Re: Bug#791828: dput-ng: Please make coinstallable with dput

2017-01-03 Thread Tobias Frost
Am Montag, den 02.01.2017, 10:16 +1100 schrieb Ben Finney: > On 08-Jul-2015, Tobias Frost wrote: > > > I'd love to use both dput and dput-ng without the need of > > installing > > the version I'd use next.. > > As discussed briefly in the thread from 2016-12, my counter-proposal > is that the two

Re: Feedback on 3.0 source format problems

2017-01-03 Thread Vincent Bernat
❦ 4 janvier 2017 04:52 GMT, Scott Kitterman  : >>> It's surprisingly awkward, and, at least for me, it turns out that >>> externalizing my rebased branch as a patch series solves many of >>> problems surprisingly well. All the other solutions I can think of >>> require one or more things I don'

Re: Converting to dgit

2017-01-03 Thread Russ Allbery
Nikolaus Rath writes: > On Jan 03 2017, Russ Allbery wrote: >> Speaking as a Debian user who frequently has to apply local patches or >> produce local versions of Debian packages for my job (usually weird >> backports or bizarre local requirements), I cannot express to you how >> much I prefer a

Re: Feedback on 3.0 source format problems

2017-01-03 Thread Paul Wise
On Wed, Jan 4, 2017 at 1:30 PM, Nikolaus Rath wrote: > But I am not sure if a package structure like > > mypkg/upstream/* > mypkg/debian/* > mypkg/patches/* (?) > > would have any *practical* benefits over the current situation, because > this transformation could be trivially automated in either

Re: Converting to dgit

2017-01-03 Thread Scott Kitterman
On January 4, 2017 12:33:43 AM EST, Nikolaus Rath wrote: >On Jan 03 2017, Russ Allbery wrote: >> Nikolaus Rath writes: >> >>> The thing that's delivered to users in 99% of the cases is the >binary >>> package. In the (comparatively) rare cases where the user is >retrieving >>> the source, I am

Re: Converting to dgit

2017-01-03 Thread Nikolaus Rath
On Jan 03 2017, Russ Allbery wrote: > Nikolaus Rath writes: > >> The thing that's delivered to users in 99% of the cases is the binary >> package. In the (comparatively) rare cases where the user is retrieving >> the source, I am not convinced that most of these users truly prefer a >> Debian-spe

Re: Feedback on 3.0 source format problems

2017-01-03 Thread Nikolaus Rath
On Jan 04 2017, Paul Wise wrote: > On Mon, Jan 2, 2017 at 1:21 AM, Guillem Jover wrote: > >> I'm interested in what things people still find so off-putting to the >> point of not wanting to use the new 3.0 source formats. > > I've been reading this thread and keep being reminded of our > discussio

Re: Converting to dgit

2017-01-03 Thread Russell Stuart
On Wed, 2017-01-04 at 14:47 +1000, Russell Stuart wrote: > The central issue here appears to be that none of the proposed ways > of using git within Debian help with that task. On Wed, 2017-01-04 at 04:42 +, Colin Watson wrote: > > git-dpm does too, and I agree it's nice. > > It produces a p

Re: Feedback on 3.0 source format problems

2017-01-03 Thread Scott Kitterman
On January 3, 2017 10:22:22 PM EST, Nikolaus Rath wrote: >On Jan 03 2017, Russ Allbery wrote: >> It's surprisingly awkward, and, at least for me, it turns out that >> externalizing my rebased branch as a patch series solves many of >these >> problems surprisingly well. All the other solutions

Re: Feedback on 3.0 source format problems

2017-01-03 Thread Russell Stuart
On Tue, 2017-01-03 at 18:37 -0800, Russ Allbery wrote: > Even if we never used tarballs, and instead our unit of operation was > the upstream Git repository plus Debian branches, I would maintain a > rebased branch of Debian changes to upstream This is not a novel requirement. Most projects I've

Re: Converting to dgit

2017-01-03 Thread Colin Watson
On Tue, Jan 03, 2017 at 07:36:46PM -0800, Russ Allbery wrote: > That said, gbp pq does something else I really like, namely it exports in > the source package all of the metadata that anyone else would need to pick > up the package without needing a copy of my Git repository (except for > history).

