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RAOFSpamapS: Oooh, while you're here - is there a way of extracting the changes file from the unapproved queue?00:07
SpamapSRAOF: the name of the package in the queue listing is a link to the changes file00:08
pooliebug 806940 is part of this00:09
ubottuLaunchpad bug 806940 in Ubuntu Distributed Development "conflict if a dir is created in an udd branch" [Undecided,New] https://launchpad.net/bugs/80694000:09
pooliethough, perhaps eventually that will be duped onto a more generic one00:09
RAOFSpamapS: …oh.  Bah! :)00:09
YewbaccaWhat path does patches to the Ubuntu Xorg Intel driver take? Xorg.freedesktop -> Debian -> Ubuntu?00:11
* SpamapS signs off for the day00:12
RAOFYewbacca: Generally, yes; we're not slavish about it, though.00:14
infinity@pilot out00:14
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YewbaccaRAOF: Thanks for the reply. I was working with Wu Fengguang of Intel fame on fixing two major problems. ELD autodetection over HDMI support now added, meaning the HDMI output finally supports multichannel audio rather than just stereo.00:28
YewbaccaThe other fix involves reading the extended CEA mode block to finally detect all display modes rather than just the ones that fit in the basic mode block.00:28
YewbaccaThese are major fixes and I am concerned with how we can get them into Ubuntu's driver quickly.00:28
YewbaccaThey've been reviewed at Intel and released to the Xorg mailing list.00:28
YewbaccaBut they're of course drowning in all the other patches and discussions.00:29
RAOFRight.00:29
YewbaccaDo you have any suggestions? Should I focus on alerting Xorg.freedesktop.org to it and then let it trickle to Ubuntu? Or do you sometimes apply important fixes on your own and if so, who do I talk to?00:30
RAOFThat would involve both kernel and DDX fixes, yes?  In either case, we really do prefer that patches are at least applied to a development tree.  These sound like fairly large changes, so we'd want upstream to have signed off first.00:30
poolieTheMuso, hi00:30
TheMusopoolie: Good morning.00:31
YewbaccaActually they're only DDX modifications :)00:31
pooliehi00:31
pooliei just saw your post about the pulseaudio packaging branch00:32
YewbaccaOh yeah and I see your point, I'll alert some Xorg maintainers to review and apply them there first. Thanks for the advice.00:32
RAOFYewbacca: Then that's a bit easier :).  Still, we'd prefer them to be upstream first.00:33
TheMusopoolie: The desktop team maintains similar branches for desktop packages as well.00:33
pooliesimilar in the sense of debian-only00:33
TheMusoRight.00:33
poolieis this mostly for the sake of faster checkouts of it?00:33
poolieas you know the general plan is to get the ubuntu namespace branches being official, and being complete branches00:34
TheMusopoolie: No, its because thats how they were originally stored in bzr since before I really got involved with audio packaging.00:34
YewbaccaRAOF: Thank you. I'll talk to some Xorg maintainer. Have a good night :)00:35
pooliedo you think we could migrate them to the standard form at some point?00:35
pooliethat would remove a special case from the piloting/contribution process00:35
RAOFYewbacca: I'm in UTC+10.  It's a good day for me.  Have fun with upstream :)00:35
TheMusopoolie: Actually I was hoping to eventually move Ubuntu packaging to Debian git.00:36
pooliehm, really?00:37
TheMusopoolie: And what about the ubuntu-desktop packaging? How does that go in terms of patch piloting?00:37
pooliebecause you're also the debian mantainer?00:37
TheMusopoolie: Yes, easier to pull from either side patch wise.00:37
TheMusoTHe X guys do the same thing, I do the same thing with accessibility packages, and I am sure others working on Ubuntu, like the multimedia/MOTU guys do as well.00:37
pooliethe same thing here meaning maintaining it on debian.org, or meaning having only debian/ versioned?00:38
TheMusoThe same thing as in Ubuntu packaging maintained in alioth/debian git vcs.00:38
pooliehm, ok00:40
poolieso, this seems like a plan around having lp branches and contributions on lp may be on the wrong track00:40
RAOFpoolie: *Or* launchpad grows git support, I guess :)00:41
TheMusoYeah that too.00:41
poolieso, what would happen in that case?00:41
RAOFpkg-cli-* and pkg-mono also have all their canonical branches in alioth git.  I think it's a fairly popular mode of operation.00:42
