Re: New contributor experience

2025-05-30 Thread Ahmad Khalifa
On 30/05/2025 10:14, Andrey Rakhmatullin wrote: Also because MRs are second-class citizens and maintainers normally don't even get notifications that one was created. What should you do in that situation where you have a no-response MR? I've had a couple of MRs with no response, but at the sam

Re: Renovating debbugs (was Re: Interesting learnings about Guix contributor dynamics that apply to Debian?)

2025-05-28 Thread Ahmad Khalifa
On 28/05/2025 12:53, Julien Plissonneau Duquène wrote: Le 2025-05-27 20:30, Ahmad Khalifa a écrit : On 27/05/2025 17:46, Julien Plissonneau Duquène wrote: 0. keep all the e-mail features it currently offers IMHO, this is a security flaw, not a feature. I hear that everyone loves it, so at

Re: Renovating debbugs (was Re: Interesting learnings about Guix contributor dynamics that apply to Debian?)

2025-05-28 Thread Ahmad Khalifa
On 28/05/2025 12:11, Jonathan Dowland wrote: On Tue May 27, 2025 at 7:30 PM BST, Ahmad Khalifa wrote: 0. keep all the e-mail features it currently offers IMHO, this is a security flaw, not a feature. I hear that everyone loves it, so at least the emails should be authenticated somehow

Re: Renovating debbugs (was Re: Interesting learnings about Guix contributor dynamics that apply to Debian?)

2025-05-27 Thread Ahmad Khalifa
On 27/05/2025 17:46, Julien Plissonneau Duquène wrote: I'm considering getting my hands into that thing later this year, so let me try to summarize the relevant parts of the previous threads (with the intent of documenting this in a wiki page). We would like debbugs to: 0. keep all the e-mail

Re: The Debian Mono "Team" needs help

2025-05-27 Thread Ahmad Khalifa
On 20/05/2025 15:06, Antoine Le Gonidec wrote: If no one manifests any interest in helping with Mono maintenance, I plan to start removing packages after the release of Trixie. Whatever happens, *nothing* is going to be removed from Trixie, but please don’t wait until Forky is almost there before

Re: Inquiry About Contributing a COM Mouse Driver to the Community

2025-05-23 Thread Ahmad Khalifa
Hi Alex, On 23/05/2025 18:57, Alex Sklemin wrote: Dear Colleagues, Several years ago, I encountered an issue with the lack of drivers for a COM mouse. While this may not be a common problem today, it was a critical need in my case. Additionally, during my time as a system administrator in Ru

Bug#1106373: ITP: rehex -- Reverse Engineers' Hex Editor

2025-05-23 Thread Ahmad Khalifa
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Ahmad Khalifa X-Debbugs-Cc: debian-devel@lists.debian.org * Package name: rehex Version : 0.62.1 (will package git HEAD) Upstream Contact: https://github.com/solemnwarning/rehex * URL : https://rehex.solemnwarning.net

Re: Interesting learnings about Guix contributor dynamics that apply to Debian?

2025-05-23 Thread Ahmad Khalifa
On 23/05/2025 08:57, Jonathan Dowland wrote: On Thu May 22, 2025 at 4:56 PM BST, Ahmad Khalifa wrote: It's alive, not sure if sponsored by Red Hat/Mozilla, but both use it (and Kernel, KDE, the list goes on). Red Hat have transitioned almost entirely to JIRA. (Source: I work for Re

Re: Interesting learnings about Guix contributor dynamics that apply to Debian?

2025-05-22 Thread Ahmad Khalifa
On 22/05/2025 14:42, Jonathan Dowland wrote: On Thu May 22, 2025 at 11:43 AM BST, Ahmad Khalifa wrote: Migrating bug data to bugzilla is pretty straightforward. Is Bugzilla actively maintained? Red Hat have abandoned it. Are Mozilla still committed to it? It's alive, not sure if spon

Re: Interesting learnings about Guix contributor dynamics that apply to Debian?

2025-05-22 Thread Ahmad Khalifa
On 22/05/2025 12:00, Colin Watson wrote: On Thu, May 22, 2025 at 11:43:56AM +0100, Ahmad Khalifa wrote: Do you really enjoy waiting 30 min for a bug to be created to get a bug number? I agree there are a number of problems with debbugs, but I don't think it's helpful to exaggerat

Re: Interesting learnings about Guix contributor dynamics that apply to Debian?

