Re: Question about splitting a source package with an epoch

2025-05-16 Thread Nicholas D Steeves
Hi Soren, Soren Stoutner writes: > On Thursday, May 15, 2025 3:56:50 PM Mountain Standard Time Nicholas D > Steeves > wrote: >> "adjusting" the epoch also requires discussion, and consensus, on -devel > > As far as I know, nobody is proposing adding or adjusti

Re: Question about splitting a source package with an epoch

2025-05-15 Thread Nicholas D Steeves
Soren Stoutner writes: > On Thursday, May 15, 2025 1:07:32 PM Mountain Standard Time Nicholas D > Steeves > wrote: >> Soren Stoutner writes: >> > Manuel and I would like to split this into two source packages, based on >> > these two upstream source repositori

Re: Question about splitting a source package with an epoch

2025-05-15 Thread Nicholas D Steeves
g be preserved? It seems even weirder to me to have a one-line > changelog that says “Initial release” that already contains an epoch. Rather than "moving", why not think about it as new upstream source (via two packages) and a takeover of the previous namespace? Please retain me in CC. Regards, Nicholas signature.asc Description: PGP signature

RFC: advise against using Proton Mail for Debian work?

2023-11-14 Thread Nicholas D Steeves
eir end, such as offering some features to Debian contributors that currently require a subscription. What do you think? Nicholas P.S. Also, at what point should we add them to CC and/or write them an open letter? signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Re: how about telegram channel

2022-07-20 Thread Nicholas Guriev
On Tue, 19 Jul 2022 21:01:22 +0200 Bartosz Fenski wrote: > I created one > > https://t.me/debian_devel > > Of course I'm willing to give admin access to it to whoever we decide is > correct person / group to cover that. You created broadcasting channel. Only you and admins can post there. sign

Re: enabling link time optimizations in package builds

2022-06-17 Thread Nicholas Guriev
LTO significantly increase memory requirements for buildd machines. Do we have enough RAM and swap on each build server? > Link time optimizations are also at least turned on in other distros like > Fedora, OpenSuse (two years) and Ubuntu (one year). I know Ubuntu has builders with 8 GB RAM + 4

Re: Bug#999493: ITP: pika-backup -- simple backups based on borg

2022-05-23 Thread Nicholas D Steeves
/relax-and-recover.org I'm the maintainer of Vorta (Qt-based), and I support a handful of happy (GNOME) users, but Pika Backup looks easier to set up and has what appears to be a GNOME HIG interface, and development towards (possibly already ready) GTK4 support. In other words, it looks like

Re: best practice system setup and some concept ideas - /root (OS) /home (data) re-play changes and and /etc/config after re-install with new distro version?

2021-10-06 Thread Nicholas D Steeves
lity to examine any/all changes between the pre-upgrade and post-upgrade state. Providing staged upgrades and/or easy rollbacks using this feature is one of my long-term plans. I'm not really sure what the actual problem is...hence the diversity of potential solutions... Regards, Nicholas signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Re: Future of /usr/bin/which in Debian?

2021-09-21 Thread Nicholas D Steeves
I also have a strong personal preference for netcat-openbsd. Thankfully we have the /etc/alternatives and Provides mechanisms to affirm user choice in such cases, and I think most of us will agree this is a totally equitable and reasonable compromise :-) Regards, Nicholas signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Re: Re: Debian choice of upstream tarballs for packaging

2021-08-29 Thread Nicholas Guriev
> git archive --prefix=$(DEBPKGNAME)-$(VERSION)/ $(GIT_TAG) \ > | xz >../$(DEBPKGNAME)_$(VERSION).orig.tar.xz I think you should add +ds version suffix or similar to indicate repacking for Debian. Does it still make sense provided that upstream does not care much of tarballs? signature.as

Re: Reconsider sending ITP bugs to debian-devel: a new list?

2021-06-14 Thread Nicholas D Steeves
Thomas Goirand writes: > On 6/12/21 1:06 PM, Marc Haber wrote: >> On Sat, 12 Jun 2021 01:04:21 +0300, Nicholas Guriev >> wrote: >>> For the record, the latest digest of the debian-devel@ list #194 >>> consists of 17 emails. 13 of them are ITP forwards, the rem

Re: Reconsider sending ITP bugs to debian-devel: a new list?

2021-06-11 Thread Nicholas Guriev
For the record, the latest digest of the debian-devel@ list #194 consists of 17 emails. 13 of them are ITP forwards, the remaining 4 emails are about ITP forwarding. And Evolution, due to a bug[1], opens the digest for 2 minutes 14 seconds. 😞️ If the ITP reports went to a different list, Evolution

Re: Disabling automatic upgrades on Sid by default?

