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ubottuCurrent time in Etc/UTC: August 27 2008, 14:39:00 - Next meeting: Server Team in 6 days15:39
persiaErm.  That's just not right.16:10
persiaAnybody from the news team around?  Could you populate the calendar a bit?  I *know* there's lots of meetings during the next 30 hours or so.16:10
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heno_Hey everyone17:57
* pedro_ waves17:57
intellectronica'alo17:57
LaserJockhi heno_17:57
heno_I may have to run in a few minutes17:57
heno_hey LaserJock17:57
bdmurraygreetings17:58
heno_pedro_: could you chair the meeting? - in case I need to dash off17:58
pedro_heno_: yes no problem17:58
LaserJockpedro_: I think we need to send the meeting emails earlier17:58
LaserJockit'd be nice if we had the agenda set by Monday and the email sent out Tuesday I think17:59
LaserJockto allow people who don't normally come but may be interested in specific agenda items17:59
heno_should we schedule meetings when there are no suggested agenda items?17:59
pedro_LaserJock: indeed, but we didn't have an agenda till today morning, that's why i didn't send it yesterday17:59
LaserJockheno_: well, I would propose that unless we have a full agenda a "spec status" roll call would be good to do each meeting18:00
heno_we may have some standing items of course like, indeed18:00
LaserJockit's often good if we don't have big agenda items :-)18:00
sbeattiehey18:00
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bdmurrayOr a round table18:00
heno_also looking toward testing of the next milestone and SRU status18:00
LaserJockbut it's also good to get everybody together, talk about the week18:01
arahello18:01
heno_yay, let's do a round table!18:01
pedro_yeah18:01
pedro_ok everybody is here, let's start18:01
pedro_#startmeeting18:01
LaserJockI think it's especially nice to find out about blockers :-)18:01
* pedro_ kicks the bot18:01
heno_I'll go first since I may have to run18:02
davmor2hello18:02
pedro_Welcome to the Ubuntu QA Meeting the Agenda for today is at https://wiki.ubuntu.com/QATeam/Meetings18:02
heno_I was at a Canonical distro team leads sprint all last week18:02
heno_we discussed the usual admin stuff but also some Ubuntu QA stuff18:03
stgraberhey18:03
heno_There is broad agreement that we will ramp up the focus on quality in the releases to come18:03
heno_I can write more when I get the notes18:03
LaserJockthat's always a good thing? :-)18:04
LaserJocks/?/!/18:04
heno_of course!18:04
heno_oh, not '?'18:04
heno_heh18:04
* LaserJock plays "punctuation jumble" today18:04
heno_on monday I was at an LP team sprint as well18:04
heno_the numbers that we discussed for the LP bugs priorities were presented18:05
heno_it looks like they have a good process for taking that forward18:05
davmor2cool :)18:05
heno_they will decide on actual priorities this week18:06
LaserJockexcellent18:06
pedro_yay18:06
heno_ok, that's it from me!18:06
pedro_thanks18:06
pedro_ok the next point i see is18:06
pedro_Ubuntu Developer Week preparations18:06
pedro_the Ubuntu Developer Week starts next week18:07
heno_That's just pointing out https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UbuntuDeveloperWeek18:07
pedro_and there's a few talks from the members of the team18:07
pedro_anyone wants to give a brief overview about their talk?18:08
LaserJockI was pleasantly surprised to see Ara scheduled18:08
heno_and it looks like there are no more open slots18:08
pedro_bdmurray, ara ?18:08
LaserJockgo ara go! ;-)18:08
arapedro_: ok, I'll go18:08
pedro_rock18:09
araI will be presenting the automated testing library that we've been working on18:09
arawhat is exactly, how to use it, etc.18:09
arai will be completing the docuementation at https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Testing/Automation/LDTP/HowToUseTestingLibrary18:10
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arabefore the session, so people will be able to have some reading after it18:10
arawhat I would like to achieve from the session is making people more involved in testing and more specifically in automated testing18:11
