Re: New contributor experience

2025-06-08 Thread Andreas Tille
/-/wikis/Mentoring-of-the-Month-(MoM) The idea is to help newcomers to package what they need. I wished other teams would try to adopt this method. Kind regards Andreas. -- https://fam-tille.de

Bug#1107475: libasyncns: How to continue maintenance of libasyncns in Debian

2025-06-07 Thread Andreas Tille
your thoughts. Kind regards Andreas. [1] https://salsa.debian.org/qa/tiny_qa_tools/-/wikis/Tiny-QA-tasks [2] https://qa.debian.org/popcon-graph.php?packages=libasyncns0&show_installed=on&show_vote=on&want_legend=on&want_ticks=on&from_date=&to_date=&hlg

Re: Question about splitting a source package with an epoch

2025-05-17 Thread Andreas Metzler
ile, it will break (by downgrading) on an old entry in sources list or a local repo. More generally I also do not think the net-win justifies the work and risk. epochs are not aestically pleasing but we are used to dealing with them. I think the huge win of Stouter's plan is to get rid of differe

Re: RFC for changes regarding NMU in developers reference (Was: ITN procedure?)

2025-05-14 Thread Andreas Tille
[...] > > This is now available at https://udd.debian.org/cgi-bin/dep14stats.cgi Thanks a lot Andreas. -- https://fam-tille.de

Re: ITN procedure?

2025-05-12 Thread Andreas Tille
Am Sat, May 10, 2025 at 11:20:41AM +0100 schrieb Wookey: > On 2025-05-08 10:00 +0200, Andreas Tille wrote: > > Am Wed, May 07, 2025 at 10:27:03PM +0200 schrieb Jonas Smedegaard: > > > > Can we please stop calling it an intent to NMU when it is invasive? > > > > Y

Re: Intend To Orphan (ITO) procedure?

2025-05-12 Thread Andreas Tille
Hi Andreas, Am Fri, May 09, 2025 at 07:15:09PM +0200 schrieb Andreas Metzler: > > How do you go about that? Do you poll the respective team whether they > are committing to maintain it? I'm a member of several Debian teams, including Debian Science, Games, Multimedia, Perl, and

Re: Intend To Orphan (ITO) procedure?

2025-05-09 Thread Andreas Metzler
On 2025-05-08 Andreas Tille wrote: > Hi, > Am Thu, May 08, 2025 at 06:48:33PM +0200 schrieb Andreas Metzler: > > It > > just hides the fact that they are unmaintained and makes it therefore > > harder to find stuff that should be orphaned and/or removed. > Just a s

RFC for changes regarding NMU in developers reference (Was: ITN procedure?)

2025-05-09 Thread Andreas Tille
imal assumptions--i.e., DEP-14 layout, no forced CI setup, no changes to packaging workflows--and clearly documented to ease handover or rollback. I followed Holger's suggestion and created a merge request[1], splitting the changes into separate commits based on their level of controversy so

Re: ITN procedure?

2025-05-09 Thread Andreas Tille
ood the trends graphs are based on lintian-tags and I'm not aware of an according tag tracking this. Kind regards Andreas. -- https://fam-tille.de

Re: ITN procedure?

2025-05-08 Thread Andreas Tille
ie of patches > rather than as a single patch. Fixing item 4 provides a well-known and convenient way to publish all patches, along with build logs automatically generated by Salsa CI. Kind regards Andreas. [1] https://trends.debian.net/#smells -- https://fam-tille.de

Re: Intend To Orphan (ITO) procedure?

2025-05-08 Thread Andreas Tille
Hi, Am Thu, May 08, 2025 at 06:48:33PM +0200 schrieb Andreas Metzler: > It > just hides the fact that they are unmaintained and makes it therefore > harder to find stuff that should be orphaned and/or removed. Just a short comment: In the Bug of the Day effort the majority of package

Re: Intend To Orphan (ITO) procedure?

2025-05-08 Thread Andreas Metzler
On 2025-05-08 Jonas Smedegaard wrote: > Quoting Andreas Tille (2025-05-08 10:26:08) > > Would it feel more appropriate if I called it ITO (Intent to Orphan) > > instead of ITN and use the 21 days waiting period + upload to > > delayed=10? > Yes, that helps tremendously

Re: Intend To Orphan (ITO) procedure?

2025-05-08 Thread Andreas Tille
Am Thu, May 08, 2025 at 09:35:35PM +0800 schrieb tho...@goirand.fr: > How about a BoF on strong package ownership in Brest? I have registered such a BoF and want to prepend it by a Sprint in DebCamp. See you there Andreas. -- https://fam-tille.de

Re: Intend To Orphan (ITO) procedure?

2025-05-08 Thread Andreas Tille
Hi Jonas, Am Thu, May 08, 2025 at 11:22:44AM +0200 schrieb Jonas Smedegaard: > Quoting Andreas Tille (2025-05-08 10:26:08) > > Orphaning is something typically done by the maintainer themselves[1]. > > If someone else does it unilaterally, wouldn't that come closer to a

Re: ITN procedure?

2025-05-08 Thread Andreas Tille
Hi Holger, Am Thu, May 08, 2025 at 08:07:35AM + schrieb Holger Levsen: > On Thu, May 08, 2025 at 10:00:10AM +0200, Andreas Tille wrote: > > >From my point of view, orphaning would be a more forceful step--closer > > in spirit to a QA upload, as Holger suggested. I pre

Re: Categorially refusing to exercise DPL powers (was: ITN procedure?)

2025-05-08 Thread Andreas Tille
Hi Branden, Am Thu, May 08, 2025 at 02:54:47AM -0500 schrieb G. Branden Robinson: > At 2025-05-08T09:07:48+0200, Andreas Tille wrote: > > I don't believe the DPL should initiate GRs. I also think that when ^ > > this GR does happen (and I'm confident it

Re: ITN procedure?

2025-05-08 Thread Andreas Tille
of this discussion is to find a name that honestly reflects the purpose without being misleading or inflammatory. I'm still hoping we can agree on something neutral that signals both intent and openness--without framing it as a hostile act. Do you personally agree that there is a problem to be addressed, and are you mainly unhappy with my attempt at a solution, with the name I picked for it--or both? Thank you for your open words in any case and looking forward to see you in Brest Andreas. -- https://fam-tille.de

Re: ITN procedure?

2025-05-08 Thread Andreas Tille
o think that when this GR does happen (and I'm confident it will), someone else will be DPL. I'd love to help smoothen the path for this GR, and I know how I'll vote. However, I'll focus on tasks I can manage within this term. > Looking forward to join the session on this @ DebConf25 Brest! Same heres--—and thanks a lot for sharing your thoughts Andreas. -- https://fam-tille.de

Re: ITN procedure?

2025-05-07 Thread Andreas Tille
t often involves broader adjustments--such as repository migration or modernisation--that don't quite fit the usual NMU expectations. Also just to clarify: the maximum delay is 15 days[1]. Kind regards Andreas. [1] https://www.debian.org/doc/manuals/developers-reference/pkgs.en.html#delayed-incoming -- https://fam-tille.de

Re: ITN procedure?

2025-05-07 Thread Andreas Tille
void them. Users are not well served when packages remain frozen simply because the thresholds for safe intervention are too rigid. I'd kindly invite anyone interested in this topic to join the to-be-announced sprint at DebCamp. Kind regards Andreas. [1] https://bugs.debian.org/1104620 [2] https://bugs.debian.org/1104828 -- https://fam-tille.de

Re: discussion extension (was: Re: General Resolution: Interpretation of DFSG on Artificial Intelligence (AI) Models

2025-05-05 Thread Andreas Tille
Hi Mo, Am Mon, May 05, 2025 at 06:24:32PM -0400 schrieb M. Zhou: > Hi Andreas, > > According to constitution A.1.6, would you mind helping us extend > the discussion period by a week? > https://www.debian.org/devel/constitution I hereby extend the discussion period by a week.

Re: Is it worth spending more time on adduser?

2025-04-28 Thread Andreas Tille
nd at best a > >post to d-devel. > > And that's bad. If this is really the normal case that would be really bad. I have the impression that there are other decisions that are better communicated. Kind regards from a happy adduser user and thank you for spending so much time into it Andreas. -- https://fam-tille.de

Re: Proposed MBF: CMake 4.0 compatibility

2025-04-24 Thread Andreas Henriksson
Hello Timo, On Wed, Apr 23, 2025 at 09:49:07PM +0200, Timo Röhling wrote: > Hi, > > CMake has deprecated backwards compatibility for versions older than 3.5 > since July 2023, and the CMake 4.0 release finally drops support, [...] > Andreas Henriksson >mfgtools (U) [...]

Re: Dropping awk?

2025-04-20 Thread Andreas Metzler
re prominently. There is a third important use case: 3) Essential packages can be used in preinst and postrm maintainer-scripts. (The former usage can be made explicit mit Pre-Depends, the latter would need to be dropped if a command lost Essential status.) cu Andreas -- `What a good friend you are to

Re: Bug#1100677: Pending autoremoval of debian-reference* packages

2025-04-18 Thread Andreas Metzler
eleting drafted response] This has been resolved in the BTS. cu Andreas

Re: Bug#1094969: git linked with OpenSSL

2025-04-15 Thread Andreas Metzler
rrectness of such decisions and stand by them I still think that was the right way. cu Andreas

Re: Bug#1094969: git linked with OpenSSL

2025-04-13 Thread Andreas Metzler
ckages and we then need to implement coding changes to weed out any and all GPL<->openssl linkage. Personally I doubt we have the manpower nowadays to switch back from linking against OpenSSL. cu Andreas

Re: Should uncoordinated NMUs unilaterally choose Salsa as the VCS for a package?

2025-03-25 Thread Andreas Tille
Hi Sam, Am Tue, Mar 25, 2025 at 10:19:59AM -0600 schrieb Sam Hartman: > > Andreas> Another upload, with the removal of the Vcs fields, would > Andreas> effectively undo the move to Salsa from a package > Andreas> maintenance perspective. As far as NM

Re: Should uncoordinated NMUs unilaterally choose Salsa as the VCS for a package?

2025-03-25 Thread Andreas Tille
to pursue this.) I'm fine with answering on vote but I do not think that I should actively move to this list. Anyone is kindly invited to quote me there and ask specific questions. > On Thu, Mar 20, 2025 at 03:36:48PM +0100, Andreas Tille wrote: > > > > I agree that *uncoordinated* N

Re: Should uncoordinated NMUs unilaterally choose Salsa as the VCS for a package?

2025-03-20 Thread Andreas Tille
ing[2]. What do you think about this as a first experiment to determine what is acceptable and what is not? What do you think? Kind regards Andreas. [1] https://tracker.debian.org/pkg/pccts [2] https://bugs.debian.org/1100859 -- https://fam-tille.de

Re: New appointment for the Debian Technical Committee: Paul Tagliamonte

2025-03-11 Thread Andreas Tille
s finished a while back. Apologies for the mistake. I had asked for a review of my text, but it seems to have slipped through. That said, I truly appreciate your work in the Debian Technical Committee as well. Kind regards Andreas. -- https://fam-tille.de signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Re: Change the expectation that emails should wrap at 80 characters

2025-03-09 Thread Andreas Metzler
usly which was proposed in badly formatted mails. Great, you have now managed to make waste effort on this instead of productive work. cu Andreas

Re: Bug reports for Uploaders

2025-03-04 Thread Andreas Metzler
On 2025-03-04 Blair Noctis wrote: > On 04/03/2025 01:29, Andreas Metzler wrote: [...] > > There is another downside to the BTS sending mails to uploaders. - There > > is no simple unsubscribe, it would need a sourceful upload. > I wonder who would bother to add themself to Uplo

Re: Bug reports for Uploaders (was: Re #397761: bugs.debian.org: please forward bug reports to Uploaders also)

2025-03-03 Thread Andreas Metzler
s no simple unsubscribe, it would need a sourceful upload. cu Andreas -- `What a good friend you are to him, Dr. Maturin. His other friends are so grateful to you.' `I sew his ears on from time to time, sure'

Re: Packages with a history of security issues and whose packaged version is not up to date

2025-02-21 Thread Andreas Tille
hich should be done in any case). For practical security issues I do not really expect severe problems even for LTS Debian. Upstream is very responsive and might even help for older versions. Thanks again and I hope I did not missed anything important in this list. Kind regards Andreas. [1

Re: Bug#1093192: #1093192 "ITS: vtgrab": no uploaders specified?

2025-02-19 Thread Andreas Tille
the moment I see no actual harm done since packages in the Salvage Team space are as open for anybody to do a team upload as Debian QA maintained packages with the additional advantage that you find these on one place on Salsa. Am I missing something? Kind regards Andreas. -- https://fam-tille.de

Re: Let's make 2025 a year when code reviews became common in Debian

2025-01-29 Thread Andreas Tille
the Janitor tools manually right when I intend to upload a package. Thank you for the hint anyway Andreas. -- https://fam-tille.de

Re: GnuPG 2.4 before Trixie freeze

2025-01-17 Thread Andreas Metzler
On 2025-01-17 Frank Guthausen wrote: > On Tue, 7 Jan 2025 19:01:51 +0100 > Andreas Metzler wrote: > > > > Afaik there is no /known/ blocker except for the > > libgnupg-interface-perl test error #1088155. > According to bug report[1] there are failed subtests i

Re: Let's make 2025 a year when code reviews became common in Debian

2025-01-16 Thread Andreas Tille
its in my > personal repo linked in the report in the BTS. I guess this is due to some unfortunate default. MRs are possible now in this repository. Kind regards Andreas. -- https://fam-tille.de

Re: Let's make 2025 a year when code reviews became common in Debian

2025-01-15 Thread Andreas Tille
would simply assume the maintainer (in BCC) has somewhere some Git repository since this is the prefered way to maintain code these days. It would be great to have packages of "Priority: required" on Salsa to enable some team work on all our packages with high priority. This might

Re: Let's make 2025 a year when code reviews became common in Debian

2025-01-15 Thread Andreas Tille
once time permits. Thank you for the hint Andreas. -- https://fam-tille.de

Re: New Delegation: tag2upload delegates

2025-01-14 Thread Andreas Tille
the delegation. Do you have any specific suggestion? BTW, any volunteers to join ftpmaster team? If yes, please contact the team. Kind regards Andreas. -- https://fam-tille.de

Re: Let's make 2025 a year when code reviews became common in Debian

2025-01-14 Thread Andreas Tille
o good reason. * Someone might decided to re-introduce a package and likes to have the history * Repositories might be a great resource for "software-history" What advantages would you see in removing repositories of removed packages except saving some disk space? > > Frustrated, > > Chris Thank you for taking over frustrating work. Its really appreciated. Kind regards Andreas. -- https://fam-tille.de

Re: GnuPG 2.4 before Trixie freeze

2025-01-13 Thread Andreas Metzler
rybody is trying to protect their users by trying to patch out librepgp-specific behavior by default. cu Andreas -- `What a good friend you are to him, Dr. Maturin. His other friends are so grateful to you.' `I sew his ears on from time to time, sure'

Re: GnuPG 2.4 before Trixie freeze

2025-01-10 Thread Andreas Metzler
this behaviour in Debian? [...] I do not know the current status, but afaik thunderbird (not Debian specific) configures rnp, version 128 release notes said: | Disabled support for LibrePGP v5 AEAD/OCB decryption cu Andreas -- `What a good friend you are to him, Dr. Maturin. His other friends are so grateful to you.' `I sew his ears on from time to time, sure'

Stats on packages not on Salsa (Was: Bits from DPL)

2025-01-09 Thread Andreas Tille
ple to look into this. > The vcswatch table has lots of interesting things... Note that the salsa > error "could not read Username" in the table is not a misconfiguration - it > means that the repo couldn't be obtained anonymously, which could be that it > doesn'

Re: GnuPG 2.4 before Trixie freeze

2025-01-08 Thread Andreas Metzler
On 2025-01-08 Jonathan McDowell wrote: > On Tue, Jan 07, 2025 at 07:01:51PM +0100, Andreas Metzler wrote: [...] >> Should we move to 2.4? 2.4 is not a LTS release and will also EOL in >> trixie' soon (2026-06-30). > I haven't been fully following the GnuPG situat

Re: Bits from DPL

2025-01-08 Thread Andreas Tille
| 1 > NeuroDebian Team | 1 > The Debian Lua Team| 1 I find even 13 in Science team and will try to tackle these (or ask for removal). ( SELECT source, maintainer, vcs_url FROM sources WHERE release = 'sid' AND vcs_url not like '%sa

Re: Bits from DPL

2025-01-07 Thread Andreas Tille
SELECT COUNT(DISTINCT source) FROM sources WHERE release = 'sid' AND (vcs_url IS NULL OR vcs_url like '%alioth%' OR vcs_url like '%git.debian.org%' OR vcs_url like '%svn.debian.org%') ; count --- 2213 That might make a real challenge to bring that number below 2000 until end of my term. Any help to approach this is welcome. Thanks again for the hint Andreas. -- https://fam-tille.de

Re: GnuPG 2.4 before Trixie freeze

2025-01-07 Thread Andreas Metzler
On 2025-01-07 Simon Josefsson wrote: [...] > I believe this would be good, I frequently run into GnuPG bugs in the > 2.2.x branch that was fixed years ago in 2.4 and today I mostly these on > Debian because others moved on to 2.4.x. Andreas, can you give a > current status of pendin

Re: Tuning the ITS process (Was:Re: Barriers between packages and other people)

2025-01-06 Thread Andreas Tille
ntainers to actively opt out. I'd be happy to discuss this in more detail in Brest. Kind regards Andreas. [1] https://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/2024/12/msg00101.html -- https://fam-tille.de

Re: Barriers between packages and other people

2025-01-05 Thread Andreas Tille
this option by actively file a bug report. I admit I rather have a problem with inactive maintainers. I have not made some stats (yet) but its definitely not wrong to state that >90% of the ITS bugs I've filed in the past remained unanswered. I do not expect that these maintainers will file [OR]FA bugs. Kind regards Andreas. -- https://fam-tille.de

Re: Remove ancient uploads from experimental (and later unstable)

2024-12-30 Thread Andreas Metzler
.] Good morning, I think this needs a mechanism fo excempt packages which are kept out of testing *intentionally* with a dummy rc bug (like firefox's #817954). cu Andreas -- `What a good friend you are to him, Dr. Maturin. His other friends are so grateful to you.' `I sew his ears on from time to time, sure'

Re: Barriers between packages and other people

2024-12-24 Thread Andreas Metzler
On 2024-12-23 Gioele Barabucci wrote: > On 22/12/24 06:56, Andreas Metzler wrote: >> On 2024-12-22 Sean Whitton wrote: >>> On Sat 21 Dec 2024 at 10:23pm +01, Gioele Barabucci wrote: >>>> We have a mechanism for when you feel responsible: "Maintainer: $me"

Re: Barriers between packages and other people

2024-12-21 Thread Andreas Metzler
s in a installed package are not trivially/easily revertable. Think of moving files between pacages (Needs Replaces/Breaks), replaxing symlinks by dirs and vice versa (needs dpkg-maintscript-helper), changing dpkg-conffiles (not really undoable). cu Andreas -- `What a good friend you are to him,

Re: Barriers between packages and other people

2024-12-21 Thread Andreas Metzler
ity: "If this package is in bad shape, the whole >> Debian project should be held responsible. Either it gets fixed by >> someone or it gets RM'd by someone." > Hmm, what you describe seems more like an orphaned package. +1 on that. The proposed scheme is exactly how

Re: Proposal: Optional `Priority: optional` and changed `Section` fall-back

2024-12-20 Thread Andreas Tille
masse. > > indeed. ACK Thank you for the suggestion, Niels Andreas. -- https://fam-tille.de

Re: Barriers between packages and other people

2024-12-20 Thread Andreas Tille
ncremental steps. > > Who's with me? I'm with you with the small doubt about a heavy volume list which might scare away people who want to discuss development issues as we do now. Thank you for this suggestion Andreas. -- https://fam-tille.de

Re: Directory structure suggestion for configuration in /etc

2024-12-20 Thread Andreas Metzler
the version number at the top and > typo and whitespace fixes. Hello, Please submit bug reports against packages keeping (and updating) the version number in a dpkg conffile and triggerring unnecessary conffile prompts. cu Andreas -- `What a good friend you are to him, Dr. Maturin. His other friends are so grateful to you.' `I sew his ears on from time to time, sure'

Re: Problems to find sponsors

2024-12-10 Thread Andreas Tille
ad might be something that does not sound very probable but might happen. Not finding someone who might care sponsoring a potential bug fix release is also something unfortunate. I would at least expect the dedication of a team the sponsor belongs to for at least a release time span. Kind regards

Re: Bits from DPL / Feedback on attracting newcomers

2024-12-09 Thread Andreas Tille
o encourage people like Mechthilde to continue their excellent work and help promote it. As always in Debian: if you see an important task that needs doing, take the initiative and do it. Running around explaining to volunteers that work is left undone doesn't solve the problem. Kind regards Andreas. -- https://fam-tille.de

Re: Problems to find sponsors

2024-12-09 Thread Andreas Tille
t natural thing to seek for friends is looking for packages with functionality covering a similar use case or written in the same programming language. Than you do apt showsrc similar_package(s) | grep ^Maintainer and if you are lucky you have found some friends. Kind regards Andreas. -- https://fam-tille.de

Re: Problems to find sponsors

2024-12-04 Thread Andreas Tille
these packages, ping's did increase the sponsorship rate. That's exactly my point and I wished we could do this less randomly. Kind regards Andreas. -- https://fam-tille.de

Re: Problems to find sponsors (Was: Bits from DPL)

2024-12-04 Thread Andreas Tille
ut the potential for new, active team members might be compelling enough to take on the responsibility of sponsoring. Kind regards Andreas. -- https://fam-tille.de

Problems to find sponsors (Was: Bits from DPL)

2024-12-04 Thread Andreas Tille
bmitted to Mentors would do > more to encourage more contributions to Debian, and more people becoming > Debian Maintainers and Debian Developers, than anything else I could name. As always: We need volunteers to do this and I agree that this would be helpful. Kind regards Andreas. -- https://fam-tille.de

Barriers between packages and other people (Was: Bits from DPL)

2024-12-04 Thread Andreas Tille
ier between a package and other people? Kind regards Andreas. [1] https://www.debian.org/doc/manuals/developers-reference/pkgs.en.html#package-salvaging [2] https://salsa.debian.org/tille/tiny_qa_tools/-/wikis/Tiny-QA-tasks -- https://fam-tille.de

Re: Moving apt (and hence bootstraps) from GnuPG to Sequioa (via gpgv-sq)

2024-11-22 Thread Andreas Metzler
On 2024-11-21 Julian Andres Klode wrote: [...] >An optimal mechanism would instea [...] Something seems to be missing here. cu Andreas -- `What a good friend you are to him, Dr. Maturin. His other friends are so grateful to you.' `I sew his ears on from time to time, sure'

Bug#1087287: ITP: golang-github-google-flatbuffers -- FlatBuffers: Memory Efficient Serialization Library

2024-11-10 Thread Andreas Henriksson
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Andreas Henriksson * Package name: golang-github-google-flatbuffers Version : 24.3.25-1 Upstream Author : Google * URL : https://github.com/google/flatbuffers * License : Apache-2.0 Programming Lang: Go Description

Re: Bug#1086878: python-catalogue: 2.1.0 was yanked - what version scheme should we use for 2.0.10?

2024-11-07 Thread Andreas Tille
essing > with history and git tags being sticky on cloned repos)? As I assume > other downstreams might be in the same/similar situation? Sounds sensible - otherwise I'd probably go with the override proposed by Colin. Kind regards Andreas. -- https://fam-tille.de

Re: Rebuilds to enable PAC and BTI support on arm64

2024-11-06 Thread Andreas Tille
e" "opinion"? Finally we have those regular archive wide rebuilds that trigger lots of FTBFS bugs. I could imagine to simply upload those that pass the rebuild tests. Otherwise the package needs manual intervention by the maintainer which also will end up in an upload or a testing removal. Kind regards Andreas. -- https://fam-tille.de

Updating the Front Desk delegation

2024-10-29 Thread Andreas Tille
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How to proceed with slim? (Was: slim: New upstream)

2024-10-25 Thread Andreas Tille
; On Thu, 24 Oct 2024 13:53:56 +0200 > Andreas Tille wrote: > > > Hi Maintainers of slim, > > [...] > > > Regarding the Debian maintenance I would propose moving the project to > > Salsa to anable some fruitful cooperation. IMHO the most natural > > locatio

Re: Most optimal way to import NMU into existing git-builpackage repository?

