Re: dist-git proof of concept phase 1 complete

2009-12-15 Thread Nicolas Mailhot
BTW, please make sure the new system has something like cvs-import (ie put the files in this srpm as new changeset in the vcs, I don't want to know how your vcs works, this is a good srpm just eat it) -- Nicolas Mailhot signature.asc Description: Ceci est une partie de message numériquement

Re: x86-64 on i386 (was Re: Promoting i386 version over x86_64?)

2009-12-15 Thread Nicolas Mailhot
performance), but hey.. Apples and oranges. 64bit on other arches only changes memory accesses, x86_64 changes a lot more than just that, and the other changes in x86_64 trump the memory costs. -- Nicolas Mailhot signature.asc Description: Ceci est une partie de message numériquement signée -- fedora

Re: Exception request from FESCo for bundled libaries

2009-12-14 Thread Nicolas Mailhot
is forbidden; each component should be packaged separately in its own package for legal and maintenance reasons » (Just IMHO, that's the guidelines spirit, the guidelines text should be amended in a non-library-oriented wording, libs are the most common case but they're not the only one) -- Nicolas

Re: x86-64 on i386 (was Re: Promoting i386 version over x86_64?)

2009-12-14 Thread Nicolas Mailhot
RAM overhead is pretty much a urban myth on x86_64 -- Nicolas Mailhot -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@redhat.com https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list

Re: MariaDB and Fedora

2009-12-14 Thread Nicolas Mailhot
Oracle databases), and this competition relies on the Mysql brand (that finally managed to reach CTO awareness level), and Oracle getting its hand on the brand would definitely lower competition for several years (and I don't have any SAP or other shares). -- Nicolas Mailhot -- fedora-devel

Re: Exception request from FESCo for bundled libaries

2009-12-14 Thread Nicolas Mailhot
Le Lun 14 décembre 2009 11:28, Josephine Tannhäuser a écrit : 2009/12/14, Nicolas Mailhot nicolas.mail...@laposte.net: The guidelines should be read as: « Bundling any other component your component depends on in the same package is forbidden; each component should be packaged separately

Re: Exception request from FESCo for bundled libaries

2009-12-14 Thread Nicolas Mailhot
files, fonts, templates, etc) but there is no doubt at all in my mind on the code part. Though your interpretation is one reason we keep refining guidelines to leave no room for bad packager excuses. -- Nicolas Mailhot -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@redhat.com https

Re: x86-64 on i386 (was Re: Promoting i386 version over x86_64?)

2009-12-14 Thread Nicolas Mailhot
of memory (ours work with GiB-sized datasets at least) -- Nicolas Mailhot -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@redhat.com https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list

Re: Exception request from FESCo for bundled libaries

2009-12-14 Thread Nicolas Mailhot
On Monday 14 December 2009 04:27:52 am Nicolas Mailhot wrote: Though your interpretation is one reason we keep refining guidelines to leave no room for bad packager excuses. Just to be clear what is bad here is the excuse, not the packager (didn't realise it when writing, English has

Re: MariaDB and Fedora

2009-12-14 Thread Nicolas Mailhot
time for Oracle to execute a smooth kill (transitioning existing Mysql customers) if it started today. You need to remember Oracle's bread and butter is the Enterprise market where time scales are longer (as evidenced by the 7 years+ RHEL release lifecycle) -- Nicolas Mailhot signature.asc

Re: Why pavucontrol is not installed by default?

2009-12-11 Thread Nicolas Mailhot
. I fail to see how it is worse than designers that think this is advanced stuff, I don't need to handle it and then redefine advanced users as people able to use bugzilla and contradict me At least in the fist lazy design variant the features are available somewhere. -- Nicolas Mailhot

Re: Promoting i386 version over x86_64?

