Emdebian Release file for Lenny

2009-02-15 Thread Neil Williams
http://lists.debian.org/debian-release/2009/01/msg00751.html I'm attaching the Release file and the Release.gpg file for Emdebian GNU/Linux Grip 1.0 (based on Debian 5.0 lenny). $ gpg --verify Release.gpg Release gpg: Signature made Sun 15 Feb 2009 00:17:23 GMT using DSA key ID 97BB3B58 gpg:

Uploading GNOME 2.24 to sid

2009-02-15 Thread Josselin Mouette
Hi, as suggested in the release announcement, I’m preparing to upload pieces of GNOME 2.24 to sid. Of course this has an impact on many packages. There are shlibs bumps in most libraries, especially libpango1.0-0 and libgtk2.0-0 (libglib2.0-0 has a symbols file). This also includes synchronizing

Re: SuiteSparse 3.2.0

2009-02-15 Thread Adeodato Simó
* Rafael Laboissiere [Sat, 14 Feb 2009 14:25:53 +0100]: * Rafael Laboissiere raf...@debian.org [2009-01-07 13:45]: [N.B.: This message is being sent to the maintainers of all packages that currently depend on libsuitesparse-3.1.0.] The new upstream package SuiteSparse version 3.2.0 is

libtool 2.2

2009-02-15 Thread Kurt Roeckx
Hi, I'm planning on uploading libtool 2.2 to unstable soon. This includes an soname bump for libltdl, which seems to have around 130 reverse dependencies. This might also result in some packages to FTBFS, or otherwise have problems upgrading to 2.2 version. Please let me know when the best

Re: SuiteSparse 3.2.0

2009-02-15 Thread Julien Cristau
On Sun, 2009-02-15 at 12:43 +0100, Adeodato Simó wrote: If it's only a shlibs bump, and no package is *dropped* (only additions), please go ahead, and thanks for contacting us. Judging from what's currently in experimental, it's actually a SONAME change, and the libsuitesparse-3.1.0 package

libmtp7 - libmtp8 transition

2009-02-15 Thread Rafael Laboissiere
I hereby request the authorization to upload libmtp 0.3.6 to unstable. Since version 0.3.0-1 of the package, uploaded to experimental on June 30, 2008, the SOVERSION was bumped to libmtp8. The current version in unstable (0.2.6.1-3) has libmtp7. I looked at the packages that build-depend on

Re: SuiteSparse 3.2.0

2009-02-15 Thread Rafael Laboissiere
* Julien Cristau jcris...@debian.org [2009-02-15 14:09]: On Sun, 2009-02-15 at 12:43 +0100, Adeodato Simó wrote: If it's only a shlibs bump, and no package is *dropped* (only additions), please go ahead, and thanks for contacting us. Judging from what's currently in experimental, it's

Uploading lapack 3.2.0 to unstable

2009-02-15 Thread Rafael Laboissiere
As you all know, lenny is released. It is time now to migrate lapack 3.2.0 to unstable. There was no shlib bump, so this migration should be safe, UNLESS the library has changes in the API/ABI in spite of the SONAME not changing. Does anyone know whether this is really the case? We should be

Re: About the current state of the Yum package in Lenny

2009-02-15 Thread Thomas Goirand
Luk Claes wrote: http://www.debian.org/releases/proposed-updates My question was more: what's the way to have a package uploaded in pu. Should I write in a particular list? This one maybe? It's all mentioned on that page. If it's not clear, please tell me what part so we can update it.

add #511903 to bugs targeted for 5.0.1

2009-02-15 Thread Guido Günther
Hi, first of all thanks a lot for getting the release out! Can we add #511903 to the list of bugs targeted for 5.0.1? I'd be willing to handle the details if the lvm maintainers are short on time. Cheers, -- Guido -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-release-requ...@lists.debian.org with a

new ffmpeg-debian for squeeze

2009-02-15 Thread Reinhard Tartler
Hi Release Team, as per the recent announcement on d-d-a, I'd like to announce that we, the pkg-multimedia team would like to update ffmpeg in squeeze at the earliest convenience. libavcodec has seen an SONAME bump (51-52) including some minor API changes. I do expect some breakage in packages.

