Re: release soon?

2009-07-08 Thread Dmitry V. Levin
On Tue, Jul 07, 2009 at 03:11:56PM -0700, Roland McGrath wrote: Commit v4.5.18-96-geb9e2e8 which reverts a lot of unapproved changes introduces regressions. For example, in system without /proc mounted, command strace -f -o/dev/null autoreconf -fisv executed in strace directory produces

Re: release soon?

2009-07-08 Thread Roland McGrath
Sorry, false alarm. This bug turned out to be much older than 4.5.18 release. Ok. Still fine to fix it now if there is a safe and reliable change. Like I said, I don't want to rush the release--just want to stop its delays. Thanks, Roland

Re: release soon?

2009-07-08 Thread Dmitry V. Levin
On Tue, Jul 07, 2009 at 06:30:42PM -0700, Roland McGrath wrote: [...] BTW, we probably have to accept some guideline about maintaining ChangeLog file in git. I don't have any particular preferences or feelings about this for strace. Whatever people here think is best will be OK with me as

release soon?

2009-07-07 Thread Roland McGrath
Sorry for the long period of neglect. I'd like to get 4.5.19 out soon now. AFAIK the current state of the git tree is more or less fine as it is. Is there anything either urgent or trivial to fix/merge in floating around? Thanks, Roland

Re: release soon?

2009-07-07 Thread Dmitry V. Levin
On Tue, Jul 07, 2009 at 01:24:12PM -0700, Roland McGrath wrote: Sorry for the long period of neglect. I'd like to get 4.5.19 out soon now. AFAIK the current state of the git tree is more or less fine as it is. Is there anything either urgent or trivial to fix/merge in floating around?

Re: release soon?

2009-07-07 Thread Roland McGrath
trivial: .cvsignore is obsolete, README-CVS needs to be renamed and updated. Please go ahead and do it in git. There is at least one part of the big revert commit v4.5.18-96-geb9e2e8 I'd like to see reintroduced sooner rather than later: Replace many more bare ptrace calls with calls to

Re: release soon?

2009-07-07 Thread Dmitry V. Levin
On Tue, Jul 07, 2009 at 01:24:12PM -0700, Roland McGrath wrote: Sorry for the long period of neglect. I'd like to get 4.5.19 out soon now. AFAIK the current state of the git tree is more or less fine as it is. Commit v4.5.18-96-geb9e2e8 which reverts a lot of unapproved changes introduces

Re: release soon?

2009-07-07 Thread Roland McGrath
Commit v4.5.18-96-geb9e2e8 which reverts a lot of unapproved changes introduces regressions. For example, in system without /proc mounted, command strace -f -o/dev/null autoreconf -fisv executed in strace directory produces /proc/N/status: No such file or directory messages. Stracing

Re: release soon?

2009-07-07 Thread Dmitry V. Levin
On Tue, Jul 07, 2009 at 03:01:52PM -0700, Roland McGrath wrote: trivial: .cvsignore is obsolete, README-CVS needs to be renamed and updated. Please go ahead and do it in git. I pushed these changes to branch ldv/master, please have a look whether it's OK for master. BTW, we probably have to

Re: release soon?

2009-07-07 Thread Roland McGrath
I pushed these changes to branch ldv/master, please have a look whether it's OK for master. Thanks! I merged it. BTW, we probably have to accept some guideline about maintaining ChangeLog file in git. I don't have any particular preferences or feelings about this for strace. Whatever

Re: 4.5.17 release soon!

2008-07-22 Thread Frederik Schueler
Hi! On Mon, Jul 21, 2008 at 05:37:23PM -0700, Roland McGrath wrote: I will send you an updated debian dir patch later today. I committed those. great thanks. There are build problems on three architectures: sparc

Re: 4.5.17 release soon!

2008-07-22 Thread Roland McGrath
I've made the 4.5.17 release, so everything else should be fresh patches against that now. Thanks, Roland - This SF.Net email is sponsored by the Moblin Your Move Developer's challenge Build the coolest Linux based

Re: 4.5.17 release soon!

2008-07-22 Thread Frederik Schueler
Hello, On Tue, Jul 22, 2008 at 12:24:50AM -0700, Roland McGrath wrote: I've made the 4.5.17 release, so everything else should be fresh patches against that now. Unfortunately, all new files in debian/ haven't made it into the release tarball, please check your export script =) best regards

Re: 4.5.17 release soon!

2008-07-21 Thread Roland McGrath
I will send you an updated debian dir patch later today. I committed those. There are build problems on three architectures: sparc http://buildd.debian.org/fetch.cgi?pkg=stracever=4.5.16%2Bcvs20080708-2arch=sparcstamp=1216312916file=log The sparc kernel removed its asm/a.out.h, meaning

Re: 4.5.17 release soon!

2008-07-21 Thread Roland McGrath
Sorry if you did not get good response here before. Each of those patches needs to be evaluated and discussed here individually. This won't make the 4.5.17 release, which I'm doing shortly. Please post each different patch one at a time, with ChangeLog entries (before the patch, not in diff

Re: 4.5.17 release soon!

2008-07-19 Thread Frederik Schueler
Hi, find attached all pending changes for the debian dir. Today the Debian release team announced the final freeze date to be this coming week, it would be great to get the release ready until then. The changes in the patch: * debian/control: Add strace64 package. Fixes: Debian#491167,

Re: 4.5.17 release soon!

2008-07-18 Thread Bernhard Fischer
On Thu, Jul 17, 2008 at 07:31:55PM -0700, Roland McGrath wrote: Hi! I got through some more backlog today. I think what's in cvs now is close to all we should do before 4.5.17 goes out. If there are regressions from 4.5.16 or bugs with simple fixes, please tell me ASAP. If I don't hear

4.5.17 release soon!

2008-07-17 Thread Roland McGrath
Hi! I got through some more backlog today. I think what's in cvs now is close to all we should do before 4.5.17 goes out. If there are regressions from 4.5.16 or bugs with simple fixes, please tell me ASAP. If I don't hear objections by the weekend, I'll release 4.5.17 on the weekend or