Re: [gentoo-dev] What to do with GCC 4 related bugs?

2006-01-02 Thread Mark Loeser
like to know of everything that is broken. -- Mark Loeser - Gentoo Developer (cpp gcc-porting toolchain x86) email - halcy0n AT gentoo DOT org mark AT halcy0n DOT com web - http://dev.gentoo.org/~halcy0n/ http://www.halcy0n.com

Re: [gentoo-dev] What to do with GCC 4 related bugs?

2006-01-02 Thread Mark Loeser
please, its much easier. I'm wondering if a gcc4 tracker bug might help as Mark was planning to move it in ~arch. Sounds like a good idea. I'll probably make one in a bit if someone doesn't beat me to it. -- Mark Loeser - Gentoo Developer (cpp gcc-porting toolchain x86) email

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Monthly Gentoo Council Reminder for January

2006-01-03 Thread Mark Loeser
projects are active and reporting information on their status. Sounds good as well. I'd like to see all of the projects/teams saying what their goals are, or what they have done to move towards their goals. -- Mark Loeser - Gentoo Developer (cpp gcc-porting toolchain x86) email

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Monthly Gentoo Council Reminder for January

2006-01-03 Thread Mark Loeser
Lance Albertson [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: Mark Loeser wrote: Chris Gianelloni [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: I completely agree with you here. What Gentoo does is make a meta-distribution, that one can utilize to build their own distribution easily. This isn't limited to Linux, either, thanks

Re: [gentoo-dev] packages without homepages

2006-01-12 Thread Mark Loeser
to either make repoman not complain if HOMEPAGE= is supposed to be valid, or put none in there if necessary. -- Mark Loeser - Gentoo Developer (cpp gcc-porting toolchain x86) email - halcy0n AT gentoo DOT org mark AT halcy0n DOT com web - http://dev.gentoo.org

Re: [gentoo-dev] fix binary debug support, part elevenity billion 1/2

2006-01-19 Thread Mark Loeser
that debugging almost works for hardened users too. Please lets avoid this assumption. I'd love to make it so we never make this assumption anywhere in the tree so that we could actually build GCC without pie or ssp, instead of generating all of the GCC profiles for every user. -- Mark Loeser

Re: [gentoo-dev] Unmasking modular X

2006-01-24 Thread Mark Loeser
. Knowing that 800 packages are broken, and going to unmask it knowing that just doesn't seem acceptable in my eyes. ~arch isn't meant to be things are known to be broken. It's meant to mean, we think all of this is ready to be stable, which it certainly won't be in this case. Thanks, -- Mark

Re: [gentoo-dev] Unmasking modular X

2006-01-24 Thread Mark Loeser
, but we can wait until its down to a more reasonable value. This huge push to get everything ported over only started recently, and I think we need more time. -- Mark Loeser - Gentoo Developer (cpp gcc-porting toolchain x86) email - halcy0n AT gentoo DOT org mark

Re: [gentoo-dev] Unmasking modular X

2006-01-30 Thread Mark Loeser
? It makes things a pain for arch teams that are trying to mark a completely unrelated version of the package. Thanks, -- Mark Loeser - Gentoo Developer (cpp gcc-porting toolchain x86) email - halcy0n AT gentoo DOT org mark AT halcy0n DOT com web - http

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Unmasking modular X

2006-01-31 Thread Mark Loeser
open about this package right now, and having an error about deps in some old version doesn't really help arch teams at all. I am all for getting stuff ported, but making things harder for arch teams is not the way to go about it. -- Mark Loeser - Gentoo Developer (cpp gcc-porting toolchain

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Unmasking modular X

2006-01-31 Thread Mark Loeser
Jason Stubbs [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: On Wednesday 01 February 2006 02:28, Mark Loeser wrote: We are talking about completely unrelated versions, not what we are touching. For example, old imagemagick ebuilds sitting around, where the newer ebuilds are fixed, but old ones are not. We

[gentoo-dev] Binary packages

2006-02-08 Thread Mark Loeser
it. Thanks, -- Mark Loeser - Gentoo Developer (cpp gcc-porting toolchain x86) email - halcy0n AT gentoo DOT org mark AT halcy0n DOT com web - http://dev.gentoo.org/~halcy0n/ http://www.halcy0n.com pgpdH6MEmUfuw.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: [gentoo-dev] Binary packages

2006-02-08 Thread Mark Loeser
gcc-3.3 or libstdc++-v3. I don't see forcing either upon our users to be a good thing. The upgrade doc covers how to do the 3.3-3.4 upgrade, and I think most archs are on 3.4 at this point. -- Mark Loeser - Gentoo Developer (cpp gcc-porting toolchain x86) email - halcy0n AT gentoo

