Re: Proposal: Optional `Priority: optional` and changed `Section` fall-back

2024-12-15 Thread Charles Plessy
Le Sun, Dec 15, 2024 at 09:27:06AM +0100, Niels Thykier a écrit : > We would like [...] that `dpkg` provides defaults [...] if the fields > are omitted from `debian/control`, you get `Priority: optional` and > `Section: unknown` as default in all artifacts (`.dsc`, `.changes`, > and in the `.deb`).

Re: Bits from DPL / Feedback on attracting newcomers

2024-12-12 Thread Charles Plessy
> On Wed, Dec 11, 2024 at 09:29:08PM +0900, Charles Plessy wrote: > > Last time I had to write a removal request I asked ChatGPT and it worked > > well! Le Wed, Dec 11, 2024 at 02:29:08PM +, Holger Levsen a écrit : > > is this debian-devel@ or -curiosa@? (&scnr) Hi

Re: Bits from DPL / Feedback on attracting newcomers

2024-12-11 Thread Charles Plessy
hrough hoops when > possible. With enough practice, anyone could jump through a hoop as well. Last time I had to write a removal request I asked ChatGPT and it worked well! -- Charles Plessy Nagahama, Yomitan, Okinawa, Japan Debian Med packaging team http://www.d

Re: Bits from DPL / Feedback on attracting newcomers

2024-12-10 Thread Charles Plessy
t is less guarateed that an email is really being delivered after being sent. Have a nice day, Charles -- Charles Plessy Nagahama, Yomitan, Okinawa, Japan Debian Med packaging team http://www.debian.org/devel/debian-med Tooting from home https://

Re: Musings about Usernames in adduser and Debian

2024-12-10 Thread Charles Plessy
, Charles -- Charles Plessy Nagahama, Yomitan, Okinawa, Japan Debian Med packaging team http://www.debian.org/devel/debian-med Tooting from home https://framapiaf.org/@charles_plessy - You do not have my permission to use this email to train an AI -

Re: The advantages of splitting /bin and /usr/bin, and /sbin and /usr/sbin outweigh the disadvantages

2024-12-02 Thread Charles Plessy
-- Charles Plessy Nagahama, Yomitan, Okinawa, Japan Debian Med packaging team http://www.debian.org/devel/debian-med Tooting from work, https://fediscience.org/@charles_plessy Tooting from home, https://framapiaf.org/@charles_plessy

Re: DEP-0, DEP0 or DEP 0?

2024-11-30 Thread Charles Plessy
Le Sat, Nov 30, 2024 at 09:49:34AM +0100, Iustin Pop a écrit : > "DEP 8" is not easily searchable. Interestingly, on DuckDuckGo, https://dep-team.pages.debian.net/deps/dep8/ ranks 3rd when I search with DEP-8, but it ranks 2nd when I search with DEP 8! Have a nice week-end, Charles

Re: Things learned from the expeirment (Re: Debian Monthly [debian-devel]: AI News Report 2024/10

2024-11-15 Thread Charles Plessy
Hi Mo, thanks again for your posts, I was just thinking that the debian-mentors list could be a good target for summarisation too: it is high traffic, email subject lines are focused on what to upload, but discussions are focused on problem-solving, thus some intersting tips & trick will be easy

Re: Python 3.13 addition as a supported Python version started

2024-11-13 Thread Charles Plessy
c. leverage AI to send patches upstream by themselves and free us from that burden. Bonne soirée, -- Charles Plessy Nagahama, Yomitan, Okinawa, Japan Debian Med packaging team http://www.debian.org/devel/debian-med Tooting from work, https://fediscien

Re: Debian Monthly [debian-devel]: AI News Report 2024/10

2024-11-09 Thread Charles Plessy
Thanks a lot Mo for this exciting experiment! And having two ex-DPLs pressing the big red stop button is not necessarly a bad sign in an ageing project. Often you will see ideas rejected in a very dismissive if not insulting way (for example source-only uploads or HTTPS URLs in /etc/apt/sources.l

Re: RFC: "Recommended bloat", and how to possibly fix it

2024-11-06 Thread Charles Plessy
python packages when trying to use some filters. The Suggests field in Debian is not very useful at the moment, but there is a straightforward way to repurpose it. And apt-get already has an --install-suggests option. Have a nice day, -- Charles Plessy Nagahama, Yomitan

Re: Most optimal way to import NMU into existing git-builpackage repository?

