Re: DEP18 follow-up: What would be the best path to have all top-150 packages use Salsa CI?

2024-08-21 Thread Helmut Grohne
Hi Otto, On Tue, Aug 20, 2024 at 06:35:52PM -0700, Otto Kekäläinen wrote: > In short: > I would very much like to see all top-150 packages run Salsa CI at > least once before being uploaded to unstable. What people think is a > reasonable way to proceed to reach this goal? > > > Background: > We

Re: Removing more packages from unstable

2024-08-21 Thread Helmut Grohne
Hi Johannes and Bastian, On Tue, Aug 20, 2024 at 10:35:47AM +0200, Bastian Venthur wrote: > On 20.08.24 07:55, Johannes Schauer Marin Rodrigues wrote: > > Hi, > [...] > > if I remember correctly, a package can also become a key package by having a > > high-enough popcon value. If that is correct,

Re: iproute2: removing /sbin/ip link breaks other packages and possibly user scripts

2024-08-21 Thread Ben Hutchings
On Fri, 2024-08-16 at 16:54 +0100, Colin Watson wrote: > On Fri, Aug 16, 2024 at 05:21:38PM +0200, Philip Hands wrote: > > I think it probably was just a coincidence, since it looks like the > > change was made in order to fix #1064795 which was reported on > > 25 Feb 2024. > > Ah, good to know, t

Re: Representing Debian Metadata in Git

2024-08-21 Thread Jeremy Stanley
On 2024-08-21 19:11:40 -0400 (-0400), rsbec...@nexbridge.com wrote: [...] > On the other side (perhaps), git is increasingly being used in the > Ops setting for DevOps and DevSecOps. Production configurations > for high-value applications are moving to storing those > configurations into git for tr

Re: Representing Debian Metadata in Git

2024-08-21 Thread Chris Hofstaedtler
* rsbec...@nexbridge.com [240822 01:21]: > >> Any feelings/objections/missed requirements? > > > >In the current DEP14/DEP18 discussions a lot of discussion was had about how > >we > >should represent Debian things in git; your mail also goes into this > >direction. > > > >My *feeling* is we sho

RE: Representing Debian Metadata in Git

2024-08-21 Thread rsbecker
On Wednesday, August 21, 2024 5:38 PM, Chris Hofstaedtler wrote: >* Simon Richter [240820 09:11]: >> One of the long-standing issues is that there are multiple ways Debian >> packaging can be represented in a git tree, and none of them are optimal. >[..] >> A possible implementation would be a typ

Bug#1079269: ITP: ocaml-intrinsics-kernel -- a library of intrinsics for OCaml

2024-08-21 Thread Stéphane Glondu
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Stéphane Glondu X-Debbugs-Cc: debian-devel@lists.debian.org, debian-ocaml-ma...@lists.debian.org * Package name: ocaml-intrinsics-kernel Version : 0.17.1 Upstream Contact: Jane Street developers * URL : https://github.com/janestr

Re: Representing Debian Metadata in Git

2024-08-21 Thread Russ Allbery
Chris Hofstaedtler writes: > My *feeling* is we should do the opposite - that is, represent less > Debian stuff in git, and especially do it in less Debian-specific > ways. IOW, no git extensions, no setup with multiple branches that > contain more or less unrelated things, etc. +1 I think this

Re: Removing more packages from unstable

2024-08-21 Thread Hector Oron
Hello Andrey, On Wed, 21 Aug 2024 at 16:08, Andrey Rakhmatullin wrote: > > I have also been wondering if we could take a different approach for > > packaging libraries for language ecosystems that already have > > packaging managers to play nicer with Debian packaging > > maintainability. I find

Re: Removing more packages from unstable

2024-08-21 Thread Héctor Orón Martínez
Hi Salvo, On Wed, 21 Aug 2024 at 16:19, Salvo Tomaselli wrote: > > > maintainability. I find myself when I need to use such libraries I > > need to build my own bundle to support specific applications since > > Debian packaged versions don't tend to work well with the application > > (the same is

