Debian Pure Blend - Debian Jr.

2022-01-31 Thread Stefan Kropp
Hello Developers, FYI I decided to work on Debian Junior. My goal is to re-launch the Debian Jr. project [1]. # What has been done * Updated the Debian Jr. Wiki page [2] * New blog for the Debian Jr. team [3] * I got access to salsa projects * I took over the packages debian-junior and jun

Re: Do we need to hide packages in NEW queue

2022-01-31 Thread Russ Allbery
The Wanderer writes: > I am not on the inside of these things, certainly, but I have kept my > eyes open from the outside, and I am not aware of there being any > mechanism for removing something root-and-branch - across all affected > versions, however far back those may stretch - from these rep

Re: Do we need to hide packages in NEW queue

2022-01-31 Thread Scott Kitterman
On Monday, January 31, 2022 12:32:18 PM EST Russ Allbery wrote: ... > A lawyer cannot make that risk trade-off decision for us. We'll have to > make it as a project. But my hope would be that they could help put a > number on the likely legal cost in the worst-case scenario and provide > some inp

Re: Do we need to hide packages in NEW queue

2022-01-31 Thread The Wanderer
On 2022-01-31 at 12:32, Russ Allbery wrote: > Marc Haber writes: > >> Even if a lawyer says A, it doesn't buy us anything if J Robert DD >> gets sued and the judge says B, or "not A". > > Yes, a legal opinion cannot fully resolve the question, > unfortunately, since it's a risk judgment. Copyr

Bug#1004715: ITP: obs-transition-table -- plugin for OBS Studio to create a transition table control

2022-01-31 Thread Joao Eriberto Mota Filho
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Joao Eriberto Mota Filho X-Debbugs-Cc: debian-devel@lists.debian.org, Exeldro * Package name: obs-transition-table Version : 0.2.1 Upstream Author : Exeldro * URL : https://obsproject.com/forum/resources/transition-table.1174/

Bug#1004708: ITP: primecountpy -- Python interface to primecount

2022-01-31 Thread Tobias Hansen
Package: wnpp X-Debbugs-Cc: debian-devel@lists.debian.org Owner: Tobias Hansen Severity: wishlist * Package name: primecountpy Version : 0.1.0 Upstream Author : Dima Pasechnik * URL : https://github.com/dimpase/primecountpy * License : GPL Programming Lang:

Re: Do we need to hide packages in NEW queue

2022-01-31 Thread Maxime Chambonnet
On 1/31/22 10:35, Pirate Praveen wrote: On തി, ജനു 31 2022 at 10:07:32 രാവിലെ +0100 +0100, Stephan Lachnit wrote: On Sun, Jan 30, 2022 at 8:35 PM Russ Allbery wrote: I do think that the amount of effort that the project puts into this pre-screening is of sufficiently high magnitude that

Bug#1004681: ITP: wcag-contrast-ratio -- Library computing contrast ratios required by WCAG 2.0

2022-01-31 Thread Carsten Schoenert
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Carsten Schoenert X-Debbugs-Cc: debian-devel@lists.debian.org * Package name: wcag-contrast-ratio Version : 0.9 Upstream Author : Geoffrey Sneddon * URL : https://github.com/gsnedders/wcag-contrast-ratio * License : MIT

Re: Do we need to hide packages in NEW queue

2022-01-31 Thread Russ Allbery
Stephan Lachnit writes: > If I compare how other mediums handle copyright violations, most > services have a "file a claim infringed copyright here" button on their > site (e.g. YouTube). For example, we could write a DMCA policy like > e.g. Github [2], hyperlink in the footer of all our official

Re: Do we need to hide packages in NEW queue

2022-01-31 Thread Russ Allbery
Marc Haber writes: > Even if a lawyer says A, it doesn't buy us anything if J Robert DD gets > sued and the judge says B, or "not A". Yes, a legal opinion cannot fully resolve the question, unfortunately, since it's a risk judgment. Copyright law is murky enough that it's unlikely that any lawy

Re: Do we need to hide packages in NEW queue

2022-01-31 Thread Erik Huelsmann
Hi, On Mon, Jan 31, 2022 at 12:05 PM Marc Haber wrote: > >Looking at the last financial numbers I found [1], we have at least > >~750k USD we could use for this purpose. I don't really know how > >expensive lawyers are, but I doubt that this would cost more than 10k. > >Heck, we could even hire

Re: generic viewer for md files

2022-01-31 Thread Jerome BENOIT
Thanks again for your hints. Finally I converts my MarkDown documents in HTML with pandoc. Cheers, Jerome On 24/01/2022 12:46, Jerome BENOIT wrote: Hello All, thanks for your replies. On 24/01/2022 12:10, Jonas Smedegaard wrote: Hi Jerome, Quoting Jerome BENOIT (2022-01-24 10:36:50) is there

Re: Do we need to hide packages in NEW queue

2022-01-31 Thread Marc Haber
On Mon, 31 Jan 2022 10:07:32 +0100, Stephan Lachnit wrote: >On Sun, Jan 30, 2022 at 8:35 PM Russ Allbery wrote: >> I do think that the amount of effort that the project puts into this >> pre-screening is of sufficiently high magnitude that it would be worth >> paying a lawyer for a legal opinion

Re: Cloud team plans for cloud-hosted mirrors

2022-01-31 Thread Julien Cristau
On Wed, Jan 26, 2022 at 09:43:16PM -0800, Ross Vandegrift wrote: > On Wed, Jan 26, 2022 at 07:58:23PM +0100, Julien Cristau wrote: > > I think we (DSA) have been reluctant to add new third-party-run services > > under debian.org, and it's not clear to me if that infrastructure would > > be run by t

Re: Do we need to hide packages in NEW queue

2022-01-31 Thread Jonathan Carter
Hey Russ On 2022/01/30 21:34, Russ Allbery wrote: Francesco Poli writes: I thought the basis was the fact that copyright and licensing bugs may have bad legal consequences (lawsuits against the Project for distributing legally undistributable packages, things like that), while technical bugs

Re: Do we need to hide packages in NEW queue

2022-01-31 Thread Jonathan Carter
Hey Russ On 2022/01/30 21:34, Russ Allbery wrote: Francesco Poli writes: I thought the basis was the fact that copyright and licensing bugs may have bad legal consequences (lawsuits against the Project for distributing legally undistributable packages, things like that), while technical bugs

Re: Do we need to hide packages in NEW queue

2022-01-31 Thread Pirate Praveen
On തി, ജനു 31 2022 at 10:07:32 രാവിലെ +0100 +0100, Stephan Lachnit wrote: On Sun, Jan 30, 2022 at 8:35 PM Russ Allbery wrote: I do think that the amount of effort that the project puts into this pre-screening is of sufficiently high magnitude that it would be worth paying a lawyer for

Re: Do we need to hide packages in NEW queue

2022-01-31 Thread Stephan Lachnit
On Sun, Jan 30, 2022 at 8:35 PM Russ Allbery wrote: > > I do think that the amount of effort that the project puts into this > pre-screening is of sufficiently high magnitude that it would be worth > paying a lawyer for a legal opinion about whether or not we need to do > it. The savings to the p