2024-10-24 Thread Andreas Henriksson
xample when it lives under salsa.debian.org/debian which uploaders should have access to already). That would probably also require some "tag to upload" solution to be implemented first I presume. > > - Otto > Regards, Andreas Henriksson

Bug#1085150: ITP: boulder -- Boulder Dash clone

2024-10-15 Thread Andreas Rönnquist
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Andreas Rönnquist X-Debbugs-Cc: debian-devel@lists.debian.org * Package name: boulder Version : 1.0.1 Upstream Contact: Ronnie Hedlund * URL : https://rh-galaxy.itch.io/boulder * License : Public Domain Programming

Re: Epoch change for cctools

2024-10-12 Thread Andreas Metzler
On 2024-10-12 Alastair McKinstry wrote: > On 12/10/2024 10:18, Andreas Metzler wrote: > > On 2024-10-12 Alastair McKinstry wrote: > > > Hi, > > > cctools is at version 1:9.9 due to an error in 2021. > > [...] > > > > Looks like a typo,

Re: Epoch change for cctools

2024-10-12 Thread Andreas Metzler
On 2024-10-12 Alastair McKinstry wrote: > Hi, > cctools is at version 1:9.9 due to an error in 2021. [...] Looks like a typo, afaict cctools currently has *no* epoch, i.e. equivalent to 0:9.9. cu Andreas -- `What a good friend you are to him, Dr. Maturin. His other friends are so grate

Re: signify and signify-openbsd names

2024-10-06 Thread Andreas Metzler
e bts might mix up bugs against signify(bin) from signify-openbsd(src) with bugs against the source package signify. Renaming signify-openbsd(src) to signify(src) was *not* suggested. cu Andreas -- `What a good friend you are to him, Dr. Maturin. His other friends are so grateful to you.' `I sew his ears on from time to time, sure'

Re: Debian policy 9.2.1 needs --allow-bad-names

2024-10-05 Thread Andreas Metzler
ollisions with locally created user accounts". adduser requiring a special option to generate users named liked this *also* increases the likelyhood that a local admin will *not* generate a user with conflicting name. So I think you you should continue following policy's guidance. cu Andre

Re: lintian.debian.org off ?

2024-09-21 Thread Andreas Tille
Am Fri, Sep 20, 2024 at 02:43:04PM -0700 schrieb Otto Kekäläinen: > Thanks for helping us get lintian.debian.org recreated! Thanks to you and Louis-Philippe for the effort (and to DSA for the support) Andreas. -- https://fam-tille.de signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Bug#1082150: ITP: webext-vimium-firefox -- keyboard-based navigation and control (Firefox)

2024-09-18 Thread Andreas Altergott
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Andreas Altergott X-Debbugs-Cc: debian-devel@lists.debian.org * Package name: webext-vimium-firefox Version : 2.1.2 Upstream Contact: Phil Crosby * URL : https://vimium.github.io/ * License : MIT Programming Lang

More about removing more packages from unstable (Was: Bits from DPL)

2024-09-06 Thread Andreas Tille
te architecture specific removals, most favourably by dealing with a whole dependency tree. This would probably remove a lot of manual work from DDs as well as your own work. Kind regards Andreas. -- https://fam-tille.de

Re: Bits from DPL

2024-09-05 Thread Andreas Tille
Hi, Am Wed, Sep 04, 2024 at 11:29:39PM -0400 schrieb Scott Kitterman: > On Wednesday, September 4, 2024 6:22:14 PM EDT Pierre-Elliott Bécue wrote: > > > > OoC, what is your point, especially considering the quote of your own > > opinion Andreas made? > > > > T

Re: LPC: Support for Complex Cameras in Debian

2024-09-05 Thread Andreas Tille
best approach with me before the event, > that would be immensely helpful. What actual question do you want to discuss? Kind regards Andreas. -- https://fam-tille.de

Re: DEP18 follow-up: What would be the best path to have all top-150 packages use Salsa CI?

2024-08-22 Thread Andreas Tille
r teams but IMHO the better strategy would be to make it extra hard to switch of Salsa CI. Kind regards Andreas. [1] https://lists.debian.org/debian-java/2024/06/msg7.html -- https://fam-tille.de

Re: Removing more packages from unstable

2024-08-22 Thread Andreas Tille
igh) popcon packages. Thank you in any case for your investigation Andreas. -- https://fam-tille.de

Re: Removing more packages from unstable

2024-08-22 Thread Andreas Tille
at do you want to express? If so would you mind filing removal bugs? Kind regards Andreas. -- https://fam-tille.de

Re: Removing more packages from unstable

2024-08-20 Thread Andreas Metzler
m sid years ago. Bug filed now. cu Andreas

Re: iproute2: removing /sbin/ip link breaks other packages and possibly user scripts

2024-08-17 Thread Andreas Henriksson
* Install ss to /bin instead of /sbin. [...] -- Andreas Henriksson Mon, 04 Jul 2011 17:29:04 +0200 FWIW I've personally supported sbin and bin merging at some point, just for the simple reason that I'll never get back all the time wasted on arguing with people who want things

Re: Accepting DEP14?

2024-08-17 Thread Andreas Tille
ranch default since this is what I observed in the wide majority of cases. > Maybe there is no issue with changing git-buildpackage after all > then. Yes. Kind regards Andreas. -- https://fam-tille.de

Re: Accepting DEP14?

2024-08-17 Thread Andreas Tille
any existing layout. IMHO we should move DEP-14 forward since having it an open suggestion for ages will not bring any progress. Kind regards Andreas. -- https://fam-tille.de

Re: Accepting DEP14?

2024-08-16 Thread Andreas Tille
I can and probably would - but we need to decide about DEP-14 first. Kind regards Andreas. -- https://fam-tille.de

Re: Accepting DEP14?

2024-08-16 Thread Andreas Tille
Hi Jonas, Am Fri, Aug 16, 2024 at 02:12:21PM +0200 schrieb Jonas Smedegaard: > > Quoting Andreas Tille (2024-08-16 11:44:38) > > I prefer having no debian/gbp.conf at all in case the repository > > layout would fit team policy. > > I understand that it would be lo

Re: Accepting DEP14?

2024-08-16 Thread Andreas Tille
statement was incomplete. Kind regards Andreas. [1] https://med-team.pages.debian.net/policy/ -- https://fam-tille.de

Re: Accepting DEP14?

2024-08-16 Thread Andreas Tille
I missing something? I prefer having no debian/gbp.conf at all in case the repository layout would fit team policy. So the question is whether git-buildpackage can cope with the old master + upstream + pristine-tar as well as debian/latest + upstream/latest + pristine-tar if no gbp.conf exi

Re: Accepting DEP14?

2024-08-16 Thread Andreas Tille
s there are no concerns about DEP-14 any more it might make sense to do this. Kind regards Andreas. -- https://fam-tille.de

Accepting DEP14?

2024-08-15 Thread Andreas Tille
kers to accept this DEP which I might have missed? Kind regards Andreas. [1] https://dep-team.pages.debian.net/deps/dep14/ [2] https://salsa.debian.org/dep-team/deps/-/merge_requests/8 [3] https://bugs.debian.org/829444 [4] https://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/2020/09/msg00168.html https://

Updating delegation for the backports team

2024-07-23 Thread Andreas Tille
g/Contribute/ - More details on the activities of the Backports Team are available at <http://wiki.debian.org/Teams/Backports - If you want to help out the backports team and/or joining it, you're welcome to contact them at Thanks a lot for thw whole backports team to provide th

Re: i686 require SSE4.1-capable processor?

2024-07-15 Thread Andreas Ronnquist
On Mon, 15 Jul 2024 17:31:30 +0500, Andrey Rakhmatullin wrote: >On Mon, Jul 15, 2024 at 01:42:50PM +0200, Andreas Ronnquist wrote: >> I'm maintaining a package (filezilla) which just got a bug report that >> it simply crashes on program start - It gets a SIGILL - &qu

i686 require SSE4.1-capable processor?

2024-07-15 Thread Andreas Ronnquist
cc generates invalid code requiring SSE4.1 while it still should support SSE2? (Or is the problem something else completely?) -- Andreas Rönnquist mailingli...@gusnan.se gus...@debian.org [Please don't CC me, if I mail to a mailinglist, I am subscribed to it.] 1: https://bugs.debian.org/1076312

Re: DD's, Debian Mentors needs you!

2024-07-07 Thread Andreas Tille
ers. Thanks again Andreas. -- https://fam-tille.de

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