araonly some very basic python knowledge is required18:11
LaserJockara: very nice18:11
pedro_nice! looking forward to it18:12
pedro_bdmurray: may you tell us a bit about the launchpad hacks session?18:12
LaserJockara: so are you going to be able to go through how people can contribute test scripts?18:12
araLaserJock: yes, how to contribute with new scripts that use the library; but not how to extend the library18:13
araLaserJock: if I get people willing to contribute also to extend the library, it will be great18:13
bdmurraypedro_: I plan on talking about recent features added to bughelper / python-launchpad-bugs.  Additionally, I want to talk about all the scripts in the launchpad-gm-scripts project and how they might help you use launchpad.18:14
LaserJocknext time we should get a QA Team overview session18:15
pedro_cool!18:15
heno_should we continue the round table?18:15
bdmurrayIf so there's one thing I wanted to mention...18:16
bdmurrayI've written a script that checks needs-packaging bugs to see if they are already packged in debian or ubuntu and checks to see if there is a request to have them packaged in debian18:18
bdmurrayI plan on running this on qa.ubuntu.com soon and announcing it18:18
bdmurrayHowever, one way we can help is ensuring the needs-packaging bugs follow a specific format for the title18:19
bdmurrayfor example: [needs-packaging] softwarename ....18:19
heno_how does it find the package in the archive?18:19
bdmurraySo if you happen to see any that don't follow that convention please modify the title.18:19
intellectronicabdmurray: why do you want to use the title?18:19
bdmurrayheno_: rmadison18:20
arabdmurray: one thing that is unclear from the documentation is that instead of "naming [needs-packaging]" the document reads "tagging [needs-packaging]"18:20
intellectronicabdmurray: rather than a tag, that is18:20
bdmurrayintellectronica: so it is distinguishable in a list of bugs - both are done18:20
bdmurrayara: okay, I'll update the documentation18:20
bdmurrayIdeally they'll be tagged needs-packaging and have that prepended to the title18:21
LaserJockhmm, but how reliable would the title be?18:21
bdmurrayLaserJock: I've modified ~134 needs-packaging bugs which is >10%18:22
bdmurraySo I think it has been pretty successful18:22
LaserJockbdmurray: you've modified the title of 134?18:22
LaserJockwhat I meant was that by definition we don't have a package name for needs-packaging bugs18:23
bdmurrayLaserJock: no, I've linked to upstream bug watches, marked as duplicate or Fix Released 134 bugs18:23
LaserJockso how do you go from a bug title to finding if it's in the archive?18:23
* heno_ is afk18:23
bdmurrayI assume the 2nd word in the title is the name of the software needing packaging18:24
bdmurrayAnd that's where help would be useful - ensuring the bug titles follow that convention18:25
LaserJockbdmurray: right but quite often that's not a great mapping to package name18:25
LaserJockbut consistency is usually a good thing :-)18:25
LaserJockI'm just worried that if we take a scripted list we'll could have a significant amount of false positives18:26
LaserJockso then we'd be triaging anyway18:26
davmor2bdmurray: so bug title Intrepid: xapian doesn't work  and intrepid: bunnys have big ears is cool for you?18:27
davmor2where bunnys needs packaging sorry18:28
bdmurraydavmor2: heh18:29
hggdhLaserJock, this is one reason why we would still need the tag -- titles may not work always18:29
LaserJockhggdh: that's the whole reason why I made the tag in the first place ;-)18:30
hggdhand this is another reason why we need more tags ;-)18:30
bdmurrayand if a particular ubuntu bug has too many results just skip it or modify the title and it'll get processed in the next run of the script18:30
davmor2bdmurray: sorry talking at cross purposes missed the first bit just played catch up18:30
LaserJockbdmurray: ok, so what does your script output?18:31
LaserJockthe bugs where the software exists in Debian/Ubuntu?18:31
bdmurrayThe output of rmadison or links and titles of debian bugs18:31
LaserJockhmm, that just seems so error prone18:32
pedro_Any other issues?18:34