2020-12-28 Thread Nicholas Guriev
On Вс, 2020-12-27 at 22:58 +, Lyndon Brown wrote: > As I envision it, we could have "rolling" and maybe "rolling-unstable" > (or "rolling-testing") with continual upgrades typically going directly > into "rolling", or with a 0-day migration from "rolling-unstable", with > the purpose of "rollin

introducing an epoch when reintroducing scala-mode-el to Debian

2020-11-05 Thread Nicholas D Steeves
us I would like to reintroduce scala-mode-el as version "1:1.1.0-1" so that apt will prefer 1.1.0 and upgrade the package for existing users. Regards, Nicholas signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Bug#973266: ITP: python-moreorless -- wrapper for Python difflib with enhanced "No newline at eof" support

2020-10-27 Thread Nicholas D Steeves
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Nicholas D Steeves Control: block 941054 by -1 * Package name: python-moreorless Version : 0.3.0 Upstream Author : Tim Hatch * URL : https://github.com/thatch/moreorless * License : Expat Programming Lang: Python

Bug#972705: ITP: python-volatile -- small extension for the Python tempfile module

2020-10-22 Thread Nicholas D Steeves
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Nicholas D Steeves Control: block 941054 by -1 * Package name: python-volatile Version : 2.1.0 Upstream Author : Marc Brinkmann * URL : https://github.com/mbr/volatile * License : Expat Programming Lang: Python

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

2020-10-08 Thread Nicholas D Steeves
Hi, On Thu., Oct. 8, 2020, 00:30 Nicholas Guriev, wrote: > > On Wed, 2020-10-07 at 19:17 -0400, Jeremy Bicha wrote: > > On Wed, Oct 7, 2020 at 7:15 PM Jeremy Bicha wrote: > > > You should be aware that Ubuntu implemented this idea 2 years ago. > > > > Oh, I mis

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

2020-10-07 Thread Nicholas Guriev
On Wed, 2020-10-07 at 19:17 -0400, Jeremy Bicha wrote: > On Wed, Oct 7, 2020 at 7:15 PM Jeremy Bicha wrote: > > You should be aware that Ubuntu implemented this idea 2 years ago. > > Oh, I misread. Ubuntu used /usr/bin/browse but 'open' sounds a lot better. In my view, both of these words, "brow

Re: Proposal: Allowing access to dmesg for users in group adm

2020-08-18 Thread Nicholas D Steeves
27;t yet have a default mechanism to enforce a "if groups = (sudo AND adm)" mechanism? Or is it possible to get rich access controls by a fallback sequence like "if apparmor, else selinux, else yama, else fs ACLs, else default-restrictive-policy"? Apologies for being ignorant about the state of the art! Regards, Nicholas signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Re: The "which -s" flag

2020-08-14 Thread Nicholas D Steeves
t; Reviewed-by: me, a random debian user. > > But perhaps you should mention the "-s" flag in the usage: > > ?) puts "Usage: $0 [-a] args"; exit 2 ;; > > Like "[-as]" maybe. > Agreed. Also, the man page needs to be updated to document this change. Cheers, Nicholas signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Re: Bug#962574: ITP: dephell -- project management for Python

2020-07-09 Thread Nicholas D Steeves
Hi Scott, devel, and Python team, Nicholas D Steeves writes: > Control: block -1 by 962574 > > Tomlkit seems to be required for self-tests. > Thank you for taking care of tomlkit so quickly! I wish I had more time and energy to make faster progress with DepHell. Today I discovere

Re: DEP-14: renaming master to main?

2020-07-04 Thread Nicholas D Steeves
'git init'. > > So far upstream git has removed a couple of mentions of slavs: > - https://github.com/git/git/commit/f33b5bddaf7ac1535c6c37fde168597e252872b3 > - https://github.com/git/git/commit/08dc26061f3ff9ee79e6cfda88f0c825b8730e54 > > Python had a similar discuss

Re: Bug#962574: ITP: dephell -- project management for Python

2020-06-13 Thread Nicholas D Steeves
Control: block -1 by 962574 Tomlkit seems to be required for self-tests. On Wed, 10 Jun 2020 at 01:03, Scott Kitterman wrote: > On Wednesday, June 10, 2020 12:49:01 AM EDT Nicholas D Steeves wrote: > > Package: wnpp > > Severity: wishlist > > Owner: Nicholas D Steeves

Bug#962574: ITP: dephell -- project management for Python

2020-06-09 Thread Nicholas D Steeves
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Nicholas D Steeves Package name: dephell Version : 0.8.3 Upstream Author : Gram URL : http://www.example.org/ License : MIT (declared, but probably Expat) Programming Lang: Python Description : project management for

Bug#960544: ITP: vim-vader -- simple vimscript test framework

2020-05-13 Thread Nicholas Guriev
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Nicholas Guriev * Package name: vim-vader Upstream Author : Junegunn Choi * URL : https://github.com/junegunn/vader.vim * License : Expat (MIT-like) Programming Lang: VimScript Description : simple vimscript test framework