2024-10-25 Thread Charles Plessy
> > "the archive is the truth" > "git is the truth" Maybe you can rephrase it to "the archive is the present and git is the future". For instance if a NMU is obsoleted by a new upstream release, you can ignore the NMU and continue from your latest upload. Have a nice day, Charles

Re: Will i386 released for Trixie and if no can we stop working on it now?

2024-10-14 Thread Charles Plessy
than changing 500 packages and filling 500 removal bugs by hand? Have a nice day, Charles -- Charles Plessy Nagahama, Yomitan, Okinawa, Japan Debian Med packaging team http://www.debian.org/devel/debian-med Tooting from home https://framapia

Re: Will i386 released for Trixie and if no can we stop working on it now?

2024-10-13 Thread Charles Plessy
email to a bot somewhere with a list of packages, and voilà, they are removed seamlessly and we can focus on other tasks? Have a nice day Chares -- Charles Plessy Nagahama, Yomitan, Okinawa, Japan Debian Med packaging team http://www.debian.org/devel/debian-med T

Will i386 released for Trixie and if no can we stop working on it now?

2024-10-13 Thread Charles Plessy
gle operation instead of filling plenty of bugs and modifying plenty of debian/control files? Life is too short to spend our time on doing that. Have a nice day, Charles -- Charles Plessy Nagahama, Yomitan, Okinawa, Japan Debian Med packaging team http://www.deb

Re: Supporting alternative zlib implementations

2024-09-24 Thread Charles Plessy
Le Tue, Sep 24, 2024 at 03:58:10PM +0200, Mark Brown a écrit : > >zlib-ng: https://github.com/zlib-ng/zlib-ng Hi Mark, just out of curiosity, would the carbon footprint of Debian be lower or higher after replacing zlib with zlib-ng? Have a nice day, Charles -- Charles

Re: sensible languages for younger contributors (was Re: lintian.debian.org off ?)

2024-09-22 Thread Charles Plessy
lus everything available under debian.org… Cheers, Charles -- Charles Plessy Nagahama, Yomitan, Okinawa, Japan Debian Med packaging team http://www.debian.org/devel/debian-med Tooting from work, https://fediscience.org/@charles_plessy Tooting from h

Re: DEP5 and spdx shortname of license

2024-09-08 Thread Charles Plessy
and many other projects. About saying MIT instead of Expat, I fully [1] agree [2]. 1: https://lists.debian.org/debian-project/2010/08/msg00109.html 2: https://lists.debian.org/debian-project/2011/12/msg00034.html Have a nice day, Charles -- Charles Plessy Nagahama,

Re: Bits from DPL

2024-09-04 Thread Charles Plessy
chitecture-specific removals can not be done under this pattern, but maybe it could be automated that anything depending on architecture-is-64-bit gets removed from i386, armel and armhf for instance? Have a nice day, Charles -- Charles Plessy Nagahama, Yomitan, Okinawa, Japan

Re: Removing more packages from unstable

2024-08-20 Thread Charles Plessy
Le Tue, Aug 20, 2024 at 07:28:52AM +0200, Helmut Grohne a écrit : > > please allow me to open a can of worms. Package removal from unstable. Hi all, I think that package removal from Unstable, total or partial (for instance, 32-bit architectures) should be an automated self-sevice system for lea

Re: Request for feedback on draft: DEP-18: Enable true open collaboration on all Debian packages

2024-08-03 Thread Charles Plessy
e, one problem I have with NMUs in team-maintained package is that they often bypass Salsa… Would it make sense to add to the DEP a request that NMUs are started from and pushed to the default branch? Have a nice week-end, Charles -- Charles Plessy Nagahama, Yomitan, Oki

Re: Request for feedback on draft: DEP-18: Enable true open collaboration on all Debian packages

2024-08-01 Thread Charles Plessy
y. Would there be a way to get Salsa upload and tag the package if the CI tests pass and the changelog signals a release? Or does somebody has a script which can screen a Salsa group for ready uploads, and run clone && buildpackage && dput automatically ? Cheers, Ch

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

2024-05-08 Thread Charles Plessy
oot access, and I want to do that with user privileges only. Have a nice day, Charles -- Charles Plessy Nagahama, Yomitan, Okinawa, Japan Debian Med packaging team http://www.debian.org/devel/debian-med Tooting from home https://framapiaf.org/@charl

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

2024-05-07 Thread Charles Plessy
t from the Release team. (And to rebuild all of them if in the meantime the contents of Unstable have changed significantly). Have a nice day, Charles -- Charles Plessy Nagahama, Yomitan, Okinawa, Japan Debian Med packaging team http://www.debian.org/devel/debia

Tool to build Debian packages not requiring root in containers ?