Re: [gentoo-dev] Binary packages

2006-02-08 Thread Mark Loeser
Jason Stubbs [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: On Thursday 09 February 2006 09:30, Mark Loeser wrote: Jason Stubbs [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: It was my understanding that it is needed for the 3.3 - 3.4 upgrade. Various packages that will build fine against either are broken until being recompiled

[gentoo-dev] Duplicated entries in use.desc and use.local.desc

2006-02-12 Thread Mark Loeser
it be acceptable? -- Mark Loeser - Gentoo Developer (cpp gcc-porting qa toolchain x86) email - halcy0n AT gentoo DOT org mark AT halcy0n DOT com web - http://dev.gentoo.org/~halcy0n/ http://www.halcy0n.com pgpmrmdUiVjvE.pgp Description: PGP

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Duplicated entries in use.desc and use.local.desc

2006-02-12 Thread Mark Loeser
, we should decide if this is valid though. I haven't exactly been convinced that it is useful, but I'm not opposed to the idea. I'd just like to see a decision one way or another. -- Mark Loeser - Gentoo Developer (cpp gcc-porting qa toolchain x86) email - halcy0n AT gentoo DOT org

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Duplicated entries in use.desc and use.local.desc

2006-02-12 Thread Mark Loeser
out for? I don't see this as a groundbreaking change that requires a GLEP or anything, especially since I eliminated most of the duplicates today, after talking with the respective maintainers. There are probably only 3 or 4 left. -- Mark Loeser - Gentoo Developer (cpp gcc-porting qa

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Duplicated entries in use.desc and use.local.desc

2006-02-12 Thread Mark Loeser
R Hill [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: Anyways I just like anything that makes use.desc more useful than foo - adds support for foo That's really a completely separate issue. By allowing duplicate entries we just allow people to put useless information in two places instead of one. -- Mark Loeser

[gentoo-dev] Last rites for x11-libs/libwmfun

2006-02-16 Thread Mark Loeser
The package has been in package.mask since July 2002. Upstream appears dead. If no one objects, I will drop it from the tree in a week (since it has already been masked for years anyway :) ). -- Mark Loeser - Gentoo Developer (cpp gcc-porting qa toolchain x86) email - halcy0n

[gentoo-dev] [RFC] QA Team's role

2006-02-26 Thread Mark Loeser
will be presented with this request to devrel. * The QA team will maintain a list of current QA Standards. The list is not meant by any means to be a comprehensive document, but rather a dynamic document that will be updated as new problems are discovered. -- Mark Loeser - Gentoo Developer (cpp

Re: [gentoo-dev] [RFC] QA Team's role

2006-02-26 Thread Mark Loeser
to the council about one of our changes. Also, we aren't unwilling to hear alternatives and we hope to work with the maintainer on these problems. -- Mark Loeser - Gentoo Developer (cpp gcc-porting qa toolchain x86) email - halcy0n AT gentoo DOT org mark AT halcy0n

Re: [gentoo-dev] [RFC] QA Team's role

2006-02-26 Thread Mark Loeser
prove to be impossible. -- Mark Loeser - Gentoo Developer (cpp gcc-porting qa toolchain x86) email - halcy0n AT gentoo DOT org mark AT halcy0n DOT com web - http://dev.gentoo.org/~halcy0n/ http://www.halcy0n.com pgpL6u3xmZeKv.pgp

Re: [gentoo-dev] [RFC] QA Team's role

2006-02-26 Thread Mark Loeser
Stuart Herbert [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: On Sun, 2006-02-26 at 17:22 -0500, Mark Loeser wrote: * In case of emergency, or if package maintainers refuse to cooperate, the QA team may take action themselves to fix the problem. I'd like to see this say * In case of emergency, or after

Re: [gentoo-dev] [RFC] QA Team's role

2006-02-26 Thread Mark Loeser
Donnie Berkholz [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: Mark Loeser wrote: Well, instead of putting the debate into an even larger crowd, this enables the QA team to act in the way it sees best first. If people believe we were wrong, then we give them the option to talk to the council about one of our

Re: [gentoo-dev] [RFC] QA Team's role

2006-02-26 Thread Mark Loeser
Ciaran McCreesh [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: On Sun, 26 Feb 2006 17:22:17 -0500 Mark Loeser [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: | * The QA team will maintain a list of current QA Standards. The | list is not meant by any means to be a comprehensive document, but | rather a dynamic document

