Bug#1084924: Draft Ballot Re: Bug#1084924: The system-log-daemon virtual package

2024-12-17 Thread Philip Hands
sts that Policy be updated to reflect this change. Cheers, Phil. -- Philip Hands -- https://hands.com/~phil signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Bug#1050001: Unwinding directory aliasing [and 3 more messages]

2023-08-28 Thread Philip Hands
wns at present. Cheers, Phil. -- Philip Hands -- https://hands.com/~phil signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Re: Is a different opinion about a license a case for the ctte?

2022-08-02 Thread Philip Hands
pretty active on GitHub, so seems likely to respond in a timely manner). Cheers, Phil. -- |)| Philip Hands [+44 (0)20 8530 9560] HANDS.COM Ltd. |-| http://www.hands.com/http://ftp.uk.debian.org/ |(| Hugo-Klemm-Strasse 34, 21075 Hamburg,GERMANY signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Bug#1003653: Revision of removal of rename.ul from package util-linux

2022-03-29 Thread Philip Hands
, or that you could define 'rename' as an alias in your profile, or even that you might use update-alternetives to install one of them as 'rename' system-wide. Cheers, Phil. -- |)| Philip Hands [+44 (0)20 8530 9560] HANDS.COM Ltd. |-| http://www.hands.com/http://ftp.uk.debian.org/ |(| Hugo-Klemm-Strasse 34, 21075 Hamburg,GERMANY signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Bug#1003653: Revision of removal of rename.ul from package util-linux

2022-02-09 Thread Philip Hands
ong as people can rely on rename.ul being present, regardless of distro. -- |)| Philip Hands [+44 (0)20 8530 9560] HANDS.COM Ltd. |-| http://www.hands.com/http://ftp.uk.debian.org/ |(| Hugo-Klemm-Strasse 34, 21075 Hamburg,GERMANY signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Re: New semi-formal ctte role: TC facilitators

2021-11-11 Thread Philip Hands
r of what being on the TC actually involves, so providing an additional recruitment channel. Cheers, Phil. -- |)| Philip Hands [+44 (0)20 8530 9560] HANDS.COM Ltd. |-| http://www.hands.com/http://ftp.uk.debian.org/ |(| Hugo-Klemm-Strasse 34, 21075 Hamburg,GERMANY signature.asc D

Bug#978636: move to merged-usr-only?

2021-01-26 Thread Philip Hands
xpression of opinion (e.g. by putting something like "I think" in front of it) rather than presenting it as though it were a fact, you would be much less provocative, which might lead to a more constructive discussion overall. Cheers, Phil. -- |)| Philip Hands [+44 (0)20 8530 9560] HANDS.

Bug#975075: tech-ctte: Should maintainers be able to block init compatibility changes?

2020-12-16 Thread Philip Hands
Matthew Vernon writes: > On 14/12/2020 21:56, Philip Hands wrote: > >> Could I just check if there's a point of common acceptability which both >> sides of this discussion could live with? > > [...] > >> My suggestion for a mutually bearable solution would

Re: Bug#975075: tech-ctte: Should maintainers be able to block init compatibility changes?

2020-12-16 Thread Philip Hands
between the maintainers of the packages involved, madly optimistic fool that I am ;-) ) Cheers, Phil. -- |)| Philip Hands [+44 (0)20 8530 9560] HANDS.COM Ltd. |-| http://www.hands.com/http://ftp.uk.debian.org/ |(| Hugo-Klemm-Strasse 34, 21075 Hamburg,GERMANY signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Bug#975075: tech-ctte: Should maintainers be able to block init compatibility changes?

2020-12-14 Thread Philip Hands
anager maintainer would open a bug mentioning that change against the network-manager-nonsystemd package, etc. If you think this approach is impractical for some reason, please say so, because what I have in mind as a better option does rather rely on this being available as a plausible fall-back positi

Bug#971515: Status as of last tech-ctte meeting

2020-11-21 Thread Philip Hands
keeping back development of the ^^ Do you really mean stable here? I had gained the impression that there was no prospect of Kubernetes getting into stable, regardless of the details of how it ends up being packaged. Have I misunderstood? Cheers, Phil. -- |)| Ph

Bug#965080: Resignation + Call for votes for new Chair

2020-07-20 Thread Philip Hands
Margarita Manterola writes: ... > ===BEGIN=== > > The chair of the Debian Technical Committee will be: > > A : Philip Hands > B : Margarita Manterola > C : David Bremner > D : Niko Tyni > E : Gunnar Wolf > F : Simon McVittie > G : Sean Whitton > H : El

