Hi everyone,
I noticed 'logrotate' is becoming quite generic as a use flag:
# euses logrotate
app-backup/bacula:logrotate - Install support files for logrotate
mail-filter/dspam:logrotate - Install support files for logrotate
net-ftp/vsftpd:logrotate - Use logrotate for rotating logs
On Tue, 21 Mar 2006 13:28:38 +
Markus Rothe [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
[1] http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.linux.gentoo.devel/27451
I read that at the time. This is just a reminder.
JeR
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On Tue, 4 Apr 2006 01:27:54 -0400
Mike Frysinger [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
i recognize i'm a bit of a dick and i'm trying to change.
I'll use this opportunity to add that your efforts are not going
unnoticed. Thanks.
Kind regards to all,
JeR
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On Thu, 06 Apr 2006 13:52:48 +1000
evader [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
When I do an emerge -e world where is the list of files to be merged
stored? For example if I break an emerge, and want to resume later
from a different position, can I edit the packages to be emerged list
so I don't have to
On Wed, 26 Jul 2006 10:04:11 +0200
Martin Schlemmer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Anyhow, that is the whole issue with mozilla stuff in general - huge
hunk of code that is not really modular, and have to be rebuild for a
few to many projects. While I am all for getting the POS more modular
(which
On Tue, 1 Aug 2006 10:21:53 +0200
Tobias Klausmann [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Idea: should it be more obvious in emerge --info and ebuild
failure that an overlay is involved? If it's obvious enough, I
don't see a problem. Also, a command that lists all installed
packages that come from an
Hi everybody,
I propose the `emerge --info` included in arch testers' comments on
stabilisation bugs should rather be posted as attachments. The AT
comments clog up the bugs and are usually not interesting at all to devs
other than those who are arch devs for the relevant arches. It would
On Thu, 10 Aug 2006 10:42:47 -0700
Greg KH [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
What is the current election name that we should use when running
votify?
To vote, log into dev.g.o and type votify --help for
instructions.
Doing that explained everything. :)
Kind regards,
JeR
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On Thu, 10 Aug 2006 23:58:46 +0200
Kevin F. Quinn [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
The problem with attachments is that processing the report takes
longer
- you have to go to the web to read the attachment to find out what
config worked (or failed, if that was the case). It's best to have it
On Fri, 11 Aug 2006 12:52:30 +0200
Kevin F. Quinn [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
In general it depends what you're doing. Personally I find inline
emerge --info quicker to process, as I tend to do that by scrolling up
and down a bug when trying to determine what triggers a bug. However
that's for
On Fri, 11 Aug 2006 15:25:11 +0200
Kevin F. Quinn [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
In order to decide to change how things are currently done, you need
to show that it is better for a majority of the people affected.
(N minus 1 of N arches) times (the number of arch devs minus the number
of $ARCH
On Fri, 11 Aug 2006 11:27:29 -0400
Chris Gianelloni [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I am on the alpha, amd64, and x86 arch teams. I have found that even
emails from architectures I'm not currently looking at tend to have a
great significance. It seems to me that most of the failures are
USE-flag
On Sat, 12 Aug 2006 13:13:48 +0200
Simon Stelling [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Jeroen Roovers wrote:
On a minor note, I'd also like to see bug reporters use canonical
package names in bug descriptions, including the category (and
preferably the specific version, not some =foo-3*!!!one
On Sun, 1 Oct 2006 11:23:37 + (UTC)
Duncan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Ryan Hill [EMAIL PROTECTED] posted [EMAIL PROTECTED],
excerpted below, on Sat, 30 Sep 2006 16:37:05 -0600:
If you want flags that just break
stuff with 4.1 you can include -ftree-vectorize.
Could you point me at
On Tue, 4 Dec 2012 18:51:36 +
Markos Chandras hwoar...@gentoo.org wrote:
Bug-wranglers are supposed to do that by default. When you see a
non-gentoo developer in metadata.xml, the default action is to assume his is
the real maintainer and the bugs should be assigned to him. Such
guidance
On Sat, 1 Dec 2012 21:41:35 -0500
Rich Freeman ri...@gentoo.org wrote:
On Sat, Dec 1, 2012 at 9:37 PM, Alec Warner anta...@gentoo.org
wrote:
Look, if you want to make a policy about the stuff, then make a
policy, get council approval, and write it down.
Don't make up silly half-solutions.
