Re: mtkbabel mayby unmaintained long time new version available Perl? advice?

2024-09-15 Thread David Bremner
benatt...@gezapig.nl writes: > Hello, > I think mtkbabel is unmaintained. > Listed maintainer Uwe Hermann > (https://qa.debian.org/developer.php?email=uwe%40debian.org) > There is a new version since oct-2019 with some improvements. > I am no maintainer no coder etc. Probably I will never sent

Re: Any way to install packages+run autopkgtests on porterbox machines?

2024-03-01 Thread David Bremner
Nilesh Patra writes: > When I want to fix autopkgtests for a package on a particular architecture, I > currently > see no way to run autopkgtests before I dput since porter boxes do not > provide root > access which autopkgtest needs. > > Currently I am manually hacking around the test scripts

Re: Bug#1053165: ITS: nunit

2023-09-28 Thread David Bremner
Bastian Germann writes: > Source: nunit > > I intend to salvage nunit with the plan to orphan it in three weeks. > Please notify me if you object. In my opinion, your repeated "salvaging" of packages in order to orphan them is an abuse of the ITS process. Yes, it's a clever procedural hack, but

Re: solanum package request

2023-06-25 Thread David Bremner
Joaquín Rufo Gutierrez writes: > Hello!!! > I need to request solanum package from: > https://github.com/solanum-ircd/solanum > I will wait for the response. > Thank you There is already a "Request for package", but no progress in 10 months. You follow by subscribing to the bug on this page

Bug#1031167: ITP: elpa-gap-mode -- modes for editing GAP programs and running a GAP session in Emacs

2023-02-12 Thread David Bremner
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: David Bremner X-Debbugs-Cc: debian-devel@lists.debian.org, debian-emac...@lists.debian.org -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 * Package name: elpa-gap-mode Version : 2.1.0 Upstream Contact: Ivan Andrus * URL

Bug#1024362: ITP: elpa-ol-notmuch -- Emacs org-mode links to notmuch messages and searches

2022-11-18 Thread David Bremner
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: David Bremner X-Debbugs-Cc: debian-devel@lists.debian.org, debian-emac...@lists.debian.org * Package name: elpa-ol-notmuch Version : 2.0.0 Upstream Author (Maintainer) : Jonas Bernoulli * URL : https://git.sr.ht/~tarsius/ol

Bug#1022114: RFH: highlight -- Universal source code to formatted text converter

2022-10-20 Thread David Bremner
Package: wnpp Severity: normal X-Debbugs-Cc: debian-devel@lists.debian.org Control: affects -1 src:highlight -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 I request assistance with maintaining the highlight package. I have not really been keeping up with new upstream releases and could use a c

Bug#1019205: ITP: elpa-srv -- RFC2782 (SRV record) client for emacs

2022-09-05 Thread David Bremner
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: David Bremner X-Debbugs-Cc: debian-devel@lists.debian.org, debian-emac...@lists.debian.org -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 * Package name: elpa-srv Version : 0.2 Upstream Author : Magnus Henoch * URL : https

Re: A mail relay server for Debian Members is live

2022-08-15 Thread David Bremner
Bastien Roucariès writes: > Le samedi 16 juillet 2022, 21:49:31 UTC Pierre-Elliott Bécue a écrit : > Thanks for this hard work, however it seems that some mail client consider > these mail as invalid, whereas gmail and other verifier service consider ok... > > Any idea for debugging? > > Bastien

Re: libxslt: some CVEs not fixed in debian buster

2022-07-28 Thread David Bremner
Akira Shibakawa writes: > CVE-2019-5815 and CVE-2021-30560 are vulnerabilities of libxslt > included in chromium source code as third-party code. > And not only chromium but also libxslt upstream has already fixed them. > https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/libxslt/-/commit/08b62c258 > https://gitlab.

Re: Reminder to participate in the Debian Developer's Survey

2022-05-04 Thread David Bremner
Utkarsh Gupta writes: > A couple of days back we had invited all the Debian Developers to > participate in a survey[1] about the usage of money in Debian that > we discussed[2] a couple of months back on debian-project@l.d.o. > > This is just a follow-up reminder to the same. So far we've roughly

Re: Unified workflow for package review

2022-02-08 Thread David Bremner
Raphael Hertzog writes: > > I fully expect such a service to have an API that can be used to build > a command line interface for people like you. Yep, but I already don't use the various things like that for e.g. salsa or github because it's too much hassle to set up for too little benefit. Sim

Re: Unified workflow for package review

2022-02-08 Thread David Bremner
Raphael Hertzog writes: > We should have a single web service that is able to handle all those > workflows and provide all the inputs that each team needs to make their > decision. It should have a nifty web interface (including with > authentication and restricted access for embargoed security u