2024-05-07 Thread Charles Plessy
package ? Have a nice day, Charles -- Charles Plessy Nagahama, Yomitan, Okinawa, Japan Debian Med packaging team http://www.debian.org/devel/debian-med Tooting from work, https://fediscience.org/@charles_plessy Tooting from home, https

Re: Can we distribute pre-built locales to speed up image generation?

2023-08-01 Thread Charles Plessy
Le Tue, Aug 01, 2023 at 03:18:18PM +0530, Nilesh Patra a écrit : > > https://micronews.debian.org/2023/1686751737.html Thanks ! I was using sid but just switched to fasttrack thanks to your message. Cheers, -- Charles

Re: Can we distribute pre-built locales to speed up image generation?

2023-08-01 Thread Charles Plessy
Le Tue, Aug 01, 2023 at 11:56:28AM +0200, PICCA Frederic-Emmanuel a écrit : > > I sthere a maliling list where we can speak about these singuarity/apptainer > applications ? I wouln't mind debian-hpc@l.d.o, but I do not know about the opinion of the other subscribers? Cheers

[solved] Re: Can we distribute pre-built locales to speed up image generation?

2023-08-01 Thread Charles Plessy
t; locales-all has Installed-Size: 227M, I don't know why that differs so > much from your estimate. I was reporting the size of the Singularity image, which must be compressed in some way. A minimal image containing the hello package and locales-all is ~90M. Cheers, C

Can we distribute pre-built locales to speed up image generation?

2023-08-01 Thread Charles Plessy
provide pre-built locales again, either in a separate package or in one of the system images that we distribute, in the interest of embracing language diversity. It has been a long time I have not posted here, and I am not subscribed at the moment. Please CC me! Have a nice day, Charles -- Charles

Re: Firmware GR result - what happens next?

2022-10-02 Thread Charles Plessy
27;non-free-firmware' at the same time for a release or two ? Cheers, -- Charles Plessy Nagahama, Yomitan, Okinawa, Japan Tooting from work, https://mastodon.technology/@charles_plessy Tooting from home, https://framapiaf.org/@charles_plessy

text/javascript to replace application/javascript

2022-03-21 Thread Charles Plessy
-- Charles Plessy Nagahama, Yomitan, Okinawa, Japan Tooting from work, https://mastodon.technology/@charles_plessy Tooting from home, https://framapiaf.org/@charles_plessy signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Is /etc/mime.types used for anything else than associating file suffixes and media types ?

2022-03-21 Thread Charles Plessy
that half of its contents, and the updates to it, may be not useful. I am curious if some of you know other uses of this file. Have a nice day, Charles (maintainer of the `media-types` and `mailcap` packages) -- Charles Plessy Nagahama, Yomitan, Okinawa, Japan Tooting

Alternative aliases for print, see, edit and compose ?

2022-03-20 Thread Charles Plessy
their own alternatives ? - Are there objections ? - What would be the interface ? For the `open` command, the interface is minimal: the file to open as argument, and the rest is unspecified. Have a nice day, Charles -- Charles Plessy Nagahama, Yomitan

Another big update of /etc/mime.types

2022-01-23 Thread Charles Plessy
ed model/vnd.sap.vds 841728d Added model/e57. e1f3159 Added model/vnd.pytha.pyox with only pyox file extensio because pyo is used by Python. -- Charles Plessy Sun, 23 Jan 2022 18:34:58 +0900 -- Charles Plessy Nagahama, Yomitan, Okinawa, Japan Debian Me

mime.types vs mime/globs (was Re: Shall we serve scripts as application or as text?)

2021-08-30 Thread Charles Plessy
subtypes. If you write an application for a system where you can be sure that this information is available, use it ! Cheers, Charles -- Charles Plessy Nagahama, Yomitan, Okinawa, Japan Tooting from work, https://mastodon.technology/@charles_plessy

Shall we serve scripts as application or as text?

