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Robert Millan

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Dec 15, 2008, 4:40:05 AM12/15/08
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Hi,

I don't think d-d-a is meant to be used as a forum, but since others are
doing so, I guess it's fine if I join.

> With these hopefully solid plans in place for the release, we feel the
> need to acknowledge that there is an ongoing vote whose outcome could
> potentially disrupt them.

Luk is referring to 11 bugs in linux-2.6 which all have a 'patch' tag, and
which the maintainers have been ignoring so far. Option 1 wouldn't cause any
"disruption" to the release process, other than moving support for these chips
to non-free when the patches are applied. Any other delay is self-imposed.

http://bugs.debian.org/494007
http://bugs.debian.org/494009
http://bugs.debian.org/494010
http://bugs.debian.org/494308
http://bugs.debian.org/501152
http://bugs.debian.org/501153
http://bugs.debian.org/502663
http://bugs.debian.org/502665
http://bugs.debian.org/502666
http://bugs.debian.org/502667
http://bugs.debian.org/502669

I hope this helps everyone pick the options they feel most comfortable with.

Sincerely,

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Josselin Mouette

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Dec 15, 2008, 4:40:07 AM12/15/08
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Le dimanche 14 décembre 2008 à 23:06 +0100, Luk Claes a écrit :
> The firmware GR
> ===============

>
> With these hopefully solid plans in place for the release, we feel the
> need to acknowledge that there is an ongoing vote whose outcome could
> potentially disrupt them. In the release team we sincerely believe that
> we've not drifted apart from the project as a whole with our take on
> this matter to date. If this GR were to prove us wrong, we'd suck it up,
> stand corrected, and come with a plan that doesn't involve ignoring the
> outcome of the GR.

Given how this vote is being conducted, I think you should clearly
ignore the result, whatever it is.

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Kalle Kivimaa

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Dec 15, 2008, 5:00:12 AM12/15/08
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Robert Millan <r...@aybabtu.com> writes:
> I don't think d-d-a is meant to be used as a forum, but since others are
> doing so, I guess it's fine if I join.

Mmm, who is doing so? Do you mean the release team update? If so, I
don't think the update qualifies as "using devel-announce as a forum".
And even if it does, that does NOT excuse your misuse of it.

Please refrain from using the absolutely wrong list for your own
political purposes in the future.

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Kalle Kivimaa

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Dec 15, 2008, 5:00:15 AM12/15/08
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Kalle Kivimaa <kil...@debian.org> writes:
> Please refrain from using the absolutely wrong list for your own
> political purposes in the future.

As Cyril already pointed out, Robert's post was to the devel, not to
the devel-announce, so please ignore my outburst. Sorry for the noise.

Romain Beauxis

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Dec 15, 2008, 5:00:17 AM12/15/08
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Le Monday 15 December 2008 10:36:50 Robert Millan, vous avez écrit :
> > With these hopefully solid plans in place for the release, we feel the
> > need to acknowledge that there is an ongoing vote whose outcome could
> > potentially disrupt them.
>
> Luk is referring to 11 bugs in linux-2.6 which all have a 'patch' tag, and
> which the maintainers have been ignoring so far.  Option 1 wouldn't cause
> any "disruption" to the release process, other than moving support for
> these chips to non-free when the patches are applied.  Any other delay is
> self-imposed.

Unfortunately you forgot to also mention this bug for instance:

http://bugs.debian.org/494120


Romain

Cyril Brulebois

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Dec 15, 2008, 5:00:17 AM12/15/08
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Robert Millan <r...@aybabtu.com> (15/12/2008):

> I don't think d-d-a is meant to be used as a forum, but since others
> are doing so, I guess it's fine if I join.

Thankfully, replies to mail sent to dda@ land in dd@. You fail.

Mraw,
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Cyril Brulebois

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Dec 15, 2008, 5:30:18 AM12/15/08
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Kalle Kivimaa <kil...@debian.org> (15/12/2008):

> As Cyril already pointed out, Robert's post was to the devel, not to
> the devel-announce, so please ignore my outburst. Sorry for the noise.

No no, you were right:
| From: Robert Millan <r...@aybabtu.com>
| To: debian-dev...@lists.debian.org

But the lists are configured in a way that doesn't let that happen; I
was only pointing that Robert even failed abusing the system.

Mraw,
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Ben Finney

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Dec 15, 2008, 7:30:13 AM12/15/08
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Romain Beauxis <to...@rastageeks.org> writes:

> Unfortunately you forgot to also mention this bug for instance:
>
> http://bugs.debian.org/494120

Which has been prematurely archived on 2008-08-15 while in
mid-discussion, by one party in that discussion.

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Ben Hutchings

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Dec 15, 2008, 10:10:05 AM12/15/08
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On Mon, 2008-12-15 at 10:36 +0100, Robert Millan wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I don't think d-d-a is meant to be used as a forum, but since others are
> doing so, I guess it's fine if I join.
>
> > With these hopefully solid plans in place for the release, we feel the
> > need to acknowledge that there is an ongoing vote whose outcome could
> > potentially disrupt them.
>
> Luk is referring to 11 bugs in linux-2.6 which all have a 'patch' tag, and
> which the maintainers have been ignoring so far.
[...]

This is partly because they've had very little testing. Some of the
testing showed serious bugs, which I believe I have now fixed, but
others may well still be present.

Again, for anyone who wants to test the latest versions of these patches
(which I have not mailed individually to the bugs, sorry), see
http://people.debian.org/~benh/firmware-removal/

Ben.

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Ben Hutchings

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Dec 15, 2008, 10:20:11 AM12/15/08
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On Mon, 2008-12-15 at 10:54 +0100, Romain Beauxis wrote:
> Le Monday 15 December 2008 10:36:50 Robert Millan, vous avez écrit :
> > > With these hopefully solid plans in place for the release, we feel the
> > > need to acknowledge that there is an ongoing vote whose outcome could
> > > potentially disrupt them.
> >
> > Luk is referring to 11 bugs in linux-2.6 which all have a 'patch' tag, and
> > which the maintainers have been ignoring so far. Option 1 wouldn't cause
> > any "disruption" to the release process, other than moving support for
> > these chips to non-free when the patches are applied. Any other delay is
> > self-imposed.
>
> Unfortunately you forgot to also mention this bug for instance:
>
> http://bugs.debian.org/494120

There's no reason to think that the array in question is not the
preferred form for modification.

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Kurt Roeckx

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Dec 15, 2008, 2:30:23 PM12/15/08
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On Mon, Dec 15, 2008 at 10:36:50AM +0100, Robert Millan wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> I don't think d-d-a is meant to be used as a forum, but since others are
> doing so, I guess it's fine if I join.
>
> > With these hopefully solid plans in place for the release, we feel the
> > need to acknowledge that there is an ongoing vote whose outcome could
> > potentially disrupt them.
>
> Luk is referring to 11 bugs in linux-2.6 which all have a 'patch' tag, and
> which the maintainers have been ignoring so far. Option 1 wouldn't cause any
> "disruption" to the release process, other than moving support for these chips
> to non-free when the patches are applied. Any other delay is self-imposed.
>
> http://bugs.debian.org/494007
> http://bugs.debian.org/494009
> http://bugs.debian.org/494010
> http://bugs.debian.org/494308
> http://bugs.debian.org/501152
> http://bugs.debian.org/501153
> http://bugs.debian.org/502663
> http://bugs.debian.org/502665
> http://bugs.debian.org/502666
> http://bugs.debian.org/502667
> http://bugs.debian.org/502669
>
> I hope this helps everyone pick the options they feel most comfortable with.

There are currently 31 bugs marked lenny-ignore. As I understand things,
if option 1 makes it all those 31 need to be fixed before we can release
lenny.

Here is the list of bugs and the packages:
211765 | xorg-server
368559 | x11proto-gl
368564 | xorg-server
382175 | glibc
383465 | xserver-xorg-video-nv
391935 | xen-3
424957 | portmap
445507 | mklibs
459705 | pike7.6
477060 | texlive-base
477751 | sgml-base
483217 | texlive-base
488895 | lucene2
491354 | texlive-extra
492699 | fakeroot
494007 | linux-2.6
494009 | linux-2.6
494010 | linux-2.6
494308 | linux-2.6
495256 | cacao-oj6
498475 | net-snmp
498476 | libsmi
498631 | linux-2.6
501152 | linux-2.6
501153 | linux-2.6
502663 | linux-2.6
502665 | linux-2.6
502666 | linux-2.6
502667 | linux-2.6
502668 | linux-2.6
502669 | linux-2.6


Note that 2 of them (488895 - lucene2, 495256 - cacao-oj6) have been
fixed in unstable but not in lenny.


Kurt

Paul Wise

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Dec 16, 2008, 12:20:08 AM12/16/08
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On Tue, Dec 16, 2008 at 4:21 AM, Kurt Roeckx <ku...@roeckx.be> wrote:

> There are currently 31 bugs marked lenny-ignore. As I understand things,
> if option 1 makes it all those 31 need to be fixed before we can release
> lenny.

Some of these are technical issues rather than DFSG issues, so aren't
relevant to the GR.

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Don Armstrong

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Dec 16, 2008, 11:20:08 PM12/16/08
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On Mon, 15 Dec 2008, Ben Finney wrote:
> Romain Beauxis <to...@rastageeks.org> writes:
> > Unfortunately you forgot to also mention this bug for instance:
> >
> > http://bugs.debian.org/494120
>
> Which has been prematurely archived on 2008-08-15 while in
> mid-discussion, by one party in that discussion.

Uh... it was archived on 2008/09/6 by the BTS itself after the bug had
been closed on 2008/8/7 and the last message was on 2008/8/8.

So no, it wasn't prematurely archived, and more than 28 days with no
discussion certainly is not mid-discussion.


Don Armstrong

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Ben Finney

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Dec 17, 2008, 1:30:11 AM12/17/08
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Don Armstrong <d...@debian.org> writes:

> On Mon, 15 Dec 2008, Ben Finney wrote:
> > Romain Beauxis <to...@rastageeks.org> writes:
> > > http://bugs.debian.org/494120
> >
> > Which has been prematurely archived on 2008-08-15 while in
> > mid-discussion, by one party in that discussion.
>
> Uh... it was archived on 2008/09/6 by the BTS itself after the bug
> had been closed on 2008/8/7 and the last message was on 2008/8/8.

I checked carefully before sending the above message; the dates on the
bug discussion and control messages *were* as I described. Yet today,
they're as you describe. I have no ready explanation for that
discrepancy.

This thread certainly isn't the place to discuss strange observed
debbugs behaviour, though, so I'll leave it at that for now.

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Nicolay DIMITROV

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