Re: etc/resolvconf/update-libc.d/ equivalent for systemd-resolved

2021-12-30 Thread David Bremner
Scott Kitterman writes: > I believe I can solve this problem by adding Recommends: resolvconf if that's > the only way. I had hoped there would be some "modern" way to do it from > within Debian's default package set. I hope that wouldn't interfere with an enabled systemd-resolved, otherwise

Bug#990684: ITP: sfsexp -- small fast s-expression library

2021-07-04 Thread David Bremner
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: David Bremner X-Debbugs-Cc: debian-devel@lists.debian.org -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 * Package name: sfsexp Version : 1.3.1 Upstream Author : Matthew Sottile * URL : https://github.com/mjsottile/sfsexp

Re: Would you please share me any information about which version of Debian supports NVDIMM?

2021-05-27 Thread David Bremner
Yuhua Zou writes: > I assume Debian have supported NVDIMM from the following links: > https://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/2016/12/msg00330.html > https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=829257 > > I can install package “ndctl” in Debian 10.9. > > I explored Debian wiki but cou

Re: Epoch bump for kernelshark

2021-05-25 Thread David Bremner
Mattia Rizzolo writes: > On Sun, May 23, 2021 at 03:17:10PM -0500, Richard Laager wrote: >> On 5/23/21 8:34 AM, Sudip Mukherjee wrote: >> > And, as a result, upstream kernelshark is now at v2.0 but the Debian >> > packaged version is at v2.9.1 and I will need to add an epoch to the >> > version t

Bug#987150: ITP: sfsexp -- small and fast s-expression parsing library

2021-04-18 Thread David Bremner
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: David Bremner X-Debbugs-Cc: debian-devel@lists.debian.org -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 * Package name: sfsexp Version : 1.3 Upstream Author : Matthew Sottile * URL : https://github.com/mjsottile/sfsexp

Re: Fixed release dates are hurting quality

2021-02-07 Thread David Bremner
John Paul Adrian Glaubitz writes: > It shouldn't be enough for a package to have its worst bugs fixed like FTBFS > or > crashes when it gets shipped with a release. Packages that are being shipped > with > a release should also be properly maintained or not shipped at all. For context, there a

Re: Mass bugs filing: autopkgtest should be marked superficial

2020-09-17 Thread David Bremner
Paul Gevers writes: > > Notwithstanding the wording, the Release Team is happy with the bugs > that Sudip is filing. Because of the way that autopkgtests are used in > the Debian infrastructure to influence migration from unstable to > testing [1], it is very important that autopkgtests are recog

Bug#968465: ITP: beaudiomer -- generate input for autocut from annotated beamer presentation

2020-08-15 Thread David Bremner
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: David Bremner X-Debbugs-Cc: debian-devel@lists.debian.org -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 * Package name: beaudiomer Version : git snapshot Upstream Author : Jim Fowler * URL : https://github.com/kisonecat

Bug#968464: ITP: autocut -- cut off silent parts of videos and concatenate them

2020-08-15 Thread David Bremner
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: David Bremner X-Debbugs-Cc: debian-devel@lists.debian.org -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 * Package name: autocut Version : 2.0.0 Upstream Author : Jim Fowler * URL : https://github.com/kisonecat/autocut

Bug#958176: ITP: elpa-pos-tip -- emacs library to provide enhanced tooltips

2020-04-19 Thread David Bremner
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: David Bremner -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 * Package name: elpa-pos-tip Version : git snapshot? Upstream Author : Piotr Kalinowski (maintainer) * URL : https://github.com/pitkali/pos-tip * License

Re: apt 2.0 release notes

2020-03-10 Thread David Bremner
Julian Andres Klode writes: > > apt install _toremove +toinstall > A common convention is to do something like apt install -- -toremove +toinstall I would prefer that to rolling our own syntax, unless there's some good reason (other than the small amount of extra typing) d

Re: Best practices for Debian developers who are also upstreams?

2020-02-08 Thread David Bremner
Otto Kekäläinen writes: > Hi! > > Thanks for the example. I see you even maintain the changelog in upstream: > https://git.notmuchmail.org/git?p=notmuch;a=blob;f=debian/changelog;h=4f7457cd7f588e6d3a821bf1530cc1f8742c8d6f;hb=refs/heads/master Yes. > > But apparently "upstream" releases are deco

Re: Best practices for Debian developers who are also upstreams?