poolieyou'd have the ubuntu branches on lp, but be able to more transparently merge them?00:42
poolieor they'd stay primarily on alioth?00:42
RAOFThey'd probably stay primarily on alioth, but we could pull merges from launchpad.00:43
RAOFThat said, git is terrible at that workflow. :(00:43
TheMusoI'm not sure. If the ubutu branches were on alioth, thats the only place I'd want to work with them.00:43
TheMusoSO yeah, merging from lp would be useful.00:43
pooliei mean there's no point in adding that support, which might not be cheap, if it's not actually helping ubuntu00:44
RAOFIt would help Ubuntu insomuch as merge requests against UDD branches would be useful.00:45
poolieit seems like one of the things that makes them problematic at the moment is that people do the work essentially in the wrong place00:46
poolieeither directly in the tree when it should be in patches, or in an ubuntu branch when it should be an upstream change00:46
poolieone of the working assumptions was that having different branches be more consistent (eg whole tree etc) would make that a simpler story to do properly00:47
poolieraof, so would having the merge proposals be useful as compared to having patches on the bugs, or patches on debian bugs for that matter00:51
RAOFPatches on the bugs are great; debdiffs on bugs are also great.00:51
RAOFPatches on Debian bugs are also fine, but our stack is generally different enough that there are a fair number of bugs which aren't in common, and you need to be running Debian on bare-metal to usefully report a Debian bug on the stack.00:52
infinitypoolie: One of the general issues I have with UDD (or any of its predecessors) is statements about "doing work in the wrong place".00:53
infinitypoolie: Any contribution is the right place, and debdiff, or simple patches are all perfectly fine.00:54
pooliebecause it can always be moved around later?00:54
infinitypoolie: (I'll admit that this sometimes makes the UDD stuff feel more like a hundrance than a help, but there must be clever ways to make it all work together more smoothly)00:54
pooliei guess what i'm really asking is, how can canonical's infrastructure best be helping ubuntu?00:55
infinitypoolie: I dunno.  I might be in a vanishing minority, but I'd like to be able to just do dpkg-source work the way I've always done and upload a dsc/diff/tar/orig that integrates seamlessly into branch-based work other people want to do.  We're sort of there, and imports mostly work, but not quite.  And it's discouraging when people blame it not working on "the old way" being "the wrong way".00:56
infinitypoolie: But, some people love the shiny and new here too, so saying it's not worth making it as shiny as possible if it's not the way old farts like me work isn't helpful either.  It seems like a real value add.  It's just a value-add *I* don't care about. :)00:57
infinity(And I realise I missed out on half the conversation here, and this is just a drive-by commenting on my way to beer, but if you want actual opinions, ask me sometime.  You know I'm full of 'em, some even useful)00:59
poolie:)00:59
TheMusoFor me personally, I am happy working in alioth with git, because everything I track upstream uses git, which at times, can be very handy should one want to make a git snapshot release for a package. Just merge a git branch into the upstrea branch locatino or whereever you want, cherry-pick individual commits, etc. Bzr's biggest advantage is its merge algorithm however.01:03
TheMusogah typing.01:03
poolieinfinity: i see your point about not wanting to denigrate things people are doing that are working01:03
poolieobviously technically the importer is supposed to handle merging them together and it generally does01:04
poolieso themuso, if you were writing our plan for the next year (for udd/lp/bzr), what would you ask for?01:04
TheMusopoolie: I am not the one to ask. Like infinity, I am happy with existing tools, and don't care much for UDD, probably because the majority of thigns I touch already are in alioth git, or will soon be.01:06
TheMusoI don't mind having to do the extra legwork to make sure a particular patch author is credited for their work properly in a vcs.01:07
TheMusoSO I guess all I'd prefer is patches/debdiffs.01:08
poolieso your answer is essentially, "don't get in the way of using allioth?" or "improve the bug tracker instead?" or something?01:08
RAOFActually, that might be worthwhile.01:08
