Bug#894419: ITP: libauthen-u2f-perl -- pure Perl U2F server library

2018-03-29 Thread Xavier Guimard
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Xavier Guimard * Package name: libauthen-u2f-perl Version : 0.003 Upstream Author : Robert Norris * URL : https://metacpan.org/release/Authen-U2F * License : Artistic or GPL-1+ Programming Lang: Perl Description

Work-needing packages report for Mar 30, 2018

2018-03-29 Thread wnpp
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: 1289 (new: 5) Total number of packages offered up for adoption: 156 (new: 0) Total number of packages reques

Re: Upcoming shift to Ayatana (App)Indicator(s)

2018-03-29 Thread Simon McVittie
On Thu, 29 Mar 2018 at 21:19:35 +, Mike Gabriel wrote: > On Do 29 Mär 2018 15:54:26 CEST, Simon McVittie wrote: > > Which concrete libraries and packages does this refer to? As a > > Debian/GNOME contributor who has not been involved in Ubuntu or Ayatana, > > I've been confused in the past abo

Bug#894409: ITP: jaxws-api -- Java API for XML-Based Web Services (JAX-WS)

2018-03-29 Thread Emmanuel Bourg
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Emmanuel Bourg * Package name: jaxws-api Version : 2.3.0 Upstream Author : Oracle Corporation * URL : https://github.com/javaee/jax-ws-spec * License : CDDL-1.1 or GPL-2 with Classpath exception Programming Lang: Java

Bug#894406: ITP: fscrypt -- Tool for managing Linux filesystem encryption

2018-03-29 Thread Paride Legovini
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Paride Legovini * Package name: fscrypt Version : 0.2.3 Upstream Author : Joe Richey Copyright : 2017-2018 Google Inc. * URL : https://github.com/google/fscrypt * License : Apache-2.0 Programming Lang: Go Des

Bug#894405: ITP: saaj -- SOAP with Attachments API for Java (SAAJ)

2018-03-29 Thread Emmanuel Bourg
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Emmanuel Bourg * Package name: saaj Version : 1.4.0 Upstream Author : Oracle Corporation * URL : https://github.com/javaee/javax.xml.soap * License : CDDL-1.1 or GPL-2 with Classpath exception Programming Lang: Java D

Re: Upcoming shift to Ayatana (App)Indicator(s)

2018-03-29 Thread Mike Gabriel
Hi Simon, On Do 29 Mär 2018 15:54:26 CEST, Simon McVittie wrote: On Thu, 29 Mar 2018 at 13:11:54 +, Mike Gabriel wrote: This is to make people aware and inform about an ongoing effort to replace Indicators in Debian (most people know the concept from Ubuntu) by a more generically develope

Re: salsa editor omits \n at end of file

2018-03-29 Thread Joerg Jaspert
On 14991 March 1977, Guus Sliepen wrote: >> Knowing that I will now just go and add an extra empty line at the bottom of >> the text/source code files edited, but, well, maybe there is a bit more >> UNIXish solution to that? > The best solution is to fix salsa. Its not "salsa" nor "salsa editor",

Bug#894401: ITP: libmath-random-secure-perl -- Cryptographically-secure, cross-platform replacement for rand

2018-03-29 Thread Xavier Guimard
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Xavier Guimard * Package name: libmath-random-secure-perl Version : 0.080001 Upstream Author : Arthur Axel "fREW" Schmidt * URL : https://metacpan.org/release/Math-Random-Secure * License : Artistic-2.0 Programming La

Bug#894398: ITP: libmoosex-singlearg-perl -- No-fuss instantiation of Moose objects using a single argument

2018-03-29 Thread Xavier Guimard
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Xavier Guimard * Package name: libmoosex-singlearg-perl Version : 0.04 Upstream Author : Aran Clary Deltac * URL : https://metacpan.org/release/MooseX-SingleArg * License : Artistic or GPL-1+ Programming Lang: Perl D

Re: What problem might happen when bumping soname without adding Conflicts:/Breaks:?

