Re: Upcoming Qt switch to OpenGL ES on arm64

2018-11-27 Thread Steve Langasek
On Tue, Nov 27, 2018 at 10:13:06PM -0300, Lisandro Damián Nicanor Pérez Meyer wrote: > El martes, 27 de noviembre de 2018 21:51:47 -03 Lisandro Damián Nicanor Pérez > Meyer escribió: > [snip] > > > > prepare dual stack packages that use the symbols file magic from > > > > Ubuntu, rebuild all the

Re: usrmerge -- plan B?

2018-11-27 Thread Marco d'Itri
On Nov 28, "Alexander E. Patrakov" wrote: > Well, the buildd configuration change has been reverted. What worries me now > is that there is a risk not yet mitigated, coming from personal systems of > Debian developers, and we should also check porter boxes. This is not a new problem at all: in my

Re: Qt with GLES on arm64 maintainer's decision - Was:: Upcoming Qt switch to OpenGL ES on arm64

2018-11-27 Thread Paul Wise
On Wed, Nov 28, 2018 at 7:30 AM Lisandro Damián Nicanor Pérez Meyer wrote: > Just curious: is there any project alive for the PowerVR SGX530 ? There used to be a very brief effort around PowerVR devices but it looks like that has died now. Some of the project site was captured by archive.org and

Re: Re: usrmerge -- plan B?

2018-11-27 Thread Alexander E. Patrakov
Russ Allbery wrote: We had some things break because of a change to buildd configuration that caught some people by surprise. Well, the buildd configuration change has been reverted. What worries me now is that there is a risk not yet mitigated, coming from personal systems of Debian develop

Re: usrmerge -- plan B?

2018-11-27 Thread Alf Gaida
>> I think it would be good to hear from any derivatives in this >> position. We should probably ask them more formally than by having a >> horrible flamewar on -devel ... With my siduction dev hat on i want to have usrmerge as soon as possible. Built the last months with usrmerge activated and c

Re: Upcoming Qt switch to OpenGL ES on arm64

2018-11-27 Thread Lisandro Damián Nicanor Pérez Meyer
El martes, 27 de noviembre de 2018 21:51:47 -03 Lisandro Damián Nicanor Pérez Meyer escribió: [snip] > > > prepare dual stack packages that use the symbols file magic from > > > Ubuntu, rebuild all the reverse-dependencies, and identify all those > > > packages which are libraries and which end up

Re: Upcoming Qt switch to OpenGL ES on arm64

2018-11-27 Thread Lisandro Damián Nicanor Pérez Meyer
El martes, 27 de noviembre de 2018 21:19:20 -03 Lisandro Damián Nicanor Pérez Meyer escribió: > El martes, 27 de noviembre de 2018 20:39:58 -03 Steve Langasek escribió: > > On Tue, Nov 27, 2018 at 07:58:17PM -0300, Lisandro Damián Nicanor Pérez > > Meyer wrote: > [snip] > > > > Yes, we are :-) D

Re: Upcoming Qt switch to OpenGL ES on arm64

2018-11-27 Thread Lisandro Damián Nicanor Pérez Meyer
El martes, 27 de noviembre de 2018 20:39:58 -03 Steve Langasek escribió: > On Tue, Nov 27, 2018 at 07:58:17PM -0300, Lisandro Damián Nicanor Pérez Meyer wrote: [snip] > > Yes, we are :-) Dmitry has been working on them (he is also an Ubuntu Qt > > maintainer). He points me out that those 7 packa

Re: Upcoming Qt switch to OpenGL ES on arm64

2018-11-27 Thread Steve Langasek
On Tue, Nov 27, 2018 at 07:58:17PM -0300, Lisandro Damián Nicanor Pérez Meyer wrote: > > https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/qtbase-opensource-src-gles/5.7.1+dfsg-> > > 2ubuntu4~1 > > And here is the list of all packages that required dual-stack at least as of > > 2017, when Ubuntu stopped deve

Re: Qt with GLES on arm64 maintainer's decision - Was:: Upcoming Qt switch to OpenGL ES on arm64