LaserJockwell, the Testing Day thing is still up in the air18:35
LaserJockit'd be nice to get something nailed down for that18:35
pedro_Yes, LaserJock can you send a reminder about it to the ubuntu-qa list ?18:37
LaserJockk18:37
davmor2also before I need to dash off the bugs I've come across whilst smoke testing I've collated here https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Testing/DailySmoke/bugs I won't be around next week so if someone can quickly blitz through them and see if there fixed early next week that would be great18:37
pedro_thanks you18:37
pedro_alright, thanks davmor218:40
pedro_ok it seems we don't have anything else18:40
intellectronicajust a quick one18:40
pedro_intellectronica: go ahead18:40
intellectronicahas there been any progress on preparation for that bug status migration?18:41
pedro_intellectronica: i haven't had the time yet to prepare the wiki page, but ill need to do it soon18:41
intellectronicacool. let me know if you need any help18:42
pedro_yup , thanks18:42
pedro_ok , let's wrap then18:42
pedro_thanks everybody18:42
intellectronicathanks, pedro_18:43
arathanks18:43
bdmurraythanks18:43
sbeattiethanks everyone18:44
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* asac first22:56
asachi22:56
evandhi22:56
liwhi22:56
james_whi all22:56
ArneGoetjemorning22:57
calchi22:57
cjwatsonevening22:57
* ogra waves22:58
* slangasek waves22:59
cjwatsonbryce: ping?23:01
cjwatsonguess not; let's move on without him for now23:03
brycehi23:03
cjwatsonaha23:03
cjwatsonok, so feature freeze is at some time I'm not entirely certain of, but at any rate within the next day23:03
cjwatsonso now's a good time to look over our team's progress and see what needs to be deferred and what might want exceptions from the release team23:04
* ogra hopes late23:04
james_w5 minutes ago I thought23:04
slangasek0000 UTC23:04
slangasekwhich by my clock leaves us all with 2h :)23:04
cjwatsonI heard COB Wednesday, though personally I'd been shooting for COB Thursday; but I shouldn't imagine a few hours will make a whole lot of difference either way23:04
ograslangasek, eeek23:05
james_wah, I fail at timezones yet again23:05
cjwatsonso, I asked for a one-line summary of each of your feature goals (something of the form "name of goal: where it's at" would be fine)23:05
cjwatsonhow about we go in reverse order, since ogra was expressing concern23:06
cjwatsonogra:23:06
slangasek(cjwatson: there was apparently a precedent in the wiki that freezes start at 0000UTC on the given day; we diverged from this for hardy, reinstated now for intrepid, sorry to catch people flat-footed)23:06
ograwell, still busy getting the latest ltsp upstream changes in23:06
persiaAccording to my clock, FF is in 114 minutes23:06
cjwatsonslangasek: there were older precedents yet that were different again, of course ;-)23:07
slangasekheh23:07
cjwatsonwe've gone through various interpretations23:07
ogramy only left goal for intrepid was compcache: implemented and running fine23:07
ogra(just getting it into ltsp)23:07
cjwatsonthat was certainly the only major item23:07
cjwatsonI'm very pleased with how memory use has come out so far on the desktop CD, and I gather there's more room for tweakage23:08
ograyeh, definately23:08
* ogra is hoping for 24M ltsp client support23:08
cjwatsonogra: edubuntu-menus-completion and local-content-filter deferred, I take it?23:08
ograyeah23:08
cjwatsonI thought that was likely23:08
ograand though i'm likely moving teams now, i'D still like to go after the content filter stuff23:09
ogra(trying to get to that since the sydney UDS where i had to take edubuntu to actually get the spec :P )23:09
slangasekheh :)23:10
cjwatsonogra: on that note, remind me to give you a ring tomorrow23:10
ograoki23:10
cjwatsondoko is on holiday23:10
cjwatsonof his feature goals, OpenJDK seems pretty happy at this point barring a few glitches the server team would like to be cleared up23:11
cjwatsonPython 3 was only ever preparation for the future23:11
cjwatsonTheMuso:23:11
TheMusodmraid: Complete bar no event monitoring due to broken code and incomplete upstream tarballs.23:11