2009-12-09 Thread Nicolas Mailhot
, they dumped the ia32/ia64 classification and adopted x32/x64 (which is the same thing, except x64 != ia64, talk about hiding past mistakes) -- Nicolas Mailhot -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@redhat.com https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list

Re: FreeType patented bytecode interpreter now in rawhide

2009-12-04 Thread Nicolas Mailhot
in F12 as well, please? Given how any font rendering changes seems to degrade font rendering for some users, I'd very much prefer it went through a full release testing cycle before hitting unsuspecting users. -- Nicolas Mailhot -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@redhat.com https

Re: Proposed F13 feature: drop separate updates repository

2009-12-03 Thread Nicolas Mailhot
Le Mer 2 décembre 2009 23:56, Matt Domsch a écrit : On Wed, Dec 02, 2009 at 07:35:03PM +0100, Nicolas Mailhot wrote: 3. replace static mirrors with proxy-ing of kojipkgs.fedoraproject.org (make sure it works with web infrastructure instead of fighting it) Sorry, I don't understand

Re: JBoss in Fedora

2009-11-26 Thread Nicolas Mailhot
absent when users start complaining at the jpp packager that did most of the work Fedora benefited from, I'm sure it won't improve the relationship between the projects) -- Nicolas Mailhot -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@redhat.com https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora

Re: [RFA] Your [PACKAGE_NAME] did not pass QA

2009-11-25 Thread Nicolas Mailhot
) -- Nicolas Mailhot signature.asc Description: Ceci est une partie de message numériquement signée -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@redhat.com https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list

Re: [RFA] Your [PACKAGE_NAME] did not pass QA

2009-11-25 Thread Nicolas Mailhot
Le mercredi 25 novembre 2009 à 10:03 +0100, Nicolas Mailhot a écrit : A. investigate if it's possible for a core fonts client to make sure it only accesses the built-in backup core font. B. if not investigate it it's possible to write a small proxy lib with a core-fonts-like api that do

Re: [RFA] Your [PACKAGE_NAME] did not pass QA

2009-11-24 Thread Nicolas Mailhot
pretending it is not and I'm unreasonable saying it is so. -- Nicolas Mailhot -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@redhat.com https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list

Re: [RFA] Your [PACKAGE_NAME] did not pass QA

2009-11-24 Thread Nicolas Mailhot
Le Mar 24 novembre 2009 16:00, Chris Adams a écrit : Once upon a time, Nicolas Mailhot nicolas.mail...@laposte.net said: To repeat myself once again, core fonts are not free, they have a maintenance cost, What is the real maintenance cost? You have said that core fonts are not going

Re: [RFA] Your [PACKAGE_NAME] did not pass QA

2009-11-24 Thread Nicolas Mailhot
are asked. etc, etc -- Nicolas Mailhot -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@redhat.com https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list

Re: [RFA] Your [PACKAGE_NAME] did not pass QA

2009-11-24 Thread Nicolas Mailhot
Le Mar 24 novembre 2009 17:06, Jeremy Sanders a écrit : Nicolas Mailhot wrote: The costs could go down to nothing if there was no core font user left in Fedora Surely some are required for external legacy applications (including free software and propitiatory applications)? If no one

Re: [RFA] Your [PACKAGE_NAME] did not pass QA

2009-11-24 Thread Nicolas Mailhot
are correctly packaged. As I've already stated, I'm ready to ask the usefulness question to FESCO. But I don't owe you doing one and not the other if you don't want to help me so the other does not interferes with my main interest. -- Nicolas Mailhot -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel

Re: [RFA] Your [PACKAGE_NAME] did not pass QA

2009-11-24 Thread Nicolas Mailhot
Le mardi 24 novembre 2009 à 10:44 -0600, Chris Adams a écrit : Once upon a time, Nicolas Mailhot nicolas.mail...@laposte.net said: Le Mar 24 novembre 2009 17:01, Chris Adams a écrit : That's not an answer. What is the real maintenance cost? I already explained yesterday

[RFA] Font audit results for Fedora 12 and 2009-11-22 fedora-devel

2009-11-23 Thread Nicolas Mailhot
to jussilehtola for xine-ui: not only he managed to add 27 font files not packaged according to Fedora guidelines during the F-12 cycle, but 14 are copies of the same font. Regards, -- Nicolas Mailhot signature.asc Description: Ceci est une partie de message numériquement signée -- fedora-devel-list

Re: [RFA] Font audit results for Fedora 12 (final)

2009-11-23 Thread Nicolas Mailhot
(sorry, this one is for devel) -- Nicolas Mailhot signature.asc Description: Ceci est une partie de message numériquement signée -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@redhat.com https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list

[RFA] Font package differences between Fedora 11 and Fedora 12

2009-11-23 Thread Nicolas Mailhot
B. Font package changes: = GraphicsMagick-perl.rpm (GraphicsMagick.src.rpm, ixs) ⇒ GraphicsMagick.src.rpm, ixs + ArtBrush, Medium, TrueType /usr/share/doc/GraphicsMagick-perl-1.3.7/demo/Generic.ttf − ArtBrush, Medium, TrueType