Re: [gentoo-dev] [RFC] QA Team's role

2006-02-26 Thread Mark Loeser
. -- Mark Loeser - Gentoo Developer (cpp gcc-porting qa toolchain x86) email - halcy0n AT gentoo DOT org mark AT halcy0n DOT com web - http://dev.gentoo.org/~halcy0n/ http://www.halcy0n.com pgp8iRpskxJ5q.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: [gentoo-dev] [RFC] QA Team's role

2006-02-27 Thread Mark Loeser
Grant Goodyear [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: Mark Loeser wrote: * In case of emergency, or if package maintainers refuse to cooperate, the QA team may take action themselves to fix the problem. My suspicion is that the more common problem is going to be inaccessible developers, rather than

Re: [gentoo-dev] [RFC] QA Team's role

2006-02-28 Thread Mark Loeser
involved every single time someone has a disagreement. This situation has obviously grown to be ridiculous and I have had a talk with him about it, so he knows my feelings on the situation, and what I expect. -- Mark Loeser - Gentoo Developer (cpp gcc-porting qa toolchain x86) email

Re: [gentoo-dev] [RFC] QA Team's role

2006-02-28 Thread Mark Loeser
everything fixed up that we can. -- Mark Loeser - Gentoo Developer (cpp gcc-porting qa toolchain x86) email - halcy0n AT gentoo DOT org mark AT halcy0n DOT com web - http://dev.gentoo.org/~halcy0n/ http://www.halcy0n.com

Re: [gentoo-dev] [RFC] QA Team's role

2006-02-28 Thread Mark Loeser
, not that I expect QA team members to behave that way. -- Mark Loeser - Gentoo Developer (cpp gcc-porting qa toolchain x86) email - halcy0n AT gentoo DOT org mark AT halcy0n DOT com web - http://dev.gentoo.org/~halcy0n/ http://www.halcy0n.com

[gentoo-dev] QA Roles v2

2006-03-01 Thread Mark Loeser
all of the debate out of the way now. Please lets keep the discussion on topic and constructive. Thanks, -- Mark Loeser - Gentoo Developer (cpp gcc-porting qa toolchain x86) email - halcy0n AT gentoo DOT org mark AT halcy0n DOT com web - http

Re: [gentoo-dev] QA Roles v2

2006-03-01 Thread Mark Loeser
Alec Warner [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: Mark Loeser wrote: Here is my updated version after some feedback from people: * In the case of disagreement on policy among QA members, the majority of established QA members must agree with the action. What is an Established QA member? Listed

Re: [gentoo-dev] QA Roles v2

2006-03-01 Thread Mark Loeser
the perfect solution right away and that flexibility is required. -- Mark Loeser - Gentoo Developer (cpp gcc-porting qa toolchain x86) email - halcy0n AT gentoo DOT org mark AT halcy0n DOT com web - http://dev.gentoo.org/~halcy0n/ http

Re: [gentoo-dev] QA Roles v2

2006-03-02 Thread Mark Loeser
the QA team and the maintainer. In situations where we can't figure out how to best address the situation, opening the discussion up to -dev may help, but in the end it should come down to an agreement between the maintainer and the team. -- Mark Loeser - Gentoo Developer (cpp gcc-porting qa

Re: [gentoo-dev] QA Roles v2

2006-03-02 Thread Mark Loeser
we would like to see fixed. They are there to make readability across ebuilds easier since everything will be formatted the same way for a developer to see. -- Mark Loeser - Gentoo Developer (cpp gcc-porting qa toolchain x86) email - halcy0n AT gentoo DOT org mark

Re: [gentoo-dev] QA Roles v2

2006-03-02 Thread Mark Loeser
is saying that we shouldn't fix things to adhere to coding standards. We are just saying it is not a, OMG you broke it! problem. It is about appropriate responses to the problems we encounter. -- Mark Loeser - Gentoo Developer (cpp gcc-porting qa toolchain x86) email - halcy0n AT gentoo

Re: [gentoo-dev] QA Roles v2

2006-03-02 Thread Mark Loeser
about your original draft: I never said it was different. I said I added some things based on feedback I got. As I said in the last thread, I disagree with many of the things you have come up with. You are free to try and convince me otherwise. -- Mark Loeser - Gentoo Developer (cpp gcc

Re: [gentoo-dev] QA Roles v2

2006-03-02 Thread Mark Loeser
a better solution somewhere in the long-term. -- Mark Loeser - Gentoo Developer (cpp gcc-porting qa toolchain x86) email - halcy0n AT gentoo DOT org mark AT halcy0n DOT com web - http://dev.gentoo.org/~halcy0n/ http://www.halcy0n.com