2025-05-22 Thread Ahmad Khalifa
On 22/05/2025 09:54, Marc Haber wrote: On Thu, May 22, 2025 at 09:53:10AM +0200, Jérémy Lal wrote: What would help is a web ui built on top of debbugs, and made available to anyone, possibly by adding another link next to tracker.d.o bugs link. That noone has done this yet is a sign for me th

Re: Interesting learnings about Guix contributor dynamics that apply to Debian?

2025-05-21 Thread Ahmad Khalifa
On 21/05/2025 20:23, Marc Haber wrote: On Wed, 21 May 2025 08:48:00 -0700, Otto Kekäläinen wrote: Debian has certainly done many things right in the past 30 years, but treatment of new contributors is currently pretty harsh, considering how many cracks and false turns they need to overcome on t

Re: Dropping awk?

2025-05-12 Thread Ahmad Khalifa
On 12/05/2025 21:52, Simon Josefsson wrote: Marco d'Itri writes: On May 12, Simon Josefsson wrote: Having some mechanism to create package-specific users seems like one useful goal, and I don't understand why each package has to write scripts to invoke 'adduser' and deal with all the complexi

Re: FTBFS when /bin is before /usr/bin in PATH?

2025-05-07 Thread Ahmad Khalifa
On 07/05/2025 02:59, Simon Richter wrote: Hi, On 5/6/25 20:31, Ahmad Khalifa wrote: The problem seems that it is generating a relative path to its own command expanded via PATH, which doesn't work because there is no /share symlink but there is /usr/share/. Perfectly reasonable meth

Re: FTBFS when /bin is before /usr/bin in PATH?

2025-05-06 Thread Ahmad Khalifa
On 06/05/2025 10:34, Simon Josefsson wrote: podman run -it --rm debian:trixie apt-get update apt-get install -y --no-install-recommends gradle PATH=/sbin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin gradle /bin/gradle: 23: cd: can't cd to /bin/../share/gradle/bin/.. The problem seems t

Re: how to fix lintian error: library-not-linked-against-libc

2025-01-29 Thread Ahmad Khalifa
On 29/01/2025 00:01, Russ Allbery wrote: Ahmad Khalifa writes: On 28/01/2025 22:28, Sam Hartman wrote: "Russ" == Russ Allbery writes: Russ> recollection (it's been a *lot* of years so I'm hoping I'm Russ> getting this right) is that this in

Re: how to fix lintian error: library-not-linked-against-libc

2025-01-28 Thread Ahmad Khalifa
On 28/01/2025 22:28, Sam Hartman wrote: "Russ" == Russ Allbery writes: Russ> recollection (it's been a *lot* of years so I'm hoping I'm Russ> getting this right) is that this interfered with proper symbol Russ> versioning and could cause the symbols to be resolved weirdly R

Re: how to fix lintian error: library-not-linked-against-libc

2025-01-28 Thread Ahmad Khalifa
On 27/01/2025 23:14, Russ Allbery wrote: Ahmad Khalifa writes: Having said that, lintian is slow enough as a single thread, I'd vote for downgrading the tag to Pedantic, but not deleting it. So, I guess I'll say this more explicitly: I am opposed to downgrading the tag to pedant

Re: how to fix lintian error: library-not-linked-against-libc

2025-01-27 Thread Ahmad Khalifa
On 27/01/2025 18:24, Russ Allbery wrote: Marvin Renich writes: * Russ Allbery [250126 12:47]: In theory it would be possible to do better in Lintian by scanning the symbol table to see if the libc dependency is really unneeded. But doing that sounds at least a little annoying. Annoying to

Re: how to fix lintian error: library-not-linked-against-libc

2025-01-26 Thread Ahmad Khalifa
On 26/01/2025 12:41, Jeremy Bícha wrote: On Sun, Jan 26, 2025 at 6:28 AM Ahmad Khalifa wrote: The lintian error is a great heads-up and it's up to the reader to decide whether it's a true error to fix or a false-positive to override. I have never seen this Lintian error actually be