2020-02-08 Thread David Bremner
Otto Kekäläinen writes: > Hello! > > I've ended up in being both the maintainer in Debian and an upstream > developer for a couple of packages and I have been fantasizing about > how to optimize my workflow so that I primarily fix all bugs and do QA > directly on the upstream development version

Re: Git Packaging Round 2: When to Salsa

2019-09-12 Thread David Bremner
Sam Hartman writes: >> "Ansgar" == Ansgar writes: > > Ansgar> On Thu, 2019-09-12 at 08:14 -0400, Sam Hartman wrote: > Ian> 1. The maintainer's git repository branch format must be > Ian> documented. Otherwise another contributor has to guess. This > Ian> could be done eith

Re: Git Packaging Round 2: When to Salsa

2019-09-12 Thread David Bremner
Sam Hartman writes: > > I did do a bit of looking at data. > In my unstable sources.list, there are 17863 source packages that > include salsa.debian.org in the vcs-git. Of those, 2192 are in the > debian group. > That's the largestsingle group; perl-team (next) comes in at 1417. > > The debian g

Re: Git Packaging Round 2: When to Salsa

2019-09-10 Thread David Bremner
Ian Jackson writes: > Sam Hartman writes ("Git Packaging Round 2: When to Salsa"): >> Discussion Comments >> --- > ... >> I realize that not everyone wants all developers to have push access to >> their packages. If you have a firm idea about that, then this >> recommendation is

Re: Git Packaging Round 2: When to Salsa

2019-09-10 Thread David Bremner
Russ Allbery writes: > 3. Anyone who comes from a tech company / Silicon Valley development >environment is probably going to already be used to this style of >collective ownership (along with politeness conventions about not >messing with other people's stuff unless you have talked t

Re: Git Packaging Round 2: When to Salsa

2019-09-09 Thread David Bremner
Sam Hartman writes: >> "Jonas" == Jonas Smedegaard writes: > > > Jonas> I think there is a general consensus on working in teams, and > Jonas> therefore using git repos belonging to teams - but not to use > Jonas> that one giant "team" called "debian". > > What would you recommen

Re: Survey: git packaging practices / repository format

2019-05-29 Thread David Bremner
Ian Jackson writes: > Ian Jackson writes ("Re: Survey: git packaging practices / repository > format"): >> David Bremner writes ("Re: Survey: git packaging practices / repository >> format"): > ... >> > With unmodified upstream files in the

Re: Survey: git packaging practices / repository format

2019-05-29 Thread David Bremner
Ian Jackson writes: > Hi. Thanks for your contributions which I am trying to capture, but I > don't think I fully understand them. > > David Bremner writes ("Re: Survey: git packaging practices / repository > format"): >> With modified upstream files in

Re: Survey: git packaging practices / repository format

2019-05-29 Thread David Bremner
Ian Jackson writes: > > Main packaging Delta from upstream Tools for manipulating > git branch represented as delta from upstream, > contains building .dsc, etc. > > Unmodified debian/patches gbp, gbp pq > ups

Re: Please drop anacron from task-desktop

2019-03-07 Thread David Bremner
Holger Wansing writes: > > Any thoughts on this? > > Is there still a broad necessity for anacron? > Are there still many packages, that don't rely on systemd timer units? > Presumably packages that work without systemd, but still need to periodic activity? d

Re: Our build system may be broken: /bin vs /usr/bin

2018-11-19 Thread David Bremner
Michael Biebl writes: > > Most packages which are affected by this issue I've seen so far search > for the binaries in $PATH and encode the full path of the first find. > Since PATH is typically set to something like > > PATH=/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/sbin:/bin:/usr/games

Re: salsa.debian.org: merge requests and such

2018-10-28 Thread David Bremner
Mattia Rizzolo writes: > At least now DDPO shows such things in the VCS column. I think the "!1" > is way too small and very easy to miss, but that can be improved if > anybody has a shed of ability with UIx/CSS… (which I don't) I'm not especially proud of it, but I mostly won't see things that

Re: Limiting the power of packages

2018-10-05 Thread David Bremner
Laurent Bigonville writes: > Lars Wirzenius wrote: > >> * default: install files in /usr only >> * kernel: install files in /boot, trigger initramfs >> * core: can install files anywhere, trigger anything >> * maintained-by-liw: full power to do anything >> >> This might be implemented in various

Re: Updating the policy for conflicting binaries names ? [was: Re: Re: New package netgen-lvs with binary /usr/bin/netgen - already taken]

2018-09-08 Thread David Bremner
Andrey Rahmatullin writes: > Last upload of ax25-node was in 2008, in 2009 it was effectively orphaned, > the TC bug was filed in 2011 and resolved in 2012, in 2015 ax25-node was > removed with "ROM; no activity, open security issues, de facto orphaned" > (the status that was true when the TC bug

Re: Let's start salvaging packages! -- disucssion phase closing soon.