Re: [gentoo-dev] QA Roles v2

2006-03-04 Thread Mark Loeser
the build/deptree phase and more warnings/information to be presented so the user could look at it and make changes, or just accept what we have done for them. -- Mark Loeser - Gentoo Developer (cpp gcc-porting qa toolchain x86) email - halcy0n AT gentoo DOT org mark

[gentoo-dev] xemacs herd and maintainer

2006-03-04 Thread Mark Loeser
of the packages if no maintainer can be found to step up. So, is anyone willing to do so? -- Mark Loeser - Gentoo Developer (cpp gcc-porting qa toolchain x86) email - halcy0n AT gentoo DOT org mark AT halcy0n DOT com web - http://dev.gentoo.org/~halcy0n

Re: [gentoo-dev] Savannah CVS changes and the missing GNUStep herd

2006-03-18 Thread Mark Loeser
saying we need someone to maintain them, and see what happens. You can put me down as the contact on the staffing-needs page if you want. I hate to see things that are useful to our users taken from the tree, but there isn't much we can do when there is no one to maintain them. -- Mark Loeser

Re: [gentoo-dev] [last rites] media-gfx/sodipodi

2006-03-29 Thread Mark Loeser
should be removed so quickly? -- Mark Loeser - Gentoo Developer (cpp gcc-porting qa toolchain x86) email - halcy0n AT gentoo DOT org mark AT halcy0n DOT com web - http://dev.gentoo.org/~halcy0n/ http://www.halcy0n.com pgpzdTXfIbhxx.pgp

[gentoo-dev] Last rites for net-misc/trickle

2006-03-29 Thread Mark Loeser
it in 30 days. -- Mark Loeser - Gentoo Developer (cpp gcc-porting qa toolchain x86) email - halcy0n AT gentoo DOT org mark AT halcy0n DOT com web - http://dev.gentoo.org/~halcy0n/ http://www.halcy0n.com pgpRW5G91lZr8.pgp Description

Re: [gentoo-dev] [last rites] media-gfx/sodipodi

2006-04-01 Thread Mark Loeser
Carsten Lohrke [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: On Thursday 30 March 2006 01:55, Mark Loeser wrote: Not directed specifically at you, but it seems a lot of people are masking stuff and removing it very quickly, and I'd really like to see everyone wait the 30 days to remove something from the tree

Re: [gentoo-dev] adding a code of conduct

2006-04-03 Thread Mark Loeser
/whatever policy. Lets keep that out of a document like this and decide on that through the appropriate channels. If those last two paragraphs are cut, I'm quite happy with it, even if it isn't all true right now, and is something we should strive towards doing. -- Mark Loeser - Gentoo Developer

Re: [gentoo-dev] adding a code of conduct

2006-04-04 Thread Mark Loeser
... Things should only go to the council when all other methods fail, and they are the only ones you can appeal to. -- Mark Loeser - Gentoo Developer (cpp gcc-porting qa toolchain x86) email - halcy0n AT gentoo DOT org mark AT halcy0n DOT com web - http

Re: [gentoo-dev] LWE/Boston 2006 summary

2006-04-07 Thread Mark Loeser
really seems to know how we worked, and were surprised that we are entirely volunteer based and don't get paid. They seemed to respect us even more once they heard about that. The people that walked up to us and just told us, You guys rock! were awesome too :) Just my two cents, :) -- Mark Loeser

[gentoo-dev] Last rites for dev-libs/korelib

2006-04-08 Thread Mark Loeser
There has been no upstream release in years, and the download URLs no longer work. It also has some open bugs (bug #127131). If anyone wishes to step up and maintain this, please do so within the next 30 days, or I am removing it from the tree. Thanks, -- Mark Loeser - Gentoo Developer

[gentoo-dev] Last rites for dev-util/cccc

2006-04-14 Thread Mark Loeser
dev-util/ is not depended on by any other applications, the stable version does not compile, and while upstream has newer releases which most likely work...there is no Gentoo maintainer (bug #128109). If no one steps up to maintain it in 30 days, I will be removing it. -- Mark Loeser

Re: [gentoo-dev] Last rites for dev-util/cccc

2006-04-15 Thread Mark Loeser
to claim responsibility for the package when there is a problem. Just my 2 cents, -- Mark Loeser - Gentoo Developer (cpp gcc-porting qa toolchain x86) email - halcy0n AT gentoo DOT org mark AT halcy0n DOT com web - http://dev.gentoo.org/~halcy0n