Bug#961153: tech-ctte: Call for votes on TC membership of Sean Whitton

2020-05-27 Thread Philip Hands
David Bremner writes: > ===BEGIN > The Technical Committee recommends that Sean Whitton be > appointed by the Debian Project Leader to the Technical Committee. > > S: Recommend to Appoint Sean Whitton > F: Further Discussion > ===END I vote: S > F Cheers, Phil. --

Bug#961156: tech-ctte: Call for votes on TC membership of Elana Hashman

2020-05-27 Thread Philip Hands
David Bremner writes: > ===BEGIN > The Technical Committee recommends that Elana Hashman be > appointed by the Debian Project Leader to the Technical Committee. > > S: Recommend to Appoint Elana Hashman > F: Further Discussion > ===END I vote: S > F Cheers, Ph

Bug#947847: please install systemd-sysusers using update-alternatives

2020-01-30 Thread Philip Hands
are asking that question, then I suspect that your knowledge of the problems of shell scripting may be sufficiently limited to mean that the only useful way to answer it would be to say: Yes. > So C-code is safe by construction, do you really believe in that? What a ludicrous question -- well d

Bug#914897: tech-ctte: Should debootstrap disable merged /usr by default?

2019-03-03 Thread Philip Hands
both directory schemes are allowed, but packages should only > be built on hosts with "merged `/usr`" directory schemes (or in > such chroots) > > * FD: Further Discussion > > === End Resolution === I vote: H > M > FD > W Cheers, Ph

Bug#919951: ocaml builder must not be called `dune' or provide /usr/bin/dune

2019-01-21 Thread Philip Hands
weak to me. Feel free to point out if this is wrong. -- |)| Philip Hands [+44 (0)20 8530 9560] HANDS.COM Ltd. |-| http://www.hands.com/http://ftp.uk.debian.org/ |(| Hugo-Klemm-Strasse 34, 21075 Hamburg,GERMANY signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Bug#904302: Call for vote on disallowing the use dpkg's vendor series in the archive

2018-11-07 Thread Philip Hands
Tollef Fog Heen writes: ... > A: Approve resolution, disallowing the use of dpkg's vendor series > F: Further Discussion I vote A > F Cheers, Phil. -- |)| Philip Hands [+44 (0)20 8530 9560] HANDS.COM Ltd. |-| http://www.hands.com/http://ftp.uk.debian.org/ |(| Hugo-Kl

Bug#904302: Whether vendor-specific patch series should be permitted in the archive

2018-10-04 Thread Philip Hands
Adrian Bunk writes: > On Thu, Oct 04, 2018 at 08:21:07PM +0200, Philip Hands wrote: >>... >> IMO policy should recomend the use of separate source packages as the >> prefered solution to the problem that vendor-specific patch series were >> supposed to address. >

Bug#904302: Whether vendor-specific patch series should be permitted in the archive

2018-10-04 Thread Philip Hands
Ian Jackson writes: > Adrian Bunk writes ("Bug#904302: Whether vendor-specific patch series should > be permitted in the archive"): >> On Wed, Sep 19, 2018 at 02:39:23PM +0200, Philip Hands wrote: >> > The Committee therefore resolves that: >> > >

Bug#904302: Whether vendor-specific patch series should be permitted in the archive

2018-09-19 Thread Philip Hands
Tollef Fog Heen writes: > ]] Philip Hands > >> Tollef Fog Heen writes: >> >> >This should be implemented in Debian Policy by declaring that a a >>^^^ >> You've this doubled &#x

Bug#904302: Whether vendor-specific patch series should be permitted in the archive

2018-09-16 Thread Philip Hands
the use of vendor-specific patch series prior to Buster. Do we need to make the "SHOULD NOT" conditional on the package already having a vendor-specific patch series at the time of this resolution? Cheers, Phil. -- |)| Philip Hands [+44 (0)20 8530 9560] HANDS.COM Ltd. |-| h

Bug#904302: Why outlawing vendor-specific patch series would be a bad idea

2018-08-19 Thread Philip Hands
esults from applying a patch series that only gets applied if they unpack the source on a different vendor's OS. Cheers, Phil. -- |)| Philip Hands [+44 (0)20 8530 9560] HANDS.COM Ltd. |-| http://www.hands.com/http://ftp.uk.debian.org/ |(| Hugo-Klemm-Strasse 34, 21075 Hamburg,GERMANY signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Re: Next Meeting: Wednesday, July 18th 19:00 UTC (today) - Currently no topics

2018-07-19 Thread Philip Hands
is likely to continue until I get to Debcamp (next thursday-ish IIRC -- not sure what with timezones etc). See (some of) you soon :-) Cheers, Phil. -- |)| Philip Hands [+44 (0)20 8530 9560] HANDS.COM Ltd. |-| http://www.hands.com/http://ftp.uk.debian.org/ |(| Hugo-Klemm-Strasse 34, 21075 Hamburg,GERMANY signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Bug#893200: marked as done (TC Chair election)

