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

2024-12-12 Thread Andrius Merkys
On 2024-12-12 20:51, Marco d'Itri wrote: On Dec 12, Jonathan Dowland wrote: The "Perl Problem" is a wider issue we should explore in much more depth. We would first need to determine that there is an actual problem. Perl is quite healthy as a language and has aged much better than many other

Re: Strategy advice

2024-11-25 Thread Andrius Merkys
Hello, On 2024-11-22 22:24, Mo Zhou wrote: It involves more social issues than technical issues that relies on experience, on a per-upstream basis, which is never something that can be effectively documented. I totally agree and could only repeat what Mo has written in this email. I've perso

Bug#1072515: general: Repeating cracking sound in headphones when nothing is playing.

2024-06-03 Thread Andrius Merkys
Hi Christian, On 2024-06-03 11:38, Christian Böck wrote: when using headphones with my laptop (Thinkpad W550s) I get a repeating cracking (~1sec intervalls) when nothing is playing. I have a similar issue on a workstation with Ubuntu 22.04. What is your operating system version? I believe the

Re: MBF: Building packages in the (not so distant) future

2024-05-29 Thread Andrius Merkys
Hello, On 2024-05-26 20:35, Santiago Vila wrote: After we make a stable release, there is usually a constant flow of packages which start to FTBFS due to "time bombs", i.e. expired SSL certificates used in tests and other similar reasons. Just FYI, there is a suggestion to implement lintian hi

Re: Any volunteers for lintian co-maintenance?

2024-05-13 Thread Andrius Merkys
Hi Nilesh, On 2024-05-10 21:04, Nilesh Patra wrote: On Fri, May 10, 2024 at 05:58:24PM +0300, Andrius Merkys wrote: Do you mean bugs on bugs.d.o, or are there other issues? As you may have seen in the other emails, there are performance issues. Other than that, there are 2 open RC bugs right

Re: Any volunteers for lintian co-maintenance?

2024-05-10 Thread Andrius Merkys
Hello, On 2024-05-10 17:35, Nilesh Patra wrote: On Fri, May 10, 2024 at 04:06:15PM +0200, Andreas Tille wrote: Lintian is important for me. For the past few months, I have been reviewing and merging MRs and pushing small fixes of my own. I am not a proficient perl programmer and hence I am not t

Re: 64-bit time_t transition in progress

2024-02-05 Thread Andrius Merkys
Hi, On 2024-02-05 09:05, Steve Langasek wrote: On Mon, Feb 05, 2024 at 08:57:50AM +0200, Andrius Merkys wrote: Given libfoo1 in unstable and libfoo2 in experimental, I assume libfoo1t64 will be NMU'd directly to unstable. After that happens, will it be OK to upload libfoo2 to unstable (as

Re: 64-bit time_t transition in progress

2024-02-04 Thread Andrius Merkys
Hello, On 2024-02-02 19:46, Steve Langasek wrote: If there is no new version in experimental, or there is a new version BUT the patch against unstable applies cleanly to the version in experimental (no fuzz), we upload to experimental. Otherwise, patches are sent to the BTS but we skip uploadin

Re: DebGPT: how LLM can help debian development? demo available.

2024-01-03 Thread Andrius Merkys
On 2024-01-03 11:12, Andrey Rakhmatullin wrote: On Wed, Jan 03, 2024 at 09:58:33AM +0200, Andrius Merkys wrote: To me the most time consuming task in Debian recently is the Python transitions. I wonder whether DebGPT could help with them. Maybe there are other, non-Debian-specific GPTs for this

Re: DebGPT: how LLM can help debian development? demo available.