2018-09-05 Thread David Bremner
gregor herrmann writes: > On Mon, 03 Sep 2018 22:22:25 -0300, David Bremner wrote: > >> You will have to use your judgement as to whether a given >> combination factors constitutes neglect; > > "combination of factors"? correct > >> in case the ma

Re: Let's start salvaging packages! -- disucssion phase closing soon.

2018-09-03 Thread David Bremner
Tobias Frost writes: > On Mon, Sep 03, 2018 at 08:17:24AM -0300, David Bremner wrote: >> OK, I understand the reasoning, but I hope we can improve the wording on >> both sides a bit so it's clear that the rule is "use your judgement, and >> if you're not

Re: Let's start salvaging packages! -- disucssion phase closing soon.

2018-09-03 Thread David Bremner
Tobias Frost writes: > > The split was actually thought to be a feature [1] :) > It was to make the process itself less normative about the actual > (concrete) figures/criterias, but still give safe figures to e.g > necomers they can rely on, and on the other side enable more advanced > people to

Re: Let's start salvaging packages! -- disucssion phase closing soon.

2018-08-30 Thread David Bremner
Tobias Frost writes: > Hallo everyone, > > This is a gentle reminder regarding the Salvaging Process discussion! > > For all of those, who did not yet have read the proposal, but still want > to participate in the discussion, please step forward now, as I plan to > start to work on finalizing the

Bug#907331: ITP: webmacs -- keyboard focused web browser with Emacs look and feel

2018-08-26 Thread David Bremner
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: David Bremner * Package name: webmacs Version : 0.6 Upstream Author : Julien Pagès * URL : https://github.com/parkouss/webmacs * License : GPL3+, MPL2.0 (no exhibit B), MIT Programming Lang: Python, C, C

Re: Let's start salvaging packages!

2018-08-04 Thread David Bremner
gregor herrmann writes: > On Sun, 29 Jul 2018 17:40:49 +0800, Tobias Frost wrote: > >> A package is eligible for salvaging if it is in clear need of some love >> and care, i.e. there are open bugs, missing upstream releases, or there >> is work needed from a quality-assurance perspective; AND the

Re: Let's start salvaging packages!

2018-08-04 Thread David Bremner
Guillem Jover writes: > >> [c] Level of activity should be defined in favor of the maintainer if in >> doubt. A maintainer may ask for help or welcome a NMU. This counts as >> activity with respect to salvage criteria. If a package lacks uploads, >> there is no visible bug triaging, and - if app

Re: Let's start salvaging packages!

2018-07-31 Thread David Bremner
Guillem Jover writes: > Some packages might not show activity for longish periods of time, > because maintainers batch changes, for example to do at least one > upload per release, with general packaging and QA updates/improvements, > etc. > > Also there might be bugs open that are difficutl to f

Bug#864621: ITP: racket-mode -- emacs support for editing and running racket code

2017-06-11 Thread David Bremner
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: David Bremner -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 * Package name: racket-mode Version : 20161103+0+gab6255718 Upstream Author : Greg Hendershott * URL : https://github.com/greghendershott/racket-mode * License

Bug#837660: ITP: pass-git-helper -- Git credential helper interfacing with pass

2016-09-13 Thread David Bremner
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: David Bremner -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 * Package name: pass-git-helper Version : 0.3 Upstream Author : Johannes Wienke * URL : https://github.com/languitar/pass-git-helper * License : LGPL3

Re: IMPORTEND squid3 stable needs update

2016-01-16 Thread David Bremner
startrekfan writes: > *squid3 Version 3.4.8* is deployed in the Jessie stable repository.* This > version is outdated and has some security risks!!*. Version 3.5 is more > secure but unfortunately it's only marked as unstable If there are security bugs in squid3 (or in any other debian package),

Bug#798209: ITP: markdown-mode -- mode for editing Markdown-formatted text files in GNU Emacs.

2015-09-06 Thread David Bremner
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: David Bremner Package name: markdown-mode Version : 2.0snapshot78 Upstream Author : Jason R. Blevins URL : http://jblevins.org/git/markdown-mode.git License : GPL-2+ Programming Lang: emacs-lisp Description

Bug#792836: ITP: circe -- Client for IRC in Emacs

2015-07-19 Thread David Bremner
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: David Bremner * Package name: circe Version : 1.6 Upstream Author : Jorgen Schaefer * URL : https://github.com/jorgenschaefer/circe * License : mostly GPL3+, some BSD bits Programming Lang: Emacs lisp Description

proposal to (maybe) use "elpa-" package prefix for emacs lisp packages

2015-07-13 Thread David Bremner
I've just uploaded to experimental/NEW a packaging helper called dh_elpa (for the punny among you, pronounced D-helpa) that installs upstream emacs lisp "packages" for GNU emacs in a way that is compatible with the native "elpa" packaging system [1]. Currently this has the limitation that it does

Bug#779490: ITP: three.js -- lightweight

2015-03-01 Thread David Bremner
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: David Bremner * Package name: three.js Version : 70 Upstream Author : Mr.doob * URL : http://threejs.org * License : MIT Programming Lang: JavaScript Description : lightweight 3D graphics library JavaScript

Re: Second call for Debian projects and mentors in GSoC 2013.