GTK+ update proposal for stable

2009-02-15 Thread Josselin Mouette
Hi, we’ve been having a new version of GTK+ targeted to lenny ready for a while, but refrained from uploading it because of the impact on the installer. Now that we have the hands more free, I’d like to propose GTK+ 2.12.12 for a lenny point release. We’ve received some requests to upgrade to

Re: firestarter

2009-02-15 Thread Philipp Kern
On Sat, Feb 14, 2009 at 07:42:48PM -0200, Renato S. Yamane wrote: Maybe we already in release time to Lenny, but check if is possible get firestarter from SID, because this bug[1] do it unusable (it desapear after sometime running). [1]

Re: About the current state of the Yum package in Lenny

2009-02-15 Thread Philipp Kern
On Sun, Feb 15, 2009 at 11:08:57PM +0800, Thomas Goirand wrote: Last before I stop annoying you with this issue: can I add an entry here, saying that yum shall be fixed? http://wiki.debian.org/DebianReleases/PointReleases/5.0.1 I'm curious why python-pyme is not sufficient. Anyway: there

Re: add #511903 to bugs targeted for 5.0.1

2009-02-15 Thread Philipp Kern
On Sun, Feb 15, 2009 at 04:06:26PM +0100, Guido Günther wrote: Hi, first of all thanks a lot for getting the release out! Can we add #511903 to the list of bugs targeted for 5.0.1? I'd be willing to handle the details if the lvm maintainers are short on time. Added. Kind regards, Philipp

Re: Whoos with GnuTLS and md5-signed certificates

2009-02-15 Thread Daniel Kahn Gillmor
On 02/13/2009 08:46 AM, Bastian Blank wrote: GnuTLS stopped accepting MD5 as a proper signature type for certificates just two weeks before the release. While I don't question the decision themself, MD5 is broken since 4 years, I question the timing. Yesterday several people started to

Re: Uploading GNOME 2.24 to sid

2009-02-15 Thread Otavio Salvador
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Josselin Mouette j...@debian.org writes: ... * Broken graphical installer, until someone updates our GTK+ DirectFB patches ... Is all of that OK with the release team? - From d-i POV this is a serious issue since we will not allowed

Re: GTK+ update proposal for stable

2009-02-15 Thread Otavio Salvador
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Josselin Mouette j...@debian.org writes: Hi, we’ve been having a new version of GTK+ targeted to lenny ready for a while, but refrained from uploading it because of the impact on the installer. Without testing the binaries myself I think this

Re: GTK+ update proposal for stable

2009-02-15 Thread Philipp Kern
On Sun, Feb 15, 2009 at 05:28:02PM +0100, Josselin Mouette wrote: Now that we have the hands more free, I’d like to propose GTK+ 2.12.12 for a lenny point release. We’ve received some requests to upgrade to this bugfix-only release, fixing a number of issues that you’re likely to hit with the

transition to OCaml 3.11

2009-02-15 Thread Stefano Zacchiroli
[ please keep the Cc to d-o-m, for the sake of other OCaml maintainers ] Hi release-rs, many thanks and congratulations for the Lenny release! As a lot of teams I guess :), we---Debian OCaml Maintainers---are eager to push our (r)evolutions to unstable, starting in the few days. The first of

Re: GTK+ update proposal for stable

2009-02-15 Thread Otavio Salvador
Philipp Kern pk...@debian.org writes: On Sun, Feb 15, 2009 at 05:28:02PM +0100, Josselin Mouette wrote: Now that we have the hands more free, I’d like to propose GTK+ 2.12.12 for a lenny point release. We’ve received some requests to upgrade to this bugfix-only release, fixing a number of

Re: About the current state of the Yum package in Lenny

2009-02-15 Thread Thomas Goirand
Philipp Kern wrote: I'm curious why python-pyme is not sufficient. It's simply a MISTAKE that has been done by the last maintainer of yum, python-pyme is NOT the correct python package, python-gpgme is the right one. python-pyme is fully in python, while python-gpgme is written in C. Maybe it

Re: [php-maint] Bug#486888: Bug#486888: You can' use apache1 with php5 in Lenny (tested on amd64 architecture, not sure about others)

2009-02-15 Thread Ondřej Surý
Looks like a mistake in RELEASE NOTES, since there is http://packages.debian.org/search?keywords=apache O. On Sun, Feb 15, 2009 at 7:35 PM, Petr Baláš p...@balas.cz wrote: I's problem at this moment - special apache module not ported to apache2. BTW - from release notes: 4.10. Deprecated

announcement of Upcoming Release

2009-02-15 Thread Frank Lin PIAT
Hello, First of all, I would like to congratulate for all the work you did. Thank you for releasing Lenny and for making it possible. While updating the DebianLenny wiki page, I noticed that there was no public announcement for Upcoming Release of Debian GNU/Linux 5.0, like:

please binNMU arts on all archs in unstable

2009-02-15 Thread Sune Vuorela
The reverse dep, jack-audio-connection-kit, dropped .la files and arts .la files references them. Please binNMU arts on all archs. Version is 1.5.9-2 -- I cannot insert in a RO head of the URL from AutoCAD, how does it work? The point is that you can't cancel a prompt in order to reset the

Re: [php-maint] Bug#486888: Bug#486888: You can' use apache1 with php5 in Lenny (tested on amd64 architecture, not sure about others)