Bug#960543: ITP: vim-ale -- Asynchronous Lint Engine for Vim 8 and NeoVim

2020-05-13 Thread Nicholas Guriev
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Nicholas Guriev Control: forwarded -1 https://github.com/dense-analysis/ale/issues/3160 * Package name: vim-ale Version : 2.6.0 Upstream Author : w0rp * URL : https://github.com/dense-analysis/ale * License : BSD-2

Re: trends.debian.net updated [request for additional groups/plots…inc. salvaged pkgs]

2020-04-13 Thread Nicholas D Steeves
D not in the "debian" group is a "smell"...since there are people who prefer to work alone...nonetheless, I'm curious how many of these packages exist! Possibly OT: it would also be cool to gather BTS stats for ITSs, and in particular it would be cool to see the rate of salvaging packages, and to see how many are going to teams, to "debian", and to somewhere else. We're coming up on two years of the existence of salvaging, so it feels like it might be a good time to do this. Cheers, Nicholas signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Re: OpenLiteSpeed Build Script Violating Debian Upstream Guide

2020-03-07 Thread Nicholas D Steeves
and that the Policy violating stuff is limited to build.sh and configure. I would generally test if #2 works, because upstream may respond to #1 with "have you tried ignoring build.sh and configure and using plain CMake"...so imho testing #2 is a due diligence thing, but not everyon

Bug#953128: ITP: persist-el -- persist variables across Emacs Sessions

2020-03-04 Thread Nicholas D Steeves
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Nicholas D Steeves Control: block 947017 by -1 Package name: persist-el Version : 0.4 Upstream Author : Phillip Lord URL : https://elpa.gnu.org/packages/persist.html License : GPL-3+ Programming Lang: elisp Description

Re: pager and upgrades

2020-02-26 Thread Nicholas D Steeves
had to speculate, maybe /e/a/p is a broken link to something, and maybe there's a bug in the package that provides that alternative pager? Anyways, if it's not an obvious bug then you'll almost certainly be asked to provide steps to reproduce. Best, Nicholas signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Bug#945329: ITP: emacs-websocket -- Emacs WebSocket client and server

2019-11-22 Thread Nicholas D Steeves
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Nicholas D Steeves Control: block 909336 by -1 Package name: emacs-websocket Version : 1.10+17.g491a60b-1 (declares 1.12, but untagged) Upstream Author : Andrew Hyatt URL : https://github.com/ahyatt/emacs-websocket License

RE:GPU-ready (with free driver) buildd/CI/porterbox?

2019-11-19 Thread Nicholas D Steeves
d sponsor Debian--replying to Sam Hartman, who wrote: If AMD wants to sponsor Debian by giving us some hardware, I definitely think we should see if we can make that work. Cheers, Nicholas signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Bug#944986: ITP: emacs-wgrep -- edit multiple files simultaneously in Emacs using grep buffers--pattern editing

2019-11-17 Thread Nicholas D Steeves
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Nicholas D Steeves Control: tag + moreinfo Package name: emacs-wgrep Version : 2.3.0 Upstream Author : Masahiro Hayashi URL : https://github.com/mhayashi1120/Emacs-wgrep License : GPL-3+ Programming Lang: Emacs LISP

Bug#944704: ITP: org-html-themes -- export Emacs Org mode files into awesome HTML in 2 minutes or less

2019-11-13 Thread Nicholas D Steeves
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Nicholas D Steeves * Package name: org-html-themes Version : 1.0.0 Upstream Author : * URL : https://github.com/fniessen/org-html-themes * License : GPL-3+ Programming Lang: Org_style_markdown, HTML, CSS, js vs

Re: [confirmation] Summary: Git Packaging Round 2 [plus weak vs strong team ownership question/proposal]

2019-11-06 Thread Nicholas D Steeves
tps://debian-python.readthedocs.io/en/latest/dpmt-policy.html#maintainership Would this address the concerns of everyone=no_one's responsbility in the Debian salsa group (old collab-maint)? If so, the question becomes which email address to use for the Debian/collab-maint group :-) Sincerely, Nicholas signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Re: Summary: Git Packaging Round 2 [comments by 11/05/2019]

2019-11-05 Thread Nicholas D Steeves
y > start with identifying the tooling (gbp, git-debrebase, git-dpm, etc.) > then reading their configuration (if any). This would give answers for > the previous items as well. But do we target mass operations on this > scale of variability at all? > > Anyway: I think we should recommend setups which allow reliable > determination of the needed information, thus not requiring manual > textual documentation. I agree that this would be the ideal. How would one distinguish between git-debrebase, git-dpm, and manually cherry picked upstream commit? Cheers, Nicholas signature.asc Description: PGP signature

[What happened to CUT?] Re: Debian and our frenemies of containers and userland repos

