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

2022-05-29 Thread Andrey Rahmatullin
On Sun, May 29, 2022 at 05:33:21PM -0400, Bobby wrote: > There are definitely people who use forks because it's easier to > install non-free firmware. What's the problem with that? Let them use > forks. A distro can't be all things to all people. This would mean almost officially dropping support

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

2022-05-29 Thread Timothy Butterworth
On May 29, 2022, at 6:40 PM, Theodore Ts'o wrote: >On Sun, May 29, 2022 at 05:33:21PM -0400, Bobby wrote: > FWIW, as a 10+ years >user (first time caller :p) I strongly support > sticking with the status quo. >There are plenty of systems that don't > require firmware to work, and often >when

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

2022-05-29 Thread Theodore Ts'o
On Sun, May 29, 2022 at 05:33:21PM -0400, Bobby wrote: > FWIW, as a 10+ years user (first time caller :p) I strongly support > sticking with the status quo. There are plenty of systems that don't > require firmware to work, and often when people say it doesn't "work" > they really mean that its fun

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

2022-05-29 Thread Bobby
FWIW, as a 10+ years user (first time caller :p) I strongly support sticking with the status quo. There are plenty of systems that don't require firmware to work, and often when people say it doesn't "work" they really mean that its functionality is more limited. I use Debian specifically because i

Bug#1012051: ITP: python-qpageview -- qpageview provides a page based document viewer widget for Qt5/PyQt5

2022-05-29 Thread Jean Baptiste Favre
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Jean Baptiste Favre X-Debbugs-Cc: debian-devel@lists.debian.org -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 * Package name: python-qpageview Version : 0.6.2 Upstream Author : Wilbert Berendsen * URL : https://github.com/fre

Bug#1012050: ITP: alpine-chroot-install -- bootstrap Alpine Linux into a chroot

2022-05-29 Thread Adam Borowski
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Adam Borowski X-Debbugs-Cc: debian-devel@lists.debian.org * Package name: alpine-chroot-install Version : 0.13.3 Upstream Author : Jakub Kirutka * URL : https://github.com/alpinelinux/alpine-chroot-install * License : MIT

Re:  Re: questionable massive auto-removal: buggy deps nvidia-graphics-drivers-tesla-470

2022-05-29 Thread Nilesh Patra
On Sun, May 29, 2022 at 01:03:11PM +0530, Pirate Praveen wrote: > 2022, മേയ് 28 8:42:22 PM IST, Thomas Goirand ൽ എഴുതി > >On 5/27/22 09:48, Paul Gevers wrote: > >> Patches welcome. Code is here: > >> https://salsa.debian.org/release-team/release-tools/-/blob/master/mailer/mail_autoremovals.pl > >>

Re:  Re: questionable massive auto-removal: buggy deps nvidia-graphics-drivers-tesla-470

2022-05-29 Thread Pirate Praveen
2022, മേയ് 28 8:42:22 PM IST, Thomas Goirand ൽ എഴുതി >On 5/27/22 09:26, Andreas Tille wrote: >> Am Thu, May 26, 2022 at 08:47:20AM +0200 schrieb Nilesh Patra: >>> Would it be possible to manually remove this item from the list that >>> generates >>> autoremovals? >> >> ... or generate a blackl