Work-needing packages report for Jun 7, 2019

2019-06-06 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: 1421 (new: 0) Total number of packages offered up for adoption: 158 (new: 0) Total number of packages reques

Re: Removing bzip2 support from apt due to rustification

2019-06-06 Thread Michael Biebl
Am 06.06.19 um 23:35 schrieb Julian Andres Klode: > Hi folks, > > seeing that Federico Mena Quintero has taken over bzip2 development > and is in the process of porting it to Rust[1], we should consider > removing bzip2 support from apt, dpkg, etc. following the release > of buster. Reading https

Potentially forking bzip2 (was: Re: Removing bzip2 support from apt due to rustification)

2019-06-06 Thread Guillem Jover
Hi! On Thu, 2019-06-06 at 23:35:28 +0200, Julian Andres Klode wrote: > seeing that Federico Mena Quintero has taken over bzip2 development > and is in the process of porting it to Rust[1], we should consider > removing bzip2 support from apt, dpkg, etc. following the release > of buster. Argh. :(

Re: Removing bzip2 support from apt due to rustification

2019-06-06 Thread Julian Andres Klode
On Thu, Jun 06, 2019 at 05:44:27PM -0400, Boyuan Yang wrote: > 在 2019-06-06四的 23:35 +0200,Julian Andres Klode写道: > > Hi folks, > > > > seeing that Federico Mena Quintero has taken over bzip2 development > > and is in the process of porting it to Rust[1], we should consider > > removing bzip2 suppo

Re: Removing bzip2 support from apt due to rustification

2019-06-06 Thread Adam Borowski
On Thu, Jun 06, 2019 at 05:44:27PM -0400, Boyuan Yang wrote: > 在 2019-06-06四的 23:35 +0200,Julian Andres Klode写道: > > seeing that Federico Mena Quintero has taken over bzip2 development > > and is in the process of porting it to Rust[1], we should consider > > removing bzip2 support from apt, dpkg,

Re: Removing bzip2 support from apt due to rustification

2019-06-06 Thread Boyuan Yang
在 2019-06-06四的 23:35 +0200,Julian Andres Klode写道: > Hi folks, > > seeing that Federico Mena Quintero has taken over bzip2 development > and is in the process of porting it to Rust[1], we should consider > removing bzip2 support from apt, dpkg, etc. following the release > of buster. > > My unders

Removing bzip2 support from apt due to rustification

2019-06-06 Thread Julian Andres Klode
Hi folks, seeing that Federico Mena Quintero has taken over bzip2 development and is in the process of porting it to Rust[1], we should consider removing bzip2 support from apt, dpkg, etc. following the release of buster. My understanding is that having APT depend on a library written in Rust sev

Re: Bits from the DPL (May 2019)

2019-06-06 Thread Alf Gaida
> A guest account in Debian LDAP does not get a Salsa account, at least > not an usable one. Currently only users in the Debian group are > allowed.Hmm - so salsa is useless at all - i don't think so. Change your pov and see it otherwise: A guest can open a project - all members of the Debian g

Re: Bits from the DPL (May 2019)

2019-06-06 Thread Sam Hartman
> "Bastian" == Bastian Blank writes: Bastian> Hi Sam Bastian> On Thu, Jun 06, 2019 at 11:57:41AM -0400, Sam Hartman wrote: >> However, it's a lot easier to get a foo-guest account on salsa >> than it is to get a foo guest account in Debian LDAP. Bastian> A guest account i

Re: paying people for Debian work (Re: Why do we take so long to realise good ideas (Was: Difficult Packaging Practices))

2019-06-06 Thread Joël Krähemann
Hi, Why to support additional fragmentation? My opinion is debian was left behind regarding infrastructure. I do packaging for various distributions. Honestly, I am running debian. But you could provide continues integration for different architectures, not only i386 and amd64. Extend access to

Question about Debian build infrastructure

2019-06-06 Thread Kyle Edwards
Hello all, I have been preparing Ubuntu releases for CMake on our own APT repository for several months now. We did this by preparing our own repository infrastructure - we have a machine that builds packages, and a machine that hosts an Aptly instance and pushes the repository to our web server.

Re: ZFS in Buster

2019-06-06 Thread Aron Xu
On Thu, Jun 6, 2019 at 11:16 PM Ondřej Surý wrote: > > Hey all, > > I understand the woes on all sides, but I believe the correct “Debian" way > would be to drop ZoL from Buster release. Of course we can wait until it > breaks after Linux kernel upgrade, but I would say it’s better to prevent t

Re: @debian.org mail

2019-06-06 Thread Jérémy Lal
Le mer. 5 juin 2019 à 13:26, Marc Haber a écrit : > On Mon, 3 Jun 2019 10:40:26 +0200, Daniel Lange > wrote: > >DSA should re-evaluate that. > > > >We run into more and more problems sending from @debian.org email > >addresses as the three big players in email ratchet up their anti-spam > >measu

Re: Bits from the DPL (May 2019)

2019-06-06 Thread Bastian Blank
Hi Sam On Thu, Jun 06, 2019 at 11:57:41AM -0400, Sam Hartman wrote: > However, it's a lot easier to get a foo-guest account on salsa than it > is to get a foo guest account in Debian LDAP. A guest account in Debian LDAP does not get a Salsa account, at least not an usable one. Currently only use

Re: @debian.org mail

2019-06-06 Thread Marc Haber
On Thu, 06 Jun 2019 12:49:25 +0200, Bjørn Mork wrote: >You can't fix @gmail.com. It is deliberately broken for commercial >reasons, and that won't stop with SPF and DKIM. Anti-spam is just the >current selling excuse for moving users to a closed, commercially >controlled, messaging service. > >D

Bug#930081: ITP: node-regexgen -- Generates regular expressions that match a set of strings.