2009-02-15 Thread Adeodato Simó
reopen 486888 reassign 486888 release-notes retitle 486888 Section 4.10 (Deprecated packages) talks about packages deprecated in Etch and disappeared in Lenny thanks Hello, It seems section 4.10 is wrongly stating that these packages will be dropped from Squeeze, when the truth is that they are

Re: Uploading GNOME 2.24 to sid

2009-02-15 Thread Josselin Mouette
Le dimanche 15 février 2009 à 15:00 -0300, Otavio Salvador a écrit : * Broken graphical installer, until someone updates our GTK+ DirectFB patches ... Is all of that OK with the release team? - From d-i POV this is a serious issue since we will not allowed to test the

KDE in the transition queue

2009-02-15 Thread Sune Vuorela
(please keep pkg-kde-talk in cc, but no need to keep me) Hi release team! We are as good as ready to push a new and better KDE into unstable at your command. You basically have two choices. Brief and rough or less pain over a longer period of time. The total breakages/pain is expected to be

Re: About the current state of the Yum package in Lenny

2009-02-15 Thread Philipp Kern
On Mon, Feb 16, 2009 at 02:35:20AM +0800, Thomas Goirand wrote: Philipp Kern wrote: I'm curious why python-pyme is not sufficient. It's simply a MISTAKE that has been done by the last maintainer of yum, python-pyme is NOT the correct python package, python-gpgme is the right one. python-pyme

Re: GTK+ update proposal for stable

2009-02-15 Thread Josselin Mouette
Le dimanche 15 février 2009 à 15:36 -0300, Otavio Salvador a écrit : Philipp Kern pk...@debian.org writes: Ok, please go ahead. Thanks for contacting us that early so that it spends plenty of time in proposed-updates. We will see what d-i testing with the new binaries will bring us. In

Re: please binNMU arts on all archs in unstable

2009-02-15 Thread Josselin Mouette
Le dimanche 15 février 2009 à 19:51 +0100, Sune Vuorela a écrit : The reverse dep, jack-audio-connection-kit, dropped .la files and arts .la files references them. Please binNMU arts on all archs. For the record, cleaning up .la with sed -i /dependency_libs/ s/'.*'/''/ is less prone

Re: KDE in the transition queue

2009-02-15 Thread Ana Guerrero
On Sun, Feb 15, 2009 at 07:50:29PM +0100, Sune Vuorela wrote: We are as good as ready to push a new and better KDE into unstable at your command. You basically have two choices. Brief and rough or less pain over a longer period of time. The details about this at:

Re: Uploading GNOME 2.24 to sid

2009-02-15 Thread Otavio Salvador
Josselin Mouette j...@debian.org writes: Le dimanche 15 février 2009 à 15:00 -0300, Otavio Salvador a écrit : * Broken graphical installer, until someone updates our GTK+ DirectFB patches ... Is all of that OK with the release team? - From d-i POV this is a serious issue

Re: GTK+ update proposal for stable

2009-02-15 Thread Otavio Salvador
Josselin Mouette j...@debian.org writes: Le dimanche 15 février 2009 à 15:36 -0300, Otavio Salvador a écrit : Philipp Kern pk...@debian.org writes: Ok, please go ahead. Thanks for contacting us that early so that it spends plenty of time in proposed-updates. We will see what d-i testing

Re: Uploading GNOME 2.24 to sid

2009-02-15 Thread Josselin Mouette
Le dimanche 15 février 2009 à 17:05 -0300, Otavio Salvador a écrit : Your comment fears me even more since it does look that we can end up without directfb support for long time... I think you agree with me that Graphical Installer can't be droped from Debian without a lot of people being

Re: Uploading GNOME 2.24 to sid

2009-02-15 Thread Otavio Salvador
Josselin Mouette j...@debian.org writes: Le dimanche 15 février 2009 à 17:05 -0300, Otavio Salvador a écrit : Your comment fears me even more since it does look that we can end up without directfb support for long time... I think you agree with me that Graphical Installer can't be droped from

Re: Uploading GNOME 2.24 to sid

2009-02-15 Thread Colin Watson
On Sun, Feb 15, 2009 at 05:05:35PM -0300, Otavio Salvador wrote: Josselin Mouette j...@debian.org writes: Le dimanche 15 février 2009 à 15:00 -0300, Otavio Salvador a écrit : * Broken graphical installer, until someone updates our GTK+ DirectFB patches ... Is all of

RC bugfix for pyusb / #515207

2009-02-15 Thread Bernd Zeimetz
Hi Release Team! Unfortunately a bug which breaks pyusb on 64bit arches and Python 2.5 only, was not noticed until now. So I'd like to upload a patched version to stable-proposed-updates. Hope that's ok :) I've attached a debdiff between -4 and -5 (which was uploaded to unstable right now),