On Thu, 13 Dec 2012 21:25:59 +
Markos Chandras hwoar...@gentoo.org wrote:
We also have 720 packages listed as maintainer-needed[1] meaning
nobody is actually taking care of them.
And this number is pretty scary.
[1]http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/qa/treecleaners/maintainer-needed.xml
Why
On Sun, 16 Dec 2012 14:14:49 -0500
Michael Mol mike...@gmail.com wrote:
I face funroll-loops references and worse almost every time I bring up
Gentoo among a different group of Linux-familiar technical people.
There are still *very* strong prejudices against Gentoo in most places
Comparing
On Mon, 17 Dec 2012 10:40:06 +0100
Michał Górny mgo...@gentoo.org wrote:
People aren't bothering. It's not because of any fundamental
problem -- it's because the process is obscure and potentially a
waste of time.
I agree with that. The process takes a lot of time for a minor
benefit,
On Thu, 27 Dec 2012 05:39:00 +1300
Kent Fredric kentfred...@gmail.com wrote:
On 19/12/2012 10:03 p.m., Michał Górny wrote:
If I were to throw random ideas, I'd think about letting new
recruits did all commits through a proxy (mentor?). Of course, it
all would be easier if we used git.
For
On Mon, 31 Dec 2012 22:17:35 +0800
Ben de Groot yng...@gentoo.org wrote:
Happy New Year to all of you!
+1
Looking back at 2012, I wonder what we consider our achievements for
this past year. What is the state of Gentoo? How have we brought it
forward and improved it this past year?
I think
*octave-3.6.2-r1 (11 Jun 2012)
11 Jun 2012; Sébastien Fabbro bicat...@gentoo.org
+octave-3.6.2-r1.ebuild: Re-add hdf5, some octave packages might need
it. Do in source configuring for preventing more bugs. Drop hppa
(needs hdf5)
You are supposed to[1] tell the arch team when you drop
On Wed, 2 Jan 2013 12:36:36 +0100
Jeroen Roovers j...@gentoo.org wrote:
You are supposed to[1] tell the arch team when you drop their keyword.
*PDL-2.4.11 (16 Jun 2012)
16 Jun 2012; Sébastien Fabbro bicat...@gentoo.org +PDL-2.4.11.ebuild,
+files/PDL-2.4.11-fortran.patch, +files/PDL
On Fri, 4 Jan 2013 23:33:02 -0600
Donnie Berkholz dberkh...@gentoo.org wrote:
On 05:31 Fri 21 Dec , Matt Turner wrote:
My point is that you consistently write long essays that I, and
apparently most others, don't bother to read. I'm not sure if
you're aware of this.
Someone said
On Wed, 9 Jan 2013 18:39:09 +0200
Markos Chandras hwoar...@gentoo.org wrote:
On 9 January 2013 18:17, Vicente Olivert Riera per...@carrosses.com
some devs and I were talking about the fact that TESTED bugzilla
keyword may need a change on his description, or, maybe it's needed
to create
On Tue, 12 Feb 2013 15:14:15 -0600
William Hubbs willi...@gentoo.org wrote:
All,
as preparation for the up-coming cvs-git migration of the portage
tree, the council is strongly suggesting that from this point forward
all developers sign their manifests with their gpg key as described
in
On Wed, 13 Feb 2013 01:47:34 +0100
Jeroen Roovers j...@gentoo.org wrote:
It would help if repoman noticed when you have FEATURES=-sign. :-\
https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=457034
jer
On Tue, 12 Feb 2013 17:07:33 -0800
Alec Warner anta...@gentoo.org wrote:
On Tue, Feb 12, 2013 at 5:05 PM, Jeroen Roovers j...@gentoo.org
wrote:
On Wed, 13 Feb 2013 01:47:34 +0100
Jeroen Roovers j...@gentoo.org wrote:
It would help if repoman noticed when you have FEATURES=-sign
On Sun, 3 Mar 2013 15:39:16 -0600
Doug Goldstein car...@gentoo.org wrote:
One of the reasons people volunteer in open source projects is to
scratch their personal itch. When that itch develops into a festering,
gangrenous limb it becomes time to amputate it. That is what I am
doing with my
On Sun, 03 Mar 2013 19:35:24 +
Markos Chandras hwoar...@gentoo.org wrote:
A number of packages in the tree are maintained by a Gentoo developer
and a user. As a result of which, we are unable to monitor these
packages in bugzilla. This is useful in case one of the maintainers
goes MIA so
On Tue, 5 Mar 2013 09:09:47 +
Markos Chandras hwoar...@gentoo.org wrote:
If there is at least one Gentoo developer in metadata.xml we assume
the package is properly maintained by him so
we never touch it.
