things are finally starting to come together for RC1. - We've found a good work-around for the bug in g-i where selected lines in multi-select lists would not be shown. We need new versions of some gtk packages for that, but these have now been uploaded. Thanks especially to Loïc Minier for

D-I - Hint requests for RC1

2006-10-16 Thread Frans Pop
Hi folks, Open season for udeb hints again... The list below is the major migration in preparation for RC1. I will follow up with some more specific migrations, especially for the graphical installer. These may need some urgent hints. TIA, FJP Hints to be set by Release Managers

Re: D-I - Hint requests for RC1

2006-10-16 Thread Frans Pop
On Monday 16 October 2006 19:42, Stephen Gran wrote: Just since I saw this flying by me - I just uploaded a new hdparm (6.8-1) - there's no urgency for it to go in, but would it be a problem for it to migrate when it's ready? No, I will request migration for all packages producing udebs almost

Re: Bug#363377: Raise severity

2006-10-16 Thread Faidon Liambotis
retitle 363377 Inform users that HostAP is merged in recent kernels thanks control Hi, Moritz Muehlenhoff wrote: Etch will only ship a 2.6.18 kernel, please update have it. This bug isn't actually a FTBFS, since hostap-source isn't needed in recent kernels. The driver was merged in mainline

Please hint tetex-base into testing

2006-10-16 Thread Frank Küster
Hi, currently, tetex-base is not going into testing because it has RC bugs, and britney believes the number of RC bugs is equal in testing and sid. This is technically true, however, all the RC bugs that have a etch-ignore tag also have a part that actually is RC, and which has been fixed in

Re: m68k not a release arch for etch; status in testing, future plans?

2006-10-16 Thread Roman Zippel
Hi, On Sun, 17 Sep 2006, Steve Langasek wrote: buildds: 19 There are 19 buildds actively uploading packages for m68k (Aug 20 to present). This indicates that individual buildds are roughly an order of magnitude slower than those for other architectures, which makes m68k a limiting

Re: m68k not a release arch for etch; status in testing, future plans?

2006-10-16 Thread Kurt Roeckx
On Mon, Oct 16, 2006 at 09:48:32PM +0200, Roman Zippel wrote: As a result, the bts is already ignoring m68k in calculating a bug's applicability for the testing distribution, at the release team's request. As someone who has recently looked at and fixed many problems, I must say the

Re: m68k not a release arch for etch; status in testing, future plans?

2006-10-16 Thread Thomas Bushnell BSG
Roman Zippel [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Fixes for problems are too often simply stuck in the BTS now, because in many cases maintainer simply don't care about m68k support. I often have to bug people to get them to release a fixed package. Does this explain why guile-1.6 is still not

Re: remove kernel-patch-lkcd

2006-10-16 Thread Steve Langasek
On Mon, Oct 16, 2006 at 09:57:40AM -0600, Troy Heber wrote: Please remove kernel-patch-lkcd from unstable, it is unused and will not apply to the 2.6.18 kernel (Bug#393286). I'm also CC'ing debian-release to request the removal from testing as well. Tagged for removal from testing. Thanks,

Re: D-I - Hint requests for RC1

2006-10-16 Thread Steve Langasek
On Mon, Oct 16, 2006 at 07:30:35PM +0200, Frans Pop wrote: On Monday 16 October 2006 19:14, Frans Pop wrote: Open season for udeb hints again... The list below is the major migration in preparation for RC1. General request to RMs: please do not hint any packages with udebs from now on

Re: Bug#363377: Raise severity

2006-10-16 Thread Steve Langasek
On Mon, Oct 16, 2006 at 09:46:40PM +0300, Faidon Liambotis wrote: Moritz Muehlenhoff wrote: Etch will only ship a 2.6.18 kernel, please update have it. This bug isn't actually a FTBFS, since hostap-source isn't needed in recent kernels. The driver was merged in mainline 2.6.14 and the

permission to upload mdadm 2.5.5

2006-10-16 Thread martin f krafft
mdadm upstream is releasing 2.5.5 really soon now, and it fixes #393314 (FTBFS on sparc/ia64/arm). I've closely cooperated on both 2.5.4 and 2.5.5. All patches between 2.5.3 (which is currently in testing) and 2.5.5 are true bug fixes and no drastic changes have been introduced which would affect

Re: m68k not a release arch for etch; status in testing, future plans?