[RFA] Font test result differences between Fedora 11 and Fedora 12

2009-11-23 Thread Nicolas Mailhot
A. Test result changes: P# t1 t2 t3 t4 t5 t6 t7 t8 t9 t10 t11 t12 t13 t14 t15 t16 t17 t18 1‧‧ ‧ ‧ ‧ ‧‧ 5‧‧‧‧‧‧‧ ‧‧‧ 2‧‧ ‧ ‧ 1 ‧‧ ‧‧‧‧‧‧‧‧ ‧‧

[RFA] Font test result differences between Fedora 12 and 2009-11-22 devel

2009-11-23 Thread Nicolas Mailhot
A. Test result changes: P# t1 t2 t3 t4 t5 t6 t7 t8 t9 t10 t11 t12 t13 t14 1‧ ‧ ‧ ‧ ‧ ‧ ‧ ‧1 ‧‧‧1‧ 2‧ ‧ ‧ ‧ ‧ ‧ ‧ -10 ‧ ‧‧‧‧‧ 35 ‧ 5 ‧ 5 1 5 ‧5 55455

[RFA] Font package differences between Fedora 12 and 2009-11-22 Fedora devel

2009-11-23 Thread Nicolas Mailhot
B. Font package changes: = apanov-heuristica-fonts.rpm (apanov-heuristica-fonts.src.rpm, nim, M) ⇒ apanov-heuristica-fonts.src.rpm, nim, M − Heuristica, Bold, CFF /usr/share/fonts/apanov-heuristica/Heuristica-Bold.otf + Heuristica, Bold, TrueType

Re: [RFA] Your [PACKAGE_NAME] did not pass QA

2009-11-23 Thread Nicolas Mailhot
in Google, I'll continue to care. Stop the Internet from filling with those and I'll stop the mails. (see, I can be unreasonable too) -- Nicolas Mailhot signature.asc Description: Ceci est une partie de message numériquement signée -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@redhat.com

Re: [RFA] Your [PACKAGE_NAME] did not pass QA

2009-11-23 Thread Nicolas Mailhot
. -- Nicolas Mailhot signature.asc Description: Ceci est une partie de message numériquement signée -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@redhat.com https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list

Re: [RFA] Your gnu-free-fonts package did not pass QA

2009-11-23 Thread Nicolas Mailhot
Linux at all so if their font does not play well with fontconfig they'll only find it out if their friendly Fedora packager tells them so) It is even clearly marked in the message this is stuff that needs upstream handling. -- Nicolas Mailhot signature.asc Description: Ceci est une partie de

Re: [RFA] Font audit results for Fedora 12 and 2009-11-22 fedora-devel

2009-11-23 Thread Nicolas Mailhot
it is explicitely demanded not to in packaging guidelines and it was pointed multiple times whenever the script result were posted to this list this past year. You're right I should not have posted it this way. -- Nicolas Mailhot signature.asc Description: Ceci est une partie de message

Re: [RFA] Font audit results for Fedora 12 (final)

2009-11-23 Thread Nicolas Mailhot
which is bad -- Nicolas Mailhot signature.asc Description: Ceci est une partie de message numériquement signée -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@redhat.com https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list

Re: [RFA] Your [PACKAGE_NAME] did not pass QA

2009-11-23 Thread Nicolas Mailhot
Le lundi 23 novembre 2009 à 13:48 -0600, Chris Adams a écrit : Once upon a time, Nicolas Mailhot nicolas.mail...@laposte.net said: Le lundi 23 novembre 2009 à 09:51 -0700, Jerry James a écrit : 1) I'm going to nag you forever about a problem you can't fix. This is false, it can get

Re: [RFA] Your [PACKAGE_NAME] did not pass QA

2009-11-23 Thread Nicolas Mailhot
this test completely. If no one is ready to do that, and is happy to continue to have me do this part because its fonts and by default the fonts sig does fonts, should be happy it costs him only a few annoying mails that state I don't like it one bit. -- Nicolas Mailhot signature.asc

Re: [RFA] Your [PACKAGE_NAME] did not pass QA

2009-11-23 Thread Nicolas Mailhot
Le lundi 23 novembre 2009 à 13:13 -0800, Adam Williamson a écrit : On Mon, 2009-11-23 at 19:48 +0100, Nicolas Mailhot wrote: Le lundi 23 novembre 2009 à 09:51 -0700, Jerry James a écrit : 1) I'm going to nag you forever about a problem you can't fix. This is false, it can get fixed

Re: Local users get to play root?