2018-11-27 Thread Lisandro Damián Nicanor Pérez Meyer
El martes, 27 de noviembre de 2018 17:19:32 -03 Dmitry Shachnev escribió: > Hi Rohan! > > On Tue, Nov 27, 2018 at 04:24:43PM +0100, Rohan Garg wrote: > > [...] > > > > I concur here. It was correctly pointed out in another reply that by using > > OpenGL we're specifically catering to software tha

Re: Qt with GLES on arm64 maintainer's decision - Was:: Upcoming Qt switch to OpenGL ES on arm64

2018-11-27 Thread Lisandro Damián Nicanor Pérez Meyer
El domingo, 25 de noviembre de 2018 21:18:39 -03 Paul Wise escribió: > On Sun, Nov 25, 2018 at 8:58 PM Lisandro Damián Nicanor Pérez Meyer wrote: > > Both Dmitry and I just learned that the RPI has the VC4 driver which > > enables it to do hardware acceleration for Desktop OpenGL, we must admit > >

Bug#914853: ITA: yaml-cpp

2018-11-27 Thread Simon Quigley
Package: wnpp X-Debbugs-CC: debian-devel@lists.debian.org ti...@debian.org This is being filed to publicly state what I have discussed in private with Andreas Tille (and what he recently publicly stated[1]), that I plan on adopting this package. I understand that a recent upload has triggered a t

Re: Upcoming Qt switch to OpenGL ES on arm64

2018-11-27 Thread Lisandro Damián Nicanor Pérez Meyer
Hi Steve! First of all: thanks for chiming in! El martes, 27 de noviembre de 2018 19:06:27 -03 Steve Langasek escribió: > Hi Lisandro, [snip] > > This waterfall schema means *multiple* libraries would have to start doing > > this two-binaries thing, as Ubuntu devs discovered. But remember that Qt

Bug#914849: ITP: junixsocket -- Unix Domain Sockets in Java

2018-11-27 Thread Emmanuel Bourg
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Emmanuel Bourg * Package name: junixsocket Version : 2.0.4 Upstream Author : Christian Kohlschütter * URL : https://github.com/kohlschutter/junixsocket * License : Apache-2.0 Programming Lang: Java, C++ Description

Re: Upcoming Qt switch to OpenGL ES on arm64

2018-11-27 Thread Steve Langasek
Hi Lisandro, On Fri, Nov 23, 2018 at 11:05:11PM -0300, Lisandro Damián Nicanor Pérez Meyer wrote: > Andy: explicitly CCing you because I think it answers part of a question you > did but in another part of the thread. > El viernes, 23 de noviembre de 2018 06:58:13 -03 Steve McIntyre escribió: >

Re: usrmerge -- plan B?

2018-11-27 Thread Josh Triplett
Ian Jackson wrote: > Unfortunately that means that while a properly planned and executed > transition to mandatory merged-/usr might well have offered overall > technical benefits for the Debian ecosystem, this is not now socially > possible and pressing on is not worth the social costs of being se

Re: usrmerge -- plan B?

2018-11-27 Thread Steve Langasek
On Tue, Nov 27, 2018 at 12:57:38PM +, Ian Jackson wrote: > > In the case of unmerged /usr, the only benefits I'm aware of for the more > > complex case (unmerged /usr) are circular: existing Debian installations > > have it, so switching to merged /usr is a change; > I think this is true for D

Re: Qt with GLES on arm64 maintainer's decision - Was:: Upcoming Qt switch to OpenGL ES on arm64

2018-11-27 Thread Dmitry Shachnev
Hi Rohan! On Tue, Nov 27, 2018 at 04:24:43PM +0100, Rohan Garg wrote: > [...] > > I concur here. It was correctly pointed out in another reply that by using > OpenGL we're specifically catering to software that doesn't support > GLES while making performance worse for mature applications that > do

Re: usrmerge -- plan B?