[gentoo-dev] QA Proposal v3

2006-04-22 Thread Mark Loeser
. * QA will take an active role in cleaning up unmaintained and broken packages from the tree. It is also encouraged of members of the QA team to assist in mentoring new developers that wish to take over unmaintained packages/herds. -- Mark Loeser - Gentoo Developer (cpp gcc-porting qa

Re: [gentoo-dev] QA Proposal v3

2006-04-24 Thread Mark Loeser
Daniel Goller [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: Mark Loeser wrote: Here is the newest revision of my proposal. Not much has changed, but I added and changed some small things. Constructive feedback is appreciated. I'd like to get this voted on by the council at the next meeting. * The QA

Re: [gentoo-dev] QA Proposal v3

2006-04-24 Thread Mark Loeser
Mark Loeser [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: Daniel Goller [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: Mark Loeser wrote: Here is the newest revision of my proposal. Not much has changed, but I added and changed some small things. Constructive feedback is appreciated. I'd like to get this voted

Re: [gentoo-dev] QA Proposal v3

2006-04-24 Thread Mark Loeser
, it is just the wording that threw you off :) I mean that it can never be complete, so don't think it ever is. -- Mark Loeser - Gentoo Developer (cpp gcc-porting qa toolchain x86) email - halcy0n AT gentoo DOT org mark AT halcy0n DOT com web - http

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: QA Proposal v3

2006-04-24 Thread Mark Loeser
Duncan [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: Mark Loeser posted [EMAIL PROTECTED], excerpted below, on Mon, 24 Apr 2006 09:11:28 -0400: * QA will take an active role in cleaning up unmaintained and broken packages from the tree. It is also encouraged of members of the QA team to assist

Re: [gentoo-dev] QA Proposal v3

2006-04-24 Thread Mark Loeser
And now in GLEP format for those who like that sort of thing :) http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/glep/glep-0048.html I made the two wording changes so it is more clear what I wanted to communicate. -- Mark Loeser - Gentoo Developer (cpp gcc-porting qa toolchain x86) email - halcy0n

Re: [gentoo-dev] Herds, Teams and Projects

2006-04-26 Thread Mark Loeser
why we want to try and change that to something else, even if that was what it was supposed to mean to begin with. -- Mark Loeser - Gentoo Developer (cpp gcc-porting qa toolchain x86) email - halcy0n AT gentoo DOT org mark AT halcy0n DOT com web - http

Re: [gentoo-dev] staffing needs expirations?

2006-05-03 Thread Mark Loeser
think this is a good idea. We have some items on there that are years old, and it would be good to even update the requested date on them so that people know the requests are still valid. -- Mark Loeser - Gentoo Developer (cpp gcc-porting qa toolchain x86) email - halcy0n AT gentoo

Re: [gentoo-dev] Monthly Gentoo Council Reminder for May

2006-05-07 Thread Mark Loeser
.html -- Mark Loeser - Gentoo Developer (cpp gcc-porting qa toolchain x86) email - halcy0n AT gentoo DOT org mark AT halcy0n DOT com web - http://dev.gentoo.org/~halcy0n/ http://www.halcy0n.com pgp7vJhlFQUYZ.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: [gentoo-dev] RFC - Gentoo Knowledge Base

2006-05-16 Thread Mark Loeser
, and this sounds like it would fill that void. -- Mark Loeser - Gentoo Developer (cpp gcc-porting qa toolchain x86) email - halcy0n AT gentoo DOT org mark AT halcy0n DOT com web - http://dev.gentoo.org/~halcy0n/ http://www.halcy0n.com

Re: [gentoo-dev] Paludis and Profiles

2006-05-17 Thread Mark Loeser
for the bug and file it upstream. The only bugs I've marked invalid are for the testing versions of GCC. But, this is entirely off topic. -- Mark Loeser - Gentoo Developer (cpp gcc-porting qa toolchain x86) email - halcy0n AT gentoo DOT org mark AT halcy0n DOT com web

[gentoo-dev] Alternative Gentoo package managers discussion request (for the council)

2006-05-17 Thread Mark Loeser
not add anything else to the tree for the sole reason of supporting another package manager's features. This includes profiles or any other packages. This will reduce headaches for all of us, and hopefully cut down on needless arguments that get us no where. Thanks, -- Mark Loeser - Gentoo

Re: [gentoo-dev] Paludis and Profiles

2006-05-17 Thread Mark Loeser
to proceed in handling situations like this. -- Mark Loeser - Gentoo Developer (cpp gcc-porting qa toolchain x86) email - halcy0n AT gentoo DOT org mark AT halcy0n DOT com web - http://dev.gentoo.org/~halcy0n/ http://www.halcy0n.com

[gentoo-dev] Last rites for dev-util/cvsutils

2006-05-18 Thread Mark Loeser
This package is currently without a maintainer and has open QA issues; bug #123708. It was marked as testing on every arch without being tested and could really use someone to clean it up. It will be booted in 30 days if no one wants to keep it around. Thanks, -- Mark Loeser - Gentoo

Re: [gentoo-dev] Don't filter --as-needed !