2018-03-25 Thread Philip Hands
[0], here come the vote results: > > -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= > The winners are: > Option C "Phil Hands " > Option D "Margarita Manterola " > Option E "David Bremner " > -=

Bug#880014: Call for Votes for new TC member

2018-03-04 Thread Philip Hands
mittee recommends that Simon McVittie be > appointed by the Debian Project Leader to the Technical Committee. > > S: Recommend to Appoint Simon McVittie > F: Further Discussion > ===END I vote: S > F Cheers, Phil. -- |)| Philip Hands [+44 (0)20 8530 9560] HAN

Bug#877024: modemmanager should ask before messing with serial ports

2018-02-26 Thread Philip Hands
version? I've been in touch with Mathieu Trudel-Lapierre (Cc:ed) and he's still happy to act as maintainer. He's currently not a DD/DM so needs sponsorship for his packages, but that should not be problem. The @ubuntu email address that was on the package turns out to be outdated, and was b

Bug#881339: marked as done (allow node-babel-preset-env to build depend on itself)

2018-02-22 Thread Philip Hands
th steps 1-3 here: https://www.debian.org/devel/tech-ctte I'm confident that we can all learn from this experience, and hope we will do a better job next time. Cheers, Phil. -- |)| Philip Hands [+44 (0)20 8530 9560] HANDS.COM Ltd. |-| http://www.hands.com/http://ftp.uk.debian.org/ |

Bug#883573: Call for vote on waiving libpam-systemd dependencies' ordering

2018-02-09 Thread Philip Hands
tion should be managed according to Debian's usual > backwards-compatibility arrangements. > > === End Resolution === > > R: Approve resolution and repeal the TC decision from 2014-11-15 in #746578. > F: Further Discussion I vote: R > F Cheers, Phil. -- |)| Phi

Bug#889493: tech-ctte: Please review if systemd is reliable enough to be the default

2018-02-05 Thread Philip Hands
se impression about what is happening to the submitter. I can think of a couple of recent bugs that would have benefited from this approach ;-) -- |)| Philip Hands [+44 (0)20 8530 9560] HANDS.COM Ltd. |-| http://www.hands.com/http://ftp.uk.debian.org/ |(| Hugo-Klemm-Strasse 34, 21075 Hamburg,GERMANY signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Bug#886267: Voting for TC Chair

2018-01-11 Thread Philip Hands
ar Wolf > ===END=== I vote: A = D > B = C = E = F > G Cheers, Phil. -- |)| Philip Hands [+44 (0)20 8530 9560] HANDS.COM Ltd. |-| http://www.hands.com/http://ftp.uk.debian.org/ |(| Hugo-Klemm-Strasse 34, 21075 Hamburg,GERMANY signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Bug#880014: #880014: Call for Votes for new TC member

2017-12-27 Thread Philip Hands
> The Technical Committee recommends that Gunnar Wolf be > appointed by the Debian Project Leader to the Technical Committee. > > G: Recommend to Appoint Gunnar Wolf > F: Further Discussion > ===END I vote: G > F Cheers, Phil. -- |)| Philip Hands [+44 (0)20 8530 9560] HAN

Re: Dec 2017 TC meeting is at 'Wed Dec 20 19:00:00 UTC 2017'

2017-12-19 Thread Philip Hands
d for at least another day, so not a lot is getting done at present. Fun, fun, fun. We appear to be mostly over the worst of that though, so hopefully things will be back under control shortly. (he writes, as a small person partially-wakes and starts making pathetic noses... ) Cheers, Phil. -- |)|

Bug#877024: modemmanager should ask before messing with serial ports

2017-10-12 Thread Philip Hands
eally do have a modem, can: read the package's README to discover why it doesn't work report a bug saying what sort of modem they have, and that it's not being found by the Debian default configuration of MM and then flick the switch to make modemmanager optimistic enough to

Bug#862051: nodejs (6.11.2~dfsg-1) experimental; urgency=medium

2017-08-31 Thread Philip Hands
of effort though, when the alternative is simply tolerating the existence of the two line debian/nodejs.links file. Is there some down-side for users to having those links in place on their systems? If so, I don't think anyone's mentioned it yet. Cheers, Phil. -- |)| Philip Hands [

Bug#862051: nodejs (6.11.2~dfsg-1) experimental; urgency=medium

2017-08-30 Thread Philip Hands
Jérémy Lal writes: > 2017-08-30 11:50 GMT+02:00 Philip Hands : > >> Jérémy Lal writes: >> >> > 2017-08-29 21:39 GMT+02:00 Didier 'OdyX' Raboud : >> > >> >> Le mardi, 29 août 2017, 17.46:22 h CEST Thorsten Glaser a écrit : >>