RAOFGenerate debdiffs from merge requests.01:09
poolieor is it "make changes from branches and mps available as diffs/debdiffs?"01:09
* RAOF would also like bzr to be slightly better at being a git frontend, too. :)01:10
poolieme too01:10
pooliewhat sort of thing in particular?01:11
pooliei guess, also, it's useful to know when you prefer using bzr-git  to git, and how we could build on that01:11
TheMusoI lie RAOF's idea in generating debdiffs from merge proposals.01:11
* TheMuso will never use bzr-git, I'm happy with using git proper, as much as it can be quirky at times.01:11
RAOFpoolie: I prefer to use bzr-git to git anytime it works.  Mainly that's when I don't have to deal with a non-master branch, because there's no way of doing that with bzr-git (that I know of).01:12
pooliei'll file a bug for debdiffs01:13
poolieraof, i don't think there's a way to do that at present but there should be soon01:19
RAOFI think a combination of git's colocated branches and bzr's sane way of actually pulling from other people would be great :)01:20
pooliefor native bzr branches, bzr-colo is pretty good01:20
poolieok, https://bugs.launchpad.net/launchpad/+bug/81675701:21
ubottuUbuntu bug 816757 in Launchpad itself "want to get a debdiff from an ubuntu merge proposal" [Undecided,New]01:21
pooliecan you help me improve the description?01:21
* TheMuso looks.01:22
RAOFActually, can we already download a diff from the merge proposal?01:23
poolieyes; though apparently there may be a ui bug :)01:23
TheMusoRAOF: You might be right. Let me go to the merge that started all this convo. :)01:23
RAOF'Cause there's basically no difference between a debdiff and a branch diff in that case.01:23
poolieCtrl-f "download diff"01:23
TheMusoRight01:24
poolieoh, i thought you were asking for more of debdiff's policy intelligence01:24
pooliethough, for packaging branches, that may reduce to not much01:24
TheMusoYup, works here.01:24
RAOFOh, right.  So there is.01:25
TheMusoThinking about it further though, as pilots, things get more sticky if we are working on a package that has an Ubuntu packaging branch in alito that we cannot directly write to. If we want to upload the change...01:25
TheMusoalioth01:25
RAOFThat's the main problem with hosting on alioth, yeah.01:26
pooliethe problem being that ubuntu access control rules don't carry over?01:27
TheMusoYes, but one wouldn't expect them to I guess.01:30
poolieso, is this bug valid?01:32
TheMusoProbably not now that we know of the download diff link.01:33
RAOFMaybe as a UI bug?01:33
pooliesaying "people didn't notice they could download the diff?"01:33
RAOFPretty much :)01:33
pooliethat seems ilke something we could possibly test on01:33
poolieok, updated01:42
pooliethanks for the information01:42
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didrocksgood morning05:53
lamontfact05:53
ionthat.05:54
mwhudsonif an upstart job fails to start during a package upgrade, but runs fine when started with "sudo start $service", where can i start looking?05:59
* mwhudson finds http://upstart.ubuntu.com/wiki/Debugging06:01
cinerama_hi folks, i have a query from a user about the mirror lists in synaptic....can anyone help?06:36
dholbachgood morning07:02
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evfoolthanks mvo for merging08:32
mvoevfool: thank you!08:40
mvoevfool: I'm doing some gtkbuilder fixes and then I will upload08:40
evfoolmvo: remember that problem I told you about, with update-manager not being able to update because package names in dbus.strings instead of python strings?09:00
mvoevfool: yes09:01
evfoolmvo: I have had the exact same problem on two different computers chroot, and after branching the latest aptdaemon and installing it, It's gone09:01
mvoevfool: ok, let me do a update then09:03
mvoevfool: sorry, I mean to look at it yesterday, but did not found the time09:03
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mvoevfool: hm, that is a bit odd, oneiric has the latest trunk09:19
mvoevfool: of aptdaemon09:19
evfoolmvo: yep, but I still can't find out why I get this behavior. any ideas what should I be looking for? Getting this on two absolutely unrelated chroots isn't normal behavior09:20
mvoevfool: right, let me try in a vm. are you using i386 or amd64?09:21
evfoolmvo:i38609:21
mvothx09:21
mvoand a simple apt-get install --reinstall aptdaemon python-aptdaemon does not help?09:22
evfoolmvo: I'll try09:23