2018-03-29 Thread Adrian Bunk
On Wed, Mar 28, 2018 at 08:08:07PM -0700, Russ Allbery wrote: > Boyuan Yang <073p...@gmail.com> writes: > > > * Upstream released new version and bumped SONAME to 2 > > * -dev package didn't change its name > > * My mentor suggests that the new library package (libdframeworkdbus2) > > should > >

Re: interpretation of wontfix

2018-03-29 Thread Adrian Bunk
On Thu, Mar 29, 2018 at 01:59:29PM +0100, Ian Jackson wrote: >... > Perhaps > >soon > >The maintainers intend to fix this bug quickly, probably in the >next upload to Debian unstable. > > [ I find myself using a browser tab on my laptop for this, which >is distin

Re: interpretation of wontfix

2018-03-29 Thread Adrian Bunk
On Thu, Mar 29, 2018 at 04:21:58PM +0200, Wouter Verhelst wrote: > On Thu, Mar 29, 2018 at 02:16:31PM +0100, Ian Campbell wrote: > > On Thu, 2018-03-29 at 14:02 +0100, Ian Jackson wrote: > > > Don Armstrong writes ("Re: interpretation of wontfix"): > > > > 2) wontfix+help: this bug requires too muc

Bug#894393: ITP: falkon -- lightweight web browser based on Qt WebEngine

2018-03-29 Thread Georges Khaznadar
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Georges Khaznadar * Package name: falkon Version : 3.0.0 Upstream Author : David Rosca * URL : https://userbase.kde.org/Falkon * License : GPL-3.0+ Programming Lang: C++ Description : lightweight web browser base

Re: Debian part of a version number when epoch is bumped

2018-03-29 Thread Simon McVittie
On Wed, 28 Mar 2018 at 23:39:58 +0200, Christian T. Steigies wrote: > propper official documentation how to use and not use an epoch This appears to be in progress. In response to previous discussion of this same issue, a dpkg maintainer wrote about this a few weeks ago: https://wiki.debian.org/Te

Re: Enhanced syntax for Architecture field

2018-03-29 Thread Adam Borowski
On Thu, Mar 29, 2018 at 09:30:47AM +0200, Ole Streicher wrote: > Adam Borowski writes: > > The other change I'd make would be adding extra wildcards: > > * {big,little}-endian > > * {32,64,128¹}-bit > > * "fast" (and/or it's near-complement "slow") > > In principle, these could be simple dependen

Re: How to enable testing migration for packages Architecture: all but depending from Architecture: any packages [and 2 more messages]

2018-03-29 Thread Andreas Tille
On Thu, Mar 29, 2018 at 07:04:06PM +0200, Andreas Tille wrote: > Could you please add something. > > To enable the migration even if either amd64 or i386 architecture > is missing for one of the dependencies please > > [ ] file a bug against release.debian.org > [ ] send an e-mail t

Re: How to enable testing migration for packages Architecture: all but depending from Architecture: any packages [and 2 more messages]

2018-03-29 Thread Andreas Tille
Hi Niels, On Thu, Mar 29, 2018 at 04:27:00PM +, Niels Thykier wrote: > > > > That would be a Britney bug, therefore file it against relase.debian.org > > and usertag it with 'britney'. > > > > In that case, I'd rather keep listing all the broken architectures, but > > explicitly mark those a

Re: Debian part of a version number when epoch is bumped

2018-03-29 Thread Christian T. Steigies
On Wed, Mar 28, 2018 at 04:16:19PM -0400, Jeremy Bicha wrote: > On Mon, Feb 5, 2018 at 11:06 AM, Mattia Rizzolo wrote: > > Please don't consider the Debian Policy like a stick. Or a all-kwowing > > never-wrong oracle. > > Well the maintainer refuses to make the minor change I requested. See > th

Re: Upcoming shift to Ayatana (App)Indicator(s)

2018-03-29 Thread Chris Lamb
Hi Mike et al., > This is to make people aware and inform about an ongoing effort to > replace Indicators in Debian Just in case it helps others unfamiliar with the entire concept of Indicators (I was until now!) here is some background info: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/DesktopExperienceTeam/App

Re: How to enable testing migration for packages Architecture: all but depending from Architecture: any packages [and 2 more messages]

2018-03-29 Thread Niels Thykier
Mattia Rizzolo: > On Thu, Mar 29, 2018 at 03:37:10PM +0100, Ian Jackson wrote: >> But, Andreas linked to the excuses page (his [1], above) which mention >> a lot of other architectures, where installability of the dependencies >> is not relevant. Eg >> paleomix/s390x unsatisfiable Depends: pytho

Bug#894382: ITP: arduino-builder -- A command line tool for compiling Arduino sketches

2018-03-29 Thread Rock Storm
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Rock Storm * Package name: arduino-builder Version : 1.3.25 Upstream Author : Arduino AG (https://www.arduino.cc/) * URL : https://github.com/arduino/arduino-builder * License : GPL-2 Programming Lang: Go, C++, C Desc

Re: How to enable testing migration for packages Architecture: all but depending from Architecture: any packages [and 2 more messages]

2018-03-29 Thread Andreas Tille
Hi Ian, On Thu, Mar 29, 2018 at 03:37:10PM +0100, Ian Jackson wrote: > > > Why mailing the release team asking for a one-shot 'force' hint would be > > bad? > > Well, I applaud Andreas's intention to try to solve the problem in a > general way without additional human intervention, if possible.

