Should be wtmp considered as successor of who(1)?

2025-04-08 Thread Dirk Lehmann
Hi curl's and boys =D in relation to the discussion of 'utmp in trixie' * https://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/2025/04/msg00011.html It looks like, that wtmp is an well alternative to who(1). For that the command $> last -p now should be able to use in the future. But the developers at

Re: utmp in trixie

2025-04-04 Thread Dirk Lehmann
Hello Andrew, On 4/4/25 11:13 PM, Andrew Bower wrote: On Fri, Apr 04, 2025 at 09:10:42PM +0200, Dirk Lehmann wrote: On 4/3/25 2:58 PM, Antonio Terceiro wrote: I never cared about /run/utmp in itself, but I got used to last(1). FWIW, a new implementation of last is now provided by wtmpdb. +1

Re: utmp in trixie

2025-04-04 Thread Dirk Lehmann
On 4/3/25 2:58 PM, Antonio Terceiro wrote: On Tue, Apr 01, 2025 at 03:27:05PM -0400, Michael Stone wrote: /run/utmp is no longer provided in trixie, which means that the mechanisms used to show active sessions in unix for several decades no longer work. There's a replacement mechanism provided b

ITP: python-qutip-{qip,qtrl,qoc}, python-qutip -- QuTiP packages

2025-03-31 Thread Dirk Lehmann
Severity: wishlist Owner: Dirk Lehmann X-Debbugs-Cc: debian-scie...@lists.debian.org * Package name: python-qutip-qip Version : 0.4.0 Upstream Contact: https://github.com/qutip/qutip-qip/discussions * URL : https://github.com/qutip/qutip-qip * License : BSD-3

Re: General Questions about Translations and what a package maintainer has to do

2025-03-19 Thread Dirk Lehmann
Hey Marc, On 3/11/25 12:03 PM, Marc Haber wrote: Basically the same applies for this step than for the POT generation step, with the additional hardship that the PO files are generated, being written to by a program AND STILL contain a significant part of human work. I never know how much work o

Re: Should GPU shaders be considered firmware?

2025-03-15 Thread Dirk Lehmann
Hell Stephan =) On 3/15/25 12:52 PM, Stephan Verbücheln wrote: Am Donnerstag, dem 13.03.2025 um 02:37 +0100 schrieb Dirk Lehmann: GPU shaders should be clearly respected as software (and not hardware).  Therefore, `intel-media-va-driver-non-free` is rightly in the Debian archive `non-free

Re: Should GPU shaders be considered firmware?

2025-03-12 Thread Dirk Lehmann
Hello Stephan, On 3/12/25 12:10 PM, Stephan Verbücheln wrote: Hello everyone The “drivers” for hardware video decoders on Intel GPUs have been split into free and non-free packages. https://packages.debian.org/en/sid/intel-media-va-driver https://packages.debian.org/en/sid/intel-media-va-drive

Re: General Questions about Translations and what a package maintainer has to do

2025-03-11 Thread Dirk Lehmann
Hello Marc, I am currently new as Debian Maintainer, but I have more experience from upstream-side. As I understand your question about a general workflow of translations in all your email-cases correct, I think the short answer maybe to use `quilt` to patch the .PO files instead of committing t

Re: Reconsidering Debian’s Inclusion of Non-Free Firmware - A Call for Discussion

2025-03-07 Thread Dirk Lehmann
Hello Debian-Devel mailing list =D imho, an interesting topic. In conjunction with [1] my first notion was: We should not guide that proprietary software is insecure. That's not correct, i.e. in the case of non-free-firmware it is nearly equivalent to say that the usage of proprietary hardware i