TheMusodesktop a11y review: Deferred, dmraid took more time than expected.23:11
dokoHola23:11
cjwatsondoko: oh, hiya23:12
TheMusoaudio: due to the kernel fuss nothing has been uploaded yet, although things are almost ready on my end, just need to test check and upload alsa pieces.23:12
TheMusopulseaudio I'd rather PPA test, and if people really want it, we FF for it.23:12
cjwatsonTheMuso: though dmraid not yet promoted to main - I'll get to that before the deadline23:12
TheMusocjwatson: Ok no problem.23:12
cjwatsonright, for those who haven't noticed, the kernel team is pretty set on trying out 2.6.27, but acknowledges the regression risk so we're going to be pretty careful about it23:13
TheMusoI doubt I can get all of alsa done before FF, but I'll see...23:13
cjwatsonhttps://wiki.ubuntu.com/KernelTeam/2.6.27-kernel-plan is the plan and timeline23:13
asacTheMuso: can we at least get a fix for the also through pulseaudio by default thing?23:13
cjwatsonwe're going to have to switch up to .27 in intrepid in order to get certification testing done, but that's not necessarily final23:13
asacTheMuso: otherwise we will end up with flash blocking sound device23:13
asacTheMuso: i know that the current fix isnt kde compatible.23:14
TheMusoasac: Yes, I need to reread up on everything to work out what exactly has to be done but yes, that is regardless of pulse version23:14
asacbut maybe that should be solved on a package base somehow (if we cannot find a real solution)23:14
asacTheMuso: ok. as long as you keep in line tha tthis is really a big show stopper and we need a solution i am happy ;)23:14
asacs/in line/in mind/23:15
cjwatsonTheMuso: do you have some skeleton disk images that people could use in a vm to do basic dmraid testing?23:15
TheMusocjwatson: Yes, but thats not really useful.23:15
cjwatsonsomething of the form "create zero-filled images, and run this dd command"23:15
TheMusoOther than testing whether everything fits together.23:15
cjwatsonI would find it very useful to be able to try out the installer and suggest possible improvements23:15
TheMusobut yes, I do have images.23:15
cjwatson23:10 <cjwatson> doko is on holiday23:16
cjwatson23:11 <cjwatson> of his feature goals, OpenJDK seems pretty happy at this point barring a few glitches the server team would like to be cleared up23:16
cjwatson23:11 <cjwatson> Python 3 was only ever preparation for the future23:16
cjwatsonTheMuso: thanks23:16
cjwatsondoko: anything you want to add? just a very quick run-down23:16
TheMusocjwatson: I'm going to blog/post to devel about dmraid anyway, so I will put the images up somewhere for people to download.23:16
cjwatsonTheMuso: great, thanks23:16
dokocjwatson: I will upload python3 next week, including with a few modules how python3 modules sould be packaged.23:17
dokoI didn't see any critical reports about OpenJDK23:17
cjwatsonthe server team wanted to get bugs 261847 and 249178 cleared up23:18
ubottuLaunchpad bug 261847 in openjdk-6 "Installing openjdk-6-jre-headless pulls in dbus/avahi" [Undecided,New] https://launchpad.net/bugs/26184723:18
ubottuLaunchpad bug 249178 in ecj "libecj-java shouldn't recommend java2-runtime" [Low,Confirmed] https://launchpad.net/bugs/24917823:18
dokopython3 should go to main however, because we want to build modules from one source package23:18
slangasekthat's going to bloat the size of all the python module packages again?23:18
doko261847 seems to be controversial23:18
slangasekI don't see how that can be justified as a post-FF change23:19
dokoslangasek: no, not the binary ones, we'll have python3-XXX binaries23:19
slangasekhmm, breaking the python policy instead, ok... :)23:19
cjwatsonyou can't have the same source used by both python 2 and 3, to a good first approximation23:19
doko249178 should be uploaded23:20
cjwatsonso this is really something the python policy failed to predict :)23:20
slangasekwell, ouch23:20
dokonot breaking, but changing.23:20
cjwatsondoko: 249178 is a two-parter, I understand: one using -headless, and one being a recommends change that I understand is disputed23:21
cjwatsonthey seem quite upset about all the X libraries being pulled in23:21