Re: how to fix lintian error: library-not-linked-against-libc

2025-01-26 Thread Ahmad Khalifa
On 26/01/2025 11:19, Andrey Rakhmatullin wrote: On Sun, Jan 26, 2025 at 11:07:12AM +, Ahmad Khalifa wrote: I do this to confirm if lintian is correct: $ objdump -p file.so ... NEEDED libc.so.6 ... No? Lintian already says there is no "NEEDED libc

Re: how to fix lintian error: library-not-linked-against-libc

2025-01-26 Thread Ahmad Khalifa
On 26/01/2025 04:57, Steven Robbins wrote: I've come to realise the ITK build has 15 libraries that lintian flags with ... The error description seems straightforward.  But how does one solve this?  I have to assume that the linker would by default link with the libc (?), so perhaps the linke

Re: wiki.d.o on a git-backed engine

2025-01-13 Thread Ahmad Khalifa
On 13/01/2025 21:43, Jonas Smedegaard wrote: Quoting Serafeim (Serafi) Zanikolas (2025-01-13 22:06:01) also, I'd think that nailing down the requirements for a new platform and for the content to be migrated (e.g. drop any pages that are >X years old) would be an important prerequisite for any t

Re: Call for contributions to maintain existing documentation - Salsa makes it is easy!

2025-01-12 Thread Ahmad Khalifa
On 11/01/2025 20:43, Otto Kekäläinen wrote: There is no need to start new duplicate parallel efforts. Simply contribute to the existing ones. +1, please. Too many docs already :) Anyone can edit the current wiki pages if they want to improve them (although most people I spoke to don't like u

Re: Complete and unified documentation for new maintainers

2025-01-11 Thread Ahmad Khalifa
On 11/01/2025 12:49, Fabio Fantoni wrote: Write on Google "Debian create new package" and first result: https:// wiki.debian.org/HowToPackageForDebian It points to various parts but mainly the more probable start point seems https://wiki.debian.org/Packaging/Intro To point to git and gbp see

Re: A 2025 NewYear present: make dpkg --force-unsafe-io the default?

2025-01-01 Thread Ahmad Khalifa
On 01/01/2025 18:27, Aurélien COUDERC wrote: Here’s a quick « benchmark » in a sid Plasma desktop qemu VM where I had a snapshot of up-to-date sid from Nov 24th, upgrading to today’s sid : Summary: Upgrading: 658, Installing: 304, Removing: 58, Not Upgrading: 2 Download size: 0 B / 1 032

Bug#1091681: ITP: hueplusplus -- C++ library to control Philips Hue lights

2024-12-29 Thread Ahmad Khalifa
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Ahmad Khalifa X-Debbugs-Cc: debian-devel@lists.debian.org * Package name: hueplusplus Version : 1.1.0 (describe: v1.1.0-9-g4d9e387) Upstream Contact: https://github.com/enwi/hueplusplus/issues * URL : https://github.com/enwi

Bug#1089834: ITP: golang-github-olebedev-when -- A natural language date/time parser with pluggable rules

2024-12-13 Thread Ahmad Khalifa
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Ahmad Khalifa X-Debbugs-CC: debian-devel@lists.debian.org, debian...@lists.debian.org * Package name: golang-github-olebedev-when Version : 1.1.0-1 Upstream Author : Oleg Lebedev * URL : https://github.com/olebedev/when

Re: Problems to find sponsors

2024-12-12 Thread Ahmad Khalifa
On 12/12/2024 04:05, Sean Whitton wrote: On Tue 10 Dec 2024 at 01:31pm GMT, Ahmad Khalifa wrote: As an outsider trying to help, the natural thing I looked at was the RFH process to dip my toes into things. But only 56 packages have RFH bugs and they're usually not very clear on what help

Re: Problems to find sponsors

2024-12-10 Thread Ahmad Khalifa
On 09/12/2024 16:49, Andreas Tille wrote: Am Thu, Dec 05, 2024 at 08:03:36AM -0600 schrieb rhys: It's not the sort of thing that needs to be strictly updated like a man page or other technical document. It just needs to be a couple of pages that describe the "general" (big picture structure an