2018-11-27 Thread Russ Allbery
Michael Stone writes: > On Tue, Nov 27, 2018 at 08:54:43AM +, Simon McVittie wrote: >> If I was wrong in assuming good faith and you were being argumentative >> for the sake of being argumentative, please stop: that is not >> constructive. >> >> Either way, please don't call me stupid. That i

Re: Our build system may be broken: /bin vs /usr/bin

2018-11-27 Thread Russ Allbery
Wouter Verhelst writes: > How can it do so, though, if the build system hardcodes paths to > binaries[1]? Isn't it better (and easier) to have non-usr-merged buildd > chroots as long as we still support such systems? > [1] Yes, I know policy says you shouldn't do that, but if there's a > 3000-li

Re: Bug#881333: Qt with GLES on arm64 maintainer's decision - Was:: Upcoming Qt switch to OpenGL ES on arm64

2018-11-27 Thread Steve Langasek
On Mon, Nov 26, 2018 at 03:39:03PM -0800, Keith Packard wrote: > Steve Langasek writes: > > Long ago I heard rumors of development work on mesa that would allow it to > > function as a proxy library, so that apps would link against libGL as needed > > and the GL implementation would use a hardwar

Re: usrmerge -- plan B?

2018-11-27 Thread Michael Stone
On Tue, Nov 27, 2018 at 08:54:43AM +, Simon McVittie wrote: If I was wrong in assuming good faith and you were being argumentative for the sake of being argumentative, please stop: that is not constructive. Either way, please don't call me stupid. That is not *at all* constructive - especial

Re: usrmerge -- plan B?

2018-11-27 Thread Michael Stone
On Tue, Nov 27, 2018 at 09:50:40AM +0100, Philip Hands wrote: Michael Stone writes: On Mon, Nov 26, 2018 at 03:08:09PM +0100, Marco d'Itri wrote: I disagree both that simple testing (that you could do with a KVM snapshot as well) would be hard and I disagree that the benefits of merged-/usr wo

Re: Qt with GLES on arm64 maintainer's decision - Was:: Upcoming Qt switch to OpenGL ES on arm64

2018-11-27 Thread Rohan Garg
Hey On Mon, Nov 26, 2018 at 12:38 PM Raphael Hertzog wrote: > > Hello Lisandro, > > TLDR: thank you for starting this discussion, it was required as it's not > an easy decision to take as there is no realistic perfect solution, but I > believe you took the wrong decision. Please consider deferrin

Re: tracking OpenGL support for specific boards

2018-11-27 Thread bret curtis
On Tue, Nov 27, 2018 at 3:58 PM Stefan Monnier wrote: > > >> What would help further would be for such information having references > >> to sources, and each information point be referencable (not only the > >> dataset as a whole). > > Isn't this already done for us here? > > https://gpuinfo.org/

Bug#914807: ITP: muacrypt -- Autocrypt encryption for mail agents

2018-11-27 Thread Birger Schacht
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Birger Schacht * Package name: muacrypt Version : 0.9 Upstream Author : Holger krekel and the Autocrypt team * URL : https://muacrypt.readthedocs.io * License : GPL Programming Lang: Python Description : Autocrypt

Re: tracking OpenGL support for specific boards

2018-11-27 Thread Stefan Monnier
>> What would help further would be for such information having references >> to sources, and each information point be referencable (not only the >> dataset as a whole). > Isn't this already done for us here? > https://gpuinfo.org/ I don't see any reference to sources. Also I see it as "Ubuntu" a

Re: tracking OpenGL support for specific boards

2018-11-27 Thread bret curtis
> > https://github.com/Re4son/kali-gemini-multistrap-config/raw/files/Arm64List.xls > > > > Any feedback, correction and addition that could benefit this discussion > > would be appreciated. > > Great that you collected that dataset, and put it public. > > What would help further would be for such

Re: Is using experimental distribution for shelter during freeze useful?

2018-11-27 Thread Andrey Rahmatullin
On Tue, Nov 27, 2018 at 08:38:46PM +0900, Hideki Yamane wrote: > Cons) > - Harder to get users for test with testing-proposed-updates repository My understanding of the current consensus is that this is the main reason for using the current workflow. Nobody would test anything except sid and test

Re: tracking OpenGL support for specific boards

2018-11-27 Thread Jonas Smedegaard
Quoting Re4son (2018-11-27 11:38:14) > On 2018-11-27 02:46 +, Wookey wrote: > > > > > > Well, that's at very least an interesting data point. So yes, they exist, > > > but > > > they are new and expensive. Can I assume that this means most of our > > > arm64 > > > users do not yet get to th

Re: Is using experimental distribution for shelter during freeze useful?