Re: Converting to dgit

2017-01-03 Thread Russ Allbery
Nikolaus Rath writes: > The thing that's delivered to users in 99% of the cases is the binary > package. In the (comparatively) rare cases where the user is retrieving > the source, I am not convinced that most of these users truly prefer a > Debian-specific source package with patches in debian/

Re: Converting to dgit

2017-01-03 Thread Russ Allbery
Nikolaus Rath writes: > When talking about percentages, I think it's worth keeping in mind the > 1000% longer that it takes to comprehend a diff of two patches-unapplied > trees (as gbp produces them) over a diff of two patches-applied trees > (as git-dpm and dgit with maint-merge workflow produc

Re: Feedback on 3.0 source format problems

2017-01-03 Thread Paul Wise
On Mon, Jan 2, 2017 at 1:21 AM, Guillem Jover wrote: > I'm interested in what things people still find so off-putting to the > point of not wanting to use the new 3.0 source formats. I've been reading this thread and keep being reminded of our discussion on #debian-dpkg a while ago. I think most

Re: Feedback on 3.0 source format problems

2017-01-03 Thread Russ Allbery
Nikolaus Rath writes: > Are there really upstreams that do that? I'd expect that the primary > consumer of Debian patches are other distributions, downstreams, and > users. > I'd think that anything that's relevant for upstream development is > forwarded to upstream by the maintainer in whatever

Re: Feedback on 3.0 source format problems

2017-01-03 Thread Nikolaus Rath
On Jan 03 2017, Russ Allbery wrote: > It's surprisingly awkward, and, at least for me, it turns out that > externalizing my rebased branch as a patch series solves many of these > problems surprisingly well. All the other solutions I can think of > require one or more things I don't really want t

Re: "not authorised" doing various desktoppy things

2017-01-03 Thread Nikolaus Rath
On Jan 03 2017, Ian Jackson wrote: > Recently, my nm-applet can no longer control my network-manager > daemon. I get a message saying[1]: > > "org.freedesktop.NetworkManager.network-control-request failed: not > authorized" > > I think this is related to a similar problem in *-power-manager,

Re: Feedback on 3.0 source format problems

2017-01-03 Thread Paul Wise
On Wed, Jan 4, 2017 at 2:54 AM, Russ Allbery wrote: > Well, if we had one more thing: a patches.debian.org service that would > show the git-debcherry-extracted patches against upstream. I really like > being able to just point upstream at all the patches relevant to them that > Debian has applie

Re: Converting to dgit

2017-01-03 Thread Nikolaus Rath
On Jan 04 2017, Scott Kitterman wrote: >>Curating a patch series is only 5% slower than commiting directly to >>the Git repository to me. I just have to remember to gbp pq import >>before making new changes, gbp pq export when I'm done, and once in a >>great while I have to do a small bit of reba

Re: Converting to dgit

2017-01-03 Thread Nikolaus Rath
On Jan 03 2017, Russ Allbery wrote: > Sean Whitton writes: >> On Tue, Jan 03, 2017 at 10:36:22AM -0800, Nikolaus Rath wrote: > >>> I still haven't really made up my mind if I want to use git-maint-merge >>> or git-dpm. Russ recently raised a valid point with the Debian >>> modifications over-time

Re: Converting to dgit

2017-01-03 Thread Nikolaus Rath
On Jan 03 2017, Sean Whitton wrote: > On Tue, Jan 03, 2017 at 10:36:22AM -0800, Nikolaus Rath wrote: >> I still haven't really made up my mind if I want to use git-maint-merge >> or git-dpm. Russ recently raised a valid point with the Debian >> modifications over-time becoming all tangled up and i

Re: Feedback on 3.0 source format problems

2017-01-03 Thread Nikolaus Rath
On Jan 03 2017, Sean Whitton wrote: > Hello, > > On Tue, Jan 03, 2017 at 10:39:33AM -0800, Nikolaus Rath wrote: >> > >> > git log --oneline 1.2.3..debian/1.2.3-1 -- . ':!debian' >> >> Yes, but that's not as useful as what git-debcherry produces. >> >> For example, if you get a merge conflict

Re: Feedback on 3.0 source format problems

2017-01-03 Thread Russ Allbery
gregor herrmann writes: > Personally I have the feeling that lots of these discussions and also > the creation of new tools (git-dpm, git-pq, git-debcherry, dgit) are > just workarounds for the actual problem: Many of us would like to work > in and with git but the whole infrastructure still revo

Re: Bug#849703: ITP: ansible-doc -- Documentation for Ansible

2017-01-03 Thread Harlan Lieberman-Berg
Toni Mueller writes: > I found them only on PyPI. Did you find them elsewhere? We get them from releases.ansible.com. Are the docs in the tarballs in PyPi? -- Harlan Lieberman-Berg ~hlieberman

