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[arch-dev-public] Inappropriate bugtracker behavior
by RedShift 16 Nov '10

16 Nov '10

Hi all Someone (which shall remain nameless unless privately asked) on the bugtracker has been demonstrating inappropriate behavior. This includes, but not limited to: * Insulting developers for not accepting certain bugs * Insulting anyone who disagrees with him, sometimes subtle but definitely there This has occurred multiple times in the past as well (I looked it up). From my point of view, he clearly is not a developer. Any recommendations on how to proceed? I do not wish to continue this issue on the bugtracker itself. Thanks, Best regards, Glenn (PS: Yes I have been inactive for a very long time - decided to pick up again as bugwrangler)

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[arch-dev-public] [signoff] ncurses-5.7-4
by Allan McRae 15 Nov '10

15 Nov '10

Added a bug fix patch: http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.comp.lib.ncurses.bugs/3559 Signoff both, Allan

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[arch-dev-public] [signoff] glib2-2.26.1
by Ionuț Bîru 15 Nov '10

15 Nov '10

Upstream update. Signoff both Overview of Changes from GLib 2.26.0 to GLib 2.26.1 =================================================== GSettings should now work on bigendian systems Bugs fixed: 613822 gobject signal connect/disconnect not thread safe 627126 gsettings schema files don't get installed on FreeBSD 627171 g_socket_new_from_fd() doesn't set the right protocol 629274 GNetworkService does not do fallback when there is no SRV... 630797 "Object memory management" docs mention non-existent... 632169 docs for manual use of gsettings-data-convert -- Ionuț

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[arch-dev-public] [signoff] coreutils-8.7-1
by Allan McRae 14 Nov '10

14 Nov '10

Upstream update. Signoff both, Allan * Noteworthy changes in release 8.7 (2010-11-13) [stable] ** Bug fixes cp, install, mv, and touch no longer crash when setting file times on Solaris 10 Update 9 [Solaris PatchID 144488 and newer expose a latent bug introduced in coreutils 8.1, and possibly a second latent bug going at least as far back as coreutils 5.97] csplit no longer corrupts heap when writing more than 999 files, nor does it leak memory for every chunk of input processed [the bugs were present in the initial implementation] tail -F once again notices changes in a currently unavailable remote directory [bug introduced in coreutils-7.5] ** Changes in behavior cp --attributes-only now completely overrides --reflink. Previously a reflink was needlessly attempted. stat's %X, %Y, and %Z directives once again print only the integer part of seconds since the epoch. This reverts a change from coreutils-8.6, that was deemed unnecessarily disruptive. To obtain a nanosecond-precision floating point time stamp for %X use %.X; if you want (say) just 3 fractional digits, use %.3X. Likewise for %Y and %Z. stat's new %W format directive would print floating point seconds. However, with the above change to %X, %Y and %Z, we've made %W work the same way as the others.

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[arch-dev-public] [signoff] openvpn 2.1.4-1
by Thomas Bächler 13 Nov '10

13 Nov '10

Upstream bugfix update - the release announcement explicitly mentions this one: "Fixed problem with special case route targets ('remote_host'), which could cause filling of the routing table with random garbage. Thanks to Teodo MICU and Gert Doering for finding and fixing this issue." Please sign off.

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[arch-dev-public] [extra] repository cleanup
by Andrea Scarpino 13 Nov '10

13 Nov '10

Hi DEVs/TUs, currently we have 700 (counting both arches and any) orphans packages in [extra]. As member of the orphans team, I made a list[1] of these packages and I'd like to move them to Unsupported. If some DEV wants to keep a package simply cross it out (adoption is not required, but it would be nice) or reply to this mail. If some TU wants to maintain a package in [community], please write the name into the "Candidate to [community]" section, *DO NOT* cross it out. Or reply to this mail. I think that a week is enough time for this job. 17th November I will move the remaining packages to Unsupported and the candidates to [community]. Cheers [1] https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/DeveloperWiki:Repo_Cleanup -- Andrea Scarpino Arch Linux Developer

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[arch-dev-public] [signoff] man-pages 3.31-1
by Andreas Radke 13 Nov '10

