Re: Notes on IRC meeting
On Tue, Mar 16, 2010 at 10:28:58PM +0100, Marc Brockschmidt wrote:
> Heya,
>
> We had a short, rather spontaneous (arranged this afternoon) meeting in
> #debian-release. Here are the notes, feel free to comment if anything
> seems weird, plain wrong or otherwise makes you wish to say something:
>
> Current transitions and things that need to be done in the near future:
> * imagemagick:
> - Bugs filed (double-check), porters need to prodded, might be done
> in a week
> - adsb is tracking it
> * liblo:
> - Hanging on sivp, bugs needs to be filed, might be solved by removing
> - HE is tracking it
> * python2.6:
> - Phase 1: add support for 2.6 for multi-python-supporting packages
> - Phase 2:
> + build packages for default version 2.6
> + Known open issues:
> http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/pkgreport.cgi?tag=python2.6;users=debian-python@lists.debian.org
> - aba is tracking it
> * mpi-default switch:
> - might lead to arch-specific problems
> - lucas will try a switch to mpich2 on amd64 to find possible
> problems, report to -release@
> * parted:
> - Colin sent mail to -release, detailing everything needed
> - phil is tracking it
>
> Some other transitions we know about and have discussed in some detail:
> * eglibc:
> - waiting in experimental, waiting for hppa-specific fixes (#573991)
> - lucas will do a rebuild to identify possible breakage
> * BLAS/LAPACK:
> - looks complicated, need more information
> - HE is tracking it
> * ruby1.9 -> ruby1.9.1:
> - already ongoing (20 packages, half done)
> - needs to fix ruby1.9.1/sparc FTBFS (new kernel?)
> - HE is tracking it
Marc, I think we've put sufficient effort into trying to reproduce
this sparc failure outside of buildds and failed in all cases.
Personally, I'm fine with doing a porter upload for it to move things
forward, if the release team is ok with it.
Best regards,
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Jurij Smakov jurij@wooyd.org
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