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

2025-03-11 Thread Andrew M.A. Cater
On Sun, Mar 09, 2025 at 03:58:59PM +0100, Simon Josefsson wrote: > > Agreed. However none of that hardware require me to load non-free > firmware from my operating system, which is my point. That situation is > sufficient for me to accept to use the hardware and install an operating > system bui

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

2025-03-08 Thread Andrew M.A. Cater
On Sat, Mar 08, 2025 at 11:16:40PM +0100, Simon Josefsson wrote: > Aurélien COUDERC writes: > > > Le 8 mars 2025 21:09:00 GMT+01:00, Simon Josefsson a > > écrit : > > > >>I read this outcome as fairly clear message that, no, Debian does not > >>want to provide a second set of installer images,

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

2025-03-08 Thread Andrew M.A. Cater
On Sat, Mar 08, 2025 at 06:59:45PM +, Bill Allombert wrote: > Le Fri, Mar 07, 2025 at 11:42:10AM -0700, Soren Stoutner a écrit : > > In the original GR, one of the options that lost was for Debian to host two > > sets of installer > > images, one with non-free firmware and one without, and fo

Re: Why are cinnamon-core and cinnamon-desktop-environment still in version 6.2?

2025-02-08 Thread Andrew M.A. Cater
n this? > I'd suggest RDP in some form: Microsoft seem to be going this way for suggested interaction with WSL and Red Hat have dropped VNC because it doesn't work well with Wayland. If people really want VNC, then TigerVNC is there in Debian for all architectures. Hope this helps, All the very best, as ever, Andrew Cater (amaca...@debian.org)

Re: Do we need a conflict of interest policy?

2025-02-07 Thread Andrew M.A. Cater
already, both here and more generally within Debian mailing lists. [And it is somewhat ironic that this email contains output from an AI while your signature requests that this email not be used to train one :) ] With every good wish, as ever, Andrew Cater (amaca...@debi

Re: GnuPG 2.4 before Trixie freeze

2025-01-14 Thread Andrew Gallagher
> can be reached that providing a LibrePGP-compliant GnuPG in Debian is > acceptable. What is the criterion for LibrePGP compliance in your view? Is the ability to read and write LibrePGP wire formats not sufficient? I would encourage readers to check the patch list at [1] and the di

Re: Re: GnuPG 2.4 before Trixie freeze

2025-01-14 Thread Andrew Gallagher
Simon Joseffson mailto:si...@joseffson.org>> wrote: > It seems there is push from the anti-GnuPG people to promote a fork called > FreePG instead of real GnuPG, will you package that? > > https://gitlab.com/freepg/gnupg FreePG is not an anti-GnuPG project, if anything it’s trying to keep GnuPG o

Re: Project-wide LLM budget for helping people (WAS: Re: Complete and unified documentation for new maintainers

2025-01-12 Thread Andrew M.A. Cater
On Sun, Jan 12, 2025 at 04:56:15PM +, Colin Watson wrote: > On Sat, Jan 11, 2025 at 07:13:58PM -0800, Otto Kekäläinen wrote: > > I don't think Debian should as an organization pay for LLMs. On the > > contrary I would expect LLM providers to offer API keys for free to > > Debian Developers just

Bug#1092288: ITP: xchpst -- eXtended CHange Process STate

2025-01-06 Thread Andrew Bower
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Andrew Bower X-Debbugs-Cc: debian-devel@lists.debian.org * Package name: xchpst Version : 0.2.0 Upstream Contact: Andrew Bower * URL : https://gitlab.com/abower/xchpst/ * License : Expat Programming Lang: C

Re: Suitability of Rust for *all* architectures? [WAS Re: Rustc unsoundness on i386]

2024-11-24 Thread Andrew M.A. Cater
On Sun, Nov 24, 2024 at 12:28:28PM +0500, Andrey Rakhmatullin wrote: > On Sat, Nov 23, 2024 at 07:05:39PM +0000, Andrew M.A. Cater wrote: > > > > B) bump the i386 baseline in Debian to require SSE2, and stop disabling > > > > SSE2 there in rustc > > > > &

Suitability of Rust for *all* architectures? [WAS Re: Rustc unsoundness on i386]

2024-11-23 Thread Andrew M.A. Cater
On Sat, Nov 23, 2024 at 11:29:04PM +0500, Andrey Rakhmatullin wrote: > On Sat, Nov 23, 2024 at 03:14:42PM +0100, Fabian Grünbichler wrote: > > B) bump the i386 baseline in Debian to require SSE2, and stop disabling > > SSE2 there in rustc > > As suggested by Chris, and a popular opinion/request i

Re: file-roller old bugs

2024-10-16 Thread Andrew M.A. Cater
On Wed, Oct 16, 2024 at 11:43:59PM +0300, Mina wrote: > hi > i noticed that there is a lot of very old( > 13 years old) > outstanding bugs in file-roller bugs page and some of then i confirmed > that it's n longer reproducible most probably fix > is it ok to close it and archive it or what is your

Bug#1085180: ITP: mcds -- Mutt CardDav search program

2024-10-15 Thread Andrew Bower
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Andrew Bower X-Debbugs-Cc: debian-devel@lists.debian.org * Package name: mcds Version : 1.6 Upstream Contact: Timothy Brown * URL : https://github.com/t-brown/mcds * License : GPL-3.0 Programming Lang: C Description

Re: proposal: Hybrid network stack for Trixie

2024-09-22 Thread Andrew M.A. Cater
> I prefer it to `ip`, when I can get away with using it instead. > if you don't have a desktop environment on either a laptop or a server, then nm-cli / nmtui are a very useful way to do this. This whole discussion has made me think about trying networkd-systemd to see what its like.

Re: pcsc-cyberjack needs update to support more apparatus Germany oriented.

2024-09-21 Thread Andrew M.A. Cater

Re: Intend to package Cuttlefish (Android virtual device)

2024-08-28 Thread Andrew M.A. Cater
On Thu, Aug 29, 2024 at 04:20:20AM +0800, Ying-Chun Liu (PaulLiu) wrote: > Hi all, > > I intend to package Cuttlefish. But I'd like some clarification. > > Cuttlefish, an open-source project (source: > https://source.android.com/docs/devices/cuttlefish/get-started), requires > downloading or buil

Bug#1076329: ITP: libmarkdown-render-perl -- Render markdown using Text::Markdown::Discount or GitHub API

2024-07-14 Thread Andrew Ruthven
Package: wnpp Owner: Andrew Ruthven Severity: wishlist X-Debbugs-CC: debian-devel@lists.debian.org, debian-p...@lists.debian.org * Package name: libmarkdown-render-perl Version : 1.04 Upstream Author : Rob Lauer * URL : https://metacpan.org/release/Markdown-Render

Re: Suggestion

2024-05-31 Thread Andrew M.A. Cater
nguage of a system and keyboard layout because it is problematic for > someone who doesn't use US layout on keyboard and i am among those since i > am croatian. > -- There's always more than one way to solve a problem appropriately in Debian - I'm sure others can think of

Re: About i386 support

2024-05-18 Thread Andrew M.A. Cater
On Fri, May 17, 2024 at 09:58:58PM +0200, Victor Gamper wrote: > Hello everyone, > Is it correct that debian 13 is planned to be released without > an i386 iso and i386 is planned to be deprecated? > If so, I'd like to ask to reconsider this seeing as there is still a > plethora of i386 machines an

Re: Bits from DPL

2024-05-02 Thread Andrew M.A. Cater
On Thu, May 02, 2024 at 10:37:57AM -0600, Trevor Howard wrote: > How do I unsubscribe from these emails? > > On Wed, May 1, 2024 at 11:15 PM Andreas Tille wrote: > > > Hi, > > > > keeping my promise for monthly bits, here's a quick snapshot of my first > > ten days as DPL. > > > > Special thanks

Re: archive.debian.org mirrors

2024-04-27 Thread Andrew M.A. Cater
On Sat, Apr 27, 2024 at 12:16:04PM +0200, Simon Josefsson wrote: > Hi > > According to the mirror list > > https://www.debian.org/distrib/archive > > it should be possible to reach archive.debian.org via rsync, however > this fails for me. Is this intentional, or can this be fixed? > https://

Re: Archive back on

2024-03-31 Thread Andrew M.A. Cater
On Sun, Mar 31, 2024 at 02:45:29PM -0300, Maycon Antônio wrote: > PLEASE unscrisbe from this list > Antonio, You need to send a mail to debian-devel-request with the subject of unsubscribe The robot should send back a confirmation request that you can accept to confirm that you want to be

32 bit Intel hardware effectively EOL [WAS Re: Offer to make a native 32-bit system avaiable]

2024-01-13 Thread Andrew M.A. Cater
On Sat, Jan 13, 2024 at 01:01:08PM -0600, rhys wrote: > > > > > > Since you still offer 32bit machines of which Debian has enough of. (64 bit > > kernel probably but it doesn't matter) where it does not matter at all. > We don't particularly need 32 bit hardware at the moment, as far as I kno

Re: Linking coreutils against OpenSSL

2023-11-10 Thread Andrew M.A. Cater
On Fri, Nov 10, 2023 at 10:38:13AM +, Luca Boccassi wrote: > On Fri, 10 Nov 2023 at 02:26, Simon Richter wrote: > > > > Hi, > > > > > What would you think about having coreutils Depend on libssl3? This > > > would make the libssl3 package essential, which is potentially > > > undesirable, but

Re: besoin d'aide

2023-10-25 Thread Andrew M.A. Cater
On Wed, Oct 25, 2023 at 08:39:10AM +0100, siheme samira wrote: > bonjour Bonjour, Il faut vous dire que cela serait mieux sur debian-user ou debian-user-french. Ici, on utlise l'anglais. En bref: Stretch n'existe plus comme un OS avec support du Debian meme. Voyez donc:https://www.debian.org/r

Re: AltGr+ not working anymore on most Desktop apps in Gnome

2023-10-22 Thread Andrew Ruthven
bOptions compose:ralt and grp:switch which were both enabled. Turns out something has changed and if they're both set it won't work. Cheers, Andrew -- Andrew Ruthven, Wellington, New Zealand and...@etc.gen.nz | Catalyst Cloud: | This space intentionally left blank https://catalystcloud.nz |

Re: Illegal Instruction Using sudo in Bookworm on i686

2023-10-17 Thread Andrew M.A. Cater
On Tue, Oct 17, 2023 at 02:38:40PM -0500, Justin wrote: > Okay, so because the VIA C3 Nehemaiah chip doesn't properly implement > ENDBR32, it falls outside of the supported hardware, despite being otherwise > an "i686 class chip," correct? > > Or put another way, in classic Cyrix style, it's "al

Re: Questionable Package Present in Debian: fortune-mod

2023-08-21 Thread Andrew M.A. Cater
On Mon, Aug 21, 2023 at 05:32:22PM +, Jeremy Stanley wrote: > On 2023-08-21 20:16:22 +0300 (+0300), Dmitry Baryshkov wrote: > [...] > > According to Debian's CoC we use non-offensive ways to communicate > > within the project, so that everybody is welcome to speak and > > contribute. But we sho

Re: Questionable Package Present in Debian: fortune-mod

2023-08-18 Thread Andrew M.A. Cater
On Fri, Aug 18, 2023 at 02:39:00PM -0400, Thomas Ward wrote: > Hello. > > Debian Bug #1024501 [1]indicates that data files are present in the > fortune-mod package which are against Debian policy: > > > Dear Maintainer, > > *** Reporter, please consider answering these questions, where appropri

Bug#1037248: ITP: libcss-inliner-perl -- Convert CSS

2023-06-09 Thread Andrew Ruthven
Package: wnpp Owner: Andrew Ruthven Severity: wishlist X-Debbugs-CC: debian-devel@lists.debian.org, debian-p...@lists.debian.org * Package name: libcss-inliner-perl Version : 4018 Upstream Author : Kevin Kamel * URL : https://metacpan.org/release/CSS-Inliner

Bug#1037246: ITP: libhtml-query-perl -- perform jQuery-like queries on HTML::Element trees

2023-06-09 Thread Andrew Ruthven
Package: wnpp Owner: Andrew Ruthven Severity: wishlist X-Debbugs-CC: debian-devel@lists.debian.org, debian-p...@lists.debian.org * Package name: libhtml-query-perl Version : 0.09 Upstream Author : Kevin Kamel * URL : https://metacpan.org/release/HTML-Query * License

Bug#1037117: ITP: libbadger-perl -- Badger application programming toolkit

2023-06-05 Thread Andrew Ruthven
Package: wnpp Owner: Andrew Ruthven Severity: wishlist X-Debbugs-CC: debian-devel@lists.debian.org, debian-p...@lists.debian.org * Package name: libbadger-perl Version : 0.16 Upstream Author : Andy Wardley * URL : https://metacpan.org/release/Badger * License

Bug#1037110: ITP: libgraphviz2-perl -- Perl interface to the GraphViz graphing tool

2023-06-04 Thread Andrew Ruthven
Package: wnpp Owner: Andrew Ruthven Severity: wishlist X-Debbugs-CC: debian-devel@lists.debian.org, debian-p...@lists.debian.org * Package name: libgraphviz2-perl Version : 2.67 Upstream Author : Ron Savage * URL : https://metacpan.org/release/GraphViz2 * License

Bug#1037109: ITP: libtest-snapshot-perl -- test against data stored in automatically-named file

2023-06-04 Thread Andrew Ruthven
Package: wnpp Owner: Andrew Ruthven Severity: wishlist X-Debbugs-CC: debian-devel@lists.debian.org, debian-p...@lists.debian.org * Package name    : libtest-snapshot-perl    Version : 0.06   Upstream Author : Ed J * URL : https://metacpan.org/release/Test-Snapshot

ITP: libtest-snapshot-perl -- test against data stored in automatically-named file

2023-06-04 Thread Andrew Ruthven
the module name. The package will be maintained under the umbrella of the Debian Perl Group. This module is required for building the GraphViz2 Perl module which I'm about to file an ITP about. -- Andrew Ruthven, Wellington, New Zealand and...@etc.gen.nz | Catalyst Cloud:

Re: i386 in the future (was Re: 64-bit time_t transition for 32-bit archs: a proposal)

2023-05-31 Thread Andrew M.A. Cater
On Wed, May 31, 2023 at 11:24:15PM +0200, Diederik de Haas wrote: > On Wed May 31, 2023 at 12:44 PM CEST, Wouter Verhelst wrote: > > On Wed, May 31, 2023 at 12:51:06AM +0200, Diederik de Haas wrote: > My point is: what about people who don't have the option to *buy* > anything (new or used), for fi

Re: i386 in the future (was Re: 64-bit time_t transition for 32-bit archs: a proposal)

2023-05-19 Thread Andrew M.A. Cater
On Fri, May 19, 2023 at 03:03:40PM +0100, Steve McIntyre wrote: > Luca Boccassi wrote: > >On Fri, 19 May 2023 at 12:42, Steve McIntyre wrote: > >> > >> I'm planning on stopping publishing installer images for i386 > >> soon. Why? We should be strongly encouraging users to move away from > >> it as

Closure of buster-backports (WAS Re: buster-10-backports: I need backported network-manager for buster ASAP.)

2023-03-26 Thread Andrew M.A. Cater
regards, Ilari Jääskeläinen. > la, 2023-03-25 kello 18:33 +, Andrew M.A. Cater kirjoitti: > > On Thu, Mar 23, 2023 at 07:45:57AM +0200, ijaaskelai...@outlook.com > > wrote: > > > Kind regards, Ilari Jääskeläinen. > > > > I wonder if you could explain *why*

Re: buster-10-backports: I need backported network-manager for buster ASAP.

2023-03-25 Thread Andrew M.A. Cater
On Thu, Mar 23, 2023 at 07:45:57AM +0200, ijaaskelai...@outlook.com wrote: > Kind regards, Ilari Jääskeläinen. I wonder if you could explain *why* you need this so immediately and also why you asked all the Debian developers at once, please. There may be a better way to request that Debian develo

Re: debian stretch: disable running gvfsd by default

2023-02-19 Thread Andrew M.A. Cater
On Sat, Feb 18, 2023 at 06:28:45AM +0200, ijaaskelai...@outlook.com wrote: > The old version breaks online filesystems! > YOu may want to note that stretch has very recently been moved to archive.debian.org. It may be appropriate to move to a newer supported version of Debian, perhaps to Debian

Re: Populating non-free firmware?

2022-12-24 Thread Andrew M.A. Cater
On Sat, Dec 24, 2022 at 03:22:17PM -0500, Timothy M Butterworth wrote: > On Sat, Dec 24, 2022 at 12:15 PM M. Zhou wrote: > > > On Sat, 2022-12-24 at 11:44 +0200, Jonathan Carter wrote: > > > > > > The non-free-firmware [component] has been created, but so far it > > > only > > > contains the rasb

Re: regarding https://www.debian.org/vote/2022/vote_003

2022-11-01 Thread Andrew M.A. Cater
On Tue, Nov 01, 2022 at 12:01:42PM +, Wim Bertels wrote: > Hello, > > first of all, thank you for all the good work! > Hello Wim, Thank you for appreciating that Debian does good work. > personally, i am disappointed with this change, > unless i misunderstand the voted outcome, > the choic

Re: membership revoked?

2022-09-14 Thread Andrew M.A. Cater
On Wed, Sep 14, 2022 at 03:04:27AM -0500, Brian Smith wrote: > Hi, > > I don't see my name "Brian Smith" listed at https://nm.debian.org/members/. > However, I do see my profile at https://nm.debian.org/person/bsmith/. Did I > get kicked? > > -- > Brian T. Smith > System Fabric Works > Senior Pr

Re: Bug#1014908: ITP: gender-guesser -- Guess the gender from first name

2022-07-16 Thread Andrew M.A. Cater
to guess to some level of obscurity and academic interest. That approach would resolve many of the difficulties already outlined. Steve McIntyre has already raised the "Things people believe about names" post which has other companions. Could I respectfully ask that the ITP be withdrawn at this point? With every good wish, as ever, Andrew Cater

Re: Bug#1014908: ITP: gender-guesser -- Guess the gender from first name

2022-07-15 Thread Andrew M.A. Cater
On Fri, Jul 15, 2022 at 07:05:09PM +0300, Adrian Bunk wrote: > On Thu, Jul 14, 2022 at 04:05:35PM +0200, Jeremy Bicha wrote: > >... > > Debian has a Diversity Statement [1] which says that Debian welcomes > > people regardless of how they identify themselves. Trans people and > > non-binary people

Re: Firmware - what are we going to do about it?

2022-06-01 Thread Andrew M.A. Cater
Hi Hakan, On Wed, Jun 01, 2022 at 09:41:35AM +0300, Hakan Bayındır wrote: > > > On 30.05.2022 09:36, Andrey Rahmatullin wrote: > > On Sun, May 29, 2022 at 05:33:21PM -0400, Bobby wrote: > > > There are definitely people who use forks because it's easier to > > > install non-free firmware. What's

Re: Helping Ukraine with Debian

2022-04-07 Thread Andrew M.A. Cater
On Thu, Apr 07, 2022 at 06:41:58PM +1200, Matt Grant wrote: > Hi! > > Has anyone thought about how to help out Ukraine by using Debian? > Thinking about humanitarian relief and and other possibilities for > communications. Is there any way I may be able to help out by remoting > in? Any one got

Re: access forbiden salsa.debian.org

2022-03-01 Thread Andrew M.A. Cater
On Tue, Mar 01, 2022 at 12:09:17PM +, Philip Wyett wrote: > On Tue, 2022-03-01 at 12:48 +0100, a a wrote: > > Hi. > > > > Today a tried to access contents of debian instaler git repository on > > salsa.debian.org and the > > server responded with 403 error. Next i tried other content located

Re: Legal advice regarding the NEW queue

2022-02-05 Thread Andrew M.A. Cater
On Fri, Feb 04, 2022 at 11:50:20PM +0100, Christian Kastner wrote: > On 2022-02-04 18:39, Russ Allbery wrote: > > In other words, this thread is once again drifting into a discussion of > > how to do copyright review *better*, when my original point is that we > > should seriously consider not doin

Re: Graphic equalizer in Rhythmbox.

2022-01-16 Thread Andrew M.A. Cater
On Sat, Jan 15, 2022 at 12:12:03AM +0100, Riccardo wrote: > Hello, on my notebook i use Linux Mint Debian Edition, since i would > like to install the equalizer in the excellent Rhythmbox player, can > you insert the rhythmbox-plugin-complete package in the Package > Manager? > So I could have the

Bug#997916: general: bullseye, (sometimes) keyboard freezes after suspend.

2021-10-27 Thread Andrew M.A. Cater
On Wed, Oct 27, 2021 at 03:33:30PM +1000, JoE wrote: > Package: general > Severity: normal > X-Debbugs-Cc: bullk...@protonmail.com > > Dear Maintainer, > > *** Reporter, please consider answering these questions, where appropriate *** > >* What led up to the situation? >* What exactly di

Re: Debian's branches and release model

2021-10-20 Thread Andrew M.A. Cater
On Wed, Oct 20, 2021 at 10:51:59PM +0200, Thomas Goirand wrote: > On 10/20/21 7:50 PM, Gunnar Wolf wrote: > > Thomas Goirand dijo [Wed, Oct 20, 2021 at 09:11:13AM +0200]: > >>> You can upload it to experimental > >> > >> That's obviously what I'm doing. But when there's 2 releases during the > >> f

Bug#996000: general: System does not boot with second monitor attached

2021-10-09 Thread Andrew M.A. Cater
On Sat, Oct 09, 2021 at 09:18:06PM +0200, Asbjørn Sæbø wrote: > Package: general > Severity: important > X-Debbugs-Cc: gaff...@live.com > > Dear Maintainer, > > I installed Debian 11 on a new computer (with a single monitor during > installation, connected with HDMI). > What make/model of comp

Re: Request to Join

2021-08-31 Thread Andrew M.A. Cater
On Tue, Aug 31, 2021 at 08:05:34AM +0200, Rob Le wrote: > Hello there, hope all is well. > >   > > My team and I are interested in getting involved in the local Debian > community.  We live and work in the San Francisco community and looking > for way to be more supportive to our favorite open-

Re: Q: Use https for {deb,security}.debian.org by default

2021-08-21 Thread Andrew M.A. Cater
On Sat, Aug 21, 2021 at 12:31:26PM +0200, Simon Richter wrote: > Hi, > > On 21.08.21 10:40, Wouter Verhelst wrote: > > > I've been thinking for a while that we should bake a feature in apt > > whereby a network administrator can indicate somehow that there is a > > local apt mirror and that apt s

Re: Question Re: Advertising in Packages

2021-08-16 Thread Andrew M.A. Cater
On Sun, Aug 15, 2021 at 09:14:18PM -0600, Antonio Russo wrote: > On 8/15/21 9:06 PM, Paul Wise wrote: > > On Mon, Aug 16, 2021 at 2:22 AM Antonio Russo wrote: > > > >>"Can one advertise non-free services in a Debian package? > >> Is doing so a violation of some Debian policy? > > > > Ther

Re: Debian mirror / developer machine

2021-06-13 Thread Andrew M.A. Cater
On Sat, Jun 12, 2021 at 08:20:11PM -0400, Polyna-Maude Racicot-Summerside wrote: > Hi, > > > If you are talking about a separate repository to the existing > > repository, that sounds like a Debian derivative. Personally I would > > encourage people to contribute to Debian rather than starting new

Re: ARM architectures

2021-06-05 Thread Andrew M.A. Cater
On Sat, Jun 05, 2021 at 07:33:20AM -0400, Polyna-Maude Racicot-Summerside wrote: > Hi, > > On 2021-06-05 4:50 a.m., Christoph Biedl wrote: > > Marc Haber wrote... > > > >> I'd still consider the Raspberry Pi. It's unfortunate that the binary > >> non-free blob is already needed to boot the box ev

Re: ARM architectures

2021-06-05 Thread Andrew M.A. Cater
On Sat, Jun 05, 2021 at 11:22:46AM +0530, Siji Sunny wrote: > > Hi ! > > I'm looking for a ARM platform that can easily run Linux. > > Support using terminal over serial port for booting (no need of a GPU). > > > > I know about the Raspberry PI but the GPU drivers are not open source. > > I don't r

Re: debian 11 Bullseye RC 1

2021-05-29 Thread Andrew M.A. Cater
On Sat, May 29, 2021 at 07:27:48AM -0400, Timothy M Butterworth wrote: > All, > > I just successfully installed bullseye RC 1 on my Asus notebook model > X200CA. Everything is working. If you are looking for a notebook to > run Debian I highly recommend this model. > > I installed Bullseye RC 1 o

Re: Missing samba DSA-4513 changelog in https://metadata.ftp-master.debian.org/changelogs/

2021-05-02 Thread Andrew Bartlett
fixes to proposed-updates? PIDL should never have remained packaged after openchange was removed https://tracker.debian.org/pkg/openchange This was the only consumer (globally, not just in Debian). Andrew Bartlett -- Andrew Bartlett (he/him)https://samba.org/~abartlet/ Samba Team Member (since 2001) https://samba.org Samba Developer, Catalyst IThttps://catalyst.net.nz/services/samba

Re: Debian Installer Bullseye RC 1 release

2021-04-23 Thread Andrew M.A. Cater
Unfortunately, the website links to media still only point to the Alpha-3 release :( All best, Andy C

Results of two votes are due shortly

2021-04-17 Thread Andrew M.A. Cater
Everyone : The project is expecting the results of two votes shortly. The results won't please everyone - they never do. Please continue to be polite and constructive and work positively with your Debian colleagues however the votes fall. With thanks for your consideration in this Andy Ca

Re: Stable Release Installer Not Asking for Firmware: 10.7.0, and 10.8.0

2021-03-02 Thread Andrew M.A. Cater
On Mon, Mar 01, 2021 at 09:11:07PM -0800, Bug Report wrote: > The unofficial, non-free, stable release installer with firmware, doesn't > recognize Intel Network Card 2723 when selecting the Intel Linux driver.  It > would be helpful if the firmware, and driver for this network card were > added to

Re: Fixed release dates are hurting quality

2021-02-08 Thread Andrew M.A. Cater
On Sun, Feb 07, 2021 at 07:41:01PM +0500, Andrey Rahmatullin wrote: > On Sun, Feb 07, 2021 at 02:20:28PM +0100, Samuel Thibault wrote: > > > the packages being untouched for a long time in some cases meaning there > > > is > > > no guarantee for quality. > > > > Sure, but if there is no serious i

Bug#981375: ITP: vivid -- `vivid` is a generator for the LS_COLORS environment variable.

2021-01-30 Thread Andrew Savchenko
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Andrew Savchenko X-Debbugs-Cc: debian-devel@lists.debian.org, and...@savchenko.net * Package name: vivid Version : 0.6.0 Upstream Author : David Peter * URL : https://github.com/sharkdp/vivid * License : MIT

Re: Making Debian available, non-free promotor

2021-01-23 Thread Andrew M.A. Cater
On Sat, Jan 16, 2021 at 07:56:30PM +0100, Philipp Kern wrote: > On 15.01.21 13:42, Ansgar wrote: > > On Tue, 2021-01-12 at 19:30 +0100, Geert Stappers wrote: > >> Ah, yes I also wonder how much the world will improve > >> if non-free would be split in non-free and non-free-firmware. > >> Currently

Re: Making Debian available

2021-01-18 Thread Andrew M.A. Cater
On Mon, Jan 18, 2021 at 09:57:31AM +0100, Holger Wansing wrote: > Hi, > > Timo Lindfors wrote: > > > > On Sun, 17 Jan 2021, Marc Haber wrote: > > > Absolutely. The Installation Experience is one of the first contacts > > > with the distribution for most people¹, and since we all know that the >

Re: Making Debian available

2021-01-17 Thread Andrew M.A. Cater
On Sun, Jan 17, 2021 at 11:36:58AM +0100, Marc Haber wrote: > On Sat, 16 Jan 2021 10:58:33 +, "Andrew M.A. Cater" > wrote: > >It already does: the second or third question gives you the option to install > > non-free firmware, if needed, from a USB stick. That m

Re: Making Debian available

2021-01-16 Thread Andrew M.A. Cater
On Sat, Jan 16, 2021 at 10:50:19PM +0500, Andrey Rahmatullin wrote: > On Sat, Jan 16, 2021 at 09:27:28AM -0800, Russ Allbery wrote: > > The installer with non-free firmware built in would, I think, be better. > > I know it exists, but last time I wasn't able to use it because I needed a > > testing

Re: Making Debian available

2021-01-16 Thread Andrew M.A. Cater
On Fri, Jan 15, 2021 at 03:15:14PM -0500, Theodore Ts'o wrote: > On Fri, Jan 15, 2021 at 09:35:01AM -0800, Russ Allbery wrote: > > > > The point is to make things easier for our users. Right now, we're doing > > that for you but not for the users who don't care whether firmware is > > non-free.

Re: CentOS and Debian/Ubuntu release cycles

2020-12-09 Thread Andrew M.A. Cater
On Wed, Dec 09, 2020 at 04:25:54PM +, Stephan Lachnit wrote: > Hi all, > > maybe you already have heard it, CentOS is basically dead now. It used to be > an exact RHEL clone, but now it's kind of an RHEL beta [1]. > > Now what does that have to do with Debian? > > When we look into why peop

Bug#975956: ITP: libmodule-install-substitute-perl -- substitute values into files before install

2020-11-27 Thread Andrew Ruthven
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Andrew Ruthven X-Debbugs-Cc: debian-devel@lists.debian.org Package name: libmodule-install-substitute-perl Version : 0.03 Upstream Author : Ruslan U. Zakirov URL : http://www.example.org/ License : Artistic or GPL

Re: A Small Organisation Server as a Debian Pure Blend

2020-11-20 Thread Andrew M.A. Cater
On Fri, Nov 20, 2020 at 02:37:11PM +, Federico Ceratto wrote: > As Joseph pointed out, the use-case for the Small Organisation Server > is practically > the same as FreedomBox, either installed from image or with "apt > install freedombox". > > I find the name "Small Organisation" a bit mislea

Bug#972996: ITP: nccm -- Terminal based ssh connection manager

2020-10-26 Thread Andrew
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Andrew * Package name: nccm Version : 1.2.0 Upstream Author : Kenneth Aaron * URL : https://github.com/flyingrhinonz/nccm * License : GPL3 Programming Lang: Python Description : Terminal based ssh connection

Bug#963946: ITP: libpath-dispatcher-perl -- flexible and extensible dispatcher module

2020-06-28 Thread Andrew Ruthven
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Andrew Ruthven * Package name: libpath-dispatcher-perl Version : 1.07 Upstream Author : Shawn M Moore * URL : https://metacpan.org/pod/Path::Dispatcher * License : GPL v1+ or Artistic License Programming Lang: Perl

Bug#960896: ITP: rt4-extension-assetautoname -- AssetAutoName extension (Request Tracker)

2020-05-17 Thread Andrew Ruthven
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Andrew Ruthven * Package name: rt4-extension-assetautoname Version : 0.02 Upstream Author : Andrew Ruthven * URL : https://metacpan.org/release/RT-Extension-AssetAutoName * License : GPL-2 Programming Lang: Perl

Bug#960895: ITP: rt-extension-elapsedbusinesstime -- ElapsedBusinessTime extension (Request Tracker)

2020-05-17 Thread Andrew Ruthven
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Andrew Ruthven * Package name: rt-extension-elapsedbusinesstime Version : 0.03 Upstream Author : Andrew Ruthven * URL : https://metacpan.org/release/RT-Extension-ElapsedBusinessTime * License : GPL-2 Programming Lang

Re: RFC: Replacing vim-tiny with nano in essential packages

2020-03-16 Thread Andrew M.A. Cater
On 16/03/2020 12:15, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote: Hi Thomas! On 3/16/20 12:31 PM, Thomas Pircher wrote: John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote: I would like to suggest to replace vim-tiny with nano as the default minimal editor installed with debootstrap and therefore debian-installer. Would yo

Re: Be nice to your fellow Debian colleagues

2020-01-01 Thread Andrew McGlashan
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 Hi, On 2/1/20 4:47 am, Holger Levsen wrote: > On Wed, Jan 01, 2020 at 08:25:41PM +1100, Andrew McGlashan wrote: >> And a propaganderous push, just accept it and STFU, systemd won, >> against all odds, just like other crazy political

Re: Be nice to your fellow Debian colleagues

2020-01-01 Thread Andrew McGlashan
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 Hi, On 2/1/20 4:19 am, John Hasler wrote: > andrew.mcglashan wrote: >> ...it is very limited to a small group of Debian users known >> collectively as DDs... > > It is limited to the people who actually do the work. Why should > the fact that you c

Re: Be nice to your fellow Debian colleagues

2020-01-01 Thread Andrew McGlashan
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 On 1/1/20 11:02 pm, Andrej Shadura wrote: > On Wed, 1 Jan 2020 at 12:40, Andrew McGlashan > wrote: >> reasonable stakeholders, it is very limited to a small group of >> Debian users known collectively as DDs .. the current &

Re: Be nice to your fellow Debian colleagues

2020-01-01 Thread Andrew McGlashan
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 Hi, On 1/1/20 9:46 pm, Martin Steigerwald wrote: > I agree with Andrew that at least some of the options in the GR > were not about diversity or inclusion, but about exclusion and the > opposite of diversity. I pointed it out *clearly* be

Re: Be nice to your fellow Debian colleagues

2020-01-01 Thread Andrew McGlashan
On 1/1/20 8:23 pm, Andrew McGlashan wrote: > Sorry, I don't believe the premise in the subject line, it doesn't seem > at all genuine to me; it is more like F you. And a propaganderous push, just accept it and STFU, systemd won, against all odds, just like other crazy politica

Re: Be nice to your fellow Debian colleagues

2020-01-01 Thread Andrew McGlashan
Sorry, I don't believe the premise in the subject line, it doesn't seem at all genuine to me; it is more like F you.

Re: Be nice to your fellow Debian colleagues

2020-01-01 Thread Andrew McGlashan
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 On 1/1/20 1:57 am, Aron Xu wrote: > Some moments I felt quite heart broken to see Debian is at some > level of risk that the project rarely faced before. We might hold > different opinions, techinical or perceptional, such diversity is a > strength

Re: Another question for a license

2019-12-08 Thread Andrew M.A. Cater
On 08/12/2019 13:27, JungHwan Kang wrote: Hi, forks. I appreciate your previous answer to my question about the open-source licenses. May I ask another question? 1. Is it no matter who releases his Linux distribution under his license for commercially?     the distribution is made of modifie

Re: getting rid of "testing"

2019-06-26 Thread Andrew M.A. Cater
On 26/06/2019 19:58, Michael Stone wrote: > On Wed, Jun 26, 2019 at 02:23:40PM -0500, Andrej Shadura wrote: >> On Wed, 26 Jun 2019 at 14:13, Michael Stone wrote: >>> >>> On Wed, Jun 26, 2019 at 03:10:27PM +0200, Philip Hands wrote: >>> >I'm perfectly capable of typing slink when I meant stretch. 

Re: Looking for a technical writer to update the Debian Handbook

2019-05-03 Thread Andrew M.A. Cater
On 03/05/2019 12:25, Iván Alemán wrote: > Hello Raphael, > > I can help with some chapters if you don't find the technical writer. > > Will contact you directly. > > Best, > > On Fri, 3 May 2019 at 12:25, Raphael Hertzog > wrote: > > Hello, > > Roland and I

Re: Reg: Debian 9.8 version support to IntelNUC7i5BNH

2019-03-16 Thread Andrew M.A. Cater
On 15/03/2019 13:28, Srinivas Rao wrote: > > Hi Debian Devel team, > > > Currently, I working on IntelNUC7i5BNH.  I would like to use Debian > 9.8 version in IntelNUC7i5BNH. can I use Debian 9.8 version and is it > support to IntelNUC7i5BNH? > > > I have seen in the below link Debian 9.2.1 (stretc

Bug#894998: ITP: rt4-extension-rest2 -- REST2 API extension (Request Tracker)

2018-04-05 Thread Andrew Ruthven
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Andrew Ruthven * Package name: rt4-extension-rest2 Version : 1.03 Upstream Author : Best Practical Solutions * URL : https://metacpan.org/release/RT-Extension-REST2 * License : GPLv2 Programming Lang: Perl

Bug#893313: ITP: python-certbot-dns-dnsimple -- DNSimple DNS Authenticator plugin for Certbot

2018-03-17 Thread Andrew Starr-Bochicchio
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Andrew Starr-Bochicchio * Package name: python-certbot-dns-dnsimple Version : 0.22.0 Upstream Author : Certbot Project * URL : https://certbot.eff.org * License : Apache-2.0 Programming Lang: Python Description

Bug#893307: ITP: python-certbot-dns-rfc2136 -- RFC 2136 DNS Authenticator plugin for Certbot

2018-03-17 Thread Andrew Starr-Bochicchio
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Andrew Starr-Bochicchio * Package name: python-certbot-dns-rfc2136 Version : 0.22.0 Upstream Author : Certbot Project * URL : https://certbot.eff.org * License : Apache-2.0 Programming Lang: Python Description

Bug#893304: ITP: python-certbot-dns-route53 -- Route53 DNS Authenticator plugin for Certbot

2018-03-17 Thread Andrew Starr-Bochicchio
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Andrew Starr-Bochicchio * Package name: python-certbot-dns-route53 Version : 0.22.0 Upstream Author : Certbot Project * URL : https://certbot.eff.org * License : Apache-2.0 Programming Lang: Python Description

Bug#893271: ITP: python-certbot-dns-google -- a certbot plugin for validations through Google DNS

2018-03-17 Thread Andrew Starr-Bochicchio
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Andrew Starr-Bochicchio * Package name: python-certbot-dns-google Version : 0.22.0 Upstream Author : Certbot Project * URL : https://certbot.eff.org * License : Apache-2.0 Programming Lang: Python Description

Bug#889636: ITP: rt4-extension-resetpassword -- Reset Password extension (Request Tracker)

2018-02-05 Thread Andrew Ruthven
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Andrew Ruthven * Package name: rt4-extension-resetpassword Version : 1.04 Upstream Author : Best Practical Solutions * URL : https://metacpan.org/release/RT-Extension-ResetPassword * License : GPLv2 Programming Lang

Re: Bug#886927: ITP: tlog -- Terminal I/O recording and playback package.

2018-01-11 Thread Andrew Shadura
ema does, indeed, have a local format, JSON-based: { "command": null, "height": 22, "title": "demo", "duration": 37.608602, "stdout": [ [ 0.061412, "\u001b]0;\u0007$ " ], … ] ], "version": 1, "width": 80, "env": { "SHELL": "/bin/bash", "TERM": "xterm-256color" } } -- Cheers, Andrew

Re: Bug#886526: ITP: rt4-extension-commandbymail -- Change metadata of ticket via email (Request Tracker)

2018-01-07 Thread Andrew Ruthven
Hi Tollef, On Sun, 2018-01-07 at 13:29 +0100, Tollef Fog Heen wrote: > ]] Andrew Ruthven  > > > The intial packaging work has been carried but by myself for my > > employer. > > Ongoing maintenance will be by the Debian Request Tracker Group (of > > which > >

Bug#886527: ITP: rt4-extension-assets-import-csv -- Import Assets from CSV files (Request Tracker)

2018-01-07 Thread Andrew Ruthven
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Andrew Ruthven * Package name: rt4-extension-assets-import-csv Version : 2.2 Upstream Author : Best Practical Solutions, LLC * URL : https://metacpan.org/release/RT-Extension-Assets-Import-CSV * License : GPL v2

Bug#886526: ITP: rt4-extension-commandbymail -- Change metadata of ticket via email (Request Tracker)

2018-01-07 Thread Andrew Ruthven
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Andrew Ruthven * Package name: rt4-extension-commandbymail Version : 3.00 Upstream Author : Best Practical Solutions, LLC * URL : https://metacpan.org/release/RT-Extension-CommandByMail * License : GPL v2 Programming

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