Sounds fine. I for one am converted (and the packages I maintain in
that fashion).
On Sun, 3 Mar 2013 12:44:18 +0100
Tomáš Chvátal tomas.chva...@gmail.com wrote:
If I remember correctly the damn rule is to put it for 30 days into
testing, and as you said there was no previous version on arm so users
could've reported some issues, i agree that sometimes you have to
ignore
On Tue, 26 Mar 2013 17:13:03 -0400
Richard Yao r...@gentoo.org wrote:
I have attached [...] a diff showing the differences between the new
license and the old license.
diff -w helps to weed out the uninteresting whitespace changes.
jer
On Fri, 12 Apr 2013 16:08:10 -0400
Mike Frysinger vap...@gentoo.org wrote:
that you remember. i think it's more likely you copy pasted some
line a long time ago than baselayout modified it for you.
Exactly, but where did that come from?
two people who have installs that are a decade old
On Tue, 23 Apr 2013 21:31:10 +0200
Michał Górny mgo...@gentoo.org wrote:
Just to make it clear -- there are four CVS commits. Ebuild commit
followed by GPG-signed Manifest commit. Hopefully the developer has
persistent SSH connections set up.
AFAIK setting these up still isn't properly
On Fri, 3 May 2013 16:06:01 +0800
Ben de Groot yng...@gentoo.org wrote:
Personally I've always thought -Werror is a mistake in release code,
but was accepted practice. I've almost never actively removed it from
packages I maintain. That will change now, upon learning of this
policy.
Debian
On Fri, 03 May 2013 16:15:35 +0200
hasufell hasuf...@gentoo.org wrote:
We don't need that.
I was actually firmly agreeing on that point. The question was where
this was all coming from, and I was pointing out that it's regarded as
inherently good elsewhere.
We already get QA warnings for
On Fri, 03 May 2013 20:18:42 +0200
Justin j...@gentoo.org wrote:
+ 03 May 2013; Justin Lecher j...@gentoo.org
+id3lib-3.8.3-r9.ebuild,
+ metadata.xml:
+ Fix obsolete macros to work with automake-1.13, #467704; bumped
to EAPI=5 and
+ autotools-utils.eclass
There was no reason
On Sat, 04 May 2013 19:49:03 +0200
viv...@gmail.com viv...@gmail.com wrote:
(Also, why do a revision bump and leave
the stable revision unfixed?)
but this:
because automake-1.13 is _not_ stable an because there are enough
changes to risk to break it?
The fix changes a single line in a
On Wed, 8 May 2013 20:55:35 +0200
Ambroz Bizjak ambr...@gmail.com wrote:
Init.d scripts are programs - they could probably do just about
anything.
They couldn't monitor a process and restart it when it crashes, as
specified by the restart options in the unit file. That is, without
On Wed, 8 May 2013 21:48:36 -0400
Walter Dnes waltd...@waltdnes.org wrote:
Wouldn't the systemd USE flag be the appropriate one to key on?
The description in /usr/portage/profiles/use.desc says...
systemd - Enable use of systemd-specific libraries and features like
socket activation or
Private messages and public comments through bugzilla are so far
ignored, it seems, so let's try a venue where it's sure to cause a
flamewar instead. My apologies for the inconvenience.
On Sat, 18 May 2013 21:08:53 +
bugzilla-dae...@gentoo.org wrote:
DO NOT REPLY TO THIS EMAIL. Also, do not
On Tue, 21 May 2013 15:32:25 +0200
Thomas Sachau to...@gentoo.org wrote:
Automagic stabilization is a bad idea.
I agree. Maintainer timeout is not a valid reason to go
ahead with stabilisation. If you really want to push forward, you
should be required to do more research as bug reporter.