Re: Representing Debian Metadata in Git

2024-08-21 Thread Chris Hofstaedtler
Hi Simon, * Simon Richter [240820 09:11]: > One of the long-standing issues is that there are multiple ways Debian > packaging can be represented in a git tree, and none of them are optimal. [..] > A possible implementation would be a type of Git "user extension" object > that contains > > - an

Re: Intent to MBF: move from fuse to fuse3

2024-08-21 Thread Chris Hofstaedtler
Stephen, and everyone else who pointed out that coinstallability is a non-issue - thanks! About the additional work in fuse/fuse3, #918984 and #927291, I wonder if they are relevant to the libfuse consumers. Anyway, if we believe fuse3 works just fine with libfuse2-* consumers, then it seems like

Re: Removing more packages from unstable

2024-08-21 Thread Chris Hofstaedtler
* Scott Kitterman [240820 14:35]: > On August 20, 2024 12:16:47 PM UTC, Andrey Rakhmatullin > wrote: > >On Tue, Aug 20, 2024 at 12:12:33PM +, Scott Kitterman wrote: > >> There are people doing this, we could use more, but it does > >> happen. I've processed lots of these and it's virtually

Re: Removing more packages from unstable

2024-08-21 Thread weepingclown
On 21 August 2024 3:22:16 pm UTC, Nilesh Patra wrote: >My last installation of Debian on a laptop was approximately 1.5 years ago and >it was off by default. It asked me if I want to enable it or not. > >Did that change recently in D-I? > I don't think it did. I have had a bunch of reinstallation

Re: Removing more packages from unstable

2024-08-21 Thread weepingclown
Hi, I believe at least some of these packages were probably packaged as dependencies for packaging lazygit. I am not sure which all, but I remember atleast gocui, pty and termbox-go to be needed by lazygit in one way or another. There has been further work on packaging lazygit towards the end o

Re: Removing more packages from unstable

2024-08-21 Thread Steve McIntyre
Noah wrote: >On Tue, Aug 20, 2024 at 11:09:51AM +0200, Bastian Venthur wrote: >> I think popcon does give a good approximation of how much percent of people >> installed a certain package even if not everyone uses it, don't you agree? > >No, definitely not. There are hundreds of thousands of Debia

Re: Removing more packages from unstable

2024-08-21 Thread Nilesh Patra
On Tue, Aug 20, 2024 at 11:09:51AM +0200, Bastian Venthur wrote: > I think popcon does give a good approximation of how much percent of people > installed a certain package even if not everyone uses it, don't you agree? > > Last time I installed Debian it was still enabled by default. When was it

Re: Removing more packages from unstable

2024-08-21 Thread Noah Meyerhans
On Tue, Aug 20, 2024 at 11:09:51AM +0200, Bastian Venthur wrote: > I think popcon does give a good approximation of how much percent of people > installed a certain package even if not everyone uses it, don't you agree? No, definitely not. There are hundreds of thousands of Debian systems running

Re: Removing more packages from unstable

2024-08-21 Thread Andrey Rakhmatullin
On Wed, Aug 21, 2024 at 03:39:11PM +0200, Héctor Orón Martínez wrote: > I am surprised to not see more of those packages in the list, there > are many packages in those ecosystems with popcon between 1-10 users. popcon wasn't used when building this list though (even via the key packages condition

Re: Removing more packages from unstable

2024-08-21 Thread Héctor Orón Martínez
Hello Helmut, Thanks for starting this topic. On Tue, 20 Aug 2024 at 07:29, Helmut Grohne wrote: > golang-github-bsm-pool > golang-github-coreos-go-tspi > golang-github-crewjam-saml > golang-github-form3tech-oss-jwt-go > golang-github-go-redis-redis > golang-github-jesseduffield-asciigraph > go

Re: The end of 32-bit PostgreSQL support in Debian

2024-08-21 Thread Christoph Berg
Re: Simon Richter > That is not a 32 bit bug, but an indication of something else being broken. It is the same problem in the sense that 64-bit architectures are fine, and something (probably in some autoconf script) is broken on 32-bit. The point here is that these are always weird bugs in weird