Re: interpretation of wontfix

2018-03-29 Thread Sean Whitton
Hello, On Thu, Mar 29 2018, Ian Jackson wrote: > I often find myself wishing for some tags which relate to how soon we > intende to deal with a bug. It would be possible to use usertags for > this but I think something shared would be more useful. Nice suggestion. > We could replace `wontfix'

Re: How to enable testing migration for packages Architecture: all but depending from Architecture: any packages [and 2 more messages]

2018-03-29 Thread Mattia Rizzolo
On Thu, Mar 29, 2018 at 03:37:10PM +0100, Ian Jackson wrote: > But, Andreas linked to the excuses page (his [1], above) which mention > a lot of other architectures, where installability of the dependencies > is not relevant. Eg > paleomix/s390x unsatisfiable Depends: python-pysam > > I can see

How to enable testing migration for packages Architecture: all but depending from Architecture: any packages [and 2 more messages]

2018-03-29 Thread Ian Jackson
Andreas Tille writes ("How to enable testing migration for packages Architecture: all but depending from Architecture: any packages"): > [1] https://qa.debian.org/excuses.php?package=paleomix Mattia Rizzolo writes ("Re: How to enable testing migration for packages Architecture: all but depending

Re: interpretation of wontfix

2018-03-29 Thread Wouter Verhelst
On Thu, Mar 29, 2018 at 02:16:31PM +0100, Ian Campbell wrote: > On Thu, 2018-03-29 at 14:02 +0100, Ian Jackson wrote: > > Don Armstrong writes ("Re: interpretation of wontfix"): > > > 2) wontfix+help: this bug requires too much effort to fix, so I won't be > > >working on it, but patches will b

Re: interpretation of wontfix

2018-03-29 Thread Scott Kitterman
On March 29, 2018 1:16:31 PM UTC, Ian Campbell wrote: >On Thu, 2018-03-29 at 14:02 +0100, Ian Jackson wrote: >> Don Armstrong writes ("Re: interpretation of wontfix"): >> > 2) wontfix+help: this bug requires too much effort to fix, so I >won't be >> >working on it, but patches will be accept

Bug#894369: ITP: egpg -- Wrapper tool to easily manage and use keys with GPG

2018-03-29 Thread Yago González
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Yago González * Package name: egpg Version : 2.1 Upstream Author : Dashamir Hoxha * URL : https://github.com/dashohoxha/egpg * License : GPL-3 Programming Lang: Shell Description : Wrapper tool to easily manage a

Re: Upcoming shift to Ayatana (App)Indicator(s)

2018-03-29 Thread Simon McVittie
On Thu, 29 Mar 2018 at 13:11:54 +, Mike Gabriel wrote: > This is to make people aware and inform about an ongoing effort to replace > Indicators in Debian (most people know the concept from Ubuntu) by a more > generically developed and actively maintained fork: Ayatana Indicators. Which concre

Re: interpretation of wontfix

2018-03-29 Thread Ian Campbell
On Thu, 2018-03-29 at 14:02 +0100, Ian Jackson wrote: > Don Armstrong writes ("Re: interpretation of wontfix"): > > 2) wontfix+help: this bug requires too much effort to fix, so I won't be > >working on it, but patches will be accepted. > > I dislike the use of "help" in this context. If the

Upcoming shift to Ayatana (App)Indicator(s)

2018-03-29 Thread Mike Gabriel
Hi all, I send out my recent blog post to the debian-devel ML to provide a means for bundled feedback. I am also hoping for feedback from Ubuntu developers. On DebConf17 I talked to Dmitry John Ledkov about the idea of having Indicators maintained outside of Ubuntu and the idea found inte

Re: interpretation of wontfix

2018-03-29 Thread Ian Jackson
Don Armstrong writes ("Re: interpretation of wontfix"): > 2) wontfix+help: this bug requires too much effort to fix, so I won't be >working on it, but patches will be accepted. I dislike the use of "help" in this context. If the maintainers think the bug is not worth their *own* time, it seem

Re: interpretation of wontfix

2018-03-29 Thread Ian Jackson
Sean Whitton writes ("Re: interpretation of wontfix"): > On Wed, Mar 28 2018, Simon McVittie wrote: ... > I think it would be useful to have your opinions on this, as originators > (at different points in history) of the current set of BTS tags. Thanks for asking me, but I don't think I have much