2006-10-16 Thread Roman Zippel
Hi, On Mon, 16 Oct 2006, Thomas Bushnell BSG wrote: Roman Zippel [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Fixes for problems are too often simply stuck in the BTS now, because in many cases maintainer simply don't care about m68k support. I often have to bug people to get them to release a fixed

Re: m68k not a release arch for etch; status in testing, future plans?

2006-10-16 Thread Thomas Bushnell BSG
Roman Zippel [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Mon, 16 Oct 2006, Thomas Bushnell BSG wrote: Roman Zippel [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Fixes for problems are too often simply stuck in the BTS now, because in many cases maintainer simply don't care about m68k support. I often have to bug

Re: m68k not a release arch for etch; status in testing, future plans?

2006-10-16 Thread Thomas Bushnell BSG
Roman Zippel [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Mon, 16 Oct 2006, Thomas Bushnell BSG wrote: I'm not sure what you intent with this question. The patch is not that old yet, but it's there: http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=326905 Wow, that's rich. The patch was posted to the

Re: m68k not a release arch for etch; status in testing, future plans?

2006-10-16 Thread Bill Allombert
On Mon, Oct 16, 2006 at 10:57:00PM +0200, Kurt Roeckx wrote: On Mon, Oct 16, 2006 at 09:48:32PM +0200, Roman Zippel wrote: As a result, the bts is already ignoring m68k in calculating a bug's applicability for the testing distribution, at the release team's request. As someone who has

Re: m68k not a release arch for etch; status in testing, future plans?

2006-10-16 Thread Thomas Bushnell BSG
Roman Zippel [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Your message was deliberately misleading, designed to suggest that there had been a fix in for a while (even if not that old yet), when in fact, the patch was posted *after* my message. What the hell is your problem? Yes, the patch is _one_ day old and

Re: m68k not a release arch for etch; status in testing, future plans?

2006-10-16 Thread Bill Allombert
On Mon, Oct 16, 2006 at 09:48:32PM +0200, Roman Zippel wrote: Hi, On Sun, 17 Sep 2006, Steve Langasek wrote: buildds: 19 There are 19 buildds actively uploading packages for m68k (Aug 20 to present). This indicates that individual buildds are roughly an order of magnitude

Re: m68k not a release arch for etch; status in testing, future plans?

2006-10-16 Thread Thiemo Seufer
Bill Allombert wrote: On Mon, Oct 16, 2006 at 10:57:00PM +0200, Kurt Roeckx wrote: On Mon, Oct 16, 2006 at 09:48:32PM +0200, Roman Zippel wrote: As a result, the bts is already ignoring m68k in calculating a bug's applicability for the testing distribution, at the release team's

Re: m68k not a release arch for etch; status in testing, future plans?

2006-10-16 Thread Thomas Bushnell BSG
Roman Zippel [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: was your initial phrase 'Please let the release team know how we can be of assistance to you in setting and meeting goals for an m68k release' just a hollow phrase... I never said anything of the kind. If the m68k team can make the port happen without

Re: m68k not a release arch for etch; status in testing, future plans?

2006-10-16 Thread Bill Allombert
On Mon, Oct 16, 2006 at 04:20:56PM -0700, Thomas Bushnell BSG wrote: Roman Zippel [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Mon, 16 Oct 2006, Thomas Bushnell BSG wrote: Roman Zippel [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Fixes for problems are too often simply stuck in the BTS now, because in many cases

Re: m68k not a release arch for etch; status in testing, future plans?

2006-10-16 Thread Roman Zippel
Hi, On Mon, 16 Oct 2006, Thomas Bushnell BSG wrote: I'm not sure what you intent with this question. The patch is not that old yet, but it's there: http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=326905 Wow, that's rich. The patch was posted to the bug log all of THIRTY MINUTES

Re: m68k not a release arch for etch; status in testing, future plans?

2006-10-16 Thread Roman Zippel
Hi, On Mon, 16 Oct 2006, Thomas Bushnell BSG wrote: You claimed that it's a bad idea to drop m68k as a release candidate, because the only way bugs will get fixed is if maintainers are forced to include patches. I didn't say anything about forcing, that's your conclusion. In fact, the one

Re: m68k not a release arch for etch; status in testing, future plans?