evfoolI've tried that, and it's working now, and when I get to the other PC, I'll try it there too09:24
evfooldon't know what could cause this09:24
mvowoah, really odd09:26
jmlhowdy09:57
jmlHitting the "Delete" key doesn't seem to delete files any more. Known bug? Local config problem?10:52
seb128jml, it's ctrl-delete now10:53
jmlseb128: oh. huh. is changing keyboard bindings an allowed thing now?10:54
jml(I don't really have a problem with it. Heaven knows we could use more coherent default keyboard bindings.)10:54
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seb128ok, nobody freaks out but soyuz syncing testing bugged and did a sync-source on oneiric it seems11:52
seb128normal "sync what is newer in Debian" we do before DIF11:53
seb128but still we are after DIF...11:53
seb128they are trying to figure what happened11:53
Laneyan accidental autosync run?11:53
seb128yes11:54
seb128testing the manual "one source syncing"11:54
Laneywhoops11:54
seb128seems like it did trigger the wrong action somewhat and did a autosync run11:54
seb128indeed whoops...11:54
directhexawesome, oneiric gets to be super up-to-date11:56
jtaylorshould at least empty the sync queue ^^11:57
ahasenackhi guys, will someone from the sru team look at the queue today? https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/lucid/+queue?queue_state=1&queue_text=12:33
ahasenackmy interest is landscape-client12:33
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tuxcrafterhi all13:02
tuxcrafterwhat is the root pw for the ubuntu daily live13:03
tuxcrafterhttp://cdimage.ubuntu.com/daily-live/current/13:03
tuxcraftertried live|ubuntu|<empty>13:03
tuxcraftersomebody?13:10
Picituxcrafter: 1) This isn't a support channel, try #ubuntu13:11
Hobbseetuxcrafter: from memory, it's ubuntu13:12
Hobbseeor at least, used to be13:12
gesertuxcrafter: just to be sure: you try sudo from the user account and not a login as root or su?13:13
tuxcraftersudo su -13:13
tuxcrafterHobbsee: sandly not working13:15
tuxcrafterbut id shows i am some kind of guest user13:15
Hobbseetuxcrafter: ah.  Then no idea.13:15
bdrungseb128: do you use the new sync feature from launchpad for the syncs?13:57
seb128bdrung, "sort of", cf what I said 2 hours ago13:58
seb128there was an autosync run by mistake by the new sync feature13:58
seb128so now I'm closing the sync requests which got done in that buggy run13:58
bdrungah, ok.13:59
ScottKAh.  That's what happened.14:00
smoserbarry, around ?14:03
hallynsbuild -d oneiric *.dsc14:25
hallynOnly one build is permitted14:25
hallyneh?14:25
hallynoh, haha14:25
hallynkees: hm, on uptodate oneiric, my laptop appears to have no entropy?14:30
hallyndd if=/dev/random of=x count=8  hangs forever14:31
hallyn(and so i can't sbuild-update --keygen, and so i can't build packages...  well i guess i'll set up pbuilder)14:31
hallynoh, 8 bytes came through14:32
dupondjehttps://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/ginkgocadx/2.5.1.0-114:46
dupondjethat changelogs look drity ass :p14:46
Laneyit's right in debian14:47
Laney's pts14:47
seb128right, launchpad formatting for debian changelog is buggy14:48
dupondjeseems like all the syncs that are done 2 hours ago are that way14:49
dupondjenot nice :)14:49
seb128i.e14:49
seb128https://launchpad.net/debian/+source/tomboy/1.6.1-114:49
seb128dupondje, yeah, "known bug"14:49
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bdrunghallyn: you can move the mouse to increase the entropy15:35
hallynbdrung: no, neither mouse nor kbd was doing it15:42
bdrunghallyn: then buy entropy in the super market ;)15:43
hallyni wonder if plugging in my phone might have helped15:43
hallynbut i am wondering if this is a 3.0 kernel regression.15:44
bdrungor pipe the entropy from another computer :)15:44
mdeslaurhallyn: I'll sell you entropy for $1 per kb15:44
hallynmdeslaur: how do i know it's real?15:45
bdrungmdeslaur: i'll sell it for 10 euro cent per dekabyte15:45
hallyni don't want any of that inferior walmart entropy15:45
mdeslaurhallyn: purest entropy a 20-sided die can generate15:47
hallynmdeslaur: new service on amazon mechanical turk!15:48
mdeslaurlol15:48
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smoseranyone know how doku usually handles python changes ?16:14
smoseri added a merge proposal at https://code.launchpad.net/~smoser/python/lp-813295/+merge/6949116:14
ScottKsmoser: he's at debconf this week.  I'd ask barry to look into it.16:16