2013-03-16 Thread David Bremner
David Bremner writes: > For the full sales pitch, I refer you > > http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel-announce/2013/02/msg7.html > > It turns out we don't need our list of projects until May the 28th. > Err, sorry. That's March the 28th. d pgpU2nCiKuUOA.pgp Description: PGP signature

Bug#693859: ITP: pixz -- parallel, indexing version of xz

2012-11-20 Thread David Bremner
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: David Bremner -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 * Package name: pixz Version : 0.0.0+git$something Upstream Author : Dave Vasilevsky * URL : https://github.com/vasi/pixz * License : BSD 2-clause

Calling Noah Slater

2012-07-28 Thread David Bremner
Hi All; A three weeks ago Jakub Wilk noticed a long standing file conflict between racket and planet-venus (#680685). I realize three weeks is not _that_ long to wait for a response, but we are in the freeze and I'd like to resolve the bug. Does anyone (or Noah?) know if Noah is still interested

Re: Calling Noah Slater

2012-07-28 Thread David Bremner
David Bremner writes: > A three weeks ago Jakub Wilk noticed a long standing file conflict > between racket and planet-venus (#680685). I realize three weeks is not > _that_ long to wait for a response, but we are in the freeze and I'd > like to resolve the bug. > > Does

Re: gitpkg with a quilt export hook

2012-05-24 Thread David Bremner
Brian May writes: > On 24 May 2012 20:28, James McCoy wrote: > >> Also, see gitpkg.force-overwrite-orig in gitpkg(1). > > Setting that to False will result in gitpkg aborting instead of just > assuming an answer of No. In the next version of gitpkg, there may be a third setting of this variable

Re: gitpkg with a quilt export hook

2012-05-24 Thread David Bremner
Brian May writes: > On 16 May 2012 19:45, Bastien ROUCARIES wrote: >> You could use gitpkg with a quilt export hook. i use it regularly with >> imagemagick and it work perfectly (it is gitpkg over git over svn). > > Out of curiosity, how do you use that and not have it include changes > to debia

Re: Making -devel discussions more viable

2012-05-01 Thread David Bremner
"Bernhard R. Link" writes: > My suggestion to everyone feeling the need to tell anyone on a public > mailing list that they should shut up because they are no contributors > is thus: Please refrain from any more posts to this discussion. I have nothing against this principle, and I do this. But

Re: Teams in changelog trailers

2012-02-19 Thread David Bremner
On Sun, 19 Feb 2012 15:21:10 +0100, Jonas Smedegaard wrote: > On 12-02-19 at 08:44am, David Bremner wrote: > > We have both sponsoring and co-maintenance; there is no rule that says > > co-maintainers have have to be DD/DMs. > > Since only DD/DMs can upload co-maintaine

Re: Teams in changelog trailers

2012-02-19 Thread David Bremner
On Sun, 19 Feb 2012 13:15:19 +0100, Jonas Smedegaard wrote: > > Yes, In my opinion that goes for sponsoring too: The sponsor should add > herself/himself in the changelog to clearly advertise to the World whom > within the Debian web of trust proof-read and uploaded the packaging. > Hi Jonas;

Bug#651660: ITP: jlog -- durable message queue library

2011-12-10 Thread David Bremner
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: David Bremner * Package name: jlog Version : 0.0 (git snapshot) Upstream Author : Theo Schlossnagle * URL : http://labs.omniti.com/labs/jlog * License : BSD Programming Lang: C Description : durable message

Re: Status of circulars dependencies in unstable

2011-09-04 Thread David Bremner
On Sun, 04 Sep 2011 13:49:06 +0200, Josselin Mouette wrote: Non-text part: multipart/signed > Given the benefits for dependency resolvers to be able to guarantee the > dependency tree is actually a tree and not a DAG Pardon my terminology nit-pick, but do you mean "guarantee the dependency graph

Re: Other OpenCL users anywhere?