Bug#862051: nodejs (6.11.2~dfsg-1) experimental; urgency=medium

2017-08-30 Thread Philip Hands
atter back up to the TC. I for one will have absolutely no sympathy with your side of the case at that point, not only because I think it is senseless, but also because you'll have been responsible for wasting the time of all involved. I will also not be even slightly timid about micro-mana

Re: Agust 2017 TC meeting is at 'Wed Aug 16 19:00:00 UTC 2017'

2017-08-16 Thread Philip Hands
say. BTW I started out with the above paragraph including things like "unless anyone objects", but I'm pretty sure that nobody does, and it's a reversible action, so I just went for it -- I hope nobody minds. Cheers, Phil. -- |)| Philip Hands [+44 (0)20 8530 9560]

Re: Bug#839172: TC decision regarding #741573 menu policy not reflected yet

2017-08-03 Thread Philip Hands
Sean Whitton writes: > On Thu, Aug 03, 2017 at 05:51:27PM +0200, Philip Hands wrote: >> P.S. Just in case this is an oversight, rather than an intentional >> change: >> >> Shouldn't "desktop entry" and "Debian menu entry" be somehow >>

Re: Bug#839172: TC decision regarding #741573 menu policy not reflected yet

2017-08-03 Thread Philip Hands
: installs a FreeDesktop desktop entries I guess that should instead be: installs FreeDesktop desktop entries (or perhaps it should be singular throughout, I'm not sure) Cheers, Phil. P.S. Just in case this is an oversight, rather than an intentional change: Shouldn't "

Bug#862051: Call for vote on allowing nodejs to provide /usr/bin/node

2017-07-29 Thread Philip Hands
ractices take over and the > nodejs package is free to provide /usr/bin/node. The migration should > be managed according to Debian's usual backwards-compatibility > arrangements. > > === End Resolution === > > R: Approve resolution and repeal the CTTE decision from 2012-07

Bug#865929: Advice on dealing with GRUB upgrade failure caused by init-select

2017-07-21 Thread Philip Hands
s that you are able to do whatever is needed (or perhaps suggest alternative approaches). BTW I'd like to thank you for the clarity with which you laid out the problem for us -- I'm sure the rest of the TC appreciate that too. Cheers, Phil. -- |)| Philip Hands [+44 (0)20 8530

Re: Bug#862051: Refer #862051 to ctte

2017-07-17 Thread Philip Hands
scribe the consequences of the revocation. Like mentioning that where a versioned depends on nodejs is deemed necessary, the Depends: should probably also allow nodejs-legacy as an alternative option, since that also provides /usr/bin/node. Cheers, Phil. -- |)| Philip Hands [+44 (0)20 8530 9560] H

Bug#865485: Voting for TC Chair

2017-06-22 Thread Philip Hands
D: Sam Hartman > E: Phil Hands > F: Margarita Manterola > G: David Bremner > H: Niko Tyni > ===END=== I vote: B > F > A = C = D = E = G > H Cheers, Phil. -- |)| Philip Hands [+44 (0)20 8530 9560] HANDS.COM Ltd. |-| http://www.hands.com/http://ftp.uk.debian

Bug#836127: Call for Votes for new TC member

2017-06-13 Thread Philip Hands
ee recommends that Niko Tyni be > appointed by the Debian Project Leader to the Technical Committee. > > N: Recommend to Appoint Niko Tyni > F: Further Discussion > ===END I vote: N > F -- |)| Philip Hands [+44 (0)20 8530 9560] HANDS.COM Ltd. |-| http://www.hands.com

Bug#862051: Refer #862051 to ctte (WAS: nodejs-legacy: possibly drop this package, now that ax25-node has been removed?)

2017-05-22 Thread Philip Hands
ume we'd want to continue providing /usr/bin/nodejs for people that have switched to using that, so that might as well continue to be the name of the binary, since that gives us a 'node' symlink that is self-documenting. If ax25-node reenters the archive at some point, that should no

Bug#860520: Voting for TC Chair

2017-04-24 Thread Philip Hands
Didier 'OdyX' Raboud writes: > Package: tech-ctte > Severity: normal > > Dear TC members, > > With the appointment of David to the TC and according to our current > procedures¹, I am hereby announcing my immediate vacation of the chair > position, triggering a new election. For clarity of the p

Bug#836127: Call for Votes for new CTTE Member

2017-04-10 Thread Philip Hands
>> ===END > > I vote A > B So, with that vote added, option A defeats B by 4 votes, and we thus agree to recommend David for the TC. Mehdi, does this count as sufficiant notification of that fact? Cheers, Phil. -- |)| Philip Hands [+44 (0)20 8530 9560] HANDS.COM Ltd. |-| htt