2019-06-06 Thread Manas Kashyap
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Manas kashyap X-Debbugs-CC: debian-devel@lists.debian.org * Package name: node-regexgen Version : 1.3.0 Upstream Author : Devon Govett (badassjs.com) * URL : https://github.com/devongovett/regexgen * License : Expat Pr

Re: Bits from the DPL (May 2019)

2019-06-06 Thread Sam Hartman
> "Alexander" == Alexander Wirt writes: Alexander> On Wed, 05 Jun 2019, Adrian Bunk wrote: I understand that is how it is today. Disabling an account is something we clearly want to be able to do. However, it's a lot easier to get a foo-guest account on salsa than it is to get a foo gu

Bug#930078: ITP: utf8.h -- header files providing utf8-ready string handing

2019-06-06 Thread Steffen Moeller
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Steffen Moeller * Package name: utf8.h Upstream Author : Neil Henning * URL : https://github.com/sheredom/utf8.h * License : Unlicense-Licensed Programming Lang: C/C++ Description : header files providing utf8-ready string

Re: ZFS in Buster

2019-06-06 Thread Ondřej Surý
Hey all, I understand the woes on all sides, but I believe the correct “Debian" way would be to drop ZoL from Buster release. Of course we can wait until it breaks after Linux kernel upgrade, but I would say it’s better to prevent the dance around removing the package from the buster and just

Re: ZFS in Buster

2019-06-06 Thread Bastian Blank
Hi Zigo On Thu, Jun 06, 2019 at 02:43:16PM +0200, Thomas Goirand wrote: > In such case, would you consider maintaining this tiny patch? > https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/pull/61076/commits/7b77c27caa8617c82df5c5af6b9ce6ae010d7f9a Please read https://bugs.debian.org/929557. Thanks for following

Bug#930075: ITP: ruby-minispec-metadata -- define and access metadata in MiniTest::Spec

2019-06-06 Thread Jongmin Kim
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Jongmin Kim * Package name: ruby-minispec-metadata Version : 3.2.0 Upstream Author : Jared Ning * URL : https://github.com/ordinaryzelig/minispec-metadata * License : Expat Programming Lang: Ruby Description : De

Bug#930070: ITP: ruby-vips -- Ruby extension for the vips image processing library

2019-06-06 Thread Jongmin Kim
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Jongmin Kim * Package name: ruby-vips Version : 2.0.13 Upstream Author : John Cupitt * URL : http://github.com/jcupitt/ruby-vips * License : Expat Programming Lang: Ruby Description : Ruby extension for the vips

Bug#930069: ITP: ruby-image-processing -- higher-level helper methods for image processing

2019-06-06 Thread Jongmin Kim
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Jongmin Kim * Package name: ruby-image-processing Version : 1.9.0 Upstream Author : Janko Marohnić * URL : https://github.com/janko/image_processing * License : Expat Programming Lang: Ruby Description : higher-l

Re: ZFS in Buster

2019-06-06 Thread Thomas Goirand
On 5/29/19 3:52 PM, Ben Hutchings wrote: > On Wed, 2019-05-29 at 13:43 +0200, Dan wrote: >> The commit also affects ZFS 0.7 because SIMD is used for checksum operations. >> >> There might be a performance penalty in ZFS only if Debian Buster >> upgrades to 4.19.38. > > Which we will, some time soo

Bug#930068: ITP: magnus -- Very simple screen magnifier

2019-06-06 Thread Mike Gabriel
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Mike Gabriel * Package name: magnus Version : 1.0.1 Upstream Author : Stuart Langridge * URL : https://github.com/stuartlangridge/magnus * License : MIT/Expat Programming Lang: Python Description : Very simple sc

Bug#930067: ITP: caja-mediainfo -- View media information from the Caja file properties tab

2019-06-06 Thread Mike Gabriel
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Mike Gabriel * Package name: caja-mediainfo Version : 1.0.1 Upstream Author : Caldas Lopes * URL : https://github.com/linux-man/caja-mediainfo-tab * License : GPL-3 Programming Lang: Python Description : View med

Re: @debian.org mail

2019-06-06 Thread Bjørn Mork
Daniel Lange writes: > We have more people registered for DebConf ("the Debian Developers' > conference") with @gmail.com than @debian.org addresses. You can't fix @gmail.com. It is deliberately broken for commercial reasons, and that won't stop with SPF and DKIM. Anti-spam is just the current

Bug#930053: ITP: wpewebkit -- Web content engine for embedded devices

2019-06-06 Thread Alberto Garcia
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Alberto Garcia * Package name: wpewebkit Version : 2.24.2 Upstream Author : The WPE WebKit Team * URL : http://www.wpewebkit.org/ * License : mixed LGPL and BSD Programming Lang: C, C++ Description : Web content e

Bug#930046: ITP: jdcloud-sdk-cpp-signer -- C++ signing library for jdcloud.com

2019-06-06 Thread LI Daobing
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: LI Daobing * Package name: jdcloud-sdk-cpp-signer Version : 0.2.1 Upstream Author : jdcloud.com * URL : https://github.com/jdcloud-api/jdcloud-sdk-cpp-signer * License : Apache-2.0 Programming Lang: C++ Description