Re: Tool to build Debian packages not requiring root in containers ?

2024-05-08 Thread Charles Plessy
Le Wed, May 08, 2024 at 08:02:41AM -0700, Otto Kekäläinen a écrit : > > I read the docs on how Singularity is able to pull Docker images of Debian > Sid and build on top of them, and run and exec just like Docker/Podman. > Unfortunately it has its own Containerfile format ( > https://docs.sylabs.i

Bug#1070772: ITP: python-mutf8 -- encoders and decoders for the MUTF-8 character encoding

2024-05-08 Thread Alexandre Detiste
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Alexandre Detiste X-Debbugs-Cc: debian-devel@lists.debian.org, debian-pyt...@lists.debian.org * Package name: python-mutf8 Version : 1.0.0 Upstream Contact: Tyler Kennedy * URL : https://pypi.org/project/mutf8/ * License

Re: new upstream version fails older tests of rdepends packages

2024-05-08 Thread Paul Gevers
Hi, On 08-05-2024 6:06 p.m., Bill Allombert wrote: Agreed, but gap does not actually breaks anything, it is just the tests in testing that are broken. So I can do that but that seems a bit artificial. Aha, that wasn't at all clear to me. If you don't want to do the artificial thing (which is

Avoiding /var/tmp for long-running compute (was: Make /tmp/ a tmpfs and cleanup /var/tmp/ on a timer by default [was: Re: systemd: tmpfiles.d not cleaning /var/tmp by default])

2024-05-08 Thread Russ Allbery
"Jonathan Dowland" writes: > Else-thread, Russ begs people to stop doing this. I agree people > shouldn't! We should also work on education and promotion of the > alternatives. Also, helping people use better tools for managing workloads like this that make their lives easier and have better sem

Re: new upstream version fails older tests of rdepends packages

2024-05-08 Thread Bill Allombert
On Wed, May 08, 2024 at 03:21:12PM +, Graham Inggs wrote: > Hi Bill > > On Wed, 8 May 2024 at 13:58, Bill Allombert wrote: > > The problem is that all the debs in testing and sid are correct, it is the > > autopkgtest in > > testing which are wrong (they are relying on undocumented behaviour

Re: Make /tmp/ a tmpfs and cleanup /var/tmp/ on a timer by default [was: Re: systemd: tmpfiles.d not cleaning /var/tmp by default]

2024-05-08 Thread Jonathan Dowland
On Mon May 6, 2024 at 5:01 PM BST, Luca Boccassi wrote: > On Mon, 6 May 2024 at 16:51, Barak A. Pearlmutter > wrote: > > For whatever reason, a lot of people who process large data use > > /var/tmp/FOO/ as a place to store information that should not be > > backed up, but also should not just disa

Re: new upstream version fails older tests of rdepends packages

2024-05-08 Thread Graham Inggs
Hi Bill On Wed, 8 May 2024 at 13:58, Bill Allombert wrote: > The problem is that all the debs in testing and sid are correct, it is the > autopkgtest in > testing which are wrong (they are relying on undocumented behaviour). > They are fixed in sid. I think an upload of gap, with Breaks on the

Bug#1070760: ITP: buteo-syncfw -- Buteo Synchronization Framework

2024-05-08 Thread Mike Gabriel
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Mike Gabriel X-Debbugs-Cc: debian-devel@lists.debian.org * Package name: buteo-syncfw Version : 0.11.3 Upstream Contact: https://sailfishos.org/contact/ * URL : https://github.com/sailfishos/buteo-syncfw * License : LGPL-

Re: Tool to build Debian packages not requiring root in containers ?

2024-05-08 Thread Otto Kekäläinen
Hi! ti 7. toukok. 2024 klo 23.01 Charles Plessy kirjoitti: > Le Tue, May 07, 2024 at 08:17:31PM -0700, Otto Kekäläinen a écrit : > > > > Can you give me an example of a package you want to build and what is > > the starting point, and I can tell you what command to issue to > > https://salsa.de

Re: new upstream version fails older tests of rdepends packages

2024-05-08 Thread Bill Allombert
Le Sat, May 04, 2024 at 02:32:22PM +0200, Paul Gevers a écrit : > Hi, > > On 04-05-2024 11:39 a.m., Jerome BENOIT wrote: > > What would be the best way to unblock the migration of gap and gap-io ? > > If gap isn't going to change (which might be the easiest solution), then > file bugs and fix tho

Re: Y2038-safe replacements for utmp/wtmp and lastlog

2024-05-08 Thread Jun MO
On Wed, 8 May 2024 at 09:21:35 +1000, Craig Small wrote: > I can only speak for w.  It currently prefers what it gets from systemd or > elogind, effectively > iterating over the sessions coming from sd_get_sessions() if sd_booted() > returns true. > > If sd_booted() returns false, then it uses

Re: Make /tmp/ a tmpfs and cleanup /var/tmp/ on a timer by default [was: Re: systemd: tmpfiles.d not cleaning /var/tmp by default]

2024-05-08 Thread Emanuele Rocca
Hi, On 2024-05-07 09:43, Russ Allbery wrote: > I understand your point, which is that this pattern is out there in the > wild and Debian is in danger of breaking existing usage patterns by > matching the defaults of other distributions. This is a valid point, and > I appreciate you making it. Th

Re: Make /tmp/ a tmpfs and cleanup /var/tmp/ on a timer by default [was: Re: systemd: tmpfiles.d not cleaning /var/tmp by default]

2024-05-08 Thread Marc Haber
On Tue, 07 May 2024 22:29:30 +0100, Richard Lewis wrote: >Holger Levsen writes: >> I'm a bit surprised how many people seem to really rely on data in /tmp >> to survive for weeks or even months. I wonder if they backup /tmp? > >I use /tmp for things that fall somewhere between "needs a backup" an