Re: Desktop upgrade strategy - new procedure 'C'

2007-03-25 Thread Andreas Barth
* Raphael Hertzog ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [070323 22:12]: On Fri, 23 Mar 2007, Frans Pop wrote: - aptitude dist-upgrade Note that AFAICT --with-recommends is not honored with an 'aptitude dist-upgrade' - it will still list the same packages as recommended but will not be installed. No

Re: Desktop upgrade strategy (was: What should be upgraded first: kernel or userland?)

2007-03-25 Thread Andreas Barth
* Steve Langasek ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [070324 01:12]: On Fri, Mar 23, 2007 at 06:52:15PM +0100, Frans Pop wrote: - making sure openoffice does not get removed Shouldn't it be easier to get it removed and the reinstall it? Same arguments as earlier. Problem with openoffice.org is

Re: Desktop upgrade strategy (was: What should be upgraded first: kernel or userland?)

2007-03-25 Thread Steve Langasek
On Thu, Mar 22, 2007 at 12:33:14PM +0100, Javier Fernández-Sanguino Peña wrote: On Wed, Mar 21, 2007 at 04:22:31PM -0700, Steve Langasek wrote: This is not essential as long as you don't try to reboot before a new kernel has been installed. My concern here is: what happens if an

Re: Desktop upgrade strategy (was: What should be upgraded first: kernel or userland?)

2007-03-25 Thread Steve Langasek
On Fri, Mar 23, 2007 at 07:15:43PM +0100, Frans Pop wrote: And even then my tests have so far shown that the system will probably still boot (though X may not start). And will the networking necessarily start? That could be a problem for a number of users if it doesn't. I don't have

Re: Security issues in package ekg

2007-03-25 Thread Marcin Owsiany
On Wed, Mar 21, 2007 at 02:37:42PM +, Marcin Owsiany wrote: The following low/medium severity security issues have recently been identified in ekg. (The numbers are cvsps patchsets which fixed the problem in upstream CVS.) 2661: A memory leak in handling image messages, which may cause

Re: Security issues in package ekg

2007-03-25 Thread Steve Langasek
On Sun, Mar 25, 2007 at 12:37:25PM +0100, Marcin Owsiany wrote: I would like to use 1:1.7~rc2-2 and upload to unstable with urgency=high. Then, if the release team would let this propagate to frozen, we would have a single upload taking care of both sid and etch (there would be no other

Please unblock yasm 0.5.0-2

2007-03-25 Thread Sam Hocevar
yasm 0.5.0-2 fixes a crash with some specific files. -- Sam. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Unblock of some packages

2007-03-25 Thread Ola Lundqvist
Hi I would like you to unblock a couple of packages. * harden Translation update * dpsyco Fix for two checks * horde3 SECURITY: Insecure usage of /tmp * imp4 SECURITY: XSS vulnerability fixed Regards, // Ola -- - Ola Lundqvist --- /

Priority of libsasl2 in etch

2007-03-25 Thread Santiago Vila
# dpkg -s libsasl2 Package: libsasl2 Status: install ok installed Priority: important Section: libs Installed-Size: 72 Maintainer: Debian Cyrus SASL Team [EMAIL PROTECTED] Architecture: i386 Source: cyrus-sasl2 Version: 2.1.22.dfsg1-8 Depends: libsasl2-2 (= 2.1.22.dfsg1-8) Description:

Please unblock tig

2007-03-25 Thread Sebastian Harl
Hi, Please let tig 0.5-3 migrate to Etch. It only fixes the version number reported by tig --version (#409095) and adds a watch file. Thanks in advance. Cheers, Sebastian -- Sebastian tokkee Harl GnuPG-ID: 0x8501C7FC http://tokkee.org/ signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Desktop upgrade report / aptitude from sid

2007-03-25 Thread Rainer Dorsch
Hello, I upgraded my desktop system last night from sarge to etch, and at the end it went very well. After a single reboot the new kernel, xorg, and KDE came up. Impressive that it run for hours and it came in a very usable state. There have been a few glitches during the upgrade though, which I

Please allow zabbix 1.1.4-10 through t-p-u

2007-03-25 Thread Michael Ablassmeier
hi, please allow zabbix 1.1.4-10 throgh t-p-u, fix for serious bug (one liner to postinst scripts): zabbix (1:1.1.4-10) testing-proposed-updates; urgency=high . * debian/zabbix-server-{mysql,pgsql}.postinst: run dbc_go after creating the system zabbix user. (Closes: #415745) bye,

Re: X resolution after boot too low. Only after CtrlAltDel correct

2007-03-25 Thread Eberhard Roloff
ar wrote: Hi, I installed Debian Etch with debian-installer RC2 and Xfce. When I boot the computer, the screen resolution is very low on login screen and also on xfce (maybe 640x480 or something). When I press Ctrl Alt Backspace to restart the X Server, then the resolution turns to the