2018-11-27 Thread Thomas Goirand
On 11/27/18 12:38 PM, Hideki Yamane wrote: > Hi, > > Well, we use experimental as "shelter" during freeze, but it's not good > in my point of view. > > - During freeze, it is just ignored by most of the users since they >wouldn't know there's a newer package in there (and they also afraid

Re: usrmerge -- plan B?

2018-11-27 Thread Marc Haber
On Tue, 27 Nov 2018 09:50:40 +0100, Philip Hands wrote: >I have systems that were installed ages ago, which now have >insufficiently large root partitions. The usrmerge moves stuff from / to /usr, replacing /bin with a symlink to /usr/bin. This is likely to relax space constraints on small root f

Re: Is using experimental distribution for shelter during freeze useful?

2018-11-27 Thread Sean Whitton
Hello, On Tue 27 Nov 2018 at 08:38PM +0900, Hideki Yamane wrote: > Cons) > - Maybe you should do cherry-picking changes from unstable to >testing-proposed-updates, not just ask "unblock" to Release Managers. > - Harder to get users for test with testing-proposed-updates repository - Addit

Re: usrmerge -- plan B?

2018-11-27 Thread Ian Jackson
Firstly, thanks for your measured and helpful contributions to this very unfortunate thread. Simon McVittie writes ("Re: usrmerge -- plan B?"): > I hope we can agree that unnecessary complexity is technical debt, but > necessary complexity is necessary: if complexity exists for a reason, > then th

Re: Is using experimental distribution for shelter during freeze useful?

2018-11-27 Thread Dominik George
> Your thoughts? sid is not a rolling release for the public, it is a development area. Some users use it as a rolling release to get bleeding edge software, but in fact they become a developer that way (not meaning DD). If you think regular development prevents you from staying up to date durin

Re: Is using experimental distribution for shelter during freeze useful?

2018-11-27 Thread Jonas Smedegaard
Quoting Hideki Yamane (2018-11-27 12:38:46) > Hi, > > Well, we use experimental as "shelter" during freeze, but it's not good > in my point of view. > > - During freeze, it is just ignored by most of the users since they >wouldn't know there's a newer package in there (and they also afraid

Re: usrmerge -- plan B?

2018-11-27 Thread Scott Leggett
On 2018-11-27.08:54, Simon McVittie wrote: > On Tue, 27 Nov 2018 at 09:18:08 +0100, Stephan Seitz wrote: > > But I don’t want to get the /usr-merge forced upon my systems because this > > minority is obviously too stupid to install the package and migrate their > > systems on their own. > > That w

Re: Our build system may be broken: /bin vs /usr/bin

2018-11-27 Thread Dirk Eddelbuettel
On 27 November 2018 at 08:04, Kurt Hornik wrote: | The new r-base-core (3.5.1-2+b1) also seems fine on i386. Thanks! Great news, thanks for reporting back! All systems green, and Chris (was usual) right along :) Dirk -- http://dirk.eddelbuettel.com | @eddelbuettel | e...@debian.org

Is using experimental distribution for shelter during freeze useful?

2018-11-27 Thread Hideki Yamane
Hi, Well, we use experimental as "shelter" during freeze, but it's not good in my point of view. - During freeze, it is just ignored by most of the users since they wouldn't know there's a newer package in there (and they also afraid because it's in "experimental" ;). It means "not teste

Re: Upcoming Qt switch to OpenGL ES on arm64

2018-11-27 Thread Re4son
Hi, On 2018-11-27 02:46 +, Wookey wrote: > > > > Well, that's at very least an interesting data point. So yes, they exist, > > but > > they are new and expensive. Can I assume that this means most of our arm64 > > users do not yet get to them? > Not yet, no although I think you can just b

