wiki.d.o on a git-backed engine

hi Jonas, On Mon Jan 13, 2025 at 12:45 AM CET, Jonas Smedegaard wrote: > Hi Serafeim, and others, > > Quoting Serafeim (Serafi) Zanikolas (2025-01-12 21:54:58) > > what would be truly amazing, imho, would be the whole wiki on git. that'd > > allow > > for mass

Re: Call for contributions to maintain existing documentation - Salsa makes it is easy!

On Sun Jan 12, 2025 at 4:52 PM CET, Ahmad Khalifa wrote: > On 11/01/2025 20:43, Otto Kekäläinen wrote: [..] > Just a heads up on wiki signup: > > Account creation failed: Automatic account creation disabled to stop > > spammers signing up. Please contact w...@debian.org and describe what you > >

Re: criteria for acceptable languages for central QA tools in Debian (was: Re: coordination between lintian/piuparts/adequate)

On Thu Jan 9, 2025 at 10:29 AM CET, Holger Levsen wrote: > On Wed, Jan 08, 2025 at 09:11:02PM +0100, Serafeim (Serafi) Zanikolas wrote: > > hi Holger, > > as you have addressed me here and... > > > On Wed Jan 8, 2025 at 11:57 AM CET, Holger Levsen wrote: > > >

Re: criteria for acceptable languages for central QA tools in Debian (was: Re: coordination between lintian/piuparts/adequate)

hi Holger, On Wed Jan 8, 2025 at 11:57 AM CET, Holger Levsen wrote: > On Tue, Jan 07, 2025 at 11:55:30PM +0100, Serafeim (Serafi) Zanikolas wrote: > > two things: first, what is a "core component of Debian" is very much up to > > debate, but I'd be quite surprised

Re: criteria for acceptable languages for central QA tools in Debian (was: Re: coordination between lintian/piuparts/adequate)

t; On Wed, Dec 11, 2024 at 11:57:14PM +0100, Serafeim (Serafi) Zanikolas wrote: [..] > If you write something for the project, I think you should totally > choose the language that you're most familiar and comfortable with. > Sometimes that means disappointing people using archit

Re: criteria for acceptable languages for central QA tools in Debian (was: Re: coordination between lintian/piuparts/adequate)

On Fri Dec 27, 2024 at 10:49 PM CET, Serafeim (Serafi) Zanikolas wrote: > hi Jonathan, > > On Thu Dec 12, 2024 at 3:36 PM CET, Jonathan Dowland wrote: [..] > > "likely in many ports too" is dancing around the fact that it *doesn't* > > run on at least one port,

Re: criteria for acceptable languages for central QA tools in Debian (was: Re: coordination between lintian/piuparts/adequate)

hi Jonathan, On Thu Dec 12, 2024 at 3:36 PM CET, Jonathan Dowland wrote: > On Wed Dec 11, 2024 at 10:57 PM GMT, Serafeim (Serafi) Zanikolas wrote: > > I'd like to discuss this with a focus on general principles, and only > > discuss specifics (adequate, golang) to the

criteria for acceptable languages for central QA tools in Debian (was: Re: coordination between lintian/piuparts/adequate)

[forking to -devel] On Wed Dec 11, 2024 at 11:15 AM CET, Holger Levsen wrote: > On Tue, Dec 10, 2024 at 09:38:57PM +0100, Serafeim (Serafi) Zanikolas wrote: > > > On Sat Dec 7, 2024 at 5:15 AM CET, Paul Wise wrote: > > > Probably adequate is the logical place for th

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

On Sat Nov 9, 2024 at 10:00 PM CET, Mo Zhou wrote: > I just realized that the news report could be more useful if it cites > the information source. Here we go: thanks! the links are really key, given the known hallucination issues of LLMs signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Re: efficient way to detect linker script files?

hola Guillem, thanks so much for such a thorough response :) to summarize, I'll look for: - files matching /lib/${DEB_HOST_GNU_TYPE}/*.{a,so} that are below a certain size and contain "GNU ld script" in the first line (if they're text files) - all files under /lib/${DEB_HOST_GNU_TYPE}/ldscript

efficient way to detect linker script files?

hi, I'd like to discover all installed linker scripts, for the purposes of #823531 (check for broken linker scripts files). it's not clear to me that there's a convention I could rely on to avoid brute forcing filetype detection of everything under /lib/${DEB_HOST_GNU_TYPE} (that'd be /lib/x86_64-

Re: proposal to drop licence compatibility checks from adequate

[adding -devel, for wider visiblity] On Sun Sep 8, 2024 at 6:31 PM CEST, Serafeim (Serafi) Zanikolas wrote: > hi, > > I've recently taken over adequate(1) and am considering to drop its license > compatibility checks, for several reasons: > > - unlike 2013, which is

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

hi Jonathan, On Sun Sep 22, 2024 at 5:05 PM CEST, Jonathan Dowland wrote: > On Wed Sep 4, 2024 at 8:33 PM BST, Serafeim (Serafi) Zanikolas wrote: > > incidentally, lots of Debian native code is in perl, and like it or > > not, we should allow for, or even encourage [0] (parti

Re: lintian.debian.org off ?

On Wed Sep 4, 2024 at 8:21 AM CEST, Lucas Nussbaum wrote: [..] > Also, I don't want to sound like I'm telling someone how to contribute > to Debian, but it looks to me like there are more urgent issues to solve > around lintian... lintian's in perl and Nicolas already pointed out that he's not fam

Re: lintian.debian.org off ?

hello, On Mon Sep 2, 2024 at 7:19 PM CEST, Otto Kekäläinen wrote: [..] > I am happy to help with writing a GitLab CI pipeline and do occasional > code reviews, if you want to consider hosting the code at > https://salsa.debian.org/lintian, Debian's official code hosting and > collaboration platfor

Re: Major of piuparts failed or blocked for long-standing errors of other packages

hi FAbio, On Sat Aug 31, 2024 at 11:54 AM CEST, Fabio Fantoni wrote: > I've noticed for a long time (maybe years) that most of the packages in > DDPO have Piuparts tests failing because of long-standing errors of > other packages and then consequently also block many more dependent on > them makin