2006-10-16 Thread Roman Zippel
Hi, On Mon, 16 Oct 2006, Thomas Bushnell BSG wrote: But you attempted to trick people, by pretending that the patch was already there before my email. You wanted to make me look bad, as if I was bringing up an example where there was a patch in the bug-log. Since your claim is that m68k

Re: m68k not a release arch for etch; status in testing, future plans?

2006-10-16 Thread Roman Zippel
Hi, On Mon, 16 Oct 2006, Thomas Bushnell BSG wrote: Roman Zippel [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: was your initial phrase 'Please let the release team know how we can be of assistance to you in setting and meeting goals for an m68k release' just a hollow phrase... I never said anything of

Re: m68k not a release arch for etch; status in testing, future plans?

2006-10-16 Thread Steve Langasek
On Mon, Oct 16, 2006 at 10:39:26PM +, Bill Allombert wrote: On Mon, Oct 16, 2006 at 10:57:00PM +0200, Kurt Roeckx wrote: On Mon, Oct 16, 2006 at 09:48:32PM +0200, Roman Zippel wrote: As a result, the bts is already ignoring m68k in calculating a bug's applicability for the testing

Re: D-I - Hint requests for RC1

2006-10-16 Thread Steve Langasek
On Mon, Oct 16, 2006 at 07:52:41PM +0200, Frans Pop wrote: On Monday 16 October 2006 19:42, Stephen Gran wrote: Just since I saw this flying by me - I just uploaded a new hdparm (6.8-1) - there's no urgency for it to go in, but would it be a problem for it to migrate when it's ready? No,

hppa libggi binNMU (was: Bug#390000: libggi-target-aa: empty package on hppa)

2006-10-16 Thread Aníbal Monsalve Salazar
On Sun, Oct 08, 2006 at 11:01:37AM +1000, Anibal Monsalve Salazar wrote: Someone please queue the hppa libggi binNMU. Steve McIntyre agrees that a binNMU is needed. Please read #39. Best Regards, Aníbal Monsalve Salazar -- http://v7w.com/anibal signature.asc Description: Digital

Re: Bug#390000: libggi-target-aa: empty package on hppa

2006-10-16 Thread Steve Langasek
On Sun, Oct 08, 2006 at 11:01:37AM +1000, Aníbal Monsalve Salazar wrote: Someone please queue the hppa libggi binNMU. On Sun, Oct 08, 2006 at 12:10:19AM +0200, Julien Louis wrote: Package: libggi-target-aa Version: 1:2.2.1-4 Severity: important as seen on packages.debian.org [1], the

please hint ltsp 0.99debian5 into etch

2006-10-16 Thread Vagrant Cascadian
please consider hinting ltsp 0.99debian5 into etch, which is (presumably) held up by the ltsp-client-builder udeb. it fixes copyright issues, missing dependencies, and a few other things needed by debian-edu (and possibly other projects). thanks yet again! live well, vagrant -- To

Re: m68k not a release arch for etch; status in testing, future plans?

2006-10-16 Thread Anthony Towns
On Sun, Sep 17, 2006 at 11:55:02PM -0700, Steve Langasek wrote: It's with some regret that I have to confirm that m68k is not going to be a release architecture for etch. We have also asked about removing m68k from testing since it is not currently a release candidate; Anthony Towns has

Re: D-I RC1 - release planning - soft freeze for changes in SVN

2006-10-16 Thread Rick Thomas
On Oct 16, 2006, at 12:01 PM, Frans Pop wrote: Please start testing the installer for all architectures NOW All udebs with functional changes have now been uploaded, so this is an excellent time to test different architectures

Re: Please hint tetex-base into testing

2006-10-16 Thread Steve Langasek
On Mon, Oct 16, 2006 at 12:38:45PM +0200, Frank Küster wrote: currently, tetex-base is not going into testing because it has RC bugs, and britney believes the number of RC bugs is equal in testing and sid. This is technically true, however, all the RC bugs that have a etch-ignore tag also

Re: m68k not a release arch for etch; status in testing, future plans?

2006-10-16 Thread Thomas Bushnell BSG
Bill Allombert [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: You did not ask Roman to provide examples of fixes are just stuck in the BTS, you picked your own bug and then complains it is not a good example ? Is not that non-sense ? No, what I did was I asked how his claim relates to a particular bug in a