cjwatsonI didn't want to overrule you in your absence; in any case this all seems to be under the bug-fix heading23:22
dokowell, yes, maybe we could drop this recommend, now that we have java-gcj-compat and java-gcj-compat-hl. I'll do this next week23:22
dokoI mean: dropping the recomend of libgcj9-0-awt in libgcj9-023:22
cjwatsondoko: thanks for the update; we'd best move on, as time is pressing23:23
cjwatsonliw:23:23
liwCleanupCruft: package almost ready, gui sucks but works, need to find how to do root from gui23:23
liwDebianPolicyInDocbook: ignored23:23
liwFastLsbRelease: ignored23:23
liwGetRidOfPythonCentralAndSupport: not ready, lots of work needed23:23
liwGobbyServerPersistentState: my patch works, upstream now maintains package and has corresponding patch (which I should review)23:23
liwLintianHarness. ignored23:23
liwNoFsckAtBoot: deemed semi-impossible, but ubuntu-devel(-discuss) has had similar discussions23:23
liwPythonProfilingTool: playing with Heapy (it does work!), but no concrete results23:23
liwSuperPiuparts: deferred23:23
cjwatsonperhaps somebody could help liw out with the last bits needed for cleanup-cruft23:24
asacwhat is needed?23:24
james_wpolicykit?23:24
liwshould I run gksu (what update-manager seems to do currently) or go straight for policykit?23:25
asacah ... root from gui ;)23:25
slangasekAIUI we're well on the path for transitioning to policykit, so better if new stuff uses that?23:25
james_wliw: policykit, though it may require architecture changes23:25
james_wand may require frustration23:26
liwok, policykit it is (unless it looks too difficult, in which case I'll go for gksu, call it a bug, and fix it to use policykit later...)23:26
TheMusoPolicykit please, for accessibility reasons.23:26
TheMusogksu is not an option. :p23:26
james_wI know pitti recently converted to policykit, so he may be able to help, and I have a basic knowledge, so I'll help if I can23:27
cjwatsonpitti is on holiday at the moment23:27
liwjames_w, thanks, that'll be helpful23:27
cjwatsonas is, I gather, most of the desktop team :P23:27
cjwatsonliw: thanks, better to get system-cleaner into the archive while a bit suboptimal than to leave it until it's too late; we still have time for bug-fixing and polishing provided the basic functionality works23:28
liwcjwatson, ack23:28
cjwatsonjames_w: it's been a while since we talked about UDD. What's the good word?23:28
james_wI've got bzr-builddeb 2.0 in bzr since about an hour, that has the features I think we need for Intrepid.23:29
james_wI'd love a sponsor (perhaps for Debian as well, but that's less important)23:29
james_wif not I can get an FFe and have my usual sponsor upload23:30
cjwatsonI don't see it on https://code.edge.launchpad.net/bzr-builddeb ?23:30
james_wthe rest is not bound by feature freeze, and hasn't moved in the last couple of weeks23:30
asacbzr http mirror syncs are broken i think23:30
cjwatsonhmm, worked for me earlier today23:31
asacstrange. then thats just affecting the mozillateam branches ;)23:31
james_wcjwatson: I also tried to upgrade the alioth branch that it mirrors from at the same time, so there may be a delay23:31
asac(but havent checked today)23:31
james_whttp://bzr.debian.org/pkg-bazaar/bzr-builddeb/trunk if anyone is interested23:31
slangasekinterested, but otherwise occupied at the moment23:32
cjwatsonjames_w: I'll be up for a little while after the meeting, and can sponsor23:32
james_wcjwatson: great, thanks23:32
cjwatsonbzr: ERROR: No repository present: "http://bzr.debian.org/pkg-bazaar/bzr-builddeb/trunk/"23:32
cjwatsonEHOSEDBRANCH23:32
james_wcjwatson: just fixed that, there's a bug in bzr I'll report23:32
slangaseknot EHOSEDHOSTING?23:33
slangasek(I can't seem to get http transport to work for bzr.debian.org for my stuff, maybe I'm doing it wrong)23:33
cjwatsonslangasek: I shall withhold my comments on the delays involved in getting new branches created on bzr.d.o23:33
james_wslangasek: try nosmart+http://23:33
james_wslangasek: *another* bzr bug, fixed in 1.623:33
james_wwhich leads me to23:34
slangasekjames_w: hum, ok :/23:34