Bug#836127: Call for Votes for new CTTE Member

2017-04-03 Thread Philip Hands
I vote: > ===BEGIN > > The Technical Committee recommends that David Bremner be > appointed by the Debian Project Leader to the Technical Committee. > > A: Recommend to Appoint David Bremner > B: Further Discussion > > ===END A > B Cheers, Phil. -- |)| Phil

Bug#836127: Call for Votes for new CTTE Member

2017-04-03 Thread Philip Hands
Technical Committee. A: Recommend to Appoint David Bremner B: Further Discussion ===END -- |)| Philip Hands [+44 (0)20 8530 9560] HANDS.COM Ltd. |-| http://www.hands.com/http://ftp.uk.debian.org/ |(| Hugo-Klemm-Strasse 34, 21075 Hamburg,GERMANY signature.asc Description: PGP signature

postponed March 2017 TC meeting is tonight at 'Wed Mar 22 19:00:00 UTC 2017'

2017-03-22 Thread Philip Hands
Just in case anyone didn't notice on IRC, last week's meeting didn't actually happen -- it was instead postponed by a week: date -d 'Wed Mar 22 19:00:00 UTC 2017' in #debian-ctte on irc.debian.org Cheers, Phil. -- |)| Philip Hands [+44 (0)20

Bug#857257: Re: Supporting configuration file changes between versions in unstable/testing

2017-03-10 Thread Philip Hands
here is some reason to be able to configure their location, which I cannot really imagine). I presume those settings are used nowhere else, in which case they should be renamed in the script, in order to avoid the export $(cat ...) code overwriting the new settings. Rewriting the export $(cat .

Bug#857257: Re: Supporting configuration file changes between versions in unstable/testing

2017-03-09 Thread Philip Hands
ch ought to also ensure that this bug would disappear. Cheers, Phil. -- |)| Philip Hands [+44 (0)20 8530 9560] HANDS.COM Ltd. |-| http://www.hands.com/http://ftp.uk.debian.org/ |(| Hugo-Klemm-Strasse 34, 21075 Hamburg,GERMANY signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Bug#846002: Call for votes on resolution for #846002 (blends-tasks)

2017-02-03 Thread Philip Hands
ian-installer in future releases. > > END OF RESOLUTION > > Please vote [A] for acknowledging that this is under the jurisdiction of the > debian-installer maintainers, and [FD] for Further Discussion. Since I feel a conflict of interest due to being a D-I team member, I'll

Bug#846002: blends-tasks must be priority:standard and not make a mess out of tasksel menu

2017-02-03 Thread Philip Hands
27;t know why anyone else didn't respond to Ian's criticism, but for my part I didn't think it was even slightly helpful for him to be in effect pushing me further towards the conflict of interest that I'm attempting to avoid. Cheers, Phil. -- |)| Philip Hands [+44 (0)20 8530 95

Bug#850967: Clarify /usr/bin/foo should not be hardcoded even in upstream parts

2017-01-13 Thread Philip Hands
rocesses on a system, getting almost all the benefits of PATH. I stumbled across 'proot' while looking into the background for this, which seems to be able to provide the effect of a bind mount without needing root privilege, and would presumably deal with Ian's original problem q

Bug#846002: blends-tasks must not be priority:important (was Re: Bug#846002: Lowering severity)

2016-12-25 Thread Philip Hands
Cyril Brulebois writes: > Philip Hands (2016-12-24): >> OK, this is tiresome -- you're complaining about question marks when I >> was still exploring the options and looking for feedback -- I could >> instead have been definite about an earlier option, but that wou

Bug#846002: blends-tasks must not be priority:important (was Re: Bug#846002: Lowering severity)

2016-12-24 Thread Philip Hands
ing open about my feelings on the various commits because if you do that you'll reap the whirlwind when people start lying to you to get past your superficial metrics. Cheers, Phil. -- |)| Philip Hands [+44 (0)20 8530 9560] HANDS.COM Ltd. |-| http://www.hands.com/http://ftp.uk.debian.org/ |(| Hugo-Klemm-Strasse 34, 21075 Hamburg,GERMANY signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Bug#846002: blends-tasks must not be priority:important (was Re: Bug#846002: Lowering severity)

2016-12-24 Thread Philip Hands
Philip Hands writes: > Steve McIntyre writes: > >> On Sat, Dec 24, 2016 at 02:25:48AM +0100, Philip Hands wrote: >>>Raphael Hertzog writes: >>>... >>>> So I agree with Cyril and the d-i team, we should be cautious here. >>>> >>>

Bug#846002: blends-tasks must not be priority:important (was Re: Bug#846002: Lowering severity)