Re: salsa editor omits \n at end of file

2018-03-29 Thread Guus Sliepen
On Thu, Mar 29, 2018 at 01:59:58PM +0200, Steffen Möller wrote: > not only for files newly created but also for changes done to the end of a > file, there is no terminal \n. > > Knowing that I will now just go and add an extra empty line at the bottom of > the text/source code files edited, but,

Re: Usage of real m68k hardware

2018-03-29 Thread Andreas Tille
On Thu, Mar 29, 2018 at 02:07:41PM +0200, Wouter Verhelst wrote: > > I conclude that the Debian project is running no real m68k hardware any > > more (please correct me if I'm wrong) and we are possibly doing a > > service for some users who potentially also run qemu (wild guess of > > mine). I'm

Re: Usage of real m68k hardware

2018-03-29 Thread Wouter Verhelst
On Wed, Mar 28, 2018 at 08:38:10AM +0200, Andreas Tille wrote: > Hi, > > recently some R packages received bugs that seem to stem from a problem > with the build setup (specifically, a qemu bug). When I asked back in > one of the bugs[1] whether there are real m68k users I've got the answer > >

salsa editor omits \n at end of file

2018-03-29 Thread Steffen Möller
Hello, not only for files newly created but also for changes done to the end of a file, there is no terminal \n. Knowing that I will now just go and add an extra empty line at the bottom of the text/source code files edited, but, well, maybe there is a bit more UNIXish solution to that? Ch

Re: How to enable testing migration for packages Architecture: all but depending from Architecture: any packages

2018-03-29 Thread Andreas Tille
Hi Mattia, On Thu, Mar 29, 2018 at 10:53:26AM +0200, Mattia Rizzolo wrote: > On Thu, Mar 29, 2018 at 10:19:25AM +0200, Andreas Tille wrote: > > its not the first time that I'm running into that problem: A package > > that is Architecture: all depends from packages Architecture: any. > > These dep

How to enable testing migration for packages Architecture: all but depending from Architecture: any packages

2018-03-29 Thread Sascha Steinbiss
Hi, [...] >> While simply setting the Architecture: all package to any that >> intervention would not be necessary but that's simply wrong. >> Unfortunately I currently see no better solution and wanted to bring >> this topic up here. >> > Make sure your arch:any package builds on at least amd64 a

Re: How to enable testing migration for packages Architecture: all but depending from Architecture: any packages

2018-03-29 Thread Mattia Rizzolo
On Thu, Mar 29, 2018 at 10:19:25AM +0200, Andreas Tille wrote: > its not the first time that I'm running into that problem: A package > that is Architecture: all depends from packages Architecture: any. > These dependencies are not available on all architectures and thus the > package does not mig

Re: How to enable testing migration for packages Architecture: all but depending from Architecture: any packages

2018-03-29 Thread Julien Cristau
On 03/29/2018 10:19 AM, Andreas Tille wrote: > Hi, > > its not the first time that I'm running into that problem: A package > that is Architecture: all depends from packages Architecture: any. > These dependencies are not available on all architectures and thus the > package does not migrate to t

How to enable testing migration for packages Architecture: all but depending from Architecture: any packages

2018-03-29 Thread Andreas Tille
Hi, its not the first time that I'm running into that problem: A package that is Architecture: all depends from packages Architecture: any. These dependencies are not available on all architectures and thus the package does not migrate to testing. The package paleomix is an example for this[1].

Re: Enhanced syntax for Architecture field

2018-03-29 Thread Ole Streicher
Adam Borowski writes: > The other change I'd make would be adding extra wildcards: > * {big,little}-endian > * {32,64,128¹}-bit > * "fast" (and/or it's near-complement "slow") In principle, these could be simple dependencies: Either empty packages that exist only on the architectures fullfilling

Re: What problem might happen when bumping soname without adding Conflicts:/Breaks:?

2018-03-29 Thread Ondrej Novy
Hi, 2018-03-29 4:35 GMT+02:00 Boyuan Yang <073p...@gmail.com>: > * My mentor suggests that the new library package (libdframeworkdbus2) > should > add the relationship "Conflicts: libdframeworkdbus1" > what is mentor's argument about adding this? > > ...and such necessity is not reflected in th

Bug#894328: ITP: networking-baremetal -- OpenStack virtual network service - Ironic agent

2018-03-29 Thread Thomas Goirand
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Thomas Goirand * Package name: networking-baremetal Version : 1.0.0 Upstream Author : OpenStack Foundation * URL : https://github.com/openstack/networking-baremetal * License : Apache-2.0 Programming Lang: Python Des