james_wbzr* updates: all lined up as sponsored sync requests, thanks to LaserJock and jelmer. Probably bugs to fix in 1.6, but we definitely want its features. We shou23:34
james_wld evaluate 1.7 in 3 weeks.23:34
james_wslangasek: assuming it's the bug I think it is.23:34
slangasekjames_w: I don't suppose we'll get 1.6 into lenny...?23:34
slangasek(I imagine not)23:34
cjwatsonjust about every problem I've run into in the last couple of weeks has been "fixed in 1.6"23:34
james_wslangasek: it's in experimental, but no-ones pushing for it23:34
cjwatson(including the ones that had nothing to do with bzr)23:34
slangasekcjwatson: fwiw, I haven't had problems with getting bzr setups done for bzr.d.o23:35
james_wslangasek: I should investigate backporting the fix.23:35
james_w1.6 was a real pain of a release, I think it may have reached 4 months.23:35
james_wpretty bad for a monthly release project23:35
james_wthe rest of my list:23:37
james_wfont-selector: nowhere, sorry.23:37
james_wlvm .39: done, thanks to TheMuso.23:37
james_wmono-tools: still needs MIR for webkit-sharp, though could be sponsored as-is I23:37
james_wbelieve.23:37
cjwatsonjames_w: ok, thanks23:39
cjwatsonevand:23:39
evand * usb-installer-images: Mostly finished.  I just need to figure out23:39
evandwhy an io_watch isn't promptly firing, polish the code and UI, and23:39
evandpick a name (suggestions welcome).  This will be done in time for the23:39
evandfeature freeze cutoff Thursday.23:39
evand(written before the above conversation)23:39
evand * dvd-performance-hacks: Mostly done.  Just need to merge in my23:39
evandubiquity changes and triggerize packages.23:40
evand * ubiquity-visual-refresh:  The partition bar work has been committed23:40
evandto ubiquity trunk.  I did not manage to coordinate the slideshow work23:40
evandin time and will have to defer that (though I'll continue working with23:40
evandthe art and documentation team to obtain the required media for it23:40
evandduring the remainder of the 8.10 cycle).  I am going to apply for a23:40
evandfeature freeze for the timezone map changes for over the weekend as23:40
evandI'm having some difficulty with rsvg and locating the mouse within a23:40
evandparticular time zone.  If the work fails to produce effective results,23:40
cjwatsonslangasek: the usb installer stuff is largely (afaik) a new package, so I think the regression risk is pretty low; can we manage the one-day slip there?23:40
evandI will work to fix the remaining usability bugs in the previous23:40
evandtimezone map.23:40
slangasekcjwatson: yes23:41
evandthanks23:41
cjwatsonevand: if you could push the ubiquity branch for dvd-performance-hacks somewhere, I can have a look at it for you23:41
TheMusoSpeaking of slips, I can get alsa uploaded today, but it won't all be before FF. Is this ok?23:41
liw/msg evand name suggestion for the usb thing: gloffod (glorious freedom from optical disks)23:42
evandcjwatson: will do23:42
dokojames_w: pitti and I will clean up MIRs next week23:42
slangasekTheMuso: what part is going to be past FF?23:42
james_wdoko: great, I'll try and get it written before then23:42
evandthanks liw, any other suggestions?23:42
TheMusoslangasek: Getting lib/utils/plugins in.23:42
cjwatsonevand: I'm looking forward to having a look at the partition bar work; you should blog about it :)23:43
evand(can be mailed so we don't eat up time here)23:43
slangasekTheMuso: hmm, you said it won't /all/ be before FF... will /any/ of it be before FF? :)23:43
evandcjwatson: blog?  I don't think I've done that since Summer of Code ;)23:43
cjwatsonyes, I know ;-)23:43
asacslangasek: i think he ment that this upload will take a few more hours23:43
asac(but thats just what i read from it)23:43
TheMusoslangasek: lib likely will be yes.23:43
asacoh ok ;)23:43
slangasekTheMuso: ok.  yes, that'll be alright.23:44
cjwatsonon my own bits:23:47
cjwatsonrecommends-by-default: germinate updated and all seems to be working, although some people have requested the ability to exempt certain recommendations from CD building. We may be able to do something about tha23:47
cjwatsont.23:48