And
On Wed, 22 May 2013 09:03:43 -0400
Ian Stakenvicius a...@gentoo.org wrote:
And the circle is closed since we started with the correlation no
answer to stable bug in 30 days = package unmantained ;-)
This could actually work
Then we'd get the Ubuntu/Launchpad situation, where
On Wed, 22 May 2013 08:53:06 -0400
Ian Stakenvicius a...@gentoo.org wrote:
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE-
Hash: SHA256
On 21/05/13 07:43 PM, Thomas Sachau wrote:
[ Snip reasons for why opt-out is bad ]
So why don't we add something to package metadata, to indicate that a
package is
On Mon, 20 May 2013 17:29:43 +0200
Tom Wijsman tom...@gentoo.org wrote:
Also, your script does not set the STABLEREQ keyword. People are
having to hunt down your robo-stabilisation requests and add it
themselves. You should just do it yourself or turn your script off.
Maintainer(s) and
On Tue, 21 May 2013 00:46:22 + (UTC)
Duncan 1i5t5.dun...@cox.net wrote:
As a user, I've understood:
* Severity is something the user/filer can use.
So when Chromium doesn't compile on your machine, you set it as a
Blocker, and then it gets reverted to Normal because it works fine for
the
On Tue, 21 May 2013 18:57:20 -0600
Ryan Hill dirtye...@gentoo.org wrote:
Huh? The severity of the bug is it's an enhancement.
The point I was making is we could improve things by a fair margin. If
all stabilisation bugs had a Severity that actually reflected the
severity, then I'd pay
On Wed, 22 May 2013 19:18:41 +1000
Michael Palimaka kensing...@gentoo.org wrote:
A newer version of a package is usually considered to be better in
some way, hence it is an enhancement.
Unless it's a Blocker, of course. :)
According to the bug-wrangler's own docs[1]: A stabilisation request
On Thu, 23 May 2013 23:40:42 -0600
Ryan Hill dirtye...@gentoo.org wrote:
Okay, so what are you using the STABLEREQ keyword for that you want
to set it when the bug is filed but before archs are added? If you
want to see only stabilization bugs you can search in the Keywording
and
On Fri, 20 May 2011 17:39:22 +0200
Jeroen Roovers j...@gentoo.org wrote:
for a while now I've been wondering if all those sed scripts in all
those ebuilds are really effective.
This took rather long to find some spare time for.
Plonk the attached bash script into /etc/portage/bashrc.d (which
For a good while now, I have been obsoleting ebuild attachments on as
yet unassigned bug reports and pasting proper unified diffs into
comments. I have been doing this so that the maintainers of these
ebuilds see the actual changes instead of a giant blob of code that the
submitter of the ebuild
On Thu, 20 Jun 2013 10:39:54 +0200
Fabio Erculiani lx...@gentoo.org wrote:
The final outcome I would love to see is that everybody eventually
graduates from kindergarten :-)
And perhaps introduce a culture-fit score in the recruiting,
mentoring process.
Maybe we should require everyone to be
On Thu, 04 Jul 2013 09:31:35 -0700
Brian Dolbec dol...@gentoo.org wrote:
Thank you for the extra effort. I appreciate it, although for the
one I had recently, it made it harder. I had just migrated the
ebuild to the new python eclasses. So the diff included the reversal
of those changes too.
On Sat, 27 Jul 2013 16:09:20 +0400
Vadim A. Misbakh-Soloviov m...@mva.name wrote:
What about adding export LC_ALL=POSIX (or, at least, LC_MESSAGES)
[...]
We've been over this plenty of times in the past. Notably in March 2009,
July 2010 (about python specific build issues), April 2011,
On Sat, 27 Jul 2013 18:36:26 +0400
Vadim A. Misbakh-Soloviov m...@mva.name wrote:
Unfortunately, gentoo.org's archive seems to be broken/frozen, while
it is a bit hard to grep 3party archives to find already discussed
topics :-/
Please reply below the quoted text.
27.07.2013 18:31, Jeroen
On Tue, 30 Jul 2013 10:53:11 -0400
Rich Freeman ri...@gentoo.org wrote:
On Tue, Jul 30, 2013 at 10:40 AM, viv...@gmail.com viv...@gmail.com
wrote:
does storage space make everyone happy?
rich0 is confused and looks over at the storage space he keeps his
bicycles in...
So what colour
On Tue, 30 Jul 2013 09:04:56 -0700
Matt Turner matts...@gentoo.org wrote:
I committed it last night before your email.