2021-08-28 Thread Charles Plessy
ers, I would like to hear if some of you see a potential problem with that. Have a nice Sunday! Charles -- Charles Plessy Nagahama, Yomitan, Okinawa, Japan Tooting from work, https://mastodon.technology/@charles_plessy Tooting from home, h

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

2021-01-15 Thread Charles Plessy
me.types` file with upper-case file extension, so I think that their presence is not a regression, although I agree that it might be a problem. I propose to resolve that in the next release. Have a nice day, Charles -- Charles Plessy Nagahama, Yomitan, Okinawa, Japan

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

2021-01-08 Thread Charles Plessy
that /usr/share/lighttpd/create-mime.conf.pl already has a section for resolving such conflicts, so I think that the best solution is to implement a choice in this script. If this is too close to the freeze, I can temporarly remove `sdf` for `application/vnd.stardivision.math` and re-add it late

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

2021-01-06 Thread Charles Plessy
deprecated mime types in favor of the IANA-registered version. In case of problems, please feel free to ask me to comment some lines or NMU if you feel some urgency. Have a nice day, Charles -- Charles Plessy Nagahama, Yomitan, Okinawa, Japan Debian Med packaging team

/usr/bin/open now in use through the alternatives system.

2020-12-27 Thread Charles Plessy
a specific one. Given the lack of answer to my previous email (quoted below), I have not implemented URL support in /usr/bin/run-mailcap. > Le Sat, Oct 10, 2020 at 04:27:17AM +0900, Charles Plessy a écrit : > > > > May I ask you for extra information on how important is it to s

Please test the split of mime-support into media-types and mailcap, in Experimental now.

2020-10-27 Thread Charles Plessy
testing the packages in Experimental before I upload them to Unstable in a week or two. Have a nice day, -- Charles Plessy Nagahama, Yomitan, Okinawa, Japan Tooting from work, https://mastodon.technology/@charles_plessy Tooting from home, https

Re: Proposal: use /usr/bin/open as an alternative for run-mailcap and others.

2020-10-27 Thread Charles Plessy
Le Sat, Oct 10, 2020 at 04:27:17AM +0900, Charles Plessy a écrit : > > May I ask you for extra information on how important is it to support > URLs, and if anything beyond file:/, http:// and https:// would need > to be supported ? ... > Also, can you give me a pointer to an expl

Re: Proposal: use /usr/bin/open as an alternative for run-mailcap and others.

2020-10-09 Thread Charles Plessy
Thanks you Simon, Jérémie and everybody for your feedback. > On Thu, 08 Oct 2020 at 05:54:27 +0900, Charles Plessy wrote: > > /bin/open has been kindly freed a couple years ago (#732796) and I would > > like to propose to repurpose it as a standard command for opening files, >

Proposal: use /usr/bin/open as an alternative for run-mailcap and others.

2020-10-07 Thread Charles Plessy
t; of /usr/bin/open as having a single argument only, which is a path to a file or a directory. This would give the opportunity for other packages such as xdg-utils to provide /usr/bin/open if they wish so. I welcome your comments; please CC me as I am not subscribed. Have a nice day, Charles -

Splitting mime-support into mailcap and media-types (Re: Bug#964850: ITP: mailcap -- Debian's mailcap system, and support programs)

2020-10-04 Thread Charles Plessy
Le Sat, Jul 11, 2020 at 01:48:55PM +0900, Charles Plessy a écrit : > > I plan to split the mime-support package into "mailcap" (this WNPP bug) > that will provide the mailcap system, optionally, and "media-types" > (ITP later), which will provide /etc/mime.types (P

Bug#964850: ITP: mailcap -- Debian's mailcap system, and support programs

2020-07-10 Thread Charles Plessy
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Charles Plessy * Package name: mailcap Version : 3.65 Upstream Author : the authors of the current mime-support package * URL : Will be hosted on Salsa * License : Public domain Programming Lang: Perl Description

Making mailcap optional ?

2019-08-14 Thread Charles Plessy
a day or two to let your thoughts mature). Have a nice day, Charles -- Charles Plessy Akano, Uruma, Okinawa, Japan

Re: tag2upload (git-debpush) service architecture - draft

2019-08-03 Thread Charles Plessy
? Have a nice day, Charles -- Charles Plessy Akano, Uruma, Okinawa, Japan Debian Med packaging team http://www.debian.org/devel/debian-med Tooting from work, https://mastodon.technology/@charles_plessy Tooting from home, https

Re: Proposal: Repository for fast-paced package backports

2019-01-02 Thread Charles Plessy
eds") for solving your own problem :) Have a nice day, Charles -- Charles Plessy Tsurumi, Kanagawa, Japan Debian Med packaging team http://www.debian.org/devel/debian-med Tooting from work, https://mastodon.technology/@charles_plessy Tootin

Re: AppStream / DEP-11 support now available in the Debian archive

2015-12-14 Thread Charles Plessy
Hi Matthias, congratulation for this release ! In the upstream-metadata project (https://wiki.debian.org/UpstreamMetadata) we document some information, some of which is redundant with what is now found in AppStream, and some of which is not. For example, we document bibliographic reference to t

Re: tracker.debian.org replaces packages.qa.debian.org for email subscriptions

2015-12-09 Thread Charles Plessy
rnée, (Please Cc me; I am not subscribed to -devel currently.) Charles -- Charles Plessy Debian Med packaging team, http://www.debian.org/devel/debian-med Tsurumi, Kanagawa, Japan

Re: Bug#787571: How about transferring /etc/mime.types from mime-support to base-files.

