Subject: zlib_1.2.3.3.dfsg-16_amd64.changes REJECTED Reject Reasons: lib32z1: lintian output: ‘embedded-zlib ./usr/lib32/libz.so.1.2.3.3′, +automatically rejected package. lib32z1: If you have a good reason, you may override this lintian tag. I guess I should’ve actually reported the lintian bug rather than just ignoring the bogus warning.
Rhonda, have you reported the SCons problems you’ve found to either the Debian mantainer or upstream? That’s much more likely to be an effective way of improving things than blogging about them. For what it’s worth the .scons files are a bug in the SCons core AFAICT (it needs a distclean equivalent that doesn’t appear [...]
About a month ago I added symbol version information to the zlib package, allowing dpkg-shlibdeps to calculate more relaxed dependencies for packages using the library. The results have been very satisfying so far – of the 1784 packages depending on zlib1g on amd64: 532 depend on zlib1g 1:1.2.3.3.dfsg-1, the version which introduced support for _FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64 [...]
Some people at DebConf 7 were (like Mario) wondering how many users Debian has. They realised that while we have a distributed mirror network we do have all installed systems use security.debian.org by default and we do have control over that. Since apt will only download files when they have been changed we can make [...]
It’s not unknown for people maintaining Debian packages via sponsorship to become frustrated with the process sometimes – a feeling sometimes shared by sponsors who find that the person they’re just nodding through packages. This sort of frustration with process gets pretty depressing at times so it’s a bit of a shock to see us [...]
It depresses me to see people thinking that the way to get changes affecting many packages done in Debian might be via general resolution or that a number of people seem to feel that getting something accepted into policy is a first step in getting anything big done. Debian may be big and prone to [...]
Gustavo’s advice to poll the Ubuntu patch archive for useful changes doesn’t have to be restricted to Ubuntu – for a long time I’ve regularly trawled at least the Red Hat/Fedora and SuSE packages for useful changes. The utility of doing this does vary with the package (typically inversely with the volume of upstream code [...]
The version of NIS to be shipped with Debian 4.0 has support for Network Manager in ypbind, the program responsible for ensuring that NIS client systems can access a NIS server. Unfortunately Network Manager is targeted at client systems with dynamically assigned addresses and does not support some common network configurations, particularly static ones. When [...]
Packages of the Leafnode 2 alpha releases are now avaliable for use with unstable (and probably testing most of the time) in the experimental archive. To install them add lines for experimental to your apt sources: deb http://ftp.debian.org/debian/ experimental main deb-src http://ftp.debian.org/debian/ experimental main (or use a mirror) and edit /etc/apt/preferences to tell apt to [...]
Ingo, I fear that you are overstating the situation m68k is now in. Non release critical bugs do tend to get fixed – if they didn’t there would scarcely be any point in having them in the BTS at all. My guess would be that any difference will be felt mainly when it comes to [...]