# Keep it sorted. Please do not add anything without prior
discussion # on
gentoo-dev.
n32
n64
o32
This is not a valid format for a .desc file. You should use:
flag -
On Mon, 5 Aug 2013 13:57:55 +0200
Ulrich Mueller u...@gentoo.org wrote:
Currently, USE flag descriptions are a mix of imperative (Enable)
and indicative (Enables) forms, the former occuring more often:
Enable : Enables = 2143 : 408
Add : Adds = 525 : 341
Build :
23:37:25 willikins rej, you have notes! [21:13] mrueg Let me
rephrase this: Just a friendly notice to please refrain from rephrasing
bug summaries from Stabilize ${P} to ${P} stable req. This just
adds unneeded noise to the bug. I don't want this on bugs I've reported
or am assigned to.
This is
On Wed, 07 Aug 2013 19:07:55 +0200
Manuel Rüger mr...@gentoo.org wrote:
[...]
I appreciate the kinder tone.
first of all I welcome and appreciate the work all members of the
other bug wranglers project[1] and you do.
This is where you start to slip. I am not just a bug wrangler.
- I
your mistakes, whether trivial or indeed
grave (see below).
Oh, and now we can't do anything without an existing policy? Good thing
you decided to grace this project with your attention, or we wouldn't
get anything done, like:
Jeroen Roovers 2013-08-06 12:46:43 UTC
Summary: Stabilize net-print
On Tue, 13 Aug 2013 22:59:49 +0200
Andreas K. Huettel dilfri...@gentoo.org wrote:
anymore but default to English. The intention behind this is to
intention behind this is = rationale is
have a hard time analyzing localized builds.
analyzing localized builds = reading build logs in foreign
On Thu, 22 Aug 2013 12:28:24 +0100
Markos Chandras hwoar...@gentoo.org wrote:
Wow! That is something we actively encourage people to avoid. Mixed
systems are totally
unsupported and I am sure quite a few bugs are closed as invalid when
a mixed system is detected.
Mixing stable and testing is
On Mon, 26 Aug 2013 09:38:04 +0200
Michał Górny mgo...@gentoo.org wrote:
I've noticed that some people are using internal eclass functions
in their ebuilds. [...] What should I do to them?
File a bug report. Don't do anything to anyone.
jer
On Sat, 31 Aug 2013 12:37:58 -0400
Rick \Zero_Chaos\ Farina zeroch...@gentoo.org wrote:
I know we are a little OT here but the fifth type of recruit is
Yes.
someone who is very excited, very dedicated, and completely unable to
find a mentor. That is where I was for a long time, no one
On Sun, 8 Sep 2013 18:06:56 -0600
Ryan Hill dirtye...@gentoo.org wrote:
So does anyone have any objections to making -fstack-protector the
default? Now is the time to speak up.
On PARISC you get plenty of warning of how well it's going to work out:
(cc1|gcc|foo): warning: -fstack-protector
On Mon, 16 Sep 2013 14:41:12 +0200
Andreas K. Huettel dilfri...@gentoo.org wrote:
Please stop pointless bugspam.
Nice one. I'm all for it. I'm not sure how it applies to me, though.
You could prevent getting mail like that 1) by sending comments like the
above to /dev/null or 2) by writing
On Mon, 16 Sep 2013 09:19:47 -0400
Rich Freeman ri...@gentoo.org wrote:
Jer - can you comment on how these changes are getting made? Is this
some kind of script, or are you manually making these changes?
It's a thing called editing and it is still usually done by humans
(with a broad
On Mon, 16 Sep 2013 15:50:06 +0200
Dirkjan Ochtman d...@gentoo.org wrote:
On Mon, Sep 16, 2013 at 3:09 PM, Michael Palimaka
kensing...@gentoo.org wrote:
At what point do we draw the line? Today my mailbox is full of
email with changes like app-foo/bar-1.2.3: version bump -
# ChangeLog for app-misc/emelfm2
# Copyright 1999-2013 Gentoo Foundation; Distributed under the GPL v2
# $Header: /var/cvsroot/gentoo-x86/app-misc/emelfm2/ChangeLog,v 1.56
2013/09/23 09:47:35 ssuominen Exp $
23 Sep 2013; Samuli Suominen ssuomi...@gentoo.org
emelfm2-0.8.1.ebuild,
On Wed, 25 Feb 2009 00:21:23 +0200
Petteri Räty betelge...@gentoo.org wrote:
Let's try something new. I would like to get opinions [...]
A multitude of leaves on every branch of the tree. That could be a
multiple of the current tree size - maybe talk to infra about this.
It's also a multitude
On Sun, 22 Mar 2009 17:55:38 -0600
Ryan Hill dirtye...@gentoo.org wrote:
These herds have no members:
...
live-cd:
app-admin/pwgen
app-arch/pbzip2
app-misc/livecd-tools
dev-python/pyparted
dev-util/catalyst
media-gfx/splash-themes-livecd
sys-apps/ddcxinfo-knoppix
sys-apps/gli
On Mon, 06 Apr 2009 12:11:02 +0400
Peter Volkov p...@gentoo.org wrote:
В Вск, 05/04/2009 в 22:41 +0200, Timothy Redaelli пишет:
i think it's better to develop an emerge --info package
It already exists. But regretfully it does not provide useful output
even about the package's USE flags
On Mon, 18 May 2009 16:16:46 +0100
Ciaran McCreesh ciaran.mccre...@googlemail.com wrote:
Why do you think I wrote the awful hack that is versionator?
Why don't you explain why, historically, you put that in the tree? It
would help us now if you were to simply record your mistakes for
everybody
On Thu, 28 May 2009 00:45:18 +0100
Ciaran McCreesh ciaran.mccre...@googlemail.com wrote:
On Wed, 27 May 2009 23:26:25 + (UTC)
Mark Bateman coul...@soon.com wrote:
NOT once within GLEP55 [...]
Not once has there been an equally good alternative proposed.
None needed, seems to be the
On Thu, 28 May 2009 00:54:40 +0100
Ciaran McCreesh ciaran.mccre...@googlemail.com wrote:
None needed, seems to be the major voice.
So it's your opinion that Gentoo should go with an in every way
inferior solution that doesn't solve the problem as well?
I was merely overstating the obvious.
On Mon, 15 Jun 2009 16:48:03 +0100
AllenJB gentoo-li...@allenjb.me.uk wrote:
https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=274197
The above bug brings up 2 issues:
First, hplip says one thing, but does another with qt3 and qt4
use-based dependencies. This is obviously a bug that needs to be
On Fri, 26 Jun 2009 08:50:22 +1200
Alistair Bush ali_b...@gentoo.org wrote:
I would believe that recent history would show the opposite. There
seem to be a group of developers at which the mere mention of ciaranm
results in setting them off. Regardless of the technical merits of a
solution
On Wed, 01 Jul 2009 19:33:52 -0700
Ned Ludd so...@gentoo.org wrote:
huge fscking snip
Thank you. You were top of my list and I am counting on you. :)
Regards,
jer
Qt3 deprecation is now tracked in bug #283429 [1]
Regards,
jer
[1] https://bugs.gentoo.org/283429
On Tue, 13 Oct 2009 21:22:13 +0200
Fabian Groffen grob...@gentoo.org wrote:
We are working on a proper explanation targetted to devs of this. I'm
sorry for the inconvenience caused.
How large of a change to the tree will this involve? Is it a small
number of packages that need to be fixed
On Tue, 13 Oct 2009 20:33:35 -0400
Mark Loeser halc...@gentoo.org wrote:
I'd say this isn't correct. Unstable isn't a pure testing playground.
its meant for packages that should be considered for stable.
I happen to disagree. Since the advent of outside overlays and layman,
we've seen many
On Sat, 24 Oct 2009 09:00:03 -0500
Jeremy Olexa darks...@gentoo.org wrote:
Just so it is clear and there aren't any questions in the future. The
XFCE team maintains a set of recommended global use flags in our
docs[1] (maintained by Josh (nightmorph)). So, whatever direction
this ends up,
On Sat, 7 Nov 2009 18:24:10 +0100
Tomáš Chvátal scarab...@gentoo.org wrote:
* Masking beta...
This masks are good if the software release is KNOWN to break
previous behaviour or degrade user experience. Otherwise the software
should not be masked (its TESTING for purpose, not stable).
Also
On Sun, 8 Nov 2009 18:20:00 +0100
Tomáš Chvátal scarab...@gentoo.org wrote:
But if we look on tag of screen-4.0.3 or its release:
screen-4.0.2.tar.gz27-Jan-2004 05:46 821K
screen-4.0.2.tar.gz.sig27-Jan-2004 05:47 65
screen-4.0.3.tar.gz07-Aug-2008 06:30 821K
On Wed, 11 Nov 2009 18:11:37 +0100
Torsten Veller ml...@veller.net wrote:
Tomáš Chvátal scarab...@gentoo.org wrote:
But if we look on tag of screen-4.0.3 or its release:
screen-4.0.3.tar.gz07-Aug-2008 06:30 821K
screen-4.0.3.tar.gz.sig07-Aug-2008 06:30 65
Neither the ballot nor the announcement contains the actual
question that is to be voted on. In the case of the announcement the
problem isn't as huge as with the ballot, so the latter should be fixed
soon, I guess.