2015-06-04 Thread Charles Plessy
Le Wed, Jun 03, 2015 at 01:04:26AM +0200, Santiago Vila a écrit : > > To summarize: Because this would imply a change in the essentialness > of the file, I don't think it would be a good idea. Thanks for the quick and precise answer. I agree. Have a nice day, Charles --

Bug#787571: How about transferring /etc/mime.types from mime-support to base-files.

2015-06-02 Thread Charles Plessy
lt;https://bugs.debian.org/786889>. Alternatively, we could ship this file in base-files, since it is among these traditional Unix files that one always expects to be available. But it has frequent updates, to it may be extra work for you. What do you think about this ? Have a nice day, -- Cha

Bug#786889: ITP: media-types -- List of media types associated to file suffixes

2015-05-26 Thread Charles Plessy
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Charles Plessy Package name: media-types Version : 2.1.44 Upstream Author : Mostly Ville Skyttä , for Fedora URL : https://git.fedorahosted.org/cgit/mailcap.git/tree/mime.types License : Public domain

Let's abandon debian-devel.

2014-11-10 Thread Charles Plessy
r effect they have when feasting on debian-devel or debian-vote. Let's make our project stronger by reducing thr attack surface for troublemakers. Cheers, -- Charles Plessy Debian Med packaging team, http://www.debian.org/devel/debian-med Tsurumi, Kanagawa, Japan -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to

Is it harmless to associate more file extensions to application/octet-stream ?

2014-11-09 Thread Charles Plessy
ms. Currently the only suffix is "bin". With search engines I have not found evidence of a problem, but if you know one, please let me know. Have a nice Sunday, -- Charles Plessy Tsurumi, Kanagawa, Japan -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a su

Re: so long and thanks for all the fish

2014-11-07 Thread Charles Plessy
Hi Joey, among all the Debian developers you have been one of the most inspiring to me. I hope that you will keep your blog syndicated on planet.debian.org ! Cheers, -- Charles Plessy Tsurumi, Kanagawa, Japan -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject

Re: dgit and git-dpm

2014-10-29 Thread Charles Plessy
on this list, you would have no Debian project to contribute to. Cheers, -- Charles Plessy Tsurumi, Kanagawa, Japan -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: https://lists.debian.org/20141030032519.gh5...@falafel.plessy.net

Re: piece of mind (Re: Moderated posts?)

2014-10-13 Thread Charles Plessy
Le Mon, Oct 13, 2014 at 02:21:45PM +0200, Thorsten Glaser a écrit : > > … but even then, am drowned by the masses. No, you are drowning the masses under your emails, that is different. -- Charles -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe

Re: Fwd: bash exorcism experiment ('bug' 762923 & 763012)

2014-10-07 Thread Charles Plessy
from which you had ample time to get over. On this mailing list, you went as far as calling for murder, and regularly insulting others. I hope that next time you will get at the very least banned from posting on this list for a few weeks. Cheers, -- Charles Plessy Debian Med packaging team, htt

Re: versions / suffixes in experimental

2014-09-25 Thread Charles Plessy
Le Thu, Sep 25, 2014 at 11:15:46AM +0200, Daniel Pocock a écrit : > On 25/09/14 10:00, Neil Williams wrote: > > On Thu, 25 Sep 2014 09:42:42 +0200 > > Jonas Smedegaard wrote: > > > >> Quoting Daniel Pocock (2014-09-25 09:16:46) > >>> I have a package, version 2.2.5-5 in unstable and testing > >>>

Re: Trimming priority:standard

2014-09-23 Thread Charles Plessy
SSD (but again, on SSD I run more recently installed systems where I am sure that I never used hdparm). Anyway, the point I want to make is that we should trust Ralf when he reports that full disk load slows his machine despite cron jobs using ionice, although this is probably a corner case. Ha