2009-11-19 Thread Nicolas Mailhot
what you've just asked me to do popup Really useful when X is wedged and you can't close the damn popup. You are safe! Anyone can install anything without password, but the power button has been disabled! -- Nicolas Mailhot signature.asc Description: Ceci est une partie de message

Re: Broken dependencies script at it again

2009-11-14 Thread Nicolas Mailhot
from provides, but the packages have not been rebuilt not to require it -- Nicolas Mailhot signature.asc Description: Ceci est une partie de message numériquement signée -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@redhat.com https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list

Re: Identifying remaining core font users

2009-11-13 Thread Nicolas Mailhot
validation, because many fonts of this era have incomplete metadata (you could cheat and put the info manually in fonts.dir and no one was the wiser, except people who ran mkfontdir and got garbage indexes as output). I doubt we'll find people willing to fix them. -- Nicolas Mailhot signature.asc

Re: Identifying remaining core font users

2009-11-13 Thread Nicolas Mailhot
not use core fonts. -- Nicolas Mailhot signature.asc Description: Ceci est une partie de message numériquement signée -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@redhat.com https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list

Re: Identifying remaining core font users

2009-11-13 Thread Nicolas Mailhot
Le vendredi 13 novembre 2009 à 10:55 +0100, Andreas Schwab a écrit : Nicolas Mailhot nicolas.mail...@laposte.net writes: You do it like everyone else. You pass the codepoints to fontconfig Emacs does that already AFAIK. Then it has no actual need to the fallback path. It's probably only

Re: Identifying remaining core font users

2009-11-13 Thread Nicolas Mailhot
Le vendredi 13 novembre 2009 à 11:09 +0100, Patrice Dumas a écrit : On Fri, Nov 13, 2009 at 11:06:45AM +0100, Nicolas Mailhot wrote: Le vendredi 13 novembre 2009 à 10:55 +0100, Andreas Schwab a écrit : Nicolas Mailhot nicolas.mail...@laposte.net writes: You do it like everyone else

Re: Identifying remaining core font users

2009-11-13 Thread Nicolas Mailhot
Le vendredi 13 novembre 2009 à 17:42 +0100, Nicolas Mailhot a écrit : Here is a new filtered list, based on the suggestions I've received since my first posting. Please tell me if there is still some files that should not belong here, and why I should have written that the test used

Re: Identifying remaining core font users

2009-11-13 Thread Nicolas Mailhot
Le vendredi 13 novembre 2009 à 18:01 +, Jonathan Underwood a écrit : 2009/11/13 Nicolas Mailhot nicolas.mail...@laposte.net: • xdvik-0:22.84.14-7.fc12 — /usr/bin/pxdvi-xaw3d — /usr/bin/xdvi-xaw3d A more crusty piece of code than xdvi you never did see. It's very much in bugfix

Re: Identifying remaining core font users

2009-11-13 Thread Nicolas Mailhot
Le vendredi 13 novembre 2009 à 21:08 +0200, Ville Skyttä a écrit : On Friday 13 November 2009, Nicolas Mailhot wrote: Le vendredi 13 novembre 2009 à 11:58 +, Richard W.M. Jones a écrit : Nicolas, if possible next time please give the package maintainer (ie. FAS username) next

Re: Identifying remaining core font users

2009-11-12 Thread Nicolas Mailhot
Le jeudi 12 novembre 2009 à 13:08 +0200, Gilboa Davara a écrit : On Thu, 2009-11-12 at 07:42 +0100, Nicolas Mailhot wrote: Le jeudi 12 novembre 2009 à 06:51 +0200, Gilboa Davara a écrit : I own both icewm and idesk. As far as I know, both icewm and idesk are linked against xft

Re: Identifying remaining core font users

2009-11-12 Thread Nicolas Mailhot
Le jeudi 12 novembre 2009 à 14:59 +0100, Andreas Schwab a écrit : Nicolas Mailhot nicolas.mail...@laposte.net writes: Therefore, I'd like to identify remaining core font users, and remind them periodically their core font use is not good for their users or for Fedora. What's wrong