2019-10-05 Thread Nicholas D Steeves
obably low enough most of the time. > Maybe try resuscitating this project, possibly with a "for containers" focus, focusing on a small subset of the available packages? https://cut.debian.net On the topic of CUT, does anyone know what happened to it? Cheers, Nicholas signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Re: Debian and our frenemies of containers and userland repos

2019-10-05 Thread Nicholas D Steeves
I have no idea about the k8s API, or if plain LXC containers count as containers for the purposes of this thread. Sbuild arguments are definitely supported by git-buildpackage though, so maybe the above method will do the trick? Cheers, Nicholas signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Bug#941627: ITP: grub-btrfs -- provides grub entries for btrfs snapshots (boot environments/restore points)

2019-10-02 Thread Nicholas D Steeves
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Nicholas D Steeves Control: block -1 by #840248 Package name: grub-btrfs Version : 4.1 Upstream Author : Antynea URL : https://github.com/Antynea/grub-btrfs License : GPL-3+ Programming Lang: bash Description : GRUB

Re: Discussion tooling (was: Bits from the DPL (August 2019))

2019-10-02 Thread Nicholas D Steeves
e be any value in a web-thing poll that sends out a once-daily results to the thread? The idea being it's a "me too" reply option without the stigma. Cheers, Nicholas signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Re: Mozilla Firefox DoH to CloudFlare by default (for US users)?

2019-09-27 Thread Nicholas D Steeves
use your > ISP's DNS resolver (or run your own recursive resolver). > > Cloudflare only promises to “never sell your data”. That doesn't > exclude sharing it for free with interested parties. > So a metadata leak (by design) to an unbounded number of entities, affecting all Firefox users, at a time when this data is gold? How is this not as bad or worse than GAFA? Regards, Nicholas signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Re: Bug#849703: ITP: ansible-doc -- Documentation for Ansible

2019-09-26 Thread Nicholas D Steeves
5:55 +0100 Cheers, Nicholas signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Bug#941054: ITP: python-bowler -- safe code refactoring for modern Python projects

2019-09-23 Thread Nicholas D Steeves
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Nicholas D Steeves Package name: python-bowler Version : x.y.z Upstream Author : © Facebook, John Reese URL : https://github.com/facebookincubator/Bowler License : Expat Programming Lang: Python Description : safe code

Bug#936033: ITP: pyprof2calltree -- visualise Python cProfile data with this kcachegrind converter

2019-08-29 Thread Nicholas D Steeves
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Nicholas D Steeves Package name: pyprof2calltree Version : 1.4.4 Upstream Author : Peter Waller URL : https://github.com/pwaller/pyprof2calltree License : Expat, MIT, or custom-permissive (needs verification) Programming

Re: Bug#932103: RFP: fuidshift -- remap a filesystem tree to shift one set of UID/GID ranges to another

2019-08-11 Thread Nicholas D Steeves
Hi, On Wed, Jul 17, 2019 at 01:55:06AM +0200, Vincent Tondellier wrote: > On Tuesday 16 July 2019 23:11:24 Florian Weimer wrote: > > * Nicholas D. Steeves: > > > Package name: fuidshift > > > Version : 3.0 > > > Upstream Author : Name > >

Re: Uninformative hyperlink in O: (package orphaning) bug reports

2019-07-09 Thread Nicholas D Steeves
7;ve seen a number of emails expressing how new contributors feel laughed at for not being able to find the relevant information and solutions. Thanks again to everyone who is working on this! Regards, Nicholas P.S. has anyone yet volunteered to help out with that sphinx document conversion project. signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Bug#926296: RFP: pulseeffects -- DSP effects for Pulseaudio applications

2019-04-02 Thread Nicholas D Steeves
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Nicholas D Steeves Package name: pulseeffects Version : 4.5.8 Upstream Author : Vladimir Sadovnikov * Primary copyright holder Wellington Wallace * Upstream contact URL

Bug#921202: ITP: votca-xtp -- Exciton transport simulation for VOTCA

2019-02-02 Thread Nicholas Breen
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Debichem Team * Package name: votca-xtp Version : 1.5.0 Upstream Author : Christoph Junghans and others * URL : http://www.votca.org/ * License : Apache 2.0 Programming Lang: C++ Description : Exciton transport s

Bug#919133: ITP: python-css-parser -- CSS related utilities (parsing, serialisation, etc) for Python

2019-01-12 Thread Nicholas D Steeves
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Nicholas D Steeves Package name: python-css-parser Version : 1.0.4 Upstream Author : Kovid Goyal (maintainer of fork), Christof Hoeke (orig) URL : https://github.com/ebook-utils/css-parser License : LGPL-3.0 and Apache 2.0

Re: deduplicating jquery/

2019-01-07 Thread Nicholas D Steeves
1.4.2, this should be unbundled, but 3.2.1 in buster obviously has breaking changes between major versions. Would a clever pattern search be enough to screen for this? I feel like this might be a tool that already exists ;-) Cheers! Nicholas signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Re: autopkgtest coupled with sbuild different from what is run on buildd?