2011-08-30 Thread David Bremner
On Tue, 30 Aug 2011 16:08:19 +0200, Bastien ROUCARIES wrote: > > Not sure documentation date from 5 days ago :) > > http://people.freedesktop.org/~steckdenis/clover/index.html > > See also blog about the clover google of code http://steckdenis.wordpress.com/ > > And git tree here http://cgit.fr

Re: Other OpenCL users anywhere?

2011-08-30 Thread David Bremner
On Tue, 30 Aug 2011 13:53:19 +0200, Steffen Möller wrote: > it seems like OpenCL is becoming routine. The -dev files are luckily > shared between many architectures from what I understood, just the > libraries/drivers are platform specific. The Khoros headers are indeed free, however as far

Re: Spending Debian money for porter boxes

2011-08-22 Thread David Bremner
On Mon, 22 Aug 2011 13:44:08 +0200, Tollef Fog Heen wrote: > The ones you mentioned on IRC were sparc and powerpc. PowerPC is > getting an extra debian.net porterbox as we speak, this one being a quad > 2.5GHz G5 with 6G memory and 500G disk. (It'll run a buildbot for > Varnish so it won't be a

Re: [kfreebsd] massive report for uninstallable FUSE packages

2011-07-16 Thread David Bremner
On Sat, 16 Jul 2011 16:10:18 +0200, Robert Millan wrote: > wikipediafs sshfs smbnetfs s3ql rofs python-fuse pytagsfs plptools > mythtvfs ntfsprogs libpam-mount libfuse-perl libconfig-model-perl > httpfs2 gphotofs gfarm2fs fusedav fts flickrfs curlftpfs bindfs avfs > aptfs I'm working on gphotofs

Bug#634065: ITP: permlib -- C++ template library for permutation computations

2011-07-16 Thread David Bremner
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: David Bremner * Package name: permlib Version : 0.2.4 Upstream Author : Thomas Rehn * URL : http://www.mathematik.uni-rostock.de/lehrstuehle/geometrie/software/ * License : MIT-like Programming Lang: C

Re: [ANNOUNCE] dh_splitpackage 0.2.2

2011-06-05 Thread David Bremner
On Sun, 05 Jun 2011 18:22:10 +0200, Olivier Berger wrote: > Uh... Maybe I missed the point of this tool which was obvious to many > others, but could you provide a typical use case for using it ? I assume it is a matter of not wanting to manually maintain $pkg.install files. Here is an except f

Re: Ok to use upstream doumentation as-is (i.e. not regenerate)?

2011-06-05 Thread David Bremner
On Sun, 05 Jun 2011 16:49:14 +0200, Joachim Breitner wrote: Non-text part: multipart/signed > > if I do regenerate the files for shipping (or don’t ship them in the > binary packages), is it ok to leave the upstream-generated files in > the .orig.tar.gz, even though I have no hard guarantee that

Re: Wanted: maintainer for git's emacs support

2011-02-19 Thread David Bremner
On Fri, 18 Feb 2011 21:18:38 -0600, Jonathan Nieder wrote: > None of the current Debian git maintainers seem to use emacs. This > means git's emacs support[1] does not get as much care as it deserves: > see for example bugs #611936, #611931, #611932, #611933, #611934, > #577834, and #611935. FW

Bug#614064: ITP: libconvert-ytext-perl -- encode utf8 string into rfc2822 localpart

2011-02-19 Thread David Bremner
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: David Bremner Package name: libconvert-ytext-perl Version : 0.1.2 Upstream Author : David Bremner (i.e. me) URL : http://search.cpan.org/dist/Convert-YText/ License : Same as perl (Artistic or GPL1

Bug#608669: ITP: geiser -- generic Emacs/Scheme interaction mode

2011-01-02 Thread David Bremner
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: David Bremner * Package name: geiser Version : 0.1 Upstream Author : Jose A. Ortega Ruiz * URL : http://www.nongnu.org/geiser/ * License : BSD Programming Lang: Emacs Lisp Description : generic Emacs/Scheme

Re: Question: How is debian-policy during freeze?

2010-12-24 Thread David Bremner
> > This is the link: > > > > http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=562560 > > > You filed that bug at "normal" severity. That does not indicate a > non-working package, so it stays below the radar… I believe Patrick Schoenfeld downgraded the bug. http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugr

Re: Bug#603672: ITP: navi2ch -- 2ch Navigator for Emacs

2010-11-16 Thread David Bremner
On Tue, 16 Nov 2010 18:23:46 +0900, Takaya Yamashita wrote: > > * Package name: navi2ch > Version : 1.8.3 > Upstream Author : Taiki SUGAWARA > * URL or Web page : http://navi2ch.sourceforge.net/ > * License : GPL2 > Description : 2ch Navigator for Emacs > Please p

Re: Thinking about bundles

2010-09-18 Thread David Bremner
On Sat, 18 Sep 2010 21:29:29 +0200, Raphael Hertzog wrote: > In the article, I mentionned that bundling unrelated software is not a > good idea in general (mainly because there's no common software > version to use). > > So I think that we should not create any infrastructure to make it > even e

Possible gpg smartcard group buy.

