Re: Barriers between packages and other people (Was: Bits from DPL)

2024-12-14 Thread Matthias Urlichs
On 12.12.24 12:48, Holger Levsen wrote: On Thu, Dec 12, 2024 at 08:57:57AM +0100, Matthias Urlichs wrote: On 04.12.24 18:08, Andreas Tille wrote: in the absence of a debian/dont_touch_my_package file, any Debian Developer is permitted to upload the package. I like this idea. so you like reali

Re: criteria for acceptable languages for central QA tools in Debian

2024-12-14 Thread Sean Whitton
Hello, On Sat 14 Dec 2024 at 10:18pm +01, Matthias Urlichs wrote: > That may well be, but that just means that there must be a different reason > why Perl has fallen by the wayside, more or less, while Python has anything > but. What gets and remains popular only sometimes does so because of its

Re: Bits from DPL / Feedback on attracting newcomers

2024-12-14 Thread Tiago Bortoletto Vaz
On Wed, Dec 11, 2024 at 06:05:51PM GMT, Otto Kekäläinen wrote: > Hi, > > > > While I personally think e-mail-based workflows can be quite nice, the > > > BTS' asynchronous nature did cause me a lot of extra pointless work > > > when I was an outsider attempting to learn the ropes. Being not 100% >

Bug#1089974: ITP: libcpansa-db-perl -- CPAN Security Advisory data as a Perl data structure, mostly for CPAN::Audit

2024-12-14 Thread gregor herrmann
Package: wnpp Owner: gregor herrmann Severity: wishlist X-Debbugs-CC: debian-devel@lists.debian.org, debian-p...@lists.debian.org * Package name: libcpansa-db-perl Version : 20241208.003 Upstream Author : brian d foy * URL : https://metacpan.org/release/CPANSA-DB * Li

Re: criteria for acceptable languages for central QA tools in Debian

2024-12-14 Thread Matthias Urlichs
Marc Haber: I disagree violently with all efforts that would waste Debian people's time to rewrite existing and well-working times just for the sake of having them in a more "modern" programming language. ITYM "well-working tools". That time is much better spent with improving existing tools.

Re: criteria for acceptable languages for central QA tools in Debian

2024-12-14 Thread Matthias Urlichs
On 13.12.24 08:58, Sean Whitton wrote: If you don't dig too deep, Perl and Python are really very similar in what it is easier and more difficult to use them for. That may well be, but that just means that there must be a different reason why Perl has fallen by the wayside, more or less, while

Bug#1089918: ITP: py-serializable -- Python library for {de,}serializing classes to and from JSON and XML.

2024-12-14 Thread Santiago Ruano Rincón
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Santiago Ruano Rincón X-Debbugs-Cc: debian-devel@lists.debian.org * Package name: py-serializable Version : 1.1.2 Upstream Contact: https://github.com/madpah/serializable/issues * URL : https://py-serializable.readthedocs.io/ * L

Bug#1089916: ITP: python-orderly-set -- containing multiple implementations of Ordered Set.

2024-12-14 Thread Emmanuel Arias
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Emmanuel Arias X-Debbugs-Cc: debian-devel@lists.debian.org, eam...@debian.org * Package name: python-orderly-set Version : 5.2.3 Upstream Contact: Sep Dehpour * URL : https://github.com/seperman/orderly-set * License : e

Bug#1089871: ITP: cyclonedx-python-lib -- Python library for CycloneDX

2024-12-14 Thread Santiago Ruano Rincón
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Santiago Ruano Rincón X-Debbugs-Cc: debian-devel@lists.debian.org * Package name: cyclonedx-python-lib Version : 8.5.0 Upstream Contact: https://github.com/CycloneDX/cyclonedx-python-lib/issues * URL : https://github.com/CycloneD

Re: Musings about Usernames in adduser and Debian

2024-12-14 Thread Peter Pentchev
On Fri, Dec 13, 2024 at 11:01:43PM -0500, Michael Stone wrote: > On Fri, Dec 13, 2024 at 07:00:36PM +0200, Peter Pentchev wrote: > > On Fri, Dec 13, 2024 at 10:08:19AM -0500, Michael Stone wrote: > > > On Fri, Dec 13, 2024 at 12:22:38PM +0100, Marc Haber wrote: > > > > They are planning to remove t

Bug#1089864: ITP: golang-github-nebulouslabs-threadgroup -- Simplification of thread management and shutdown routines

2024-12-14 Thread Simon Josefsson
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Simon Josefsson * Package name: golang-github-nebulouslabs-threadgroup Version : 0.0~git20170509.d137120-1 Upstream Author : Nebulous * URL : https://github.com/NebulousLabs/threadgroup * License : Expat Programming Lan

Bug#1089863: ITP: golang-github-nebulouslabs-writeaheadlog -- A general-purpose write-ahead log

2024-12-14 Thread Simon Josefsson
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Simon Josefsson * Package name: golang-github-nebulouslabs-writeaheadlog Version : 0.0~git20181203.20a05df-1 Upstream Author : Nebulous * URL : https://github.com/NebulousLabs/writeaheadlog * License : Expat Programming

Bug#1089862: ITP: nitroxcalc -- Simple app to do the calculations needed to scuba dive with nitrox gas

2024-12-14 Thread Salvo "LtWorf" Tomaselli
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: "Salvo \"LtWorf\" Tomaselli" X-Debbugs-Cc: debian-devel@lists.debian.org, ltw...@debian.org * Package name: nitroxcalc Version : 1.0 Upstream Contact: "Salvo \"LtWorf\" Tomaselli" * URL : https://codeberg.org/ltworf/nitroxcalc *

Bug#1089860: ITP: golang-github-nebulouslabs-ratelimit -- global ratelimiter for network connections in golang

2024-12-14 Thread Simon Josefsson
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Simon Josefsson * Package name: golang-github-nebulouslabs-ratelimit Version : 0.0~git20181203.fd440c2-1 Upstream Author : Nebulous * URL : https://github.com/NebulousLabs/ratelimit * License : Expat Programming Lang: G