2019-01-02 Thread Nicholas D Steeves
to not knowing why this is the case...but I've had success with resolving failing tests in debci by debugging LXC+autopkgtest failures. Good luck, and I look forward to following this thread! Happy New year, Nicholas signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Re: announcing backport script designed to reduce potential human errors

2018-10-22 Thread Nicholas D Steeves
Fixed debian-de...@debian.org -> debian-devel@lists.debian.org so that people who reply won't have to do this to avoid bounced emails. Sorry for the mistake! Hi James, On Mon, Oct 22, 2018 at 07:16:51PM -0400, James McCoy wrote: > On Mon, Oct 22, 2018 at 05:33:06PM -0400, Nichola

Bug#909133: ITP: auto-dictionary-el -- automatic dictionary switcher for Emacs spell checking

2018-09-18 Thread Nicholas D Steeves
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Nicholas D Steeves Package name: auto-dictionary-el Version : 1.1 Upstream Author : Nikolaj Schumacher URL : https://wiki.debian.org/EmacsenTeam/Team License : GPL-2+ Programming Lang: elisp Description : automatic

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

2018-09-12 Thread Nicholas D Steeves
than "this is a lie", because a lie is the product of lying, and lying includes the intent to deceive and/or mislead. Better to allow for the possibility that someone was mistaken or misspoke ;-) Cheers, Nicholas signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Bug#906259: ITP: smartparens -- auto insertion, wrapping, and navigation of ()s, delimiters, and tags for Emacs

2018-08-16 Thread Nicholas D Steeves
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Nicholas D Steeves Package name: smartparens Version : 1.11.0 Upstream Author : URL : https://github.com/Fuco1/smartparens License : GPL-3+ Programming Lang: elisp Description : auto insertion, wrapping, and navigation

Bug#905755: ITP: emacs-theme-gruvbox -- retro groove colour scheme for Emacs

2018-08-08 Thread Nicholas D Steeves
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Nicholas D Steeves Package name: emacs-theme-gruvbox Version : 1.26.0 Upstream Author : Jason Milkins URL : https://github.com/greduan/emacs-theme-gruvbox/ License : MIT Programming Lang: elisp Description : retro

Bug#902398: ITP: csv-mode-el -- Emacs major mode for editing comma/char separated values

2018-06-25 Thread Nicholas D Steeves
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Nicholas D Steeves Control: block 495989 by -1 Package name: csv-mode-el Version : 1.7 Upstream Author : "Francis J. Wright" URL : https://elpa.gnu.org/packages/csv-mode.html License : GPL-3+ Programming L

Re: Bug#900286: ITP: spm -- simple password manager

2018-05-29 Thread Nicholas D Steeves
se talk to upstream about choosing a different name. Are there any reasons why a debian/spm.install like this one wouldn't be an appropriate solution to §10.4? #!/usr/bin/dh-exec spm.sh => /usr/bin/spm I guess it might be annoying to carry a patch for a manpage that would effe

Bug#898238: ITP: remarkable-editor -- a fully featured markdown editor

2018-05-08 Thread Nicholas D Steeves
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Nicholas D Steeves Package name: remarkable-editor Version : 1.87 Upstream Author : Jamie McGowan URL : https://remarkableapp.github.io/linux.html License : MIT Programming Lang: Python Description : a fully featured

Re: Please do not drop Python 2 modules

2018-04-24 Thread Nicholas D Steeves
x27;t be too much work, does Debian have a role in encouraging new masters and PhD candidates to choose Python 3? Sincerely, Nicholas signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Bug#893983: ITP: all-the-icons-el -- library for inserting developer icons in Emacs

2018-03-24 Thread Nicholas D Steeves
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Nicholas D Steeves Control: block 872873 by -1 Package name: all-the-icons-el Version : 2.6.4 Upstream Author : Dominic Charlesworth URL : https://github.com/domtronn/all-the-icons.el License : MIT Programming Lang: lisp

Bug#884575: ITP: syncthingtray -- a tray applet, plasmoid, and Dolphin integration for Syncthing

2017-12-16 Thread Nicholas D Steeves
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Nicholas D Steeves Control: tags -1 + moreinfo Package name: syncthingtray Version : 0.7.1 Upstream Author : Martchus URL : https://github.com/Martchus/syncthingtray License : GPL-2+ Programming Lang: C++ and QML

Bug#884337: ITP: kio-gdrive -- KIO Slave to access Google Drive

2017-12-13 Thread Nicholas D Steeves
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Nicholas D Steeves Package name: kio-gdrive Version : 1.2.1 Upstream Author : Name URL : http://www.example.org/ License : GPL-2+ Programming Lang: C++ Description : KIO Slave to access Google Drive KIO GDrive is a KIO