Bug#762412: ITP: paraclu -- Parametric clustering of genomic and transcriptomic features

2014-09-21 Thread Charles Plessy
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Charles Plessy * Package name: paraclu Version : 9 Upstream Author : Martin C. Frith * URL : http://www.cbrc.jp/paraclu/ * License : GPL-3+ Programming Lang: C++ Description : Parametric clustering of genomic and

Re: 2 months and no upload for pkg

2014-09-06 Thread Charles Plessy
ng only licence compliance checks and approval of new Free licenses to the queue, and transferring the checks for DFSG compliance (missing source files, non-free licenses, ...) and quality in general to another stage of package production. Have a nice week-end, -- Charles Plessy -- To UNSUBSCRIB

Re: Possible abuse of dpkg-deb -z9 for xz compressed binary packages

2014-09-05 Thread Charles Plessy
Le Fri, Sep 05, 2014 at 11:13:40AM +0200, Thorsten Glaser a écrit : > > So please, do not outright dismiss scenarios you personally > cannot imagine. Please consider that your comments on the limited imagination of others can be felt as deliberately offensive. Cheers, -- Charl

Re: bits from the DPL -- mid-April to mid-August 2014

2014-08-26 Thread Charles Plessy
> good idea, see point 3 here: > > https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2011/06/eff-and-bitcoin Hi Santiago, The EFF changed its mind two years later. https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2013/05/eff-will-accept-bitcoins-support-digital-liberty Have a nice day, -- Charles Plessy Tsurumi

Re: Standardizing the layout of git packaging repositories

2014-08-24 Thread Charles Plessy
you do not need to oppose the standardisation of the use of pristine-tar, because it will not affect you. Have a nice day, -- Charles Plessy Debian Med packaging team, http://www.debian.org/devel/debian-med Tsurumi, Kanagawa, Japan -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.o

Re: Reverting to GNOME for jessie's default desktop

2014-08-21 Thread Charles Plessy
c with the proprietary Radeon drivers. Have a nice week-end, -- Charles Plessy Tsurumi, Kanagawa, Japan -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: https://lists.debian.org/20140822053755.gb28...@falafel.plessy.net

Re: Bug#758124: Documenting the Testsuite field in the Policy.

2014-08-19 Thread Charles Plessy
> > Le Thu, Aug 14, 2014 at 09:36:50PM +0900, Charles Plessy a écrit : > > > > > > Here is a patch to update the Policy accordingly. Do you have comments ? > On Tue, Aug 19, 2014 at 07:44:19AM +0900, Charles Plessy wrote: > > > > Anybody wanting to se

Re: Bug#758124: Documenting the Testsuite field in the Policy.

2014-08-18 Thread Charles Plessy
Le Thu, Aug 14, 2014 at 09:36:50PM +0900, Charles Plessy a écrit : > Package: debian-policy > Version: 3.9.5 > Severity: wishlist > > Hi Guillem and everybody, > > thanks for adding direct support for the Testsuite field in Dpkg. > > Here is a patch to update the

Re: Standardizing the layout of git packaging repositories

2014-08-18 Thread Charles Plessy
! So seems that I have been confused by packages.debian.org (#703237). Have a nice day, -- Charles Plessy Tsurumi, Kanagawa, Japan -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: h

Re: Replacement of SAMtools 0.19 by SAMtools 1.0.

2014-08-18 Thread Charles Plessy
tsjdk, so I guess that they work together and that the fix in HTSJDK will eventually propagate to Picard ? Have a nice day, -- Charles Plessy Debian Med packaging team, http://www.debian.org/devel/debian-med Tsurumi, Kanagawa, Japan -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.d

Re: Standardizing the layout of git packaging repositories

2014-08-17 Thread Charles Plessy
Le Sun, Aug 17, 2014 at 09:00:57AM +0200, Raphael Hertzog a écrit : > > debian/unstable also doesn't follow / because unstable's > codename is sid. And I really mean that is a better choice than > (e.g. unstable, testing, stable). Hi all, for suites that are never released, I think that it is

Re: Standardizing the layout of git packaging repositories

2014-08-15 Thread Charles Plessy
other way than through a Git tag, and could not find better than importing the release tarball with ‘git-import-orig’ instead of following Upstream's master branch. Have a nice week-end, Charles -- Charles Plessy Debian Med packaging team, http://www.debian.org/devel/debian-med Tsurum

Bug#758124: Documenting the Testsuite field in the Policy.