Re: Identifying remaining core font users

2009-11-12 Thread Nicolas Mailhot
Le jeudi 12 novembre 2009 à 20:34 +0100, Nicolas Mailhot a écrit : However please note that even though using xft is less bad than using core fonts, xft alone is still not a complete text stack. (I should have written, using xft directly. xft2 uses fontconfig but direct xft2 access bypasses

Re: Identifying remaining core font users

2009-11-12 Thread Nicolas Mailhot
/graph/text.c?rev=6171view=markup This is the patch I submitted upstream: http://annexia.org/tmp/0001-Graphics-Use-modern-X-fonts-instead-of-X-core-fonts-2.patch.txt That was wonderfully reactive. Thanks! I should have posted the list earlier :p -- Nicolas Mailhot signature.asc

Re: Identifying remaining core font users

2009-11-12 Thread Nicolas Mailhot
about not posting about it. I wanted to do a full repo check before reporting again, but due to the number of packages checked it takes a long time (hours) to run and I have to rewind every time I find a bug in the script. -- Nicolas Mailhot signature.asc Description: Ceci est une partie de message

Identifying remaining core font users

2009-11-11 Thread Nicolas Mailhot
/plugins/libnullplugin.so — /usr/lib64/xulrunner-1.9.1/plugins/libunixprintplugin.so • xwrits xwrits-0:2.24-6.fc12 — /usr/bin/xwrits • yadex yadex-0:1.7.0-13.fc12 — /usr/bin/yadex-1.7.0 ¹ http://xfree86.org/pipermail/forum/2003-March/000799.html -- Nicolas Mailhot signature.asc

Re: Identifying remaining core font users

2009-11-11 Thread Nicolas Mailhot
repo-font-audit http://git.fedorahosted.org/git/fontpackages.git?p=fontpackages.git;a=tree;f=bin (I now it's fugly but it woks) -- Nicolas Mailhot signature.asc Description: Ceci est une partie de message numériquement signée -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@redhat.com

Re: Identifying remaining core font users

2009-11-11 Thread Nicolas Mailhot
Le mercredi 11 novembre 2009 à 13:50 +0100, Nicolas Mailhot a écrit : Le mercredi 11 novembre 2009 à 13:41 +0100, Hans de Goede a écrit : It would help tremendously to know how you generated this list of files / packages which allegedly use Core Fonts, there are quite a few packages

Re: Identifying remaining core font users

2009-11-11 Thread Nicolas Mailhot
find maintaining text support sustainable without depending on common text libs. QT/GTK/Mozilla/OO.o tried, and concluded convergence was the only path. But feel free to ask Behdad directly, I'm sure anything he tells you will prove valuable. Regards, -- Nicolas Mailhot signature.asc Description

Re: Identifying remaining core font users

2009-11-11 Thread Nicolas Mailhot
to maintain your own text stack, follow the advice of the people maintaining the one you use, and the advice of X11 Core fonts maintainers (back when there were still some, in 2003) was clear: drop it and use fontconfig instead. -- Nicolas Mailhot signature.asc Description: Ceci est une partie de message

RE: Identifying remaining core font users

2009-11-11 Thread Nicolas Mailhot
harder (but future-proof). -- Nicolas Mailhot signature.asc Description: Ceci est une partie de message numériquement signée -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@redhat.com https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list

Re: Identifying remaining core font users

2009-11-11 Thread Nicolas Mailhot
run, so if they *only* do xft they won't appear again. -- Nicolas Mailhot signature.asc Description: Ceci est une partie de message numériquement signée -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@redhat.com https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list

Re: texlive-2009 breakage?

2009-11-04 Thread Nicolas Mailhot
://kojipkgs.fedoraproject.org/packages/fontpackages/1.31/2.fc13/noarch/fontpackages-tools-1.31-2.fc13.noarch.rpm -- Nicolas Mailhot -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@redhat.com https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list

Re: Wodim trouble

2009-11-02 Thread Nicolas Mailhot
Solaris instead » (paraphrased from memory) -- Nicolas Mailhot -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@redhat.com https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list

Re: Font rendering slightly degraded in recent rawhide

2009-10-30 Thread Nicolas Mailhot
testing and triaging. Which no one is volunteering to do. And before we go there (tackle problems that require manual testing) there is a lot of font problems that can be detected automatically, and need fixing too. -- Nicolas Mailhot -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list