Bug#850097: ITP: rpyc -- transparent and symmetric Remote Python Call library

2017-01-03 Thread Carl Suster
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Carl Suster Control: block 724718 by -1 * Package name: rpyc Version : 3.3.0 Upstream Author : Tomer Filiba * URL : https://github.com/tomerfiliba/rpyc * License : MIT Programming Lang: Python Description : trans

Re: "not authorised" doing various desktoppy things [and 1 more messages]

2017-01-03 Thread Ian Jackson
Michael Biebl writes ("Re: "not authorised" doing various desktoppy things"): > Check if your session is marked as active and local > $ loginctl show-session $XDG_SESSION_ID I see (amongst other things): Remote=no Active=yes State=active > Might be #844785 Perhaps it is. The symptoms see

Re: Feedback on 3.0 source format problems

2017-01-03 Thread gregor herrmann
On Tue, 03 Jan 2017 20:15:10 +, Sean Whitton wrote: > On Tue, Jan 03, 2017 at 10:54:07AM -0800, Russ Allbery wrote: > > Well, if we had one more thing: a patches.debian.org service that would > > show the git-debcherry-extracted patches against upstream. I really like > > being able to just p

Re: [Fwd: [Pkg-pascal-devel] Bug#472304: marked as done (fpc: doesn't link dynamically)]

2017-01-03 Thread Paul Wise
On Tue, Jan 3, 2017 at 5:38 PM, Abou Al Montacir wrote: > What about requiring signed mail for closing a bug report? We have sponsored maintainers, who theoretically could get by entirely without an OpenPGP key. I don't know if any exist but I don't think they should be blocked from -done. Also,

Bug#850093: ITP: terminaltables -- Python library for printing tables to the console

2017-01-03 Thread Carl Suster
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Carl Suster Control: block 724718 by -1 * Package name: terminaltables Version : 3.1.0 Upstream Author : Robpol86 * URL : https://github.com/Robpol86/terminaltables * License : MIT Programming Lang: Python Descriptio

Bug#850091: ITP: flask-cors -- Flask extension for handling Cross Origin Resource Sharing (CORS) in Python web apps

2017-01-03 Thread Carl Suster
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Carl Suster Control: block 724718 by -1 * Package name: flask-cors Version : 3.0.2 Upstream Author : Cory Dolphin * URL : https://github.com/corydolphin/flask-cors * License : MIT Programming Lang: Python Description

Re: Converting to dgit

2017-01-03 Thread Colin Watson
On Tue, Jan 03, 2017 at 04:33:39PM -0800, Russ Allbery wrote: > I'm unconvinced that any of that work would really be avoided via other > mechanisms. The most time-consuming part is rebasing and squashing > related changes together into one coherent diff, but that's going to be > just as hard with

Re: "not authorised" doing various desktoppy things

2017-01-03 Thread Simon McVittie
On Tue, 03 Jan 2017 at 21:59:05 +, Sune Vuorela wrote: > If I recall correctly, for most > networky (and removable media things), the default policykit > configuration is that 'local logged in users' are allowed to do this. They must usually be active as well as locally logged in. (This means

Re: Converting to dgit

2017-01-03 Thread Scott Kitterman
On January 3, 2017 7:33:39 PM EST, Russ Allbery wrote: >Sean Whitton writes: >> On Tue, Jan 03, 2017 at 10:36:22AM -0800, Nikolaus Rath wrote: > >>> I still haven't really made up my mind if I want to use >git-maint-merge >>> or git-dpm. Russ recently raised a valid point with the Debian >>> mo

Bug#850089: ITP: flask-restplus -- Flask extension for building REST APIs in Python web apps

2017-01-03 Thread Carl Suster
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Carl Suster Control: block 724718 by -1 * Package name: flask-restplus Version : 0.9.2 Upstream Author : Axel Haustant * URL : https://github.com/noirbizarre/flask-restplus * License : MIT Programming Lang: Python De

Re: Converting to dgit

2017-01-03 Thread Russ Allbery
Sean Whitton writes: > On Tue, Jan 03, 2017 at 10:36:22AM -0800, Nikolaus Rath wrote: >> I still haven't really made up my mind if I want to use git-maint-merge >> or git-dpm. Russ recently raised a valid point with the Debian >> modifications over-time becoming all tangled up and impossible to >