2014-08-14 Thread Charles Plessy
Package: debian-policy Version: 3.9.5 Severity: wishlist Hi Guillem and everybody, thanks for adding direct support for the Testsuite field in Dpkg. Here is a patch to update the Policy accordingly. Do you have comments ? Have a nice day, -- Charles Plessy Tsurumi, Kanagawa, Japan >F

Re: 2 months and no upload for pkg

2014-08-13 Thread Charles Plessy
reporting defects that others could have found. You can find a process for peer review at the URL below. https://wiki.debian.org/CopyrightReview Have a nice day, [0] https://lists.debian.org/alpine.deb.2.02.1408060907090.9...@jupiter.server.alteholz.net -- Charles Plessy Debian Med p

Re: Reintroducing FFmpeg to Debian

2014-08-09 Thread Charles Plessy
ice week-end, -- Charles Plessy Tsurumi, Kanagawa, Japan -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: https://lists.debian.org/20140809094503.ga24...@falafel.plessy.net

Re: Reverting to GNOME for jessie's default desktop

2014-08-08 Thread Charles Plessy
eezy virtual machine with GNOME by herself, and spontaneoulsy told me how impressed she was by the user interface of Debian. The common point between these colleagues, is that they knew nothing about the Gnome 2/3 controversy, and were more used to the Mac or Windows interfaces. -- Charles Plessy

Re: Reintroducing FFmpeg to Debian

2014-08-06 Thread Charles Plessy
e, perhaps somebody can write a patch to DAK so that it can be dealt with a DAK command file ?) Have a nice day, -- Charles Plessy Debian Med packaging team, http://www.debian.org/devel/debian-med Tsurumi, Kanagawa, Japan -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with

Re: First steps towards source-only uploads

2014-08-05 Thread Charles Plessy
current optional fields of the Packages-List field ? Do you think that modifications are needed ? Would you second it ? https://bugs.debian.org/756835 Have a nice day, -- Charles Plessy Debian Med packaging team, http://www.debian.org/devel/debian-med Tsurumi, Kanagawa, Japan -- To UNSU

Re: Licensing issue in images files on several packages

2014-08-04 Thread Charles Plessy
that explains how this has been solved with version 3.0 and how the same problem does not affect currently accepted licenses, then the rejection of CC-BY-SA 2.0 is not justified. Tautologically, Charles -- Charles Plessy Tsurumi, Kanagawa, Japan -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ..

Bug#756835: First steps towards source-only uploads

2014-08-02 Thread Charles Plessy
Everybody's suggestions are welcome ! Have a nice week-end, and big thank you to Ansgar and the other FTP Masters for the source-only uploads ! -- Charles Plessy Debian Med packaging team, http://www.debian.org/devel/debian-med Tsurumi, Kanagawa, Japan >From b1aa1bf72723e459455

Re: Bug#756521: ITP: kadeploy -- Scalable, efficient and reliable cluster provisioning solution

2014-08-02 Thread Charles Plessy
s. This said, a check list or a checking program for inspecting images and finding if machine-speficif files are still present would be nice… Have a nice week-end, -- Charles Plessy Tsurumi, Kanagawa, Japan -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of

Re: Bug#729203: [FFmpeg-devel] Reintroducing FFmpeg to Debian

2014-07-31 Thread Charles Plessy
ven if it is against their own interest since they may see their packages removed at the end. Otherwise we are in that kind of frequent Debianesque situation where the winning strategy is to stay silent as long as possible. Have a nice day, -- Charles Plessy Tsurumi, Kanagawa, Japan -- To

Re: systemd now appears to be only possible init system in testing

2014-07-28 Thread Charles Plessy
re precise “https://duckduckgo.com/html/?q=%22systemd%20screen%20session%22” reports no result. Can you please stop to pollute this list each time there is ‘systemd’ in the subject ? -- Charles Plessy Tsurumi, Kanagawa, Japan -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org w

Re: systemd now appears to be only possible init system in testing

2014-07-22 Thread Charles Plessy
roblem (a few pepole are enough to destroy the productivity of a mailing list). Have a nice day, -- Charles Plessy Tsurumi, Kanagawa, Japan -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian

Re: let missing-debian-source-format lintian tag be a warning!

2014-07-21 Thread Charles Plessy
ly like the way > it handles the results of rebasing the patch queue. Thanks a lot Colin for your inspiring answer. After reading it, I tested both tools and I chose gbp-pq because my packaging team is already using git-buildpackage a lot (and because git-dpm quilckly gave me an error)

Re: let missing-debian-source-format lintian tag be a warning!

