a naive question about EOL encoding in Debian

2023-03-18 Thread Patrice Duroux
Hi, I am facing ^M (\r) character in the .build output file using sbuild on my system (Sid). For instance: $ file timidity_2.14.0-9_amd64-2023-03-18T18:33:37Z.build timidity_2.14.0-9_amd64-2023-03-18T18:33:37Z.build: ASCII text, with very long lines (307), with CRLF, CR, LF line terminators It s

a two cent suggestion

2022-11-26 Thread Patrice Duroux
Dear Debian people, Already possible or not, I would like to have a Debian system for which packages can be installed either by a specific user (root/sysadmin as usual) only or by any other (or a group of) users. But this would also depend on the class of the requested packages: 1. packages provid

Re: official Debian kernel-free images

2022-11-06 Thread Patrice Duroux
Many thanks Étienne and Paul for all the resources. Regards, Patrice

official Debian kernel-free images

2022-11-05 Thread Patrice Duroux
Hi, There are many projects here and there (Termux, AnLinux, etc.) that are based on some sorts of kernel-free images of a minimal Debian system to be used through chroot (other Linux) or PRoot (Android) or whatever environments. Most of the time, it is provided as an archive file downloaded at th

Re: debos should depend on systemd-resolved

2022-10-05 Thread Patrice Duroux
Hi, > > So far, the package fakemachine Depends on systemd, and that was enough. > > Now with the split, and since we need systemd-resolved, we should make > > fakemachine Depend on systemd-resolved as well. However, and if I > > understand properly, installing systemd-resolved also *enables* i

Re: Half the world being removed

2022-09-03 Thread Patrice Duroux
Hi, Am I observing a side effect (kind of back-in-time) regarding a repair process on this issue? Because, for instance, the following page: https://tracker.debian.org/pkg/fwanalog has now its 'news' section showing: [2017-09-05] fwanalog 0.6.9-8 MIGRATED to testing (Debian testing watch) [2017

Re: Re: Re: facility to access the NEWS content

2021-12-18 Thread Patrice Duroux
Hi Gregor, Yes that is part of my concern target but I trying also to find out more candidate contents among the package files or may be to design a remote resource for that so it would be possible to extend 'dnews' if-else-cases with one that would be to display the output of an URL base on the

Re: Re: facility to access the NEWS content

2021-12-15 Thread Patrice Duroux
Hi, So maybe too much ambitious but let's see what I can get regarding what is actually available in Debian and if I can dress something up at least like a new track for Debian QA in a similar section to https://trends.debian.net/ while also providing a command line tool to get this NEWS content a

facility to access the NEWS content

2021-12-13 Thread Patrice Duroux
Hi, I do not known if this is the right list to address this, if it has been already discussed and so it can be considered as noise. ;-) Packages may provide a NEWS (or any other name, compressed or not, etc.) file that may be part of the «main» package (like in hwloc vs. libhwloc15 for src:hwloc

any tracker/notification on cases such like the libnfs package?

2018-11-19 Thread Patrice Duroux
Dear Debian dev, I am sorry to address you the following case to the devel mailing list if is not the right place but I think that it may concern different components in the Debian infrastructure. I was surprise to discover such case of the following package: https://tracker.debian.org/pkg/libnf

a stupid suggestion for dpkg?

2013-10-23 Thread Patrice Duroux
Dear Debian Developers, May be this is the wrong place or my subject has been already discussed in different ways, but is it a crazy idea that a package provides kinds of pre- prerm and/or post- postinst scripts regarding package(s) that is(are) just recommended or suggested by it? So that those s