Re: Font rendering slightly degraded in recent rawhide

2009-10-29 Thread Nicolas Mailhot
the current system font looks blurred and uneven when slight hinting is chosen instead of medium one. ~C Unfortunately it is very difficult to get two people to agree on the right hinting level. -- Nicolas Mailhot -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@redhat.com https://www.redhat.com

Re: Font rendering slightly degraded in recent rawhide

2009-10-29 Thread Nicolas Mailhot
in Fedora 9 (4 release cycles ago, for legal reasons so it has 0 chance to get back in). For RHEL please go through RHEL channels. -- Nicolas Mailhot -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@redhat.com https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list

Re: Font rendering slightly degraded in recent rawhide

2009-10-29 Thread Nicolas Mailhot
Le Jeu 29 octobre 2009 18:44, Christoph Frieben a écrit : 2009/10/29 Nicolas Mailhot: You may comment on it, but do not expect Fedora to care overmuch about a component that was removed in Fedora 9 (4 release cycles ago, for legal reasons so it has 0 chance to get back in). For RHEL please

Re: extracting multiple sources in %setup

2009-10-22 Thread Nicolas Mailhot
dangerous to aggregate sources from different upstreams in a single rpm (release cycle and legal problems), or to group sources upstream split (usually for ease of maintenance reasons) -- Nicolas Mailhot -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@redhat.com https://www.redhat.com/mailman

Re: The future of rawhide (was [Fwd: Re: What is the Fedora Project?])

2009-10-22 Thread Nicolas Mailhot
is what people who do not care about releng have been trying to turn rawhide into in the past years. Well they can get their no-rules playground but I don't see why we should also give them the rawhide name. It has a fine history, much better than the eating babies ogre caricature. -- Nicolas

Re: Simplify non-responsive maintainers policy Part 2

2009-10-22 Thread Nicolas Mailhot
. Why would it be discouraged? Doesn't RH like its contributions to Fedora to be clear? The right solution is just to have some manager as fallback address. Telling people to use a non-rh address when their Fedora activity is linked to their @rh work is ridiculous. -- Nicolas Mailhot

Re: Eternal 'good file hashes' list

2009-10-20 Thread Nicolas Mailhot
not guarantee you almost anything. It would help a lot tripwire-like apps. When the hash db is generated on-site it typically can not distinguish between changes done by legit updates and manual changes. -- Nicolas Mailhot -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@redhat.com https

Re: How about releasing an update of xorg-x11-drv-intel for Fedora 11

2009-10-16 Thread Nicolas Mailhot
Le Ven 16 octobre 2009 01:49, Kevin Kofler a écrit : Nicolas Mailhot wrote: Please do not ever push untested work to stable just because no one complained. If you want testing on older releases you can push it to testing but please don't ever promote it. Sorry, letting updates sit

Re: Status of geronimo

2009-10-16 Thread Nicolas Mailhot
will have to take me anyway. But with FLOSS, people are free to vote with their feet (and they do). -- Nicolas Mailhot -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@redhat.com https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list

Re: How about releasing an update of xorg-x11-drv-intel for Fedora 11

2009-10-16 Thread Nicolas Mailhot
was published. People who want the latest of everything and do not mind unstability should run rawhide. Stop rawhidizing stable please. -- Nicolas Mailhot -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@redhat.com https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list

Re: Updates-testing (was: Re: thunderbird upgrade - wtf?)

2009-10-14 Thread Nicolas Mailhot
version. That's the problem with full-FS images: they do not distinguish between the different kinds of files. -- Nicolas Mailhot -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@redhat.com https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list

Re: thunderbird upgrade - wtf?

2009-10-11 Thread Nicolas Mailhot
that think Germans like black, and release gadgets in brittle plastic, when Germans like solid plastic, which is usually black). Unfortunately our desktop people never seem to choose option 2. -- Nicolas Mailhot -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@redhat.com https://www.redhat.com

Re: thunderbird upgrade - wtf?

2009-10-11 Thread Nicolas Mailhot
Le Dim 11 octobre 2009 18:02, Nicolas Mailhot a écrit : There are three schools of design: […]. Unfortunately our desktop people never seem to choose option 2. Sorry about the unfair generalization, there are of course exceptions http://linuxplumbersconf.org/2009/slides/Paul-Davis-lpc2009

Re: Bug reporting URL field in packages

2009-10-06 Thread Nicolas Mailhot
does not reference the %{name} of the srpm, but its filename, which is a PITA, since srpm filename is not really useful nowadays (also IIRC you can rename a srpm to anything.src.rpm and the result will build and reference anything.src.rpm as srpm info) -- Nicolas Mailhot -- fedora-devel-list

Re: Proposal: Python 3 in Fedora 13

2009-10-02 Thread Nicolas Mailhot
Le Ven 2 octobre 2009 17:07, chasd a écrit : java2 ( or whatever Sunacle calls it officially ) We use our own naming for this because SUN changed its mind too often on how it should be named. So now we ignore upstream naming and use our own consistent one. -- Nicolas Mailhot -- fedora

Re: bitmap-fonts by default?