Re: Priority of libsasl2 in etch

2007-03-25 Thread Roberto C . Sánchez
On Sun, Mar 25, 2007 at 03:12:27PM +0200, Santiago Vila wrote: # dpkg -s libsasl2 Package: libsasl2 Status: install ok installed Priority: important Section: libs Installed-Size: 72 Maintainer: Debian Cyrus SASL Team [EMAIL PROTECTED] Architecture: i386 Source: cyrus-sasl2 Version:

gtkgrepmail

2007-03-25 Thread David Andel
http://bjorn.haxx.se/debian/testing.pl?package=gtkgrepmail says: * trying to update gtkgrepmail from 1.0-1 to 1.1-1 (candidate is 46 days old) * gtkgrepmail is in freeze; contact debian-release if update is needed Please update, since 1.0-1 is absolutely unusable in my case. Thank you -- To

Re: Desktop upgrade strategy (was: What should be upgraded first: kernel or userland?)

2007-03-25 Thread Frans Pop
On Saturday 24 March 2007 01:11, Steve Langasek wrote: Uhm? Do I understand that you're suggesting using apt-get instead of aptitude to *avoid* aptitude's automated handling of packages that one would want to have removed? That doesn't make sense to me. Only in the context of method B, which

Re: Desktop upgrade strategy - new procedure 'C'

2007-03-25 Thread Frans Pop
On Saturday 24 March 2007 02:58, Steve Langasek wrote: If I do an aptitude remove hotplug at this point, it tries to remove the desktop task. I gather that you didn't see this behavior. Which kernel were you upgrading from in your test? For a desktop installation the procedure works for me

Re: Priority of libsasl2 in etch

2007-03-25 Thread Steve Langasek
On Sun, Mar 25, 2007 at 03:12:27PM +0200, Santiago Vila wrote: # dpkg -s libsasl2 Package: libsasl2 Status: install ok installed Priority: important Section: libs Installed-Size: 72 Maintainer: Debian Cyrus SASL Team [EMAIL PROTECTED] Architecture: i386 Source: cyrus-sasl2 Version:

Re: Desktop upgrade report / aptitude from sid

2007-03-25 Thread Steve Langasek
Hi Rainer, On Sun, Mar 25, 2007 at 04:52:24PM +0200, Rainer Dorsch wrote: I upgraded my desktop system last night from sarge to etch, and at the end it went very well. After a single reboot the new kernel, xorg, and KDE came up. Impressive that it run for hours and it came in a very usable

Re: Please allow zabbix 1.1.4-10 through t-p-u

2007-03-25 Thread Steve Langasek
On Sun, Mar 25, 2007 at 06:22:45PM +0200, Michael Ablassmeier wrote: please allow zabbix 1.1.4-10 throgh t-p-u, fix for serious bug (one liner to postinst scripts): The package is missing a powerpc autobuild. -- Steve Langasek Give me a lever long enough and a Free OS

Re: Desktop upgrade report / aptitude from sid

2007-03-25 Thread Julien Cristau
On Sun, Mar 25, 2007 at 15:01:53 -0700, Steve Langasek wrote: I don't suppose you have a /var/lib/aptitude/pkgstates from before the upgrade? I don't really expect a particular aptitude upgrade failure to be reproducible using just a package list. There is a daily backup of this file in

Re: Desktop upgrade strategy (was: What should be upgraded first: kernel or userland?)

2007-03-25 Thread Javier Fernández-Sanguino Peña
On Sun, Mar 25, 2007 at 03:20:17AM -0700, Steve Langasek wrote: No, see the mail I sent previously, many things can go wrong after an upgrade and new kernel install: LILO, udev and device reordering might make a system unbootable before (and even after) the kernel upgrade. Right.

Re: Desktop upgrade strategy (was: What should be upgraded first: kernel or userland?)

2007-03-25 Thread Frans Pop
On Monday 26 March 2007 00:29, Javier Fernández-Sanguino Peña wrote: Yes, that's the works situation. I think it might make sense to tell users to have a 2.4 failback kernel for those situations (so they can continue the upgrade) If a 2.4 kernel works at all on their system...

Re: Desktop upgrade strategy (was: What should be upgraded first: kernel or userland?)

2007-03-25 Thread Steve Langasek
On Mon, Mar 26, 2007 at 12:29:43AM +0200, Javier Fernández-Sanguino Peña wrote: On Sun, Mar 25, 2007 at 03:20:17AM -0700, Steve Langasek wrote: No, see the mail I sent previously, many things can go wrong after an upgrade and new kernel install: LILO, udev and device reordering might

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Re: Priority of libsasl2 in etch

2007-03-25 Thread Fabian Fagerholm
On Sun, 2007-03-25 at 14:12 -0400, Roberto C. Sánchez wrote: I think that this has to do with the overrides that are in place. [...] So, maybe the priority can be adjusted, but it is in the oldlibs section in our svn repo. I believe that Fabian has made more than request for the