Bug#883075: ITP: memleax -- debug a running process for memoy leaks without recompiling or restarting

2017-11-29 Thread Nicholas D Steeves
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Nicholas D Steeves Package name: memleax Version : 1.0.3 Upstream Author : WuBingzheng URL : https://github.com/WuBingzheng/memleax License : GPL-2 Programming Lang: C Description : debug a running process for memoy

Bug#880606: ITP: imenu-list -- show the current Emacs buffer's imenu entries in a separate window

2017-11-02 Thread Nicholas D Steeves
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Nicholas D Steeves Control: block 828154 by -1 * Package name: imenu-list Version : 0.8 Upstream Author : Bar Magal * URL : https://github.com/bmag/imenu-list * License : GPL-3+ Programming Lang: elisp Description

Bug#879877: ITP: olivetti-mode -- simple Emacs minor mode for a nice writing environment

2017-10-26 Thread Nicholas D Steeves
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Nicholas D Steeves * Package name: olivetti-mode Version : 1.5.8 Upstream Author : Paul Rankin * URL : https://github.com/rnkn/olivetti * License : GPL-3+ Programming Lang: elisp Description : simple Emacs minor

Re: Concerns about infrastructure for Alioth replacement

2017-10-17 Thread Nicholas D Steeves
n the worst-case scenario, if that work cannot be completed on time, a deadline should be set for transitioning to official Debian-built packages. Let's say well before DebConf18 so that it will be well tested for DebCamp. Please reply to debian-devel and CC Francesco Poli Sincerely, Nicholas signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Bug#877755: ITP: moinmoin-mode -- emacs major mode to edit MoinMoin wiki pages

2017-10-04 Thread Nicholas D Steeves
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Nicholas D Steeves Control: tags -1 moreinfo * Package name: moinmoin-mode Version : 2006.04.15 Upstream Author : Toshiyuki Takahashi * URL : https://github.com/tototoshi/moinmoin-mode * License : GPL Programming

Bug#875724: ITP: elpa-commander -- Command line parsing for Emacs

2017-09-13 Thread Nicholas D Steeves
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Nicholas D Steeves Control: block 875722 by -1 * Package name: elpa-commander Version : 0.7.0 Upstream Author : Johan Andersson * URL : https://github.com/rejeep/commander.el * License : GPL-3+ Programming Lang

Bug#875722: ITP: ert-runner -- Opinionated Ert testing workflow

2017-09-13 Thread Nicholas D Steeves
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Nicholas D Steeves Control: block 825980 by -1 * Package name: ert-runner Version : 0.7.0 Upstream Author : Jorgen Schaefer * URL : http://github.com/rejeep/ert-runner.el * License : GPL-3+ Programming Lang: Elisp

Bug#872873: ITP: emacs-neotree -- Emacs directory tree plugin like NerdTree for Vim

2017-08-21 Thread Nicholas D Steeves
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Nicholas D Steeves * Package name: emacs-neotree Version : 0.5.2 Upstream Author : Aborn Jiang * URL : https://github.com/jaypei/emacs-neotree * License : GPL-3+ Programming Lang: lisp Description : Emacs

Re: Call for volunteers: FTP Team

2017-08-17 Thread Nicholas D Steeves
ted as for the "World". Finally, New Maintainers tremble with trepidation at the power of The Claw, as it is known internally. Yes? ;-) Cheers, Nicholas signature.asc Description: PGP signature

P.S. Re: Debian 9 in a VM with Proxmox 5 system

2017-07-09 Thread Nicholas D Steeves
P.S. That cheat sheet isn't nearly as nice...as I'd like it to be I wish it was a compact printable two or three column reference with net-tools commands in bold and the short-form iw equivalent underneath. eg: 'ip -r r' is more or less equivalent to 'route' signature.asc Description: Digital si

Re: Debian 9 in a VM with Proxmox 5 system

2017-07-09 Thread Nicholas D Steeves
hink the article links to this year's debian-devel discussion, but the article is worth reading because it has a cheat sheet. I'm also someone who prefers the old tools, and I wish that Stretch provided a wrapper around the new tools for backwards compatibility. Cheers, Nicholas signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Bug#866053: ITP: emacs-ivy-doc -- documentation for emacs' Incremental Vertical completYon

2017-06-26 Thread Nicholas D Steeves
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Nicholas D Steeves * Package name: emacs-ivy-doc Version : 0.9.1-1 Upstream Author : Oleh Krehel * URL : https://github.com/abo-abo/swiper * License : GFDL Programming Lang: Markdown and TeX Description