smoserit looked like doku is the only one that touched python16:17
smoserand the Vcs-Bzr is http://bazaar.launchpad.net/~doko/python/pkg2.7-debian16:17
smoserthus the question.16:17
ScottKNormally that's the case.16:19
ScottKI also know is his laptop fan died so the odds of him attending to it this week are low.16:19
macoi think firefox should be in the "special cases" section, but i don't actually know what the new policy is https://wiki.ubuntu.com/StableReleaseUpdates ...help?16:38
keeshallyn: do more network/disk/mouse activity! :)16:40
infinitymaco: Firefox was previously listed in https://wiki.ubuntu.com/StableReleaseUpdates/MicroReleaseExceptions ... That probably needs updating.16:40
macosince they stopped micro-ing?16:40
infinityYeah.16:40
hallynkees: was doing a lot of all of the above!16:40
keeshallyn: entropy generating sucks in the kernel, so doing strong key generation isn't generally something you can automate16:40
hallynkees: i didn't notice this under natty on this laptop.  i do under oneiric.  <shrug>16:41
hallynjdstrand: are you syncing libvirt from sid by chance?16:41
infinitykees: I shouldn't tell you that I automate it, should I?16:41
jdstrandhallyn: no16:41
keeshallyn: I use this for good entropy: http://www.entropykey.co.uk/16:41
hallyndrat :)16:41
jdstrandhehe16:41
jdstrandhallyn: fyi, I'm out the next two weeks starting monday16:42
keeshallyn: nothing that I know of has changed between natty and oneiric16:42
hallynjdstrand: ooh, I can push SRUs!  :)16:42
keesinfinity: it's totally possible, sometimes it might just take a long time16:42
hallynkees: maybe i should pick one onf those up16:42
jdstrandhallyn: :)16:42
hallynhm, a bit steep.  Wonder if i can solder my own16:42
infinitykees: My trick is to background gpg --batch before an ISO image build. :P16:43
keeshallyn: I have 2. they generate WAY the hell more bits than I could ever use16:43
hallynbut seriously, i was typing like mad and downloading an iso16:43
keesinfinity: sounds good to me :)16:43
infinitykees: It hasn't yet failed to complete before the image does.16:43
infinitykees: (yet)16:43
keesheh16:43
nemoinfinity: firefox is still microing though16:54
nemoinfinity: in fact, that page has an exception for chromium, and firefox is basically doing the chromium playbook now16:55
maconemo: by "its not microing" i meant they stopped having it be the .x that changes all the time16:55
nemoah16:55
macothey give microreleases major version bumps16:55
infinity^16:55
nemoright. well. that matches chromium16:55
infinityAnd that certainly doesn't match what they used to do.16:56
infinityNot just the cosmetic change. :P16:56
nemowell. in terms of ubuntu policy, still would want to push out FF5, 6 etc for Natty16:56
infinityBut the new firefox versions are "rapid feature releases", not just bugfixes.16:56
nemoinfinity: they used to push new features into .x16:57
nemoadmittedly, not that many16:57
infinityAnd yes, we're still pushing new versions.16:57
nemohad to be a really useful one16:57
stgraber@pilot in17:00
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persiaIf anyone is about that could moderate a post to technical-board@, I'd appreciate it :)17:06
* infinity squints at Kate's mail to ubuntu-devel-announce.17:08
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jdstrandhallyn: fyi, I will be publishing another libvirt update today17:37
hallynfor o?17:37
jdstrandhallyn: no, lucid - natty17:37
hallynok17:37
jdstrandI already did oneiric last week17:38
smoserbarry, ^^ would you be able to look at/merge the python bug above?17:42
smoseri'd like to have the images for alpha3 work on eucalyptus, and they will not without this fix.17:42
smosernever mind, i see that you responded to the merge proposal17:43
barrysmoser: i just reviewed it ;)  looks good to me, but i want to get the patch into upstream py 2.7 first.  i will work on that in a few minutes.  assuming that goes okay, i'll merge your change (which is basically the upstream changeset) and push an update17:43
smoserthe commit is in the 2.7 branch17:44
smoserupstream17:44
smoserthats where i pulled it from17:44
barryoh, the issue tracker didn't include the changeset that i could see.  it was just the default (3.3) and 3.2 changesets17:44
* barry looks again17:44
smoserhttp://code.activestate.com/lists/python-checkins/98577/17:45
smoseri didn't see it in the issue tracker either, and tried to backport the 3.2 change17:46
smoserthen got cpython and noticed it was already there.17:46
barrysmoser: huh.  yeah, weird that it didn't make it to the tracker17:46
barrysmoser: in that case, i'll merge and push in a few minutes (want to finish something up first)17:46
smoserbarry, thanks.17:46
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bdmurraylucas: I'm looking at the udd and the archived_bugs table seems to be empty I'm not sure if its just my copy of it or something else18:59
lucasbdmurray: looks like it's your copy.19:02
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lucasudd=> select count(*) from archived_bugs; count19:02
lucas-------- 52770019:02
lucas(1 row)19:02
bdmurraylucas: okay thanks19:04
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jdstrandhallyn: fyi if you are preparing libvirt SRUs: bug #81718719:46
ubottuLaunchpad bug 817187 in libvirt (Ubuntu Hardy) "change in readlink() errno in 2.6.39 and later kernels causes FTBFS for packages with older gnulib" [High,Triaged] https://launchpad.net/bugs/81718719:46
stgraberrsalveti: looking at https://code.launchpad.net/~rsalveti/ubuntu/oneiric/base-files/run-transition/+merge/67444 is it still needed after all the /run changes that happened lately (including new releases of base-files)?19:51
hallynjdstrand: I'm not touching SRUs, maybe at all this week19:56
* hallyn goes to look in case he misunderstood19:56
jdstrandhallyn: ack-- I just spent some time investigating the issue, so wanted to spare you that19:56
hallynjdstrand: i'm convused, it builds fine for oneiric, what fails?19:57
jdstrandhallyn: I probably wasn't clear. If you are preparing srus and running an oneiric kernel, then you'll get ftbfs. the bug details all of this and what to do to fix the situation19:57
hallynah19:57
hallynthanks!19:58
jdstrandhallyn: right, change in kernel behavior in oneiric is exposed in chroots that cause ftbfs19:58
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evfoolping ev20:23
hallynok, so as SpamapS noticed, since at least yesterday, if you debootstrap an image, you have to explicitly add the ubuntu-keyring package for apt to work.  That wasn't the case a few days ago.  Expected?20:46
kirklandare there any good debhelper8 backports to lucid?20:50
kirklandperhaps in a PPA, or something?20:50
kirklandnevermind, i've worked around it20:55
macothere's a debhelper8?20:56
maco*now* how tiny is debian/rules?? O_o20:56
chrisccoulsonhmmm, i still haven't even converted firefox to use dh7 ;)20:58
chrisccoulsonand my debian/rules is huge20:58
chrisccoulson**its20:58
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galflyHey guys. Anybody here working for canonical lexington office?21:13
carifhere21:14
carifdon't ask me to do something difficult21:14
galflyHi carif. Not too difficult I hope21:14
galflyany idea how long it takes HR to respond to new applications?21:15
galflyhaven't heard for weeks, kind of depressing21:15
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carifgalfly, your irc nick isn't in https://directory.canonical.com/search/21:17
galflyhow come? I am on launchpad21:18
carifgalfly, i think you'll need to ask is at #is to add you and entry, take a picture, etc21:20
galflyI'm not sure if I understand21:21
carifgalfly, oh perhaps I've mixed you up, I didn't read carefully enough21:21
carifgalfly, you've applied to Canonical for a job?21:22
galflycarif, I applied to an opening at canonical and I'm on launchpad etc.21:22
galflycarif yeap21:22
carifgalfly, so sorry, I was talking "internal speak"21:22
galflycarif, I'm not there yet :)21:22
galflysoon, I'll be fluent in internal21:23
galflyI hope :)21:23
carifgalfly, me too, so how did you submit your application and to whom?21:23
galflycairf, I emailed my resume to hr@canonical.com with a cover but am not sure if that was the best way21:25
brianchidestergalfly: https://tbe.taleo.net/NA3/ats/careers/jobSearch.jsp?org=CANONICAL&cws=1&rid=8621:26
brianchidestergoing through that would be a better start21:26
galflybrianchidester thanks a lot. any idea how long it takes them to respond on average?21:27
macothey say on the applications if its over 6wk with no response, might as well give up21:27
macoi think21:27
macothough im not sure with the new application system21:28
infinitygalfly: If you don't apply with the shiny new system, there's a fair chance it might slip through the cracks.21:28
infinitygalfly: (ie: don't email directly)21:28
macoit kinda depends when the hiring manager has set aside to go through the Pile O' Stuff, but iirc from when i applied 3-4 wk?21:28
galflyyou guys all rock21:29
galflythanks a lot21:29
brianchidester_galfly: sorry, battery died21:29
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carifgalfly, good luck, later21:30
galflycountdown from 6 weeks stars as of today21:30
galflylooking for an apartment in lexington area as well21:30
galflyha ha!21:30
rsalvetistgraber: no, it's not needed anymore21:36
rsalvetijust deleted the merge proposal21:36
stgraberrsalveti: thanks21:41
hallynI wonder whether dpkg should detect failure to unpack a .deb and automatically remove+re-fetch one or two times22:05
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barryi'm having a hard time understanding an apt-get install error.  try installing python-qt4-dbus on oneiric and you'll get a broken package.  but afaict, python-qt4-dbus depends on python-dbus >= 0.80.0 and python-dbus 0.84.0-2 is installed23:28
infinitybarry: python-dbus : Breaks: python-qt4-dbus (< 4.8.3-3) but 4.8.3-2 is to be installed23:31
barryinfinity: ah, i had an out of date control file i think.  thanks.  still the apt-get error message sure isn't helping much ;)23:33
barryinfinity: thanks23:33
infinitybarry: It's a bit easier to sort if you "apt-get install python-qt4-dbus python-dbus"23:37
barryinfinity: yep, that makes much more sense23:38
pooliehi again barry23:38
infinitybarry: Now, it would be hugely helpful if there was a new python-qt4 to sync that had the changes that I assume are required...23:38
barrypoolie: time files doesn't it? ;)23:39
ScottKbarry: python-qt4 4.8.3 is supposed to switch to dh_python2.  Now if only someone would upload it to Debian.23:39
barryinfinity: yes, there is that.23:39
barryScottK: maybe someone who had debian upload privs? :)23:39
barryScottK: i think this is fallout from the unintended sync23:39
ScottKinfinity: It would.  It would help even more if someone would upload such a change to Debian.23:39
ScottKbarry: That and the python-dbus upload being done slightly too soon in Debian.23:40
barryScottK: yep23:40
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barryScottK: is there anything i can do to help?  i'm blocked on it atm.23:40
ScottKbarry: You can take that patch I pointed you at to review the other day and put it in dpmt svn for me to review/upload.23:41
pooliebarry i was wondering if after the holiday period we should do something to shake up the meetings a bit23:41
ScottK(after suitable testing)23:41
pooliei'm glad we started them and it's good to stay in touch but perhaps something new is needed now23:41
barryScottK: let me see if i remember where that is23:41
barrypoolie: i totally agree23:41
infinityScottK: is this in need of Debian NMU love, or is the maintainer on top of it?23:42
ScottKbarry: http://paste.debian.net/124320/23:42
ScottKinfinity: The maintainer is a team that all tries to avoid this one because it's painful.23:42
ScottKI'll upload it once barry's blessed it.23:43
barryScottK: thanks.  let me test that23:43
barrypoolie: i think we should cut out the boilerplate and concentrate on what's really valuable23:43
infinityScottK: oh, fair enough.  Happy to sync it once you land it in incoming, then.23:44
poolieyeah23:44
pooliei don't have anything specific at the moment but i was going to ponder it over the holidayish period23:44
ScottKbarry: You mean assigning work to people that skipped the meeting?23:45
barryScottK: if by "people who skipped the meeting" you mean "you" then yes :)23:45
barrypoolie: agreed!  i'll do the same23:45
ScottKbarry: No problem.  I have a consulting rate related to having work assigned to me.  win-win.23:46
barryScottK: no problem, since i know you're familiar with my referral cut23:46
ScottKDefinitely win-win then.23:47
barryScottK: if only we were running the gubmint.  debt crisis solved23:48
ScottKMine anyway.23:49
barryright :-D23:49
barryScottK: hey, when will debian policy force people to put each build-dep on a separate line?23:49
ScottKProbably never.23:50
barryeveryone who puts one huge block of build-deps should be forced to read 100 diffs of them23:50
barryanyway, i'm going to grab some dinner and let this build23:52
SpamapSbarry: for those diffs, I use vimdiff :)23:54
ScottKbarry: You'll want to merge python-defaults from experimental (I just uploaded it)23:57

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