2009-09-30 Thread Nicolas Mailhot
in default groups should have a clear user, or be downgraded to optional. -- Nicolas Mailhot -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@redhat.com https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list

Re: status of forked zlibs in rsync and zsync

2009-09-29 Thread Nicolas Mailhot
is a widely-used package, it can't be yanked that easily. Generally speaking removing a package is the WMD option and it's very sad when a packager forces releng to use this stick. -- Nicolas Mailhot -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@redhat.com https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo

Re: Removing provide statement from an existing spec file

2009-09-29 Thread Nicolas Mailhot
renaming them would have been worth removing any future package confusion) -- Nicolas Mailhot -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@redhat.com https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list

Re: Removing provide statement from an existing spec file

2009-09-29 Thread Nicolas Mailhot
Le Mar 29 septembre 2009 17:43, Nicolas Mailhot a écrit : I don't think the list of examples right below this § supports your view (and actually I do believe the list of existing infringing packages is small enough renaming them would have been worth removing any future package confusion

Re: Removing provide statement from an existing spec file

2009-09-29 Thread Nicolas Mailhot
to refuse changes in package naming conventions -- Nicolas Mailhot -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@redhat.com https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list

Re: yum-presto not on by default

2009-09-26 Thread nicolas . mailhot
for it on technical grounds, do not drag mythical target audience in the debate. That's the only way to make objective assessments. And if you don't strive to stay objective, you'll just create a rotten from the core community -- Nicolas Mailhot -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list

Re: yum-presto not on by default

2009-09-26 Thread nicolas . mailhot
simpler to use. And simpler does not mean I'll assume everything is a laptop, and everyone is a 'normal' user. Simpler means my app is smart enough to manage all cases alone without human intervention -- Nicolas Mailhot -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@redhat.com https

Re: yum-presto not on by default

2009-09-23 Thread Nicolas Mailhot
fonts as we were supposed to do for F11 but sadly many maintainers didn't change a dot in their spec (and even added more un-reviewed fonts in the distro, like xine-ui-skins for example) -- Nicolas Mailhot -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@redhat.com https://www.redhat.com/mailman

Re: default fonts in Fedora

2009-09-21 Thread Nicolas Mailhot
fontconfig sucks in this case. This problem has been well known for several years, but fontconfig's previous maintainer did not put a high priority on it. Finding a solution for this case is on the huge TODO list Behdad published this summer. -- Nicolas Mailhot -- fedora-devel-list mailing list

Re: Bugzilla Desktop Client

2009-09-07 Thread Nicolas Mailhot
as possible and another is intended to make bug reporting easy *for Fedora*. And many Fedora devs will ask to report the bug upstream instead, so a tool that only works with bugzilla.redhat.com is pretty useless -- Nicolas Mailhot -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@redhat.com https

Re: Rawhide fonts problem report for 2009-09-06

2009-09-07 Thread Nicolas Mailhot
://download.fedora.redhat.com/pub/fedora/linux/development/x86_64/os/Packages/ -- Nicolas Mailhot signature.asc Description: Ceci est une partie de message numériquement signée -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@redhat.com https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list

Rawhide fonts problem report for 2009-09-06

2009-09-06 Thread Nicolas Mailhot
-theokritos/GFSTheokritos.otf gfs-theokritos-fonts-0:20070415-14.fc12.noarch ⇒ 1 files (0 MiB) in 1 packages (0 MiB) generated from 1 source packages. ☛ The font files need to be fixed to declare metadata in English too. -- Nicolas Mailhot signature.asc Description: Ceci est une partie

Re: another spin of TeX Live 2009 packages

2009-08-28 Thread Nicolas Mailhot
to be released at CPAN first, but that s not the case for generic resources like fonts) In the meanwhile please do check you re actually using the fontpackages-devel macros in your packages an try to run the audit script available there against your repo Regards -- Nicolas Mailhot Alt. 3790 m

