Re: proposal: ITR (was Re: Removing packages perhaps too aggressively?)

2018-01-31 Thread Christoph Biedl
Adam Borowski wrote... > Thus, I'd like to propose a new kind of wnpp bug: "Intent To Remove". Sounds like a very good idea. For me, I could automatically parse these and check against the list of packages installed on my systems, or are used to build packages (thanks for .buildinfo files) outsid

Re: Removing packages perhaps too aggressively?

2018-01-31 Thread Christoph Biedl
Jeremy Bicha wrote... > On Wed, Jan 31, 2018 at 3:03 PM, Christoph Biedl > wrote: > > Or for example the xmem removal (#733668): > > 4 years ago. So? > > And also give it some time, I'd suggest some two to four weeks. > > I don't think we need to add an artificial delay for package removals >

Re: GitLab repository logo customisation

2018-01-31 Thread Sean Whitton
Hello, On Thu, Feb 01 2018, Ben Finney wrote: > Jeremy Bicha has a short post describing how a repository on Debian's > GitLab can customise its avatar or logo. > > There’s a useful under-documented feature I found. If you place a > logo.png in the root of your repository, it will be auto

Re: Removing packages perhaps too aggressively?

2018-01-31 Thread Scott Kitterman
On Thursday, February 01, 2018 11:56:21 AM Paul Wise wrote: > On Thu, Feb 1, 2018 at 3:14 AM, Andrej Shadura wrote: > > For example > > Here is another example of a low-quality RM bug; removal at request of > the maintainer, with no reason stated. > > https://bugs.debian.org/887554 > > As a resu

Re: Removing packages perhaps too aggressively?

2018-01-31 Thread Paul Wise
On Thu, Feb 1, 2018 at 3:14 AM, Andrej Shadura wrote: > For example Here is another example of a low-quality RM bug; removal at request of the maintainer, with no reason stated. https://bugs.debian.org/887554 As a result of this, DSA has to resort to stretch or snapshot.d.o for out-of-band acce

GitLab repository logo customisation

2018-01-31 Thread Ben Finney
Howdy all, Jeremy Bicha has a short post describing how a repository on Debian's GitLab can customise its avatar or logo. There’s a useful under-documented feature I found. If you place a logo.png in the root of your repository, it will be automatically used as the default “avatar” fo

Re: proposal: ITR (was Re: Removing packages perhaps too aggressively?)

2018-01-31 Thread Holger Levsen
On Thu, Feb 01, 2018 at 01:12:21AM +0100, Adam Borowski wrote: > Thus, I'd like to propose a new kind of wnpp bug: "Intent To Remove". > It's pretty much the opposite of O: [...] > * by filing an ITR, you don't disclaim your commitment to the package (if > you're the maintainer, you may or may no

proposal: ITR (was Re: Removing packages perhaps too aggressively?)

2018-01-31 Thread Adam Borowski
On Wed, Jan 31, 2018 at 08:14:31PM +0100, Andrej Shadura wrote: > It has happened to me in the recent years quite a few times that a > package which I was using has a RoQA bug filed against it, and the > package's got removed at a very short notice. For example, dasher was removed (by its maintain

Bug#888987: ITP: jboss-threads -- JBoss Threads

2018-01-31 Thread Markus Koschany
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Markus Koschany * Package name: jboss-threads Version : 2.3.0 Upstream Author : Red Hat Inc. * URL : https://github.com/jbossas/jboss-threads * License : Apache-2.0 and LGPL-2.1 Programming Lang: Java Description

Bug#888986: ITR: gnats -- problem report management system - central database

2018-01-31 Thread Adam Borowski
Package: wnpp Severity: normal (Please don't file other ITR bugs, I'm trying to gauge how our existing infrastructure (PTS, wnpp-alert, etc) handles a new type of wnpp bug. And more importantly, let's see how _people_ handle this concept.) I propose removal of "gnats", the old GNU bug tracking

Re: Removing packages perhaps too aggressively?