Roy's message does mention the actual question (and I must say that
it's rather
On Thu, 24 Dec 2009 07:37:26 -0500
Richard Freeman ri...@gentoo.org wrote:
I think we should definitely have some way of designating which
should be the contact for bugs. I've had some bugs sit around for a
while without being noticed because they were assigned to the herd
the package is in,
On Thu, 24 Dec 2009 00:29:39 +0100
Diego E. Pettenò flamee...@gmail.com wrote:
# Diego E. Pettenò flamee...@gentoo.org (24 Dec 2009)
# on behalf of QA team
#
# Fails to build if /usr/X11R6 is not present (bug #247737,
# open November 2008).
#
# Removal on 2010-02-22
media-gfx/viewer
On Mon, 28 Dec 2009 00:36:34 -0500
Vincent Launchbury vinc...@doublecreations.com wrote:
Also relating to this, what is freedist? The package app-text/dos2unix
lists 'freedist' as its license, and /usr/portage/licenses/freedist
says only Freely Distributable. Several other packages do this,
On Mon, 28 Dec 2009 10:10:48 +0100 (CET)
lx...@gentoo.org wrote:
let's discuss concerns here (actually I don't see any and I am
willing to fix all the ebuilds and close all my bugs if you ack).
If they are genuine bugs, then there isn't anything to discuss.
List of Gentoo bugs:
Tracker bug
On Tue, 5 Jan 2010 01:33:42 +0100
Thilo Bangert bang...@gentoo.org wrote:
Jeroen Roovers j...@gentoo.org said:
[snip]
Feel free to
CC me on bugs related to this package if you find any more pressing
issues.
the standard way of indicating such an interest is to add yourself
On Tue, 05 Jan 2010 22:00:57 -0500
Vincent Launchbury vinc...@doublecreations.com wrote:
But isn't this a problem with GPL-2 and 3 also? The term
GPL-compatible is too vague--which version is it referring to? For
example, see http://www.fsf.org/licensing/licenses/ again:
Please note that
On Tue, 05 Jan 2010 22:00:57 -0500
Vincent Launchbury vinc...@doublecreations.com wrote:
Duncan wrote:
Quickly checking wikipedia (without verifying further), I'm probably
thinking about a different license, but I had it in my head that
GPLv1 had a no commercial use clause (or allowed it),
On Mon, 11 Jan 2010 17:31:08 -0500
Mike Frysinger vap...@gentoo.org wrote:
On Monday 11 January 2010 16:05:16 Markos Chandras wrote:
# Markos Chandras hwoar...@gentoo.org (11 Jan 2010)
# Fails with -Wl,--as-needed
# bug #182782. Removal in 30 days
net-nntp/inn
is as-needed support
On Tue, 12 Jan 2010 00:30:24 +0100
Arnaud Launay a...@launay.org wrote:
But, if I understand this announce correctly, the complete inn
port will be dropped to oblivion.
Yes, and that shouldn't (and won't) happen.
Wouldn't it be better to stabilize inn 2.5 (there's even a 2.5.1
release out
On Tue, 12 Jan 2010 02:02:14 +0100
Jeroen Roovers j...@gentoo.org wrote:
I'm working on getting 2.5.1 in the tree (and fixing a USE=python and
some other issues while I'm at it).
net-nntp/inn-2.5.1 is in the tree and fixes many (QA) issues. Please
track bug #300650 [1] if you want to stay
On Tue, 12 Jan 2010 18:32:06 +0200
Markos Chandras hwoar...@gentoo.org wrote:
Thanks for saving this package. As Jeremy said, there is absolutely
no way to measure the popularity of a package. So if it has no
maintainer, and open bugs we have to mask it and announce it here. It
is up to you
On Tue, 12 Jan 2010 21:51:28 +0100
Tomáš Chvátal scarab...@gentoo.org wrote:
you need to fix your filter then. an open bug is not an
acceptable reason for masking a package. if you're going to clean
a package, you need to research actual reasons to mask punt.
-mike
Dont be joking,
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