Re: Uploading GNOME 2.24 to sid

2009-02-15 Thread Bastian Blank
On Sun, Feb 15, 2009 at 09:13:33PM +0100, Josselin Mouette wrote: Unless you can find someone who is committed to make GTK+ work on the DirectFB backend, I strongly recommend that the installer considers using X11 instead. Can you do a size estimate for this? It would need in addition - the X

Re: Uploading GNOME 2.24 to sid

2009-02-15 Thread Julien BLACHE
Bastian Blank wa...@debian.org wrote: Hi, Can you do a size estimate for this? It would need in addition - the X server, - evdev input module and - a framebuffer video module. Anything else? HAL and DBus to go with input-evdev, I guess? JB. -- Julien BLACHE - Debian GNU/Linux

Re: Uploading GNOME 2.24 to sid

2009-02-15 Thread Luis Matos
Dom, 2009-02-15 às 22:14 +0100, Bastian Blank escreveu: On Sun, Feb 15, 2009 at 09:13:33PM +0100, Josselin Mouette wrote: Unless you can find someone who is committed to make GTK+ work on the DirectFB backend, I strongly recommend that the installer considers using X11 instead. Can you

Re: Whoos with GnuTLS and md5-signed certificates

2009-02-15 Thread Brian May
Daniel Kahn Gillmor wrote: Are there any concrete proposals for how to deal with this systematically within debian without leaving GnuTLS users in lenny perpetually gullible to MD5-based forgeries, or improperly-trusted V1 certificates? Unless you want to fix openssl, Firefox, etc, Lenny

Re: Uploading GNOME 2.24 to sid

2009-02-15 Thread Otavio Salvador
Bastian Blank wa...@debian.org writes: On Sun, Feb 15, 2009 at 09:13:33PM +0100, Josselin Mouette wrote: Unless you can find someone who is committed to make GTK+ work on the DirectFB backend, I strongly recommend that the installer considers using X11 instead. Can you do a size estimate

Re: Uploading GNOME 2.24 to sid

2009-02-15 Thread Otavio Salvador
Luis Matos g...@otiliamatos.ath.cx writes: Dom, 2009-02-15 às 22:14 +0100, Bastian Blank escreveu: On Sun, Feb 15, 2009 at 09:13:33PM +0100, Josselin Mouette wrote: Unless you can find someone who is committed to make GTK+ work on the DirectFB backend, I strongly recommend that the

Re: Uploading GNOME 2.24 to sid

2009-02-15 Thread Jérémy Bobbio
On Sun, Feb 15, 2009 at 10:04:10PM -0300, Otavio Salvador wrote: On Sun, Feb 15, 2009 at 09:13:33PM +0100, Josselin Mouette wrote: Unless you can find someone who is committed to make GTK+ work on the DirectFB backend, I strongly recommend that the installer considers using X11 instead.

Re: Bug#486071: Pre-approval for heartbeat testing-proposed-updates upload (2.1.3-6lenny1)

2009-02-15 Thread Simon Horman
On Fri, Feb 13, 2009 at 11:36:11AM +0100, Philipp Kern wrote: On Fri, Feb 13, 2009 at 10:54:02AM +0100, Luk Claes wrote: Simon Horman wrote: I would like to upload a(nother) fresh version of heartbeat to fix a fairly severe bug. The fix has been in unstable since 2.1.3-7 and was

Removing orphaned packages from testing

2009-02-15 Thread Raphael Geissert
Hi all, Lenny is now out, so I think it is time to decide how to proceed with what was discussed during DC8. Is the release team still ok with the idea of keeping orphaned packages out of testing? how should it be done? via severity: serious bugs and, possibly automated, auto removal hints? some

Re: Whoos with GnuTLS and md5-signed certificates

2009-02-15 Thread Steve Langasek
On Fri, Feb 13, 2009 at 02:46:17PM +0100, Bastian Blank wrote: GnuTLS stopped accepting MD5 as a proper signature type for certificates just two weeks before the release. While I don't question the decision themself, MD5 is broken since 4 years, I question the timing. Yesterday several

Upload of evolution 2.24.4 to unstable

2009-02-15 Thread Yves-Alexis Perez
Hi people, I am the de-factor maintainer of evolution (since nobody else seems to be present for that) and thus would like to upload a new evolution in Unstable. It's not really part of the GNOME 2.24 transition but I guess it'll have some interdependencies. Evo means evolution,

Re: Removing orphaned packages from testing

2009-02-15 Thread Lucas Nussbaum
On 15/02/09 at 22:23 -0600, Raphael Geissert wrote: Hi all, Lenny is now out, so I think it is time to decide how to proceed with what was discussed during DC8. Is the release team still ok with the idea of keeping orphaned packages out of testing? how should it be done? via severity: