Re: Mass bug filing: dependencies on GTK 2
On Wed, Apr 29, 2020 at 11:40:01AM +0200, Simon McVittie wrote: GTK 2 is used by some important productivity applications like GIMP, and has also historically been a popular UI toolkit for proprietary software that we can't change, so perhaps removing GTK 2 from Debian will never be feasible. However, it has definitely reached the point where a dependency on it is a bug - not a release-critical bug, and not a bug that can necessarily be fixed quickly, but a piece of technical debt that maintainers should be aware of. Thanks for expressing this so well! For folks interested in working with historical software, historical toolkits are vital. It was for this reason I am sad at the glee with which people removed Qt4 from the archive, and similar such things. But at the same time you are right that packaged F/OSS software really should migrate toolkits eventually. Or at least the vast majority of it should. -- 👱🏻 Jonathan Dowland ✎ j...@dow.land 🔗 https://jmtd.net
Re: Mass bug filing: dependencies on GTK 2
On Thu, May 14, 2020 at 9:28 AM Jonathan Dowland wrote: > Thanks for expressing this so well! For folks interested in working with > historical software, historical toolkits are vital. It was for this > reason I am sad at the glee with which people removed Qt4 from the > archive, and similar such things. But at the same time you are > right that packaged F/OSS software really should migrate > toolkits eventually. Or at least the vast majority of it should. I wonder if flatpak/snap would be a good way to preserve historical software. At least some folks are thinking that way: https://ubuntu.com/blog/how-to-preserve-old-software-with-snaps -- bye, pabs https://wiki.debian.org/PaulWise
Bug#960618: ITP: node-nouislider -- lightweight JavaScript range slider
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Doug Torrance * Package name: node-nouislider Version : 14.5.0 Upstream Author : Léon Gersen * URL : https://refreshless.com/nouislider/ * License : MIT Programming Lang: Javascript Description : lightweight JavaScript range slider noUiSlider is a lightweight range slider with multi-touch support and a ton of features. It supports non-linear ranges, requires no external dependencies, has keyboard support, and it works great in responsive designs. Node.js is an event-based server-side JavaScript engine. I am interested in packaging noUiSlider as it is a dependency of the Visualize package for Macaulay2, a computer algebra system for algebraic geometry and commutative algebra I am currently working to get into Debian. I intend to maintain noUiSlider under the umbrella of the Debian Javascript Team.
Re: Videoconference on Friday 2020-05-01 18:00 UTC (Was: For those who want to keep on contributing (Was: Debian @ COVID-19 Biohackathon (April 5-11, 2020)))
Hi, for those who would like to join our next videomeeting it will happen at https://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/fixedtime.html?msg=Debian+CoViD-19+Biohackathon+Video+Conference&iso=20200515T20&p1=37&ah=1 in the Jitsi channel https://meet.jit.si/DebianMedCovid19 See you Andreas. > On Fri, Apr 24, 2020 at 08:30:17AM +0200, Andreas Tille wrote: > > Hi, > > > > sorry, I missed to set a new poll for todays Debian Med meeting so I > > simply suggest to stick to 18:00 UTC which worked out nicely last week. > > Feel free to check > > > > > > https://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/fixedtime.html?msg=Debian+CoViD-19+Biohackathon+Video+Conference&iso=20200424T20&p1=37&ah=1 > > > > for your time zone. The Jitsi channel will remain the one used in the > > official sprint period: > > > > https://meet.jit.si/DebianMedCovid19 > > > > See you later hopefully > > > > Andreas. > > > > PS: For those who are seriously interested and who can not make it at > > this time please let me know in private mail. I'll setup a new > > poll for next week then. > > > > > On Wed, Apr 15, 2020 at 09:22:54PM +0200, Andreas Tille wrote: > > > > Hi, > > > > > > > > there will be a formal summary of our sprint which I'd describe with the > > > > short summary that we have approached in one week more than in usual two > > > > monthes work. Thanks a lot to all who contributed - especially thanks > > > > for an enormous support from ftpmaster (we had huge batches of accepted > > > > packages in less than 24 hours!) > > > > > > > > Since the COVID-19 situation is by no means settled and as usual > > > > successful work tends to create even more work we want to continue our > > > > effort. So those who are interested to contribute the contact points > > > > below remain valid. We also want to continue with video meetings. As a > > > > first date we try an end-of-week meeting on Fridays (I'm open for better > > > > suggestions why Friday is not so good and a different day of week should > > > > be choosen). Here is a poll for the exact time for next Friday: > > > > > > > > http://whenisgood.net/hd53twx > > > > > > > > Looking forward to see you next Friday > > > > > > > > Andreas. > > > > > > > > On Fri, Mar 27, 2020 at 08:59:50PM +0100, Andreas Tille wrote: > > > > > Dear Debian Community, > > > > > > > > > > There will be an virtual (online) COVID-19 Biohackathon from April > > > > > 5-11, > > > > > 2020 and the Debian Med team invite you help us improve biomedical > > > > > FOSS > > > > > and the tools/libraries that support those projects. > > > > > > > > > > Most tasks do not require any knowledge of biology or medicine, and > > > > > all > > > > > types of contributions are welcome: bug triage, testing, > > > > > documentation, > > > > > CI, translations, packaging, and code contributions. > > > > > > > > > > 1. Debian related bugs are viewable at [covid19-bugs] > > > > > > > > > > 2. Software awaiting packaging is listed at [covid-19-packages], > > > > > please > > > > > respond to the RFP with your intent so we don't duplicate work > > > > > > > > > > 3. You can also contribute directly to the upstream packages, linked > > > > > from the Debian Med COVID-19 task page at [covid-19-packages]. Note: > > > > > many biomedical software packages are quite resource limited, even > > > > > compared to a typical FOSS project. Please be kind to the upstream > > > > > author/maintainers and realize that they may have limited resources to > > > > > review your contribution. Triaging open issues and opening pull > > > > > requests > > > > > to fix problems is likely to be more useful than nitpicking their > > > > > coding > > > > > style. > > > > > > > > > > 4. Architectures/porting: Please focus on amd64, as it is the primary > > > > > architecture for biomedical software. A secondary tier would be arm64 > > > > > / > > > > > ppc64el / s390x (but beware the endian-related issues on s390x). From > > > > > a > > > > > free/open hardware perspective it would be great to see more riscv64 > > > > > support, but that is not a priority right now > > > > > > > > > > 5. The Debian Med team is also trying to improve the availability of > > > > > automated biomedical pipelines/workflows [robust-workflows] using the > > > > > Common Workflow Language open standard. The reference implementation > > > > > of > > > > > CWL is written in Python and there are many open issues ready for work > > > > > that don't require any biomedical background [cwltool-issues] > > > > > > > > > > 6. It is very easy to contribute to Debian Med team. We have a lowNMU > > > > > policy for all our packages. Merge requests on Salsa are usually > > > > > processed quickly (but please ping some of the latest Uploaders of the > > > > > package to make sure it will be noticed). Even better if you ask for > > > > > membership to the team and push directly to the salsa repository. >
Work-needing packages report for May 15, 2020
The following is a listing of packages for which help has been requested through the WNPP (Work-Needing and Prospective Packages) system in the last week. Total number of orphaned packages: 1193 (new: 10) Total number of packages offered up for adoption: 218 (new: 0) Total number of packages requested help for: 61 (new: 0) Please refer to https://www.debian.org/devel/wnpp/ for more information. The following packages have been orphaned: arcanist-clang-format-linter (#960425), orphaned 2 days ago Description: clang-format linter for Arcanist Installations reported by Popcon: 11 Bug Report URL: https://bugs.debian.org/960425 duck (#960137), orphaned 5 days ago Description: checks URLs in debian/control and debian/upstream files Installations reported by Popcon: 129 Bug Report URL: https://bugs.debian.org/960137 libapache2-mod-watchcat (#960549), orphaned yesterday Description: Process monitoring Apache module Installations reported by Popcon: 13 Bug Report URL: https://bugs.debian.org/960549 libdevice-usb-pcsensor-hidtemper-perl (#960552), orphaned yesterday Description: Perl module to interface to the HidTEMPer thermometers Installations reported by Popcon: 15 Bug Report URL: https://bugs.debian.org/960552 libnet-google-safebrowsing2-perl (#960553), orphaned yesterday Description: Perl extension for the Google Safe Browsing v2 API Installations reported by Popcon: 15 Bug Report URL: https://bugs.debian.org/960553 libwcat1 (#960550), orphaned yesterday Description: Process monitoring library Reverse Depends: libapache2-mod-watchcat libwcat1-dev Installations reported by Popcon: 14 Bug Report URL: https://bugs.debian.org/960550 php-nrk-predis (#960551), orphaned yesterday Description: Flexible and feature-complete PHP client library for the Redis key-value store Reverse Depends: rainloop Installations reported by Popcon: 155 Bug Report URL: https://bugs.debian.org/960551 rtax (#960138), orphaned 5 days ago Description: Classification of sequence reads of 16S ribosomal RNA gene Installations reported by Popcon: 76 Bug Report URL: https://bugs.debian.org/960138 snowdrop (#960139), orphaned 5 days ago Description: plain text watermarking and watermark recovery Reverse Depends: forensics-extra Installations reported by Popcon: 412 Bug Report URL: https://bugs.debian.org/960139 watchcatd (#960554), orphaned yesterday Description: Process monitoring daemon Reverse Depends: libapache2-mod-watchcat Installations reported by Popcon: 19 Bug Report URL: https://bugs.debian.org/960554 1183 older packages have been omitted from this listing, see https://www.debian.org/devel/wnpp/orphaned for a complete list. No new packages have been given up for adoption, but a total of 218 packages are awaiting adoption. See https://www.debian.org/devel/wnpp/rfa_bypackage for a complete list. For the following packages help is requested: apache2 (#910917), requested 579 days ago Description: Apache HTTP Server Reverse Depends: apache2 apache2-ssl-dev apache2-suexec-custom apache2-suexec-pristine backuppc courier-webadmin cvsweb debbugs-web dms-wsgi doc-central (135 more omitted) Installations reported by Popcon: 95380 Bug Report URL: https://bugs.debian.org/910917 autopkgtest (#846328), requested 1261 days ago Description: automatic as-installed testing for Debian packages Reverse Depends: debci-worker Installations reported by Popcon: 1183 Bug Report URL: https://bugs.debian.org/846328 balsa (#642906), requested 3154 days ago Description: An e-mail client for GNOME Installations reported by Popcon: 681 Bug Report URL: https://bugs.debian.org/642906 broadcom-sta (#886599), requested 857 days ago (non-free) Description: Broadcom STA Wireless driver (non-free) Installations reported by Popcon: 1769 Bug Report URL: https://bugs.debian.org/886599 cargo (#860116), requested 1129 days ago Description: Rust package manager Reverse Depends: dh-cargo Installations reported by Popcon: 1635 Bug Report URL: https://bugs.debian.org/860116 clipit (#958295), requested 24 days ago Description: lightweight GTK+ clipboard manager Reverse Depends: lxqt Installations reported by Popcon: 9935 Bug Report URL: https://bugs.debian.org/958295 cyrus-imapd (#921717), requested 461 days ago Description: Cyrus mail system - IMAP support Reverse Depends: cyrus-admin cyrus-caldav cyrus-clients cyrus-dev cyrus-imapd cyrus-murder cyrus-nntpd cyrus-pop3d cyrus
