Work-needing packages report for Jan 6, 2023

2023-01-05 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: 1227 (new: 3) Total number of packages offered up for adoption: 161 (new: 0) Total number of packages reques

Re: SONAME bumps (transitions) always via experimental

2023-01-05 Thread Bastian Blank
On Thu, Jan 05, 2023 at 12:26:09PM +0100, Paul Gevers wrote: > Once accepted, > the proposed workflow should also become documented in Debian policy. As this is no technical policy, this belongs into the developers reference. However,

Debian Med video conference tomorrow, first Friday of January 2023-01-06 18:00 UTC

2023-01-05 Thread Andreas Tille
Hi, this is the call for the next video conference of the Debian Med team that are an established means to organise the tasks inside our team. In last conference we decided about a new scheme to find a date: First Friday of a month Third Sunday of a month The rationale is that several memb

Bug#1027991: ITP: gle-graphics-manual -- Graphics Layout Engine manual

2023-01-05 Thread Christian T. Steigies
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: "Christian T. Steigies" * Package name: gle-graphics-manual Version : 0~20221108 Upstream Author : Vincent LaBella * URL : https://github.com/vlabella/gle-manual.git * License : BSD-2-clause Programming Lang: LaTeX D

Re: SONAME bumps (transitions) always via experimental

2023-01-05 Thread Thomas Goirand
On 1/5/23 12:28, Sebastiaan Couwenberg wrote: On 1/5/23 12:26, Paul Gevers wrote: Are there objections against this workflow? (Or voices from people who This has been a best practice for quite a while, high time to make it hard requirement. Kind Regards, Bas +1

+1 (Re: SONAME bumps (transitions) always via experimental)

2023-01-05 Thread Holger Levsen
On Thu, Jan 05, 2023 at 12:26:09PM +0100, Paul Gevers wrote in a mail with the subject "SONAME bumps (transitions) always via experimental)": > Are there objections against this workflow? (Or voices from people who like > this?) I like this. -- cheers, Holger ⢀⣴⠾⠻⢶⣦⠀ ⣾⠁⢠⠒⠀⣿⡁ holger

Re: SONAME bumps (transitions) always via experimental

2023-01-05 Thread Paul Gevers
Hi, On 05-01-2023 14:13, Simon McVittie wrote: since passing NEW currently requires a source+binary upload but migrating to testing requires a follow-up source-only upload (same total number of uploads). To be fair, normal SONAME bump NEW uploads only need a arch:!all binary uploa

Re: SONAME bumps (transitions) always via experimental

2023-01-05 Thread Sebastiaan Couwenberg
On 1/5/23 14:13, Simon McVittie wrote: 2. If there is already a version in experimental that is unsuitable for the next stable release, because there's only one experimental, in the rare case that upstream bumps the SONAME of the "old" branch, we can't do as asked. For example: -

Re: SONAME bumps (transitions) always via experimental

2023-01-05 Thread Sebastian Ramacher
On 2023-01-05 13:13:59 +, Simon McVittie wrote: > On Thu, 05 Jan 2023 at 12:26:09 +0100, Paul Gevers wrote: > > The Release Team just asked ftp-master to hold of accepting SONAME bumps > > targeting unstable to ease the last days before the Transition and Toolchain > > Freeze. The Release Team

Re: SONAME bumps (transitions) always via experimental

2023-01-05 Thread Johannes Schauer Marin Rodrigues
Quoting Paul Gevers (2023-01-05 12:26:09) > Once accepted, the proposed workflow should also become documented in Debian > policy. I think how transitions are done is not even documented in the dev-ref right now, no? Last time I was uploading a package for a transition I followed https://wiki.de

Re: SONAME bumps (transitions) always via experimental

2023-01-05 Thread Simon McVittie
On Thu, 05 Jan 2023 at 12:26:09 +0100, Paul Gevers wrote: > The Release Team just asked ftp-master to hold of accepting SONAME bumps > targeting unstable to ease the last days before the Transition and Toolchain > Freeze. The Release Team would like to ask the ftp-masters to also by > default rejec

Bug#1027976: ITP: libcpucycles -- Microlibrary for counting CPU cycles

2023-01-05 Thread Nick Black (Public gmail account)
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: nick black X-Debbugs-Cc: debian-devel@lists.debian.org, dankamong...@gmail.com * Package name: libcpucycles Version : 20230105 Upstream Contact: Daniel J. Bernstein * URL : https://cpucycles.cr.yp.to/download.html * License

Re: SONAME bumps (transitions) always via experimental

2023-01-05 Thread Matteo F. Vescovi
Hi! Il gio 5 gen 2023, 12:28 Sebastiaan Couwenberg ha scritto: > On 1/5/23 12:26, Paul Gevers wrote: > > Are there objections against this workflow? (Or voices from people who > > This has been a best practice for quite a while, high time to make it > hard requirement. +1 mfv

Re: SONAME bumps (transitions) always via experimental

2023-01-05 Thread Lisandro Damián Nicanor Pérez Meyer
On Thu, 5 Jan 2023 at 08:28, Sebastiaan Couwenberg wrote: > > On 1/5/23 12:26, Paul Gevers wrote: > > Are there objections against this workflow? (Or voices from people who > > This has been a best practice for quite a while, high time to make it > hard requirement. I wholeheartedly agree here, a

Re: SONAME bumps (transitions) always via experimental

2023-01-05 Thread Sebastiaan Couwenberg
On 1/5/23 12:26, Paul Gevers wrote: Are there objections against this workflow? (Or voices from people who This has been a best practice for quite a while, high time to make it hard requirement. Kind Regards, Bas -- GPG Key ID: 4096R/6750F10AE88D4AF1 Fingerprint: 8182 DE41 7056 408D 6146

SONAME bumps (transitions) always via experimental

2023-01-05 Thread Paul Gevers
Dear all, The Release Team just asked ftp-master to hold of accepting SONAME bumps targeting unstable to ease the last days before the Transition and Toolchain Freeze. The Release Team would like to ask the ftp-masters to also by default reject SONAME bump NEW uploads to unstable during the w