2016-12-24 Thread Philip Hands
Steve McIntyre writes: > On Sat, Dec 24, 2016 at 02:25:48AM +0100, Philip Hands wrote: >>Raphael Hertzog writes: >>... >>> So I agree with Cyril and the d-i team, we should be cautious here. >>> >>> Let's focus everybody's energy on gettin

Bug#846002: blends-tasks must not be priority:important (was Re: Bug#846002: Lowering severity)

2016-12-23 Thread Philip Hands
. ';;' does not match that, so converts to selecting no tasks -- I suspect leaving it blank would work just as well, but have not tried that yet. If anyone knows how to set choices-c via preseeding, then we might not need (all of) the second commit. Cheers, Phil. -- |)| Philip Han

Bug#846002: blends-tasks must not be priority:important (was Re: Bug#846002: Lowering severity)

2016-12-20 Thread Philip Hands
Hi Cyril, Just as a reminder for the upcoming alpha that I was trying to do something about this by adding an extra simplified tasksel promt: Philip Hands writes: ... > The menu is now: > > --> standard ("${DESKTOP}") desktop <-- >

Bug#846002: blends-tasks must not be priority:important (was Re: Bug#846002: Lowering severity)

2016-12-12 Thread Philip Hands
Ian Jackson writes: > Wouter Verhelst writes ("Bug#846002: blends-tasks must not be > priority:important (was Re: Bug#846002: Lowering severity)"): >> On Sat, Dec 10, 2016 at 12:06:44PM +0100, Philip Hands wrote: >> > How about one or both of: >> > &

Bug#846002: blends-tasks must not be priority:important (was Re: Bug#846002: Lowering severity)

2016-12-10 Thread Philip Hands
Ole Streicher writes: > Hi Phil, > > On 10.12.2016 01:03, Philip Hands wrote: >> Just to test things out, if one adds: >> >> url=hands.com/d-i/bug/846002/preseed.cfg >> >> to the kernel command line (so, hitting TAB as the installer's boot men

Bug#846002: blends-tasks must not be priority:important (was Re: Bug#846002: Lowering severity)

2016-12-09 Thread Philip Hands
Ole Streicher writes: > On 09.12.2016 08:37, Philip Hands wrote: >>> On Wed, 07 Dec 2016, Philip Hands wrote: >>>> It could be much improved by making it more obvious that the heading is >>>> a heading. Even if we're unable to stop headings having a ch

Bug#841294: Overrule maitainer of "global" to package a new upstream version

2016-12-09 Thread Philip Hands
ough I have a slight feeling of impending doom about relying upon just this. Would it not be wise to make the network-facing perl code runnable with strict and taint turned on, if only to stop people reacting with horror at first glance? I presume patches would be welcome? Cheers, Phil. -- |)|

Bug#846002: blends-tasks must not be priority:important (was Re: Bug#846002: Lowering severity)

2016-12-08 Thread Philip Hands
required skills... > > I'm thus suggesting that blends-tasks should be removed and merged in > tasksel-data. At the same time, we should fix the installer to bypass > that confusing tasksel screen that we always get by default. > > On Wed, 07 Dec 2016, Philip Hands wrote: >

Bug#846002: blends-tasks must not be priority:important (was Re: Bug#846002: Lowering severity)

2016-12-08 Thread Philip Hands
ownloading again because they fancy playing some games at home, when the only difference between the images would be about 5 bytes of preseed setting. That said, it would probably be nice to make it trivially easy to set downloaded media to default to e.g. debian-astro at the user's preference

Bug#846002: blends-tasks must not be priority:important (was Re: Bug#846002: Lowering severity)

2016-12-07 Thread Philip Hands
Ole Streicher writes: > Hi Philip, > > On 06.12.2016 20:43, Philip Hands wrote: >> Could we serve their needs with an extra debian-installer/blend >> preseed to deal with this, probably aliased as just 'blend' so that >> one could type something like: >

Bug#846002: blends-tasks must not be priority:important (was Re: Bug#846002: Lowering severity)

2016-12-07 Thread Philip Hands
d then make sure that it also works for one to specify e.g. desktop=kde and have KDE selected by default in this menu in that case. I don't know how well speakup, or the other UIs might deal with '==='. Would that cheer people up without needing a major rewrite of tasksel? Cheers,

Bug#846002: blends-tasks must not be priority:important (was Re: Bug#846002: Lowering severity)

2016-12-06 Thread Philip Hands
;Blend-tastic!" variant of the install media. If there's a real use case for mixing multiple blends, one could separate them with ; as we do elsewhere, so: blend=med;ham;games (we might want to call it 'blends' in that case, but I think that might be over-complicating things)

Bug#846002: blends-tasks must not be priority:important (was Re: Bug#846002: Lowering severity)