cjwatsonsplitting server and mobile into separate branches and metapackages: not done, will probably wait for archive-reorganisation.23:48
cjwatsonarchive-reorganisation: call tomorrow morning with Mark to iron out some details. I think we have high-level agreement though and it's on the LP 3.0 plan.23:48
cjwatsonpolicy-and-standards: initial version of Ubuntu policy uploaded; need to reinstate pristine debian-policy and repackage but that's no big deal.23:48
ograrecommends-by-default, any idea what to do with the lilo dep of linux-image-* ?23:48
cjwatsonalso been helping out the server team with some installer bits, but I think my end is done and any FFEs they need are their business :)23:48
slangasekogra: I think that's wrong under the definition of Recommends and should be dropped?23:49
TheMuso5~/c23:49
ograslangasek, well, lilo seems to be still wanted ...23:49
cjwatsonyou can also use --no-install-recommends as a stopgap measure23:49
cjwatsonit's not appropriate as the first alternative23:49
ograyeah, thats what i switched ltsp to now23:49
slangasekoh, it's linux-image-* that was Recommending lilo?23:49
cjwatsonyes23:49
ograsince my chroots just explode with recommends ...23:49
slangasekyeah, shouldn't be the first one, anyway23:49
ograright and lilo in a chroot isnt really fun :)23:50
cjwatsonfor minimal chroots I think --no-install-recommends is entirely appropriate23:50
cjwatsonthey aren't the usual case23:50
ograi was fearing i miss anyhing ..23:50
ograbut it seems to stil work fine23:50
ograwont be the caes if we start to rely on recommends23:51
ogra*case23:51
cjwatsonif we follow the definitions properly, it should be fine23:51
slangasekright; for a minimal chroot, --no-install-recommends is precisely how one finds out if a recommends should've been a depends instead :)23:51
ograheh23:52
cjwatsoncalc:23:52
calcok23:52
calcOOo 3.0 rc1 is delayed again until sept 123:52
calci am working on OOo 3.0 packaging split and hope to have some debs in PPA by the end of the week (maybe not all packages though)23:53
calcpotentially having OOo 3.0 split packages parallel installable23:53
slangasekparallel alongside what?23:53
calcslangasek: the regular debs, if the 3.0 release slips much more we may have 3.0 split debs for test and 2.4.1 debs for the main install23:53
dokocalc: is this the mmeks split?23:53
cjwatsonmy suggestion was, by way of having some concrete progress on OOo this cycle, to produce openoffice.org3-* modularised packages23:54
calcdoko: yes23:54
slangasekah :/23:54
slangasekright, that's better than getting stuck with prerelease 3.0 packages at release time23:54
calcslangasek: yea23:54
cjwatsonand to use those as a guideline for the observable quality of 3.023:54
calcslangasek: they still have sept 16 listed as release date, but that looks awfully optimistic23:55
cjwatsonrealistically we aren't going to get much feedback until there's something in the archive, but it seems like they're slipping too much for us to commit to 3.023:55
cjwatsonthat's my take on it, anyway ...23:55
calcyes23:56
* slangasek nods23:56
calcif they slip between rc1 and final as much as usual it will be around a week before ubuntu rc when its released23:56
slangasekyeah, not an ok time to be uploading it :-)23:56
cjwatsoncalc: did anything ever come of talking to Till about applications-printing?23:56
calcand final upstream releases generally are still a bit buggy23:56
cjwatsonI remember you said you'd missed him at the sprint23:57
calccjwatson: not much no23:57
cjwatsondid you discuss it with Till?23:57
calci talked to him again a few weeks ago, but i don't remember the outcome now23:57
cjwatsonnotes, IRC logs, ...?23:57
calcit looks like there aren't patches for the OOo bit so i would need to track down how to convert OOo to output as PDF23:57
calci found the email23:58
cjwatson(I know I'm putting you on the spot, I just want to check it wasn't lost)23:58
calcOOo's PDF output is not that great to begin with so i am not sure what would be needed there23:58
calcthere are some pdf changes for 3.0 but i haven't looked into what exactly has changed23:59
calceg pdf import via poppler23:59

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