Re: FESCo meeting summary for 2009-07-31

2009-08-01 Thread Nicolas Mailhot
. ». Providing easy to find code tarballs is part of making community collaboration easy. (You can provide other means but this is the minimum requirement) -- Nicolas Mailhot signature.asc Description: Ceci est une partie de message numériquement signée -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list

Re: FESCo meeting summary for 2009-07-31

2009-08-01 Thread Nicolas Mailhot
fonts is a giant PITA because they don't provide tarballs and you have to scrape files from their gitweb (and then check them one by one because they overwrite them at each code dump regardless if they changed or not) -- Nicolas Mailhot signature.asc Description: Ceci est une partie de message

Re: [ANNOUNCE] New Mixer Handling in PA 0.9.16/F12

2009-08-01 Thread Nicolas Mailhot
Le vendredi 31 juillet 2009 à 12:54 +1000, Rodd Clarkson a écrit : On Wed, 2009-07-29 at 20:20 +0200, Nicolas Mailhot wrote: Le mercredi 29 juillet 2009 à 17:49 +0100, Bastien Nocera a écrit : On Wed, 2009-07-29 at 12:42 -0400, Jeff Garzik wrote: Problem is... removing or disabling

Re: Installing glibc 2.10.90-10 hosed my system last night

2009-07-31 Thread Nicolas Mailhot
in nothing-can-go-wrong mode and a sound problem can now make the whole GUI unresponsive. This was not the case before. And PA has not really exhibited the kind of stability that could justify this lack of safeguards. -- Nicolas Mailhot signature.asc Description: Ceci est une partie de message

Re: Installing glibc 2.10.90-10 hosed my system last night

2009-07-30 Thread nicolas . mailhot
Update: The workaround described in bug 509655 [1] got the machine as far as booting, Probably no one tested what happened if /usr/sbin/prelink -ua was not run manually when the bug was fixed but X / GNOME is still severely broken. GNOME has been broken in rawhide for a week now

Re: Installing glibc 2.10.90-10 hosed my system last night

2009-07-30 Thread nicolas . mailhot
Update: The workaround described in bug 509655 [1] got the machine as far as booting, Probably no one tested what happened if /usr/sbin/prelink -ua was not run manually when the bug was fixed but X / GNOME is still severely broken. GNOME has been broken in rawhide for a week now

Re: fedora mini revisted

2009-07-30 Thread nicolas . mailhot
On 29/07/09 23:40, Bill McGonigle wrote: On 07/29/2009 02:47 PM, Ville-Pekka Vainio wrote: I'm not sure how extensions written in Javascript/XUL would be installed. There are rpmfusion packages for thunderbird extensions - thunderbird-enigmail being one I use which puts its files in:

Re: Installing glibc 2.10.90-10 hosed my system last night

2009-07-30 Thread Nicolas Mailhot
0 7f204f0e-7f204f10 r-xp fd:03 84509 /lib64/ld-2.10.90.so 7f204f2e2000-7f204f2eb000 rw-p 00:00 0 7f204f2fe000-7f204f2ff000 rw-p 00:00 0 7f204f2ff000-7f204f30 r--p 0001f000 fd:03 84509 /lib64/ld-2.1 -- Nicolas

Re: rawhide report: 20090724 changes

2009-07-25 Thread Nicolas Mailhot
Here anything that initialises GConfd causes every single GNOME app to start eating all the CPU it can while becoming unresponsive So rawhide is dead again. Can we switch to Fedora 13 at once? Fedora 12 cycle has not been lucky -- Nicolas Mailhot signature.asc Description: Ceci est une partie

Re: Firewall rules using SELinux context (Was Re: RFE: FireKit)

2009-07-25 Thread Nicolas Mailhot
Le vendredi 24 juillet 2009 à 19:22 -0400, Gregory Maxwell a écrit : Not just port numbers. Well iptables already allows stuff like -A OUTPUT -m owner ! --gid-owner apache -p tcp --dport http -j REDIRECT --to-port tproxy so you don't have to open ports for every process -- Nicolas Mailhot

Re: Rawhide fonts problem report for 2009-07-20

2009-07-21 Thread Nicolas Mailhot
(I'm pretty sure using opentype features such as locl would help terminus shed all the optional patches it carries). -- Nicolas Mailhot signature.asc Description: Ceci est une partie de message numériquement signée -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@redhat.com https

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