2006-05-23 Thread Mark Loeser
to fix all of these issues. -- Mark Loeser - Gentoo Developer (cpp gcc-porting qa toolchain x86) email - halcy0n AT gentoo DOT org mark AT halcy0n DOT com web - http://dev.gentoo.org/~halcy0n/ http://www.halcy0n.com pgpit1oZsBFqk.pgp

Re: [gentoo-dev] Gentoo Devmanual

2006-05-25 Thread Mark Loeser
:) Thanks, -- Mark Loeser - Gentoo Developer (cpp gcc-porting qa toolchain x86) email - halcy0n AT gentoo DOT org mark AT halcy0n DOT com web - http://dev.gentoo.org/~halcy0n/ http://www.halcy0n.com pgpI9MDgupHFZ.pgp Description: PGP

[gentoo-dev] Last rites for media-libs/nurbs++

2006-05-29 Thread Mark Loeser
Upstream's last release for this package was in 2002, it doesn't compile with gcc-3.4 (bug #120303), and hasn't had a maintainer for a long time. Unless someone steps up to fix up this package, it will be punted in 30 days. Thanks, -- Mark Loeser - Gentoo Developer (cpp gcc-porting qa

Re: [gentoo-dev] [RFC Maintainer-Wanted Bugs/Cleaning]

2006-05-29 Thread Mark Loeser
to maintain them. Comments on this idea are appreciated. I wouldn't mind helping write it and maintain it, but having interest and support in doing something like this is definately going to be needed :) -- Mark Loeser - Gentoo Developer (cpp gcc-porting qa toolchain x86) email - halcy0n

Re: [gentoo-dev] QA subproject, TreeCleaners

2006-06-03 Thread Mark Loeser
Alec Warner [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: I propose a new QA subproject, the TreeCleaners. Questions and Comments are welcome, as always. This has my support. Hopefully it will help us get rid of a lot of cruft that hasn't been touched in ages and doesn't even work. Thanks, -- Mark Loeser

Re: [gentoo-dev] evolution of x86 stabling procedures

2006-06-05 Thread Mark Loeser
. Thanks, -- Mark Loeser - Gentoo Developer (cpp gcc-porting qa toolchain x86) email - halcy0n AT gentoo DOT org mark AT halcy0n DOT com web - http://dev.gentoo.org/~halcy0n/ http://www.halcy0n.com pgpOD1VY3Mhq5.pgp Description: PGP

Re: [gentoo-dev] Google SoC @ Gentoo - Universal Select Tool

2009-05-10 Thread Mark Loeser
scratch? -- Mark Loeser email - halcy0n AT gentoo DOT org email - mark AT halcy0n DOT com web - http://www.halcy0n.com pgpUGXMzGTQ7a.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: [gentoo-dev] rfc: information on localstatedir

2009-05-17 Thread Mark Loeser
are doing it right: http://www.pathname.com/fhs/pub/fhs-2.3.html#VARLIBVARIABLESTATEINFORMATION I guess what I would really like to know is...why does it matter? If something is configurable like that, then it should work regardless of what is put in. -- Mark Loeser email - halcy0n

Re: [gentoo-dev] Gentoo Council 2009/2010 - Nominations are now open

2009-06-01 Thread Mark Loeser
having to work on other things right now, so I have to decline. Maybe the next time around. Thanks, -- Mark Loeser email - halcy0n AT gentoo DOT org email - mark AT halcy0n DOT com web - http://www.halcy0n.com pgpZqzOCwvr1q.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: [gentoo-dev] Global use flags eabled by default

2009-07-01 Thread Mark Loeser
/gentoo- x86/profiles/base/use.defaults?r1=1.1r2=1.1.1.1 That is on a different branch and is incredibly old. To make a long story short...someone screwed up and created their own branch of the whole tree. It isn't actually being used. -- Mark Loeser email - halcy0n AT gentoo DOT org