2014-07-15 Thread Charles Plessy
ch systems, but another solution is to stop producing patches that have no practical impact for the users. Have a nice day, -- Charles Plessy Tsurumi, Kanagawa, Japan -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: https://lists.debian.org/20140716005858.gg21...@falafel.plessy.net

Re: let missing-debian-source-format lintian tag be a warning!

2014-07-14 Thread Charles Plessy
his said, even the 3.0 (quilt) format is starting to show its age. We need to be ready for the post-tarball era… Cheers, -- Charles Plessy Tsurumi, Kanagawa, Japan -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact lis

Re: Bug#753704: ITP: amap -- Next-generation scanning tool for pentesters

2014-07-08 Thread Charles Plessy
mings should do them themselves and stand at the front for the possibility of receiving rotten tomatoes from our users. If they are willing to do this, that would convince me that they are not just talking. On my side, while I can not be convinced to rename programs in a situation like this one, I wil

Re: Bug#753704: ITP: amap -- Next-generation scanning tool for pentesters

2014-07-06 Thread Charles Plessy
these renamings harmful and illogical. The probability that people want to use both amaps on the same machine is close to zero, and the probability that users of both amaps will be annoyed by the rename is close to one. I think that these renamings are applied dogmatically in a way that make

Re: Bug#753704: ITP: amap -- Next-generation scanning tool for pentesters

2014-07-05 Thread Charles Plessy
> > Il Sabato 5 Luglio 2014 13:03, Charles Plessy ha > > scritto: > > > > The ‘amap-align’ package version 2.2-4 install the file ‘amap’ in > > ‘/usr/bin’, > > this is why I am worried about clashes. Le Sat, Jul 05, 2014 at 12:11:37PM +0100, Gianfranco Co

Re: Bug#753704: ITP: amap -- Next-generation scanning tool for pentesters

2014-07-05 Thread Charles Plessy
? The ‘amap-align’ package version 2.2-4 install the file ‘amap’ in ‘/usr/bin’, this is why I am worried about clashes. Cheers, -- Charles Plessy Debian Med packaging team, http://www.debian.org/devel/debian-med Tsurumi, Kanagawa, Japan -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.d

Re: ITP: amap -- Next-generation scanning tool for pentesters

2014-07-05 Thread Charles Plessy
map-align’. Have a nice week-end, -- Charles Plessy Debian Med packaging team, http://www.debian.org/devel/debian-med Tsurumi, Kanagawa, Japan -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archi

Re: How to avoid stealth installation of systemd?

2014-07-02 Thread Charles Plessy
framework. Doesn't it look like a nice ending to the story ? Cheers, -- Charles Plessy Debian Med packaging team, http://www.debian.org/devel/debian-med Tsurumi, Kanagawa, Japan -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". T

Re: Sources licensed under PHP License and not being PHP are not distributable

2014-06-26 Thread Charles Plessy
ke the software unredistributable. If your disagreement with the FTP team is unresolvable, and if you have time, maybe you can try to open a ticket for a resolution by the Technical Comittee ? Have a nice day, -- Charles Plessy Tsurumi, Kanagawa, Japan -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email

Re: Why not 03 ?

2014-06-01 Thread Charles Plessy
Le Sun, Jun 01, 2014 at 11:07:32PM +0200, Julien Cristau a écrit : > On Fri, May 30, 2014 at 07:21:08 +0900, Charles Plessy wrote: > > > Perhaps we can stop overriding this option ? For a lot of scientific > > packages, -O3 is chosen by the upstream author, and I always feel

Re: Why not 03 ?

2014-05-29 Thread Charles Plessy
-O2, so it's the > best-tested path. Perhaps we can stop overriding this option ? For a lot of scientific packages, -O3 is chosen by the upstream author, and I always feel bad that if we make the programs slower by overriding it to -O2, it will reflect poorly on Debian as a distribution for

Media type vnd.debian.binary-package accepted by the IANA.

2014-05-21 Thread Charles Plessy
-mime-info and file packages, and update the mime-support package accordingly. Have a nice day, -- Charles Plessy Tsurumi, Kanagawa, Japan -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.o

Re: FDL with no invariant sections

2014-05-20 Thread Charles Plessy
> reinclude thes files again instead of using an epoch to reactivate the > old tarball. What do you think? Usually releases are on July 15th. I think that we can wait for the next upload, at that time or earlier, to re-introduce the manual. Cheers, -- Charles Plessy Debian Med pa

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