Bug#850088: ITP: safe -- password strength checking library for Python

2017-01-03 Thread Carl Suster
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Carl Suster Control: block 724718 by -1 * Package name: safe Version : 0.4 Upstream Author : Hsiaoming Yang * URL : https://github.com/lepture/safe * License : BSD Programming Lang: Python Description : password

Re: Feedback on 3.0 source format problems

2017-01-03 Thread James McCoy
On Mon, Jan 02, 2017 at 01:09:35PM -0800, Nikolaus Rath wrote: > On Jan 02 2017, Russ Allbery wrote: > > Furthermore, it forces a rebased, clean representation of the patches, > > which I for one hugely prefer to the mess that you get if someone was > > packaging in Git and just randomly commits t

Bug#850087: ITP: colorclass -- ANSI color text library for Python

2017-01-03 Thread Carl Suster
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Carl Suster Control: block 724718 by -1 * Package name: colorclass Version : 2.2.0 Upstream Author : Robpol86 * URL : https://github.com/Robpol86/colorclass * License : MIT Programming Lang: Python Description :

Re: Bug#849703: ITP: ansible-doc -- Documentation for Ansible

2017-01-03 Thread Toni Mueller
Hi! A happy new year, everyone! On Sat, Dec 31, 2016 at 01:07:44PM -0500, Harlan Lieberman-Berg wrote: > Unfortunately, we don't build ansible off of the git repository, but > rather from the released tarballs. I found them only on PyPI. Did you find them elsewhere? > It's been a while since

Call for testers: logrotate 3.11.0-0.1~exp1

2017-01-03 Thread Christoph Biedl
Hi there, as the stretch freeze approaches, I'm getting concerned about the status of logrotate, most notably #734688. The maintainer (CC'ed) hasn't shown any sign of activity for a while, also no response to a private message (I admit, it's been just a few days). Since the fix includes switching

Re: Converting to dgit

2017-01-03 Thread Sean Whitton
Hello Nikolaus, On Tue, Jan 03, 2017 at 10:29:49AM -0800, Nikolaus Rath wrote: > On Jan 03 2017, Sean Whitton wrote: > > You mentioned previously that you're trying to use the > > dgit-maint-merge(7) workflow. In that case, why do you want git-dpm? > > I don't. I was just trying to get a better

Re: Feedback on 3.0 source format problems

2017-01-03 Thread Sean Whitton
Hello, On Tue, Jan 03, 2017 at 10:39:33AM -0800, Nikolaus Rath wrote: > > > > git log --oneline 1.2.3..debian/1.2.3-1 -- . ':!debian' > > Yes, but that's not as useful as what git-debcherry produces. > > For example, if you get a merge conflict when rebasing, the above > incantation will lis

Re: "not authorised" doing various desktoppy things

2017-01-03 Thread Sune Vuorela
On 2017-01-03, Ian Jackson wrote: > Can someone please help explain to me how these things are supposed to > work ? Specifically, how is (presumably as a consequence of me > logging in using a display manager) my session supposed to be granted > the ability to manage various system resources like

Re: "not authorised" doing various desktoppy things

2017-01-03 Thread Michael Biebl
Am 03.01.2017 um 21:05 schrieb Ian Jackson: > Recently, my nm-applet can no longer control my network-manager > daemon. I get a message saying[1]: > > "org.freedesktop.NetworkManager.network-control-request failed: not > authorized" > > I think this is related to a similar problem in *-power

"not authorised" doing various desktoppy things

2017-01-03 Thread Ian Jackson
Recently, my nm-applet can no longer control my network-manager daemon. I get a message saying[1]: "org.freedesktop.NetworkManager.network-control-request failed: not authorized" I think this is related to a similar problem in *-power-manager, #848623. I am running: * sysvinit * lightdm

Re: Feedback on 3.0 source format problems

2017-01-03 Thread Nikolaus Rath
On Jan 03 2017, Nikolaus Rath wrote: > On Jan 03 2017, Sean Whitton wrote: >> Hello Russ, >> >> On Mon, Jan 02, 2017 at 09:29:24AM -0800, Russ Allbery wrote: >>> Furthermore, it forces a rebased, clean representation of the patches, >>> which I for one hugely prefer to the mess that you get if so

Re: Feedback on 3.0 source format problems

2017-01-03 Thread Nikolaus Rath
On Jan 03 2017, Russ Allbery wrote: > Nikolaus Rath writes: > >> For example, if you get a merge conflict when rebasing, the above >> incantation will list two commits: the original debian commit and the >> merge commit. git-debcherry, on the other hand, will synthesize one >> patch, consisting o

Re: Migration despite an RC bug?