[gentoo-dev] gcc-4.4 unmasking soon

2009-08-04 Thread Mark Loeser
contributed and helped already, -- Mark Loeser email - halcy0n AT gentoo DOT org email - mark AT halcy0n DOT com web - http://www.halcy0n.com pgpTWFS2O2djB.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: gcc-4.4 unmasking soon

2009-08-08 Thread Mark Loeser
file any bugs you find to toolchain. Thanks, -- Mark Loeser email - halcy0n AT gentoo DOT org email - mark AT halcy0n DOT com web - http://www.halcy0n.com pgpJWhiHk4CzC.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: [gentoo-dev] QA last rites for dev-libs/libowfat; net-misc/slidentd www-servers/gatling

2009-08-09 Thread Mark Loeser
, because its going to break in a week. He doesn't maintain the package, do you? If so, then please send the bug report upstream and become the maintainer of this package if you want to keep it around. Thanks, -- Mark Loeser email - halcy0n AT gentoo DOT org email - mark

Re: [gentoo-dev] Multimedia overlay

2009-08-10 Thread Mark Loeser
this be on our official overlays? Is there a technical reason, because we seem to just be spreading things out even more than necessary. -- Mark Loeser email - halcy0n AT gentoo DOT org email - mark AT halcy0n DOT com web - http://www.halcy0n.com pgpcnAKKm9Mwb.pgp

Re: [gentoo-dev] Stabilization of Python 3.1

2009-09-19 Thread Mark Loeser
. There is absolutely no benefit to moving it to stable. -- Mark Loeser email - halcy0n AT gentoo DOT org email - mark AT halcy0n DOT com web - http://www.halcy0n.com pgpBOqjpyzWlZ.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: [gentoo-dev] Stabilization of Python 3.1

2009-09-20 Thread Mark Loeser
based apps just like it's done with gcc stabilization. And you are mixing that up. We never mark GCC stable before we fix everything we have identified as a problem, or pretty close to everything. -- Mark Loeser email - halcy0n AT gentoo DOT org email - mark AT halcy0n DOT

Re: [gentoo-dev] Stabilization of Python 3.1

2009-09-20 Thread Mark Loeser
absolutely great, but every single application that links to libfoo now breaks with the new release of libfoo-2.0. The things that use your package are just as important when looking to stablize something or to move it out of package.mask. -- Mark Loeser email - halcy0n AT gentoo DOT org

Re: [gentoo-dev] openrc-0.5.1 arrived in the tree

2009-10-13 Thread Mark Loeser
should change. -- Mark Loeser email - halcy0n AT gentoo DOT org email - mark AT halcy0n DOT com web - http://www.halcy0n.com pgpX2U6V4nQow.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: [gentoo-commits] gentoo-x86 commit in app-forensics/foremost: ChangeLog foremost-1.5.6.ebuild

2009-11-08 Thread Mark Loeser
to QA standards. Its really that simple. Don't be lazy and do things the right way, or don't do them at all. Kthxbai, Also, please learn how to communicate in a manner that is constructive instead of acting like a dick at every opportunity. -- Mark Loeser email - halcy0n AT gentoo

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: [gentoo-commits] gentoo-x86 commit in app-forensics/foremost: ChangeLog foremost-1.5.6.ebuild

2009-11-08 Thread Mark Loeser
Ben de Groot yng...@gentoo.org said: 2009/11/8 Mark Loeser halc...@gentoo.org: Also, please learn how to communicate in a manner that is constructive instead of acting like a dick at every opportunity. Looks to me this should be applied to some others in this thread first. Really, aren't

[gentoo-dev] Re: [gentoo-commits] gentoo-x86 commit in app-benchmarks/bonnie++: bonnie++-1.96.ebuild ChangeLog bonnie++-1.93c.ebuild

2009-11-08 Thread Mark Loeser
zcav || die emake zcav failed # see #9073 } src_install() { dosbin bonnie++ zcav || die dobin bon_csv2html bon_csv2txt || die doman bon_csv2html.1 bon_csv2txt.1 bonnie++.8 zcav.8 dohtml readme.html dodoc changelog.txt credits.txt } -- Mark Loeser email

Re: [gentoo-dev] Python-3.2-related changes

2010-02-06 Thread Mark Loeser
to follow a huge metabug with a bunch of packages listed in it. Also, I think the concerns and suggestions that were brought up about the syntax of this new variable should be addressed first and not ignored. Thanks, -- Mark Loeser email - halcy0n AT gentoo DOT org email - mark

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Remove dev-status of mips profiles

2010-02-25 Thread Mark Loeser
to know why we need about 150 different profiles for MIPS... -- Mark Loeser email - halcy0n AT gentoo DOT org email - mark AT halcy0n DOT com web - http://www.halcy0n.com

Re: [gentoo-dev] Marking bugs for bugday?