2018-01-31 Thread Simon McVittie
On Wed, 31 Jan 2018 at 22:36:50 +, Holger Levsen wrote: > On Wed, Jan 31, 2018 at 10:40:19PM +0100, Michael Biebl wrote: > > I think we should remove cruft more aggressively then we currently do. > > We are much too lenient with what we ship in our stable releases. > > I agree, thanks. Re-addi

Bug#888985: ITP: irtt -- Isochronous Round-Trip Tester

2018-01-31 Thread Pete Heist
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Pete Heist X-Debbugs-CC: debian-devel@lists.debian.org, pkg-go-maintain...@lists.alioth.debian.org * Package name: irtt Version : 0.9+git20180131.0.7d52098-1 Upstream Author : Pete Heist * URL : https://github.com/peteheist/irtt

Re: Removing packages perhaps too aggressively?

2018-01-31 Thread Simon McVittie
On Wed, 31 Jan 2018 at 22:25:31 +0100, Andreas Ronnquist wrote: > On Wed, 31 Jan 2018 20:14:31 +0100, > Andrej Shadura wrote: > >Should I've known someone's going to remove it, I would have adopted > >it earlier. If I understand the rules correctly, if a package is present in any suite in the main

Re: Removing packages perhaps too aggressively?

2018-01-31 Thread Scott Kitterman
On January 31, 2018 10:34:28 PM UTC, Michael Biebl wrote: >Am 31.01.2018 um 22:49 schrieb Don Armstrong: >> On Wed, 31 Jan 2018, Abou Al Montacir wrote: >>> Me too likes to extend the removal notice for few weeks/months. >>> Especially removal from testing when outside freeze periods. >> >> Pa

Re: Removing packages perhaps too aggressively?

2018-01-31 Thread Holger Levsen
On Wed, Jan 31, 2018 at 10:40:19PM +0100, Michael Biebl wrote: > I think we should remove cruft more aggressively then we currently do. > We are much too lenient with what we ship in our stable releases. I agree, thanks. Re-adding stuff is easy. (3 months before the freeze we should stop those cr

Re: Removing packages perhaps too aggressively?

2018-01-31 Thread Michael Biebl
Am 31.01.2018 um 22:49 schrieb Don Armstrong: > On Wed, 31 Jan 2018, Abou Al Montacir wrote: >> Me too likes to extend the removal notice for few weeks/months. >> Especially removal from testing when outside freeze periods. > > Packages removed from testing outside of the freeze can be easily > re

Re: Removing packages perhaps too aggressively?

2018-01-31 Thread Don Armstrong
On Wed, 31 Jan 2018, Abou Al Montacir wrote: > Me too likes to extend the removal notice for few weeks/months. > Especially removal from testing when outside freeze periods. Packages removed from testing outside of the freeze can be easily re-added to testing once the underlying RC bugs are fixed.

Re: Removing packages perhaps too aggressively?

2018-01-31 Thread Michael Biebl
Am 31.01.2018 um 20:14 schrieb Andrej Shadura: > Hi everyone, > > It has happened to me in the recent years quite a few times that a > package which I was using has a RoQA bug filed against it, and the > package's got removed at a very short notice. > > For example, in #616376, gbdfed was removed

Re: Removing packages perhaps too aggressively?

2018-01-31 Thread Andreas Ronnquist
On Wed, 31 Jan 2018 20:14:31 +0100, Andrej Shadura wrote: >Hi everyone, > >It has happened to me in the recent years quite a few times that a >package which I was using has a RoQA bug filed against it, and the >package's got removed at a very short notice. > >For example, in #616376, gbdfed was re

Re: Removing packages perhaps too aggressively?

2018-01-31 Thread Abou Al Montacir
On Wed, 2018-01-31 at 21:03 +0100, Christoph Biedl wrote: > > It has happened to me in the recent years quite a few times that a > > > package which I was using has a RoQA bug filed against it, and the > > > package's got removed at a very short notice. > > > > +1 > > > > You meant "RM"? Le

Re: Removing packages perhaps too aggressively?

2018-01-31 Thread Jeremy Bicha
On Wed, Jan 31, 2018 at 3:03 PM, Christoph Biedl wrote: > Or for example the xmem removal (#733668): 4 years ago. > More suggestions for the, say, manual removals (mostly ROM, ROP, RoQA): > And also give it some time, I'd suggest some two to four weeks. I don't think we need to add an artifici

Re: Removing packages perhaps too aggressively?