2010-07-11 Thread David Bremner
Is there any interest in a a group buy of v2 GPG smartcards with delivery to take place at debconf in NYC? The pricing from http://shop.kernelconcepts.de/product_info.php?products_id=42 is as follows (in Euros, including taxes) 1 16.40, 2-5 15.40, 5-10 14.40, 10+ 13.90 You will nee

Re: git and quilt

2010-02-07 Thread David Bremner
On Mon, 08 Feb 2010 09:26:14 +1100, Ben Finney wrote: > With Bazaar, one doesn't need to rebase to achieve this. The ‘loom’ > plugin allows for tracking changes against upstream revisions, while > *preserving* the history of changes, and generating tidy change sets to > feed back upstream (or, i

Re: RFC: convenience copy of cddlib

2009-12-03 Thread David Bremner
Tim Abbott wrote: >On Mon, 30 Nov 2009, Francesco P. Lovergine wrote: >> > >> > 1) patch the debian cddlib package to produce a third library, >> >libcdd_gmp (or whatever) that can be linked together with >> >libcdd. This basically migrates the polymake abi changes to the >> >debian p

Re: Bug#549417: ITP: coinor-bcp -- a framework for constructing parallel branch-cut-price algorithms for mixed-integer linear programs

2009-10-03 Thread David Bremner
Soeren Sonnenburg wrote: >* Package name: coinor-bcp > Version : 1.2.2 > Upstream Author : Common Public License 1.0 I guess that is not right :) > Description : a framework for constructing parallel branch-cut-price algorithms for mixed-integer linear programs Are you

Re: Bug#544035: RFH: stlport5.2 -- STLport C++ class library

2009-08-28 Thread David Bremner
Can anyone explain if/why stlport is still useful? Given the low popcon, and small number of rdepends, could this be a candidate for removal? all the best, David -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lis

Bug#540065: ITP: libsynthesis -- library for SyncML-DS (SyncML Data Sync) clients

2009-08-05 Thread David Bremner
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: David Bremner * Package name: libsynthesis Version : 3.0.28+git1+cc01b66 Upstream Author : * URL : http://www.synthesis.ch/indefero/index.php/p/libsynthesis/ * License : LGPL2.1 or LGPL3 (with some BSD) . Unless

Re: RFC: DEP-3: Patch Tagging Guidelines

2009-07-17 Thread David Bremner
At Fri, 17 Jul 2009 09:00:50 +0200, Guido Günther wrote: > On Wed, Jul 08, 2009 at 07:24:20PM +0100, James Westby wrote: > > Guido Günther wrote: > > > Which isn't a problem on patch-queue branches since you either can > > > recreate them anytime from what's in debian/patches or simply ammend the

Re: Running a 32bits on debian amd64 system

2009-07-15 Thread David Bremner
At Wed, 15 Jul 2009 10:24:06 +0200, Mathieu Malaterre wrote: > > On Mon, Jul 13, 2009 at 5:41 PM, Cyril Brulebois wrote: > > Which obviously hadn't been updated in *years*. RT*appropriate*FM. > Would you be kind enough to actually quote the document (URL) which > you call 'appropriate' As sever

Re: Bug#531221: okular: Arbitrarily enforces DRM

2009-06-02 Thread David Bremner
Harald Braumann wrote: >[1 ] >On Sun, 31 May 2009 14:19:12 +0200 >Michael Banck wrote: >> I like the advisory note somebody else proposed, i.e. "The author said >> you shouldn't do this, do you want to do this anyway?". Whether or >> not that dialog could get permanently ignored by the user co

Bug#529094: ITP: nauty -- graph isomorphism testing library, with command line tools

2009-05-17 Thread David Bremner
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: David Bremner * Package name: nauty Version : 2.4beta7 Upstream Author : Brendan McKay * URL : http://cs.anu.edu.au/~bdm/nauty/ * License : non-free/pacifist. See below. Programming Lang: C Description : graph

Bug#528925: ITP: bliss -- tool for computing automorphism groups and canonical labelings of graphs

2009-05-16 Thread David Bremner
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: David Bremner * Package name: bliss Version : 0.50 Upstream Author : Tommi Juntilla and Petteri Kaski * URL : http://www.tcs.hut.fi/Software/bliss/index.shtml * License : GPL2 Programming Lang: C++ Description