Re: Bug#863799: ITP: redtick -- tiny pomodoro timer for Emacs

2017-06-13 Thread Nicholas D Steeves
gt; . > The Pomodoro Technique involves working in 25 minute intervals, > separated by 5 minute breaks, with a longer break after every four > intervals. > > https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pomodoro_Technique Sean, thank you for packaging this! I will definitely use it. Cheers, Nicholas signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Bug#864393: ITP: elpa-rich-minority -- Clean-up and beautify the list of minor-modes in Emacs' mode-line

2017-06-07 Thread Nicholas D Steeves
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Nicholas D Steeves Package name: elpa-rich-minority Version : 1.0.1 Upstream Author : Artur Malabarba URL : https://github.com/Malabarba/rich-minority License : GPL2+ Programming Lang: Lisp Description : Clean-up and

Re: Too many Recommends (in particular on mail-transport-agent)

2017-05-31 Thread Nicholas D Steeves
s. My pet peeve is unnecessary Recommends on texlive packages, but it's easy enough to type "NO" and then install with --no-install-recommends...but if you mass-file "please degrade Recommends to Suggests" I hope it will be for a few of those :-) Cheers, Nicholas

Re: Too many Recommends (in particular on mail-transport-agent)

2017-05-31 Thread Nicholas D Steeves
nstall gsmartcontrol. All users should receive notification of hardware failure, no? As I see it the issue is if an admin receives uncountable apt-listchanges emails for something like when a great many containers are upgraded, and it should be possible to skip configuration (and disable) any provider of mail-transport-agent for VMs and containers. Cheers, Nicholas

Bug#862933: ITP: gmailfeed -- A plasmoid for notification and listing unread emails from your Gmail inbox

2017-05-18 Thread Nicholas D Steeves
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Nicholas D Steeves * Package name: gmailfeed Version : 1.1 Upstream Author : Anthony Vital * URL : https://github.com/anthon38/gmailfeed * License : GPL-3 Programming Lang: C++ Description : A plasmoid for the

Re: When do we update the homepage to a modern design? (was Re: Moving away from (unsupportable) FusionForge on Alioth)

2017-05-15 Thread Nicholas D Steeves
sign? Even website design... Isn't this the point of the Fibonacci logo? ⢀⣴⠾⠻⢶⣦ ⣾⠁⢠⠒⠀⣿⡁ ⢿⡄⠘⠷⠚⠋ ⠈⠳⣄ Sincerely, Nicholas signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Bug#861687: ITP: visual-fill-column -- An Emacs mode that wraps visual-line-mode buffers at fill-column

2017-05-02 Thread Nicholas D Steeves
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Nicholas D Steeves Control: block 861124 by -1 * Package name: visual-fill-column Version : 1.9 Upstream Author : Joost Kremers * URL : https://github.com/joostkremers/visual-fill-column * License : GPL-3

Bug#861340: ITP: elpa-poetry -- Poetry writing aids for Emacs

2017-04-27 Thread Nicholas D Steeves
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Nicholas D Steeves * Package name: elpa-poetry Version : 0.14 Upstream Author : Bob Newell * URL : http://www.bobnewell.net/filez/poetry.el * License : GPL3+ Programming Lang: Elisp Description : Poetry writing

Re: Hiding library packages from apt searches by default? (was: Re: Worthless node-* package descriptions in ITPs)

2017-01-05 Thread Nicholas D Steeves
kits, etc. Isn't this something the "GNOME Software" application addresses? Additionally, thought I'm at least two years out of date with packagekit news/status/frustrations, I wonder if it already has one half of a distro-agnostic method to implement this... Cheers, Nicholas

Re: Plasma 5.8 LTS in debian 9(Stretch)

2016-10-04 Thread Nicholas D Steeves
sts.debian.org https://qa.debian.org/developer.php?login=pkg-kde-ext...@lists.alioth.debian.org Cheers, Nicholas

Proposed documentation, please comment! [was Re: Bug#838919: debian-installer: please calculate swap parition according to max RAM...]

2016-09-29 Thread Nicholas D Steeves
would make sense? Where can I upload images to for use in the Debian wiki? I'd be happy to work on this documentation if no one else wants to. Please comment on the proposed document structure and the issues I've raised in the sub-points. Also, if someone with experience with LUKS would like to write this documentation (or the LUKS section), please let me know! :-) Regards, Nicholas signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: Debian does not have customers

2016-09-16 Thread Nicholas D Steeves
ons...but once someone submits a bug to the BTS I think he/she can be called a client, because the system has authorised a call with a response in the form of a numbered ticket associated with an email record of the claim. All bugs make a claim to the promise of [1]. My suspicion is that the poi

Re: Thinking about a "jessie and a half" release

2016-09-08 Thread Nicholas D Steeves
ang-3-3-in-c1y-mode-cannot-parse-cstdio-header/17776548#17776548 > . Though it was first seen in Clang 3.3, its still a problem today. > > Jeff > Hi Jeff, Actually, good timing to bump the thread! Gianfranco has backported LLVM and Clang 3.8. Cheers, Nicholas signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: Thinking about a "jessie and a half" release