2018-01-31 Thread Christoph Biedl
Andrej Shadura wrote... > It has happened to me in the recent years quite a few times that a > package which I was using has a RoQA bug filed against it, and the > package's got removed at a very short notice. +1 You meant "RM"? Let me extend this to package removals in general since I'm not to

Re: Removing packages perhaps too aggressively?

2018-01-31 Thread Jeremy Bicha
On Wed, Jan 31, 2018 at 2:14 PM, Andrej Shadura wrote: > For example, in #616376, gbdfed was removed This happened 7 years ago. Sorry :( > Here you go, there's #871004 for you. Missed jessie, stretch, > not in testing, no uploads since the beginning of 2017. I don't think you'll get much sympat

Re: Bug#888891: ITP: odp -- OpenDataPlane reference implementation library

2018-01-31 Thread Luca Boccassi
On Wed, 2018-01-31 at 19:04 +0300, Dmitry Eremin-Solenikov wrote: > Hello, > > 2018-01-31 17:37 GMT+03:00 Luca Boccassi : > > On Wed, 2018-01-31 at 00:05 +0300, Dmitry Eremin-Solenikov wrote: > > > Package: wnpp > > > Severity: wishlist > > > Owner: Dmitry Eremin-Solenikov > > > > > > * Package

Re: Bug#888891: ITP: odp -- OpenDataPlane reference implementation library

2018-01-31 Thread Dmitry Eremin-Solenikov
Hello, 2018-01-31 17:37 GMT+03:00 Luca Boccassi : > On Wed, 2018-01-31 at 00:05 +0300, Dmitry Eremin-Solenikov wrote: >> Package: wnpp >> Severity: wishlist >> Owner: Dmitry Eremin-Solenikov >> >> * Package name: odp >> Version : 1.17.0.0 >> Upstream Author : Linaro >> * URL

Re: Bug#888891: ITP: odp -- OpenDataPlane reference implementation library

2018-01-31 Thread Luca Boccassi
On Wed, 2018-01-31 at 00:05 +0300, Dmitry Eremin-Solenikov wrote: > Package: wnpp > Severity: wishlist > Owner: Dmitry Eremin-Solenikov > > * Package name: odp >   Version : 1.17.0.0 >   Upstream Author : Linaro > * URL : http://www.opendataplane.org/ > * License 

Re: Compiler with Spectre mitigation retpoline/-mindirect-branch=thunk

2018-01-31 Thread Andrey Rahmatullin
On Wed, Jan 31, 2018 at 02:41:15PM +0100, Guillem Jover wrote: > But if -jN breaks, that's because the package is not parallel build > safe, so using -J will not improve things, as the package has not > opted in (or has opted out depending on the debhelper used) from > parallel builds anyway. The g

Re: Compiler with Spectre mitigation retpoline/-mindirect-branch=thunk

2018-01-31 Thread Philipp Kern
On 2018-01-31 14:41, Guillem Jover wrote: Hi! On Wed, 2018-01-31 at 07:35:32 +0100, Philipp Hahn wrote: Using parallel build (-jX) fails for us, so it takes ~13h to compile that gcc. I was told to use '-J' instead, but that is not supported by dpkg-buildpackage in Debian-Stretch :-( dpkg-buil

Bug#888948: ITP: libmonitoring-icinga2-client-rest-perl -- Perl module providing REST integration with icinga2

2018-01-31 Thread Salvatore Bonaccorso
Package: wnpp Owner: Salvatore Bonaccorso Severity: wishlist X-Debbugs-CC: debian-devel@lists.debian.org, debian-p...@lists.debian.org * Package name: libmonitoring-icinga2-client-rest-perl Version : 2.0.0 Upstream Author : Johan Carlquist * URL : https://metacpan.org

Re: Compiler with Spectre mitigation retpoline/-mindirect-branch=thunk

2018-01-31 Thread Guillem Jover
Hi! On Wed, 2018-01-31 at 07:35:32 +0100, Philipp Hahn wrote: > Using parallel build (-jX) fails for us, so it takes ~13h to compile > that gcc. I was told to use '-J' instead, but that is not supported by > dpkg-buildpackage in Debian-Stretch :-( dpkg-buildpackage does support -J in stretch (sta