2024-01-02 Thread Andrius Merkys
Hi, On 2024-01-03 00:07, M. Zhou wrote: Following what has been discussed in d-project in an offtopic subthread, I prepared some demo on imagined use cases to leverage LLMs to help debian development. https://salsa.debian.org/deeplearning-team/debgpt I find this pretty impressive. Thanks a lot

Re: Bug#1053782: RFP: node-vite -- Next Generation Frontend Tooling

2023-10-11 Thread Andrius Merkys
Hi, On 2023-10-11 10:18, Simon Richter wrote: On 10/11/23 16:00, Andrius Merkys wrote: Yes, but what does it do? Why would I pick this out of a package list if I didn't know the name of the package already? The following line in the RFP says: Vite is a frontend build tool, incl

Re: Bug#1053782: RFP: node-vite -- Next Generation Frontend Tooling

2023-10-11 Thread Andrius Merkys
Hi, On 2023-10-11 09:44, Simon Richter wrote: On 10/11/23 15:30, Andrius Merkys wrote:    Description : Next Generation Frontend Tooling Yes, but what does it do? Why would I pick this out of a package list if I didn't know the name of the package already? The following line i

Bug#1053782: RFP: node-vite -- Next Generation Frontend Tooling

2023-10-10 Thread Andrius Merkys
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist X-Debbugs-Cc: debian-devel@lists.debian.org Control: block 1042095 by -1 * Package name: node-vite Version : 4.4.11 Upstream Author : Evan You * URL : https://github.com/vitejs/vite * License : Expat Programming Lang: JavaScri

Re: dh_auto_test fails and I do not understand why

2022-12-15 Thread Andrius Merkys
Hi Niels, Thanks for the explanation (snipped here). On 2022-12-15 11:59, Niels Thykier wrote: Your options include:  * Migrate to "Rules-Requires-Root: no" if you can Great, this indeed gets around the issue. Best wishes, Andrius

Re: dh_auto_test fails and I do not understand why

2022-12-15 Thread Andrius Merkys
On 2022-12-15 11:44, Sebastiaan Couwenberg wrote: On 12/15/22 10:34, Andrius Merkys wrote: However, I have no idea why '-o 0 -g 0' options are used. They do not seem to be used before. Recent changes in debhelper, see: https://salsa.debian.org/debian/debhelpe

Re: dh_auto_test fails and I do not understand why

2022-12-15 Thread Andrius Merkys
Hello, On 2022-12-15 11:20, Filippo Rusconi wrote: I have uploaded a package yesterday. That package does not have any dh_auto_test target in d/rules. The builds all fail, as described here: https://buildd.debian.org/status/package.php?p=minexpert2 and I do not understand why. Any soul to help

Re: debian/watch: Ignoring pre-release on GittHub

2022-12-08 Thread Andrius Merkys
On 2022-12-08 12:59, Kentaro Hayashi wrote: 2022年12月5日(月) 16:41 Stephan Lachnit : You can try to take a look at the GitHub API, e.g. [1]. Inside is an `prerelease` entry. Not sure how easy this is to implement in uscan though. Cheers, Stephan [1]: https://api.github.com/repos/lutris/lutris/r

Re: maven doc

2022-05-30 Thread Andrius Merkys
Hi Yadd, On 2022-05-30 14:50, Yadd wrote: > I'd like to package a Java software built with maven. Is there an up-to-date > documentation on how to use maven in Debian packages ? Not sure how about the most extensive and up-to-date documentation, but Wiki page for maven-debian-helper [1] looks go

Bug#1002470: RFP: opensearch -- search engine, fork of Elasticsearch

2021-12-22 Thread Andrius Merkys
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist X-Debbugs-Cc: debian-devel@lists.debian.org Control: block -1 by 926714 * Package name: opensearch Version : 1.1.0 Upstream Author : Amazon Web Services * URL : https://www.opensearch.org * License : Apache-2.0 Programming Lang

Re: Using release-monitoring.org [was: uscan roadmap]

2021-12-05 Thread Andrius Merkys
On 2021-12-03 00:51, Paul Wise wrote: > The one issue I can think of with using release-monitoring.org is that > Debian becomes more reliant on an external service, while currently we > are completely independent of other distros for version checking.  > > Converting the release-monitoring.org che

Re: Added hundreds of media types to /etc/mime.types

2021-01-10 Thread Andrius Merkys
On 2021-01-09 01:22, Charles Plessy wrote: > In the latest CI log of lighttpd on amd64, there is: > > defconfigFAIL stderr: Duplicate mimetype: '.sdf' => > 'application/vnd.stardivision.math' (already have 'application/vnd.Kinar'), > merging to 'application/octet-stream' > > Unf

Re: Network and KDE lost after testing upgrade

2021-01-10 Thread Andrius Merkys
Hi Xavier, On Sun, 10 Jan 2021, 14:56 Xavier, wrote: > After a testing update and a reboot, I lost (at least) network and KDE > sessions. Is there a known issue? > This week I had network-manager removed by an upgrade on unstable, might be related. I don't know about the issue, but installing n

Re: deduplicating jquery/

2020-12-01 Thread Andrius Merkys
On 2020-12-01 11:00, PICCA Frederic-Emmanuel wrote: > What about doing something similar to sphinx. > Create a package with the doxygen jquery and link to files of this package > for all documentations generated via doxygen. > provide a dh_doxygen to do this link like dh_sphinxdoc +1 In addition

Re: Debian for dummies and the elderly

2020-08-24 Thread Andrius Merkys
On 2020-08-24 12:47, Holger Levsen wrote: > On Sat, Aug 22, 2020 at 04:58:18PM +0200, guillaume philippe wrote: >> It could be interesting to fork this os to make a simple computer and >> a debian for dummies and the elderly. > I find this slightly offensive. "Debian for dummies and women". "Debian

Re: Packaging text licenses

2019-12-14 Thread Andrius Merkys
Hi Baptiste, On Sat, 14 Dec 2019, 13:04 Baptiste BEAUPLAT, wrote: > I had to dig up to CreativeCommons's github repository to find the text > version. (I didn't want to copy/paste the HTML version on their website). > It's https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/legalcode.txt. One just has

Re: Bug#515856: Debian Policy 4.1.4.0 released

2018-07-03 Thread Andrius Merkys
#x27; | wc -l gets the list of the source packages. Best, Andrius [1] https://codesearch.debian.net/search?q=path%3Adebian%2Fcopyright+Files-Excluded&perpkg=1 -- Andrius Merkys Vilnius University Institute of Biotechnology, Saulėtekio al. 7, room V325 LT-10257 Vilnius, Lithuania

Bug#884866: ITP: libspreadsheet-readsxc-perl -- Extract OpenOffice 1.x spreadsheet data

2017-12-20 Thread Andrius Merkys
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Andrius Merkys * Package name: libspreadsheet-readsxc-perl Version : 0.20 Upstream Author : Christoph Terhechte * URL : https://metacpan.org/release/Spreadsheet-ReadSXC * License : Perl Programming Lang: Perl

Bug#882399: ITP: spglib -- C library for crystal symmetry determination

2017-11-22 Thread Andrius Merkys
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Andrius Merkys * Package name: spglib Version : 1.10.1 Upstream Author : Atsushi Togo * URL : https://atztogo.github.io/spglib/ * License : BSD-3-Clause Programming Lang: C Description : C library for crystal

Bug#878422: ITP: voronota -- Voronoi diagram-based tool to find atom contacts

2017-10-13 Thread Andrius Merkys
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Andrius Merkys * Package name: voronota Version : 1.18.1877 Upstream Author : Kliment Olechnovič * URL : https://bitbucket.org/kliment/voronota * License : MIT Programming Lang: C++ Description : Voronoi diagram

Bug#864355: ITP: cod-tools -- tools for manipulation of Crystallographic Information Format v1.1 and v2.0 files

2017-06-07 Thread Andrius Merkys
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Andrius Merkys * Package name: cod-tools Version : 2.0 Upstream Author : Saulius Gražulis , Andrius Merkys , Antanas Vaitkus * URL : http://wiki.crystallography.net/cod-tools * License : GPL 2.0 Programming Lang: C