2016-12-06 Thread Philip Hands
ends-tasks (BTW is there an easy way to check which packages are installed together via popcon?) There is no need for them to tick the 'Special tasks' menu item in order to install any of the the blends, so to some tiny extent they were confused when they did that, were they not? Cheers, Phil

Bug#846002: blends-tasks must not be priority:important (was Re: Bug#846002: Lowering severity)

2016-12-06 Thread Philip Hands
vailable in the d-i team to come up with some better way of presenting the question. Cheers, Phil. -- |)| Philip Hands [+44 (0)20 8530 9560] HANDS.COM Ltd. |-| http://www.hands.com/http://ftp.uk.debian.org/ |(| Hugo-Klemm-Strasse 34, 21075 Hamburg,GERMANY signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Bug#841294: Overrule maitainer of "global" to package a new upstream version

2016-12-05 Thread Philip Hands
ner, or transfer the maintainership, I think you ought to be up-front about that in order to avoid any accusations of intentional time-wasting later on. If you can keep your answers brief, you'll earn my gratitude. Cheers, Phil. -- |)| Philip Hands [+44 (0)20 8530 9560] HANDS.COM Ltd. |-

Re: Maintainership

2016-12-02 Thread Philip Hands
a consensus. I'm sure there must be something constructive for you to be getting on with instead. Cheers, Phil. -- |)| Philip Hands [+44 (0)20 8530 9560] HANDS.COM Ltd. |-| http://www.hands.com/http://ftp.uk.debian.org/ |(| Hugo-Klemm-Strasse 34, 21075 Hamburg,GERMANY signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Re: Bug#841294: Overrule maintainer of "global" to package a new upstream version

2016-12-01 Thread Philip Hands
er some disk space in order to avoid the questionable CGI setup. I'm failing to be convinced that there is a significant userbase that falls between these two stools. If v6 goes into stretch, there will need to be a NEWS item about htmake and htconfig going away -- that could also mentio

Bug#841294: Overrule maintainer of "global" to package a new upstream version

2016-11-03 Thread Philip Hands
Ron writes: > Hi Marga, > > On Tue, Nov 01, 2016 at 11:32:49AM +0100, Margarita Manterola wrote: >> > Philip Hands writes: >> > It seems like you are tempted to drop htags anyway now, so calling the >> > version 6 package 'global' and adding the

Bug#841294: Overrule maintainer of "global" to package a new upstream version

2016-10-25 Thread Philip Hands
Philip Hands writes: ... > How viable is it to have two conflicting packages: > > global5: continuing as you have it now >(perhaps with patches to make it work for recent use cases) > > global6: (with htags support removed) Ah, I see -- I had somehow got the i

Bug#841294: Overrule maintainer of "global" to package a new upstream version

2016-10-25 Thread Philip Hands
e a note that the global5 package might go away in the next release (so that most people will see that on upgrade) then you could provoke the feedback you want, and perhaps also make judgements based on the way popcon figures shift over time. Would that work for you? Cheers, Phil. -- |)| Phili

Re: Bug#839570: Browserified javascript and DFSG 2 (reopening)

2016-10-20 Thread Philip Hands
cover what "browserified" is supposed to mean have been ignored. Despite that, this is still the term that continues to be used to pose the question. There may have been the appearance of a debate in the TC, but from my point of view that was mostly pondering what conceivable meaning &qu

Bug#839570: Browserified javascript and DFSG 2 (reopening)

2016-10-07 Thread Philip Hands
on were willing to use them, that there is any chance of obtaining a 2/3 majority in favour of forcing source-less, buildtool-less packages into 'main'. Cheers, Phil. -- |)| Philip Hands [+44 (0)20 8530 9560] HANDS.COM Ltd. |-| http://www.hands.com/http://ftp.uk.debian.org/ |(|

Re: Bug#839570: Browserified javascript and DFSG 2 (reopening)

2016-10-07 Thread Philip Hands
Adrian Bunk writes: > On Thu, Oct 06, 2016 at 09:48:02AM +0200, Vincent Bernat wrote: >> ❦ 5 octobre 2016 22:49 CEST, Philip Hands  : >> >> > If you fancy explaining what you think browserified means w.r.t. the >> > Jison stuff, go ahead of course. That

Bug#839570: Browserified javascript and DFSG 2 (reopening)

2016-10-06 Thread Philip Hands
Also, this code is only run during the build process. You'll also note that people are routinely developing upstream by modifying that code directly. I've found no evidence of that at all so far when looking at browserified code. Personally I'd prefer it if we could rebuild Config

Re: Bug#839570: Browserified javascript and DFSG 2 (reopening)