2016-07-12 Thread Nicholas D Steeves
logged > [38229.510127] mce: [Hardware Error]: Machine check events logged > > $ sudo mcelog > mcelog: Family 6 Model 3d CPU: only decoding architectural errors > Out of curiosity, what does the mcelog version in jessie-backports output when running this kernel version? Cheers, Nicholas

Re: Thinking about a "jessie and a half" release

2016-07-08 Thread Nicholas D Steeves
On 4 July 2016 at 18:38, Ben Hutchings wrote: > On Mon, 2016-07-04 at 16:01 -0400, Nicholas D Steeves wrote: > [...] > [...] >> So for radeon hardware enablement, there is 1) the proprietary driver > > fglrx is dead upstream and removed from unstable. (It's still

Re: Thinking about a "jessie and a half" release

2016-07-08 Thread Nicholas D Steeves
discussion on running testing -> http://forums.debian.net/viewtopic.php?f=30&t=128598&start=0 Of course, I'd also love to see it work! :-) I'm guessing it requires a substantial investment of time and a very dedicated—and large enough—team. Cheers, Nicholas

Re: Thinking about a "jessie and a half" release

2016-07-04 Thread Nicholas D Steeves
velopment" and it's quite > impressive for me. "deliver value to users" is one of the most > important thing in Debian (it means "do continuous improvement > for stable"), IMO. Agreed! Also, OpenSUSE has been doing this with their post-42.x release model. Mind you, to the best of my knowledge Debian has always cherry picked fixes and essential hardware enablement fixes for the stable packages (eg: intel-microcode). This newly proposed Debian project seems to be a more aggressive approach...but does it also have a client machine focus to the exclusion of servers, or should it serve both? Cheers, Nicholas

Bug#807241: ITP: archlinux-xdg-menu -- Convert freedesktop files to a format used by various WMs

2015-12-06 Thread Nicholas Bamber
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Nicholas Bamber * Package name: archlinux-xdg-menu Version : 0.7.6.2 Upstream Author : Sergej Pupykin * URL : https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Xdg-menu * License : GPL Programming Lang: Perl Description

Bug#802225: ITP: libchatbot-eliza-perl -- Chatbot::Eliza

2015-10-18 Thread Nicholas Bamber
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Nicholas Bamber * Package name: libchatbot-eliza-perl Version : 1.05 Upstream Author : Neil Bowers URL : http://search.cpan.org/~neilb/Chatbot-Eliza-1.05/lib/Chatbot/Eliza.pm * License : (GPL or Artistic

Re: Re: Adding support for LZIP to dpkg, using that instead of xz, archive wide

2015-07-29 Thread Nicholas Breen
"-Cnone" to disable integrity checking, which is not the default, and which the documentation explicitly warns against unless a tool other than xz is being used to provide such checks. (Obviously, this option is not used by dpkg-deb.) -- Nicholas Breen nbr...@debian.org -- To UNSUBSCRIB

Re: mass bug filing about packages manipulating/deleting shipped files

2012-09-25 Thread Nicholas Bamber
> I think it would be worth asking the release team about this. Fixing > them all might well take a while. These bugs were all presumably in > squeeze and if there are many of them delaying wheezy doesn't make > sense. Moreover as I understand it the version of piuparts that runs these tests is

Bug#686485: ITP: license-reconcile -- Reconcile license/copyright between package source and debian/copyright file

2012-09-02 Thread Nicholas Bamber
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Nicholas Bamber * Package name: license-reconcile Version : 0.1 Upstream Author : Nicholas Bamber * URL : https://github.com/periapt/license-reconcile * License : Perl Programming Lang: Perl Description

Bug#683173: ITP: mysqlreport -- friendly report of important MySQL status values

2012-07-29 Thread Nicholas Bamber
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Nicholas Bamber * Package name: mysqlreport Version : 3.5 Upstream Author : Daniel Nichter * URL : http://hackmysql.com/mysqlreport * License : GPL Programming Lang: Perl Description : friendly report of

Bug#678460: RFH: maradns -- simple security-focused Domain Name Service server

2012-06-21 Thread Nicholas Bamber
Package: wnpp Severity: normal I request assistance with maintaining the maradns package. The reason is mainly lack of time and having someone to talk to about it would add some interest. The package is in reasonably good shape except that we need to plan a transition to the 2.0 version (current

Bug#668565: ITP: libgedcom-perl -- interface to genealogy GEDCOM files

2012-04-12 Thread Nicholas Bamber
Package: wnpp Owner: Nicholas Bamber Severity: wishlist X-Debbugs-CC: debian-devel@lists.debian.org,debian-p...@lists.debian.org * Package name: libgedcom-perl Version : 1.16 Upstream Author : Paul Johnson * URL : http://search.cpan.org/dist/Gedcom/ * License

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