Re: Firmware - what are we going to do about it?

2022-04-18 Thread Ansgar
Hi, On Tue, 2022-04-19 at 01:27 +0100, Steve McIntyre wrote: > TL;DR: firmware support in Debian sucks, and we need to change this. Thanks for proposing changes here. >  5. We could split out the non-free firmware packages into a new >     non-free-firmware component in the archive [...] > What

Bug#1009849: ITP: node-cliclopts -- CLI options helper and usage printer

2022-04-18 Thread Michael Ikwuegbu
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Michael Ikwuegbu X-Debbugs-CC: debian-devel@lists.debian.org * Package name: node-cliclopts Version : 1.1.1 Upstream Author : Finn Pauls * URL : https://github.com/finnp/cliclopts * License : Exp

Firmware - what are we going to do about it?

2022-04-18 Thread Steve McIntyre
TL;DR: firmware support in Debian sucks, and we need to change this. See the "My preference, and rationale" Section below. In my opinion, the way we deal with (non-free) firmware in Debian is a mess, and this is hurting many of our users daily. For a long time we've been pretending that supporting

Re: Concerns about Security of packages in Debain OS and the Operating system itself.

2022-04-18 Thread Stephan Verbücheln
> i did the analysis (took 3 weeks) Do you have a publication of that analysis? I was thinking the same about the organization of Debian for some time but never did analysis or compared it to other distros. Also I like to add that reproducible builds are an excellent addition to the mechanisms yo

Bug#1009817: ITP: liblist-keywords-perl -- selection of list utility keywords

2022-04-18 Thread gregor herrmann
Package: wnpp Owner: gregor herrmann Severity: wishlist X-Debbugs-CC: debian-devel@lists.debian.org, debian-p...@lists.debian.org * Package name: liblist-keywords-perl Version : 0.08 Upstream Author : Paul Evans * URL : https://metacpan.org/release/List-Keywords * Lic

Bug#1009811: ITP: python-pcre -- Python bindings for the Perl Compatible Regex Engine

2022-04-18 Thread Jelmer Vernooij
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Jelmer Vernooij X-Debbugs-Cc: debian-devel@lists.debian.org * Package name: python-pcre Version : 0.7 Upstream Author : Name * URL : https://github.com/awahlig/python-pcre * License : BSD-3 Programming Lang: Python, C