Community survey on network stack for Trixie

2024-08-21 Thread Daniel Gröber
Hi Lukas, On Wed, Aug 21, 2024 at 10:30:46AM +0200, Lukas Märdian wrote: > This email was intended to first gauge opinions from networking maintainers, > before pushing it out to debian-devel@l.d.o.. All the points still hold and > are fine to be public. But let me at least add the preamble and re

Re: Removing more packages from unstable

2024-08-21 Thread Andrey Rakhmatullin
On Wed, Aug 21, 2024 at 10:06:38AM +, Holger Levsen wrote: > Hi, > > I also like us to remove more broken and unused packages from unstable. > > On Tue, Aug 20, 2024 at 11:20:10AM +0200, Lucas Nussbaum wrote: > > Maybe we could also reduce the cost of removals for users and potential > > new

Re: The end of 32-bit PostgreSQL support in Debian

2024-08-21 Thread Simon Richter
Hi, On 8/21/24 18:32, Christoph Berg wrote: 10:39:04 snprintf.c:409:1: error: conflicting types for ‘strchrnul’; have ‘const char *(const char *, int)’ 10:39:04 409 | strchrnul(const char *s, int c) 10:39:04 | ^ 10:39:04 In file included from snprintf.c:43: 10:39:04 /usr/includ

Re: Removing more packages from unstable

2024-08-21 Thread Holger Levsen
Hi, I also like us to remove more broken and unused packages from unstable. On Tue, Aug 20, 2024 at 11:20:10AM +0200, Lucas Nussbaum wrote: > Maybe we could also reduce the cost of removals for users and potential > new maintainers, by improving the information provided in various places > on how

Re: Removing more packages from unstable

2024-08-21 Thread nick black
Helmut Grohne left as an exercise for the reader: > notcurses i need decide whether i'm putting out a new upstream release with ffmpeg 7 support, or whether i ought patch it in debian (thanks to sebastian ramacher for originally bringing the issue to my attention). i suppose i can do the latter no

Re: The end of 32-bit PostgreSQL support in Debian

2024-08-21 Thread Christoph Berg
Re: To debian-devel > it has probably been a decade since I've last seen a PostgreSQL > installation in the wild on a 32-bit machine. PostgreSQL itself works > fine there, but more and more extensions are not compatible anymore, > either deliberately, or (more common) because of subtle bugs in prin

Re: DEP18 follow-up: What would be the best path to have all top-150 packages use Salsa CI?

2024-08-21 Thread Andrey Rakhmatullin
On Tue, Aug 20, 2024 at 10:44:30PM -0700, Otto Kekäläinen wrote: > > Something that many developers are probably not aware of is that they > > can enable CI for a repository with no code changes at all and with > > a single command: > > > > salsa update_projects $NAMESPACE/$PROJECT \ > > --jobs

Re: DEP18 follow-up: What would be the best path to have all top-150 packages use Salsa CI?

2024-08-21 Thread Andrey Rakhmatullin
On Tue, Aug 20, 2024 at 06:35:52PM -0700, Otto Kekäläinen wrote: > Hi! > > In short: > I would very much like to see all top-150 packages run Salsa CI at > least once before being uploaded to unstable. What people think is a > reasonable way to proceed to reach this goal? > > > Background: > We

Re: Network stack for Trixie

2024-08-21 Thread Lukas Märdian
Hi Daniel, On 20.08.24 16:25, Daniel Gröber wrote: Hi Lukas, CCing d-devel, This email was intended to first gauge opinions from networking maintainers, before pushing it out to debian-devel@l.d.o.. All the points still hold and are fine to be public. But let me at least add the preamble and r

Re: DEP18 follow-up: What would be the best path to have all top-150 packages use Salsa CI?

2024-08-21 Thread Holger Levsen
On Tue, Aug 20, 2024 at 10:44:30PM -0700, Otto Kekäläinen wrote: > > Advertise widely and frequently that there is a pool of people which is > > happy to help investigating the failed CI jobs. > > Then start personally advocating the benefits of CI to the maintainers > > of these packages: I expect