2017-01-03 Thread Don Armstrong
On Tue, 03 Jan 2017, Niels Thykier wrote: > An exception in my experience: In process is cheaper when the > (de)compressor is available in the PerlIO Layer as native C code. > Notable example being libperlio-gzip-perl where you use "open(my $fd, > '<:gzip', $file)". > At least that was the case w

Re: Feedback on 3.0 source format problems

2017-01-03 Thread Russ Allbery
Nikolaus Rath writes: > For example, if you get a merge conflict when rebasing, the above > incantation will list two commits: the original debian commit and the > merge commit. git-debcherry, on the other hand, will synthesize one > patch, consisting of the original Debian commit, but modified t

Re: Feedback on 3.0 source format problems

2017-01-03 Thread Nikolaus Rath
On Jan 03 2017, Sean Whitton wrote: > Hello Russ, > > On Mon, Jan 02, 2017 at 09:29:24AM -0800, Russ Allbery wrote: >> Furthermore, it forces a rebased, clean representation of the patches, >> which I for one hugely prefer to the mess that you get if someone was >> packaging in Git and just random

Re: Migration despite an RC bug?

2017-01-03 Thread Russ Allbery
Niels Thykier writes: > Russ Allbery: >> I've done extensive benchmarking of this in Perl for a different >> project and yes, fork and exec of an external compresser is *way* >> faster than using a library. I suspect the Perl compress libraries are >> making extraneous data copies or doing somet

Re: Converting to dgit

2017-01-03 Thread Nikolaus Rath
On Jan 03 2017, Ian Jackson wrote: > Sean Whitton writes ("Re: Converting to dgit (was: How to get history into > dgit)"): >> On Mon, Jan 02, 2017 at 07:22:54PM -0800, Nikolaus Rath wrote: >> > I'll have to bring this up one more time. I just read >> > https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cg

Re: Converting to dgit

2017-01-03 Thread Nikolaus Rath
On Jan 03 2017, Sean Whitton wrote: > Hello Nikolaus, > > On Mon, Jan 02, 2017 at 07:22:54PM -0800, Nikolaus Rath wrote: >> I'll have to bring this up one more time. I just read >> https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=794244, and that >> sounds (in "USING GIT-DPM WITH DGIT FOR THE FIR

Re: Migration despite an RC bug?

2017-01-03 Thread Niels Thykier
Russ Allbery: > [...] >> I wouldn't have expected that either, but it appeared to be 4-5 times >> slower than the equivalent code with fork a decompressor, which is why I >> swapped it out. [I didn't bother to benchmark them, because the >> differences between them was so stark.] > > I've done ext

Re: Migration despite an RC bug?

2017-01-03 Thread Don Armstrong
On Tue, 03 Jan 2017, Russ Allbery wrote: > If you're using DB_File, I think you have to use the explicit put() > and get() API instead of the tied magical hash in order to get error > reporting. That matches what documentation I've found so far. Instead of really working on hacking this out, I've

Re: Migration despite an RC bug?

2017-01-03 Thread Russ Allbery
Don Armstrong writes: > On Tue, 03 Jan 2017, Ian Jackson wrote: >> Also, have you checked whether your DB library properly throws errors >> on writes to a tied hash ? > I don't know whether it does or not; I went looking to see whether you > could trap errors on untie(), and untie doesn't return

Re: Can we kill net-tools, please? (and this thread)

2017-01-03 Thread Geert Stappers
On Tue, Jan 03, 2017 at 03:05:27PM +, Ian Jackson wrote: > Geert Stappers writes ("Re: Can we kill net-tools, please? (and this > thread)"): > > This e-mail is to request to leave this thread in the year 2016. Happy New Year > > We have concencus that the install priority of net-tools sho

Amazon CloudFront Users

2017-01-03 Thread Brenda
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Bug#850062: ITP: golang-github-nebulouslabs-entropy-mnemonics -- Human readable entropy.

