Work-needing packages report for Apr 28, 2023

2023-04-27 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: 1225 (new: 0) Total number of packages offered up for adoption: 157 (new: 0) Total number of packages reques

Re: Re-enabling os-prober for live images?

2023-04-27 Thread Steve McIntyre
[ Following up on the older discussion... ] t...@debian.org wrote: >kilobyte wrote: > >>At this point, I'd just enable os-prober unconditionally, and think of a > >Erm, *no*?! > >os-prober corrupts data when called (in virtualisation/emulation >guests, at the very least). > > >Steve wrote: > >>I'm

Re: DEP 17: Improve support for directory aliasing in dpkg

2023-04-27 Thread Marc Haber
On Thu, 27 Apr 2023 12:53:31 +0200, Helmut Grohne wrote: >failing >our Code of Conduct The thread went CoC and died. End of discussion for me. -- -- !! No courtesy copies, please !! - Marc Haber | " Questions are the | Mailadresse im Hea

RFP: kernelcraft -- Tool to build and run a kernel inside a virtualized snapshot of your live system

2023-04-27 Thread Andrea Righi
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Andrea Righi X-Debbugs-CC: debian-devel@lists.debian.org Control: affects -1 ITP * Package name: kernelcraft Version : 2.0 Upstream Author : Andrea Righi * URL : https://salsa.debian.org/arighi/kernelcraft * License : GP

Re: DEP 17: Improve support for directory aliasing in dpkg

2023-04-27 Thread Simon Richter
Hi, On Thu, Apr 27, 2023 at 11:57:58AM +, Holger Levsen wrote: > Constitution 2.1.1 is great, however we don't really have a mechanism how to > deal with people flat out ignoring Constitution 6 aka the tech-ctte and > doubting > and activly working against it's decisions. We have: we can fi

Re: DEP 17: Improve support for directory aliasing in dpkg

2023-04-27 Thread Marco d'Itri
On Apr 27, Helmut Grohne wrote: > The origin of this thread was a proposal to adapt dpkg. Your mail No, Marc is right. The origin of this thread is trying to find workaround because the dpkg maintainer refused long ago to implement a simpler solution. -- ciao, Marco signature.asc Descriptio

Re: DEP 17: Improve support for directory aliasing in dpkg

2023-04-27 Thread Helmut Grohne
Hi Simon, On Sat, Apr 22, 2023 at 11:41:29AM +0100, Simon McVittie wrote: > You might reasonably say that "the maintainer of bar didn't add the > correct Breaks/Replaces on foo" is a RC bug in bar - and it is! - but > judging by the number of "missing Breaks/Replaces" bug reports that have > to be

Bug#1034910: ITP: node-jss -- Node.js library to generate style sheets

2023-04-27 Thread Yadd
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Yadd X-Debbugs-Cc: debian-devel@lists.debian.org * Package name: node-jss Version : 10.10.0 Upstream Contact: https://github.com/cssinjs/jss/issues * URL : https://github.com/cssinjs/jss * License : Expat Programming La

Re: DEP 17: Improve support for directory aliasing in dpkg

2023-04-27 Thread Holger Levsen
On Thu, Apr 27, 2023 at 10:58:46AM +0200, Marc Haber wrote: > My gut feeling is that we are wasting prescious time of numerous > skilled Debian Developers to find ugly workarounds to something that > should be done in dpkg, but isnt being done because one dpkg > maintainer has decided to not go the

Re: Upgrade package from init script to Systemd, move config folder

2023-04-27 Thread Peter Pentchev
On Thu, Apr 27, 2023 at 10:54:58AM +0200, Marc Haber wrote: > On Thu, 27 Apr 2023 08:20:34 +0200, Simon Richter > wrote: > >On Wed, Apr 26, 2023 at 04:25:19PM +0200, Marc Haber wrote: > >> I am not sure whether it is doing non-systemd users a favor to keep a > >> probably outdated, bitrotting and

Re: DEP 17: Improve support for directory aliasing in dpkg

2023-04-27 Thread Helmut Grohne
Hi Marc, On Thu, Apr 27, 2023 at 10:58:46AM +0200, Marc Haber wrote: > My gut feeling is that we are wasting prescious time of numerous > skilled Debian Developers to find ugly workarounds to something that > should be done in dpkg, but isnt being done because one dpkg > maintainer has decided to

Bug#1034907: ITP: node-css-vendor -- JavaScript library to detect CSS vendor prefix

2023-04-27 Thread Yadd
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Yadd X-Debbugs-Cc: debian-devel@lists.debian.org * Package name: node-css-vendor Version : 2.0.8 Upstream Contact: Oleg Slobodskoi * URL : https://github.com/cssinjs/css-vendor * License : Expat Programming Lang: JavaS

Re: Upgrade package from init script to Systemd, move config folder

2023-04-27 Thread Marc Haber
On Thu, 27 Apr 2023 08:20:34 +0200, Simon Richter wrote: >On Wed, Apr 26, 2023 at 04:25:19PM +0200, Marc Haber wrote: >> I am not sure whether it is doing non-systemd users a favor to keep a >> probably outdated, bitrotting and untested init script in the >> canonical place. My gut feeling is that

Re: DEP 17: Improve support for directory aliasing in dpkg

2023-04-27 Thread Marc Haber
On Thu, 27 Apr 2023 07:58:35 +0200, Simon Richter wrote: >On Thu, Apr 27, 2023 at 12:34:06AM +0200, Helmut Grohne wrote: >> At some point the question becomes: Do we want that complexity inside >> dpkg (aka DEP 17 or some variant of it) or outside of dpkg (i.e. what >> we're talking about here). I

Bug#1034902: RFP: palace -- 3D Finite Element Solver for Computational Electromagnetics

2023-04-27 Thread Gürkan Myczko
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist X-Debbugs-Cc: debian-devel@lists.debian.org * Package name: palace Version : 0.11.0 Upstream Authors: AWS Center for Quantum Computing (CQC). URL : https://github.com/awslabs/palace * License : Apache-2.0 Description

Bug#1034901: ITP: glvis -- accurate and flexible finite element visualization

2023-04-27 Thread Gürkan Myczko
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Gürkan Myczko X-Debbugs-Cc: debian-devel@lists.debian.org * Package name: glvis Version : 4.2 Upstream Authors: Lawrence Livermore National Security, LLC URL : https://github.com/GLVis/glvis * License : BSD-3-clause

Re: Upgrade package from init script to Systemd, move config folder

2023-04-27 Thread Mark Hindley
On Thu, Apr 27, 2023 at 09:02:38AM +0800, Paul Wise wrote: > On Wed, 2023-04-26 at 22:44 +0300, Boian Bonev wrote: > > > OTOH it is an un-favor to move or remove it > ... > > It is better to keep the init script in place. Absolutely. > Another option is the orphan-sysvinit-scripts package: Whic