Re: Qt with GLES on arm64 maintainer's decision - Was:: Upcoming Qt switch to OpenGL ES on arm64

2018-11-27 Thread Re4son
Hi, On 26/11/18 11:54 pm, Riku Voipio wrote: > On Mon, Nov 26, 2018 at 12:37:57PM +0100, Raphael Hertzog wrote: >> were in the week-end). I was aware of the discussion but did not >> had the time to chime in, yet I was the person who re-opened the bug >> #881333 in the first place. > >> I also i

Bug#914791: ITP: r-cran-rspectra -- GNU R solvers for large-scale eigenvalue and SVD problems

2018-11-27 Thread Andreas Tille
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Andreas Tille * Package name: r-cran-rspectra Version : 0.13 Upstream Author : Yixuan Qiu * URL : https://cran.r-project.org/package=RSpectra * License : MPL-2.0 Programming Lang: GNU R Description : GNU R solvers

Re: Upcoming Qt switch to OpenGL ES on arm64

2018-11-27 Thread Re4son
Hi, On 26/11/18 8:58 pm, Riku Voipio wrote: > On Thu, Nov 22, 2018 at 07:14:44PM -0300, Lisandro Damián Nicanor Pérez Meyer > wrote: >> El jueves, 22 de noviembre de 2018 18:30:39 -03 Marcin Juszkiewicz escribió: > >> The real issue here is that *many* arm64 boards currently do not support >> De

Re: usrmerge -- plan B?

2018-11-27 Thread Simon McVittie
On Tue, 27 Nov 2018 at 09:18:08 +0100, Stephan Seitz wrote: > But I don’t want to get the /usr-merge forced upon my systems because this > minority is obviously too stupid to install the package and migrate their > systems on their own. That would be a terrible justification for merged /usr, but i

Bug#914785: ITP: ibus-keyman -- Input method engine for multiple languages using Keyman for IBus

2018-11-27 Thread Daniel Glassey
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Daniel Glassey * Package name: ibus-keyman Version : 10.99 Upstream Author : SIL International * URL : http://www.keyman.com * License : GPL, MIT/X Programming Lang: C Description : Input method engine for multipl

Re: usrmerge -- plan B?

2018-11-27 Thread Philip Hands
Michael Stone writes: > On Mon, Nov 26, 2018 at 03:08:09PM +0100, Marco d'Itri wrote: >>I disagree both that simple testing (that you could do with a KVM >>snapshot as well) would be hard and I disagree that the benefits of >>merged-/usr would be minor. > > Nobody has thus far pointed out a singl

Re: usrmerge -- plan B?

2018-11-27 Thread Adam D. Barratt
On 2018-11-27 08:18, Stephan Seitz wrote: But I don’t want to get the /usr-merge forced upon my systems because this minority is obviously too stupid to install the package and migrate their systems on their own. Please refrain from posting such messages; they are inappropriate and contribute

Bug#914781: ITP: keyman-config -- Type in your language with Keyman for Linux

2018-11-27 Thread Daniel Glassey
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Daniel Glassey * Package name: keyman-config Version : 10.99.33 Upstream Author : Daniel Glassey * URL : http://www.keyman.com * License : MIT/X Programming Lang: Python Description : Type in your language with K

Re: usrmerge -- plan B?

2018-11-27 Thread Stephan Seitz
On Mo, Nov 26, 2018 at 11:05:02 +0100, W. Martin Borgert wrote: I personally don't care about usrmerge, but if it is useful to a relevant minority, we should not reject it. Who says we should reject the usrmerge package? The minority who wishes for it can install it for years. But I don’t wa

Re: NEW and RC bugs (Re: julia_1.0.0-1_amd64.changes REJECTED)

2018-11-27 Thread Andrey Rahmatullin
On Tue, Nov 27, 2018 at 08:38:56AM +0100, Wouter Verhelst wrote: > > > The experimental distribution is a good place for work in > > > progress. Maybe the rules for automatic rejects can be relaxed for > > > experimental so a package can go into the archive (and have e.g. the BTS > > > used for tha