2016-10-05 Thread Philip Hands
Philip Hands writes: > Praveen, please respond to #830986 Actually, I withdraw that request -- I doubt replying there is going to be a productive use of your time, and is probably not going to improve your chances of getting what you want either. If you fancy explaining what you th

Re: Bug#839570: Browserified javascript and DFSG 2 (reopening)

2016-10-05 Thread Philip Hands
n sure if the re-opening of the bug was instead an attempt to get some sort of permission to let the likes of gitlab into main, by temporarily ignoring the non-free dependencies. (I'm not suggesting that as a way forward BTW, but it seemed at least as plausible as what was actually being asked) Che

Bug#839570: Browserified javascript and DFSG 2 (reopening)

2016-10-03 Thread Philip Hands
e bug. As a bare minimum, try specifying what outcome you are hoping for, with respect to which package. Cheers, Phil. -- |)| Philip Hands [+44 (0)20 8530 9560] HANDS.COM Ltd. |-| http://www.hands.com/http://ftp.uk.debian.org/ |(| Hugo-Klemm-Strasse 34, 21075 Hamburg,GERMANY signature.asc Description: PGP signature

unblocking the policy update process

2016-09-29 Thread Philip Hands
describe a proposed plan of action, or what the rest of us might be able to do to help -- or whatever else comes to mind :-) Cheers, Phil. -- |)| Philip Hands [+44 (0)20 8530 9560] HANDS.COM Ltd. |-| http://www.hands.com/http://ftp.uk.debian.org/ |(| Hugo-Klemm-Strasse 34, 21075 Hamburg,

Bug#830344: Project Roadmap question - Call for votes

2016-08-21 Thread Philip Hands
let the enthused get on with it. The TC's contribution so far seems to have only been to delay things, so that's why I'm voting not to be involved in that capacity either. Cheers, Phil. -- |)| Philip Hands [+44 (0)20 8530 9560] HANDS.COM Ltd. |-| http://www.hands.com/htt

Bug#830344: How should the TC help with a project roadmap?

2016-08-03 Thread Philip Hands
heers, Phil. P.S. Sure, if two ideas are going to cause a conflict, then they can be referred to the TC in the normal manner, and then we'd get involved, but I would expect that to be a very rare event. -- |)| Philip Hands [+44 (0)20 8530 9560] HANDS.COM Ltd. |-| http://www.hands.com/http://

Bug#830978: Browserified javascript and DFSG 2

2016-07-18 Thread Philip Hands
Uoti Urpala writes: > On Mon, 18 Jul 2016 11:15:59 +0200 Philip Hands wrote: >> Uoti Urpala writes: >>  >> > In what sense couldn't everyone modify the concatenated form? >>  >> Perhaps if I frame my question from: >>  >>   https://bugs.deb

Bug#830978: Browserified javascript and DFSG 2

2016-07-18 Thread Philip Hands
4bd6aa5831be6074131cfca#diff-49dc26dc0a147a52074ac39c72bd99b1R2119 and if so, why would you want to do that? Of course, one could do that, in the same way that one could apply a hex editor to a binary file -- that does not make it source. Cheers, Phil. -- |)| Philip Hands [+44 (0)20 8530 9560] H

Bug#830978: Browserified javascript and DFSG 2

2016-07-15 Thread Philip Hands
indistinguishable as far as anyone working on the code might be concerned? Cheers, Phil. -- |)| Philip Hands [+44 (0)20 8530 9560] HANDS.COM Ltd. |-| http://www.hands.com/http://ftp.uk.debian.org/ |(| Hugo-Klemm-Strasse 34, 21075 Hamburg,GERMANY signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Bug#829704: Voting for TC Chair

2016-07-05 Thread Philip Hands
rita Manterola > ===END=== I vote D > A B C E F H > G Cheers, Phil. -- |)| Philip Hands [+44 (0)20 8530 9560] HANDS.COM Ltd. |-| http://www.hands.com/http://ftp.uk.debian.org/ |(| Hugo-Klemm-Strasse 34, 21075 Hamburg,GERMANY signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Bug#822803: Call for votes for new TC member

2016-07-05 Thread Philip Hands
> ===BEGIN > > The Technical Committee recommends that Margarita Manterola be > appointed by the Debian Project Leader to the Technical Committee. > > MM: Recommend to appoint Margarita Manterola > FD: Further Discussion > > ===END I vote MM > FD Cheers, Phi

Bug#762194: Summary:Re: Bug#762194: Proposal for upgrades to jessie (lendows 1)

2014-11-30 Thread Philip Hands
of user to another, and might find that a bad experience ... but then I've no idea what the "appropriate steps" might be ;-) ) Cheers, Phil. P.S. For those that think there's no choice when installing: https://wiki.debian.org/systemd#Installing_without_systemd I'd suggest th