Re: Breaking /emul/ia32-linux for squeeze

2009-03-16 Thread David Bremner
Mike Hommey wrote: >On Mon, Mar 16, 2009 at 03:21:44PM +0100, Marco d'Itri wrote: >> I think it would be very helpful if somebody could summarize why a >> multiarch system is useful, except for the obvious case of installing >> proprietary i386 software on amd64 systems. >s/proprietary// ; ther

Re: Requirement for a “proper manpage” for every command

2009-03-02 Thread David Bremner
At Mon, 2 Mar 2009 13:29:06 -0600, Gunnar Wolf wrote: > > Hmh, this could even be promoted as a "best packaging practice". Many > authors do ship properly-formatted --help entries, and our > hand-generated manpages can often linger behind the truth. Any strong > opinions against? Not to rehash a

Bug#515295: ITP: libsyntax-highlight-engine-simple-languages-perl -- collection of syntax definition subclasses for Syntax::Highlight::Engine::Simple

2009-02-15 Thread David Bremner
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: David Bremner * Package name: libsyntax-highlight-engine-simple-languages-perl Version : To be decided. Upstream Author : Sugama Keita * URL : http://search.cpan.org/dist/Syntax-Highlight-Engine-Simple/ * License

Bug#515105: ITP: libsyntax-highlight-engine-simple-perl -- Provide CSS based highlighting for source code and similar text

2009-02-13 Thread David Bremner
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: David Bremner * Package name: libsyntax-highlight-engine-simple-perl Version : 0.8 Upstream Author : Sugama Keita . * URL : http://search.cpan.org/dist/Syntax-Highlight-Engine-Simple/ * License : GPL/Artistic (Same as

Bug#509953: ITP: lp-solve-java -- library providing Java bindings for lp-solve, via JNI

2008-12-27 Thread David Bremner
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: David Bremner X-Debugs-CC: este...@v7w.com, r...@debian.org, ani...@debian.org * Package name: lp-solve-java Version : 5.5.0.13 Upstream Author : Juergen Ebert * URL : http://lpsolve.sourceforge.net * License : LGPL

Re: Bug#509242: ITP: lensfun -- LensCorrection editor plugin

2008-12-20 Thread David Bremner
Hi Mark; Sounds very interesting. I'm not (yet) a member, but I guess the pkg-phototools team on alioth would welcome you http://pkg-phototools.alioth.debian.org/ Since tehy already maintain e.g. hugin and panorama tools) (I just wanted to beat KiBi to saying that :-) d (manual resen

Bug#505878: ITP: libfunambol-cpp-client-api -- cross-platform syncml client stack

2008-11-16 Thread David Bremner
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: David Bremner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * Package name: libfunambol-cpp-client-api Version : syncevolution-0.8.1 Upstream Author : Funambol Inc. * URL : http://core.forge.funambol.org * License : AGPL Programming L

Re: Leverage in licensing discussions (was: [DRAFT] resolving DFSG violations)

2008-11-07 Thread David Bremner
At Fri, 7 Nov 2008 00:27:13 +0100, Michelle Konzack wrote: > And as I > have already written, I do not know HOW OpenMoko will solv this problem, > but FreeRunner/OpenMoko or PurpleMagic are not allowd to run in Europe > with Open Source GSM-Firmware. And of course, PurpleMagic has never >

Re: Bug Sprint - Oct 25 to Oct 30 - Register and eat cookies

2008-10-21 Thread David Bremner
At Tue, 21 Oct 2008 13:43:01 +0200, Josselin Mouette wrote > Fixing a RC bug means either of: > * Uploading a NMU that fixes the bug to unstable. > * Convincing, with a mail that details the rationale, a release > manager to tag the bug lenny-ignore. > * Convincing, in

Re: Bug#501717: ITP: libnet-mac-vendor-perl -- Look up the vendor for a MAC

2008-10-09 Thread David Bremner
Matt Zagrabelny wrote: >Package: wnpp >Severity: wishlist >* Package name: libnet-mac-vendor-perl Hi Matt; I noticed you ITP'd 3 perl modules recently. Perhaps you would like to join the debian perl team (http://alioth.debian.org/projects/pkg-perl/) and maintain your modules there. There ar

Re: Bug#496938: ITP: libcrypt-generatepassword-perl -- perl module to generate secure random passwords

2008-08-29 Thread David Bremner
At Thu, 28 Aug 2008 20:27:44 +0400, Alexander Gerasiov wrote: > > Package: wnpp > Severity: wishlist > Owner: Alexander Gerasiov <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > * Package name: libcrypt-generatepassword-perl > Version : 0.03 > > I don't really know is this module is usefull for anybody e

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