2010-02-27 Thread Mark Loeser
this role instead of polluting bugzie with more keywords. I'm not really attached to one approach over the other, but atleast this little site gives the users one place to have to check for things and we can categorize them easily. -- Mark Loeser email - halcy0n AT gentoo DOT org email

Re: [gentoo-dev] Marking bugs for bugday?

2010-02-27 Thread Mark Loeser
issues. If we can't get enough developers to participate then we should just stop trying to do it instead of putting on such a poor showing. -- Mark Loeser email - halcy0n AT gentoo DOT org email - mark AT halcy0n DOT com web - http://www.halcy0n.com

Re: [gentoo-dev] Marking bugs for bugday?

2010-02-27 Thread Mark Loeser
possible new developers. I think if we can get a few devs and possibly some users together to organize this in a better way, this could be useful. But if things are to stay the way they are, then we better stop pretending. I couldn't agree more. -- Mark Loeser email - halcy0n AT gentoo

Re: [gentoo-dev] Marking bugs for bugday?

2010-03-01 Thread Mark Loeser
distributions out there. -- Mark Loeser email - halcy0n AT gentoo DOT org email - mark AT halcy0n DOT com web - http://www.halcy0n.com

[gentoo-dev] Re: [gentoo-commits] gentoo-x86 commit in media-sound/rhythmbox: metadata.xml ChangeLog rhythmbox-0.12.7.ebuild

2010-03-02 Thread Mark Loeser
should only be used in circumstances where it is the only option. Breaking deps for an arch is not what it is intended for. -- Mark Loeser email - halcy0n AT gentoo DOT org email - mark AT halcy0n DOT com web - http://www.halcy0n.com

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Lastrite: games-fps/openarena

2010-03-03 Thread Mark Loeser
is vulnerable via multiple bundled libs and therefore shouldn't be in the tree. You can apply the patches if you want to keep it and remove the mask at that time. Thanks, -- Mark Loeser email - halcy0n AT gentoo DOT org email - mark AT halcy0n DOT com web - http

Re: [gentoo-dev] Python 3.1: Stabilization and news item

2010-03-07 Thread Mark Loeser
, gcc works just fine, but it can't compile half of the tree. I hope everyone can see that this is a terrible idea and of no use to our stable users. If a stable user really needs Python-3, they will have the technical ability to unmask it and use it properly. -- Mark Loeser email

Re: [gentoo-dev] Low hanging bug fruit patterns

2010-03-08 Thread Mark Loeser
in reference to? Its not at all clear what you are trying to do. -- Mark Loeser email - halcy0n AT gentoo DOT org email - mark AT halcy0n DOT com web - http://www.halcy0n.com signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: [gentoo-dev] How about a monthly bumpday?

2010-03-10 Thread Mark Loeser
that we don't have enough active developers, which is the real problem. -- Mark Loeser email - halcy0n AT gentoo DOT org email - mark AT halcy0n DOT com web - http://www.halcy0n.com signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Gentoo calendar for tracking Gentoo events

2010-03-10 Thread Mark Loeser
, and whatever ad serving might leak thru, and object to having a gmail account on principle? Then they don't get to see the calendar Seriously though, who cares. If it becomes a problem, we can deal with it then. Until that point, use what we have or implement something that's better. -- Mark Loeser

Re: [gentoo-dev] package.mask-ed ebuilds

2010-04-09 Thread Mark Loeser
getting it to a state that it will be unmasked. -- Mark Loeser email - halcy0n AT gentoo DOT org email - mark AT halcy0n DOT com web - http://www.halcy0n.com signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: [gentoo-dev] Gentoo Council 2010/2011 - Nominations are now open

2010-06-12 Thread Mark Loeser
to the gentoo-dev mailing list. If you were nominated and want to run, you have to accept your nomination on the same mailing list. I'll nominate flameeyes and halcy0n. Thanks, I accept. -- Mark Loeser email - halcy0n AT gentoo DOT org email - mark AT halcy0n DOT com web

[gentoo-dev] My council manifesto

2010-06-21 Thread Mark Loeser
as a whole, are all things that the Council should be taking an active role in, and I want to be a part of making that happen. I told you it was going to be short :) Thanks, -- Mark Loeser email - halcy0n AT gentoo DOT org email - mark AT halcy0n DOT com web

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