Re: Bug#888891: ITP: odp -- OpenDataPlane reference implementation library

2018-01-31 Thread Steve McIntyre
Dmitry wrote: >Package: wnpp >Severity: wishlist >Owner: Dmitry Eremin-Solenikov > >* Package name: odp > Version : 1.17.0.0 > Upstream Author : Linaro >* URL : http://www.opendataplane.org/ >* License : BSD 3-clause > Programming Lang: C > Description : Op

Re: Bug#888891: ITP: odp -- OpenDataPlane reference implementation library

2018-01-31 Thread Dmitry Eremin-Solenikov
Hi Steve, 2018-01-31 14:59 GMT+03:00 Steve McIntyre : > Dmitry wrote: >>Package: wnpp >>Severity: wishlist >>Owner: Dmitry Eremin-Solenikov >> >>* Package name: odp >> Version : 1.17.0.0 >> Upstream Author : Linaro >>* URL : http://www.opendataplane.org/ >>* License

Re: Compiler with Spectre mitigation retpoline/-mindirect-branch=thunk

2018-01-31 Thread Andrey Rahmatullin
On Wed, Jan 31, 2018 at 07:35:32AM +0100, Philipp Hahn wrote: > Using parallel build (-jX) fails for us, so it takes ~13h to compile > that gcc. I was told to use '-J' instead, but that is not supported by > dpkg-buildpackage in Debian-Stretch :-( You can always use DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS=parallel=n ins

Re: Compiler with Spectre mitigation retpoline/-mindirect-branch=thunk

2018-01-31 Thread Moritz Mühlenhoff
Robin Geuze schrieb: > I was wondering, are the debian maintainers planning on backporting the > -mindirect-branch=thunk support introduced in GCC 7.3 and 8.1 to the > compilers available on Jessie and Stretch? While this is not necessarily > a security fix for the compiler it does provide that

Re: Compiler with Spectre mitigation retpoline/-mindirect-branch=thunk

2018-01-31 Thread Moritz Mühlenhoff
Philipp Hahn wrote: > PS: Here are the 7 relevant GIT commpits for gcc-4.9 from H.J. Lu's GIT > repository for reference: >> 1fb3a1828fa x86: Disallow -mindirect-branch=/-mfunction-return= with >> -mcmodel=large >> 7ab5b649f72 x86: Add 'V' register operand modifier >> 5550079949a x86: Add -mindire

Bug#888937: ITP: r-cran-bdsmatrix -- GNU R routines for block diagonal symmetric matrices

2018-01-31 Thread Sébastien Villemot
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Sébastien Villemot * Package name: r-cran-bdsmatrix Version : 1.3-3 Upstream Author : Terry Therneau * URL : https://cran.r-project.org/package=bdsmatrix * License : LGPL-2+ Programming Lang: GNU R Description :

Bug#888936: ITP: r-cran-mclust -- Gaussian Mixture Modelling for Model-Based Clustering

2018-01-31 Thread Andreas Tille
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Andreas Tille * Package name: r-cran-mclust Version : 5.4-1 Upstream Author : Chris Fraley, Adrian E. Raftery, Luca Scrucca, Thomas Brendan Murphy, Michael Fop * URL : https://cran.r-project.org/package=mclust * License

Bug#888934: ITP: panko -- OpenStack Event as a Service

2018-01-31 Thread Thomas Goirand
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Thomas Goirand * Package name: panko Version : 3.1.0 Upstream Author : OpenStack Foundation * URL : https://github.com/openstack/panko * License : Apache-2.0 Programming Lang: Python Description : OpenStack Event

Bug#888923: ITP: python-pankoclient -- Client library for OpenStack panko server

2018-01-31 Thread Thomas Goirand
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Thomas Goirand * Package name: python-pankoclient Version : 0.3.0 Upstream Author : OpenStack Foundation * URL : https://github.com/openstack/python-pankoclient * License : Apache-2.0 Programming Lang: Python Descrip