2017-01-03 Thread Free Ekanayaka
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Free Ekanayaka * Package name: golang-github-nebulouslabs-entropy-mnemonics Version : 0.0~git20150811.0.6afa27f-1 Upstream Author : Nebulous * URL : https://github.com/nebulouslabs/entropy-mnemonics * License : Expat P

Re: Converting to dgit (was: How to get history into dgit)

2017-01-03 Thread Ian Jackson
Sean Whitton writes ("Re: Converting to dgit (was: How to get history into dgit)"): > On Mon, Jan 02, 2017 at 07:22:54PM -0800, Nikolaus Rath wrote: > > I'll have to bring this up one more time. I just read > > https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=794244, and that > > sounds (in "USIN

Re: Feedback on 3.0 source format problems

2017-01-03 Thread Ian Jackson
Vincent Bernat writes ("Re: Feedback on 3.0 source format problems"): > 2 janvier 2017 01:45 -0800, Josh Triplett  : > > Personally, when I want to patch a random package, I run "debcheckout > > package-name", make changes, commit them, format-patch, [...] Really, I can't let this pass without plu

Re: Feedback on 3.0 source format problems

2017-01-03 Thread Ian Jackson
Guillem Jover writes ("Feedback on 3.0 source format problems"): > I'm interested in what things people still find so off-putting to the > point of not wanting to use the new 3.0 source formats, or what makes > people use them in anger and similar (if people would state which one > of these apply t

Re: auto-removal and alternative dependencies

2017-01-03 Thread Ian Jackson
Sven Joachim writes ("Re: auto-removal and alternative dependencies"): > No need to do so, this has been filed[1] quite some time ago already. ... > 1. https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=745475 That's a rather unsatisfying bug report. I see people arguing about the severity. I don

Re: Migration despite an RC bug?

2017-01-03 Thread Don Armstrong
On Tue, 03 Jan 2017, Ian Jackson wrote: > The result is that you ignore nonzero exit status from your > decompression program. My theory for the incident we are discussing is > that your decompressor got a SIGTERM, and your script got EOF on the > pipe. Yeah, this is likely it. Thanks for catching

Re: Can we kill net-tools, please?

2017-01-03 Thread Jonathan Dowland
On Tue, Jan 03, 2017 at 03:24:40PM +, Jonathan Dowland wrote: > The UI for ip(8) is absolutely appalling. I'd like Debian to continue to carry > net-tools in parallel to iproute2 until such time as a third tool (with a > decent UI) comes along and obsoletes iproute2. ... > I have no problem wit

Re: Can we kill net-tools, please?

2017-01-03 Thread Jonathan Dowland
On Mon, Dec 26, 2016 at 02:50:50PM +0100, Marco d'Itri wrote: > Recently the net-tools maintainer has forked the abandoned net-tools > code base and started developing it again, after 15 years of stasis. ... > Can we stop shipping two network configuration CLI tools in the default > install? The

Re: Can we kill net-tools, please? (and this thread)

2017-01-03 Thread Ian Jackson
Geert Stappers writes ("Re: Can we kill net-tools, please? (and this thread)"): > This e-mail is to request to leave this thread in the year 2016. > We have concencus that the install priority of net-tools should be lowered. That has been done. > It doesn't matter what is "easy" with "ip" or with

Re: Migration despite an RC bug?

2017-01-03 Thread Ian Jackson
Don Armstrong writes ("Re: Migration despite an RC bug?"): > On Sat, 31 Dec 2016, Ian Jackson wrote: > > I've debugged a lot of this kind of thing. Point me at your > > (pre-just-fixed) code and I might spot it ? > > These two are how I think I've fixed it: I don't think so. I cloned[1] the cod

Re: [Fwd: [Pkg-pascal-devel] Bug#472304: marked as done (fpc: doesn't link dynamically)]

2017-01-03 Thread Abou Al Montacir
On Mon, 2017-01-02 at 23:26 +0500, Andrey Rahmatullin wrote: > On Mon, Jan 02, 2017 at 07:25:04PM +0100, Geert Stappers wrote: > > Banning those words in the Subject-line to our BTS would be too hars. > > ITYM "won't". What about requiring signed mail for closing a bug report? --  Cheers, Abou Al

Re: [Fwd: [Pkg-pascal-devel] Bug#472304: marked as done (fpc: doesn't link dynamically)]

2017-01-03 Thread Andrey Rahmatullin
On Tue, Jan 03, 2017 at 10:49:05AM +0800, Paul Wise wrote: > > Probably we don't have enough people looking at the spam reports. That > > probably could be improved with better advertising, e.g. on > > https://www.debian.org/intro/help > > Right now only the BTS admins can look at and act on spam

Re: Feedback on 3.0 source format problems

2017-01-03 Thread Sean Whitton
Hello Russ, On Mon, Jan 02, 2017 at 09:29:24AM -0800, Russ Allbery wrote: > Furthermore, it forces a rebased, clean representation of the patches, > which I for one hugely prefer to the mess that you get if someone was > packaging in Git and just randomly commits things directly to the > packaging