13 Nov '10

upstream update. please signoff for any architecture. -Andy ==================== Changes in man-pages-3.31 ==================== Released: 2010-11-12, Munich Contributors ------------ The following people contributed notes, ideas, or patches that have been incorporated in changes in this release: Andi Kleen <andi(a)firstfloor.org> David Prevot <davidp(a)altern.org> Denis Barbier <bouzim(a)gmail.com> Krzysztof \u017belechowski <giecrilj(a)stegny.2a.pl> Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages(a)gmail.com> Yuri Kozlov <yuray(a)komyakino.ru> Apologies if I missed anyone! Newly documented interfaces in existing pages --------------------------------------------- getrlimit.2 Michael Kerrisk Added documentation of prlimit() prlimit() is new in kernel 2.6.36. inotify.7 Michael Kerrisk Document IN_EXCL_UNLINK This flag was added in Linux 2.6.36. See kernel commit 8c1934c8d70b22ca8333b216aec6c7d09fdbd6a6. New and changed links --------------------- prlimit.2 Michael Kerrisk New link to getrlimit.2 Changes to individual pages --------------------------- getrlimit.2 Michael Kerrisk Remove unneeded text in DESCRIPTION intro.2 Michael Kerrisk Added various pages to SEE ALSO kexec_load.2 Michael Kerrisk Add kernel version where KEXEC_PRESERVE_CONTEXT first appeared Added kernel version number where KEXEC_ON_CRASH first appeared Fix copyright Make copyright in the name of Intel corporation VERSIONS: Fix version number kexec_load() was first implemented in 2.6.13, though the entry in the system call table was reserved starting in 2.6.7. migrate_pages.2 Michael Kerrisk SEE ALSO: Add reference to Documentation/vm/page_migration sched_setaffinity.2 Michael Kerrisk Add missing word "real" to "user ID" syscalls.2 Michael Kerrisk Fix kernel version number for kexec_load kexec_load() was first implemented in 2.6.13, though the entry in the system call table was reserved starting in 2.6.7. Michael Kerrisk Add prlimit() to list intro.3 Michael Kerrisk Added various pages to SEE ALSO printf.3 Michael Kerrisk Formatting fixes in example code hostname.7 Michael Kerrisk Small improvement to description of domains See: https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=651900

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[arch-dev-public] Opencl/Cuda headers
by Stéphane Gaudreault 12 Nov '10

12 Nov '10

Since version 260.19.12, upstream developers of nvidia-utils dropped C headers for OpenCL and Cuda. After a discussion with Ionuț on IRC, we agreed that it would be good to ask other developers on the best way to provide these headers. For those unfamiliar with these programming languages/libraries, there are part of the so-called GPGPU technologies (General-Purpose Processing on Graphical Processing Unit), where the primary objective is to perform any type of parallel computing on graphics processors. For example, I am using OpenCL in a personal programming project to speed up a partial differential equation solver. OpenCL is an open standard that has been recently (May 2009) ratified by The Khronos Group. C for Cuda is a similar proprietary solutions from Nvidia. Nvidia-utils contains the dynamic libraries for both OpenCL and Cuda. Other vendors, like AMD and Intel, provide or will provide soon an implementation of OpenCL for their GPUs. To get a satisfactory OpenCL developement environment, it could be as simple as creating a new package that provide the header files. These headers can be either downloaded from The Khronos Group[1] (like this [2]) or extracted from the Nividia toolkit[3]. However, for Cuda, it might be a little more complicated because it must use a compiler provided by nvidia (nvcc). A solution may be to create a package for the Cuda Toolkit. The main disadvantage of this solution is the addition of proprietary software for which we can only provide limited support in case of bugs or incompatibility with other updates. According to the maintainer of the Cuda package in AUR [4], Cuda requires gcc version 4.4 (it is broken with version 4.5) and sometimes releases depend on beta drivers[5]. I think it is probably better to wait until these dependency problems are fixed before thinking about inclusion in [extra] or [community]. My suggestion would be to package only OpenCL headers (Khronos version) and eventually discuss addition of Cuda if it becomes easier to maintain in a rolling release distribution. The new "khronos-opencl-headers" package could be added as optional dependencies for nvidia-utils which will also include a "provides=('libCL')"[6]. I tested this solution on several codes and it works well. It also seems that Debian is going to do something very similar[7]. So what do other people think about this problem ? Stéphane [1] http://www.khronos.org/registry/cl [2] http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=35367 [3] http://developer.nvidia.com/object/cuda_3_2_toolkit_rc.html [4] http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=3D23597 [5] Personnal communication [6] cf. FS#20558 [7] http://ftp-master.debian.org/new/khronos-opencl- headers_1.0-2010.06.13-1.html

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[arch-dev-public] [signoff] tar-1.25-1
by Allan McRae 11 Nov '10

11 Nov '10

Upstream update. Signoff both, Allan

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[arch-dev-public] [signoff] db-5.1.19-3
by Allan McRae 11 Nov '10

11 Nov '10

Add --enable-dbm (FS#21617) Remember, this package is looking for a maintainer... Signoff both, Allan

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