Re: Salsa CI and large packages

2025-02-14 Thread Peter B
On 14/02/2025 22:10, Iustin Pop wrote: Hi, I have a package that, in the extract source step, generates very large "artifacts" - I guess this is the actual source code. And this fails, of course (https://salsa.debian.org/debian/doc-rfc/-/jobs/7091134): I raised an issue for this here https://

Re: Bits from DPL

2025-01-08 Thread Peter Pentchev
On Wed, Jan 08, 2025 at 02:59:16PM +, Luca Boccassi wrote: > On Wed, 8 Jan 2025 at 14:35, Peter Pentchev wrote: > > > > On Wed, Jan 08, 2025 at 10:19:34AM +0100, Julien Plissonneau Duquène wrote: > > > Le 2025-01-07 21:52, Peter Pentchev a écrit : > > > >

Re: Bits from DPL

2025-01-08 Thread Peter Pentchev
On Wed, Jan 08, 2025 at 10:19:34AM +0100, Julien Plissonneau Duquène wrote: > Le 2025-01-07 21:52, Peter Pentchev a écrit : > > > > Hm. That sounds interesting, but I think the Debian project cannot > > protect such a mirror from automatically bringing in non-DFSG content &g

Re: Bits from DPL

2025-01-07 Thread Peter Pentchev
An automatic mirror cannot do that. (and no, even if one says "well the responsibility is on the developer who first marked that remote repo for mirroring", no, I don't think there is a way that developer can know that, two weeks later, somebody will push bad stuff there) G

Re: Contents indices files

2024-12-18 Thread Peter Pentchev
uestion is really about reprepro, then take a look at the "Contents" option in the definition of a distribution (the conf/distributions file); putting "Contents:" on a line by itself will make reprepro generate the files. G'luck, Peter -- Peter Pentchev r...@ringlet.net

Re: Musings about Usernames in adduser and Debian

2024-12-14 Thread Peter Pentchev
On Fri, Dec 13, 2024 at 11:01:43PM -0500, Michael Stone wrote: > On Fri, Dec 13, 2024 at 07:00:36PM +0200, Peter Pentchev wrote: > > On Fri, Dec 13, 2024 at 10:08:19AM -0500, Michael Stone wrote: > > > On Fri, Dec 13, 2024 at 12:22:38PM +0100, Marc Haber wrote: > > > &g

Re: Musings about Usernames in adduser and Debian

2024-12-13 Thread Peter Pentchev
On Fri, Dec 13, 2024 at 07:00:36PM +0200, Peter Pentchev wrote: > On Fri, Dec 13, 2024 at 10:08:19AM -0500, Michael Stone wrote: > > On Fri, Dec 13, 2024 at 12:22:38PM +0100, Marc Haber wrote: > > > They are planning to remove the --badname option from useradd, making > >

Re: Musings about Usernames in adduser and Debian

2024-12-13 Thread Peter Pentchev
's not actually essential for adding a user. If you don't like the policy > that useradd sets...just don't use it. In the context of the whole thread, are you suggesting that adduser(1) should be changed to use something other than useradd(8) under the hood? G'luck, P

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

2024-11-24 Thread Peter Pentchev
ll-time DD who often wishes he would allocate more time to help with Rust packaging in Debian: go for it. (not sure if you were actually asking for lurkers to pipe in; thought I would on the off chance of "everyone who agrees is silent") G'luck, Peter -- Peter Pentchev r...@ri

Re: Program request (dosemu).

2024-11-23 Thread Peter B
osemu/dosemu_1.4.0.7%2B20130105%2Bb028d3f-2%2Bb1_amd64.deb I installed the archive version in Trixie, and it seems to be working. No problems with dependencies. Regards, Peter

Re: Musings about Usernames in adduser and Debian

2024-11-22 Thread Peter Pentchev
miliar with POSIX terms, the portable filename character set is defined as: https://pubs.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9799919799/basedefs/V1_chap03.html#tag_03_265 The set of characters from which portable filenames are constructed. A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z

Re: Simpler git workflow for packaging with upstreamless repositories

2024-11-18 Thread Peter Pentchev
a single repository :) So... yes, a simpler setup would work for some people, and it may be better for beginners. However, there are some benefits to a full repository containing both the upstream source and the Debian changes, and some people like to use them every now and then. Still, thank

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

2024-10-25 Thread Peter B
On 25/10/2024 11:49, Jonas Smedegaard wrote: If my understanding is correct, then it sounds wrong for DDs to be granted access to all Salsa projects. Hi Jonas, I was not thinking of all Salsa projects, but those that represent official packages. Cheers, Peter

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

2024-10-25 Thread Peter B
ed? I understand there is an issue whereby although uploading DDs have unrestricted access to the archive, they cannot update Salsa team repos if they are not a team member. Maybe this ought to be fixed? I can understand restricting access for DMs, but does it make sense for DDs? Regards, Peter

Re: signify and signify-openbsd names

2024-10-09 Thread Peter Pentchev
k, except for the low chance of anybody having a 1.14-7+something local version. Still, I thought I'd mention this for the more general case. And thanks for holding this discussion in the first place! G'luck, Peter -- Peter Pentchev r...@ringlet.net r...@debian.org pe...@morpheusly.com

Bug#1083079: ITP: libqt6pas -- Qt6 interface bindings for Pascal

2024-10-01 Thread Peter B
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Peter X-Debbugs-Cc: debian-devel@lists.debian.org, pe...@pblackman.plus.com, pkg-pascal-de...@alioth-lists.debian.net * Package name    : libqt6pas   Version : 1   Upstream Contact: N/A  (See URL below) * URL : https://www.lazarus

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

2024-09-25 Thread Peter Pentchev
re verbosity. > > (Please, not Python :P) > > not a big fan either, but python scores pretty high in terms of the first two > criteria above ...so lately I have found that I never write new stuff in C and Perl, preferring Rust and Python respectively. (and yes, I know Raku has strong t

Re: universal zcat ?

2024-09-09 Thread Peter Pentchev
Zutils is a collection of utilities for dealing with any combination > > of compressed and non-compressed files transparently. Currently the > > supported compressors are gzip, bzip2, lzip, xz, and zstd. There are also acat in the atool package, and bsdcat in the libarchive-tools package. G

Re: DEP-18 discussion summary (Re: Request for feedback on draft: DEP-18: Enable true open collaboration on all Debian packages)

2024-09-03 Thread Peter Blackman
close it once it is fixed? Agreed. I can't reopen it myself, buy maybe you could as reporter. Perhaps people might provide as comments further insights about the issue. More likely if its open. Regards, Peter

Re: DEP-18 discussion summary (Re: Request for feedback on draft: DEP-18: Enable true open collaboration on all Debian packages)

2024-09-03 Thread Peter B
about upcoming hardware upgrades and other improvements to address these issues at https://salsa.debian.org/salsa/support/-/issues. Which particular issue here relates to the planned hardware upgrade? Regards, Peter

Bug#1078082: ITP: python-test-tunnel -- Write tests for network tunnelling utilities

2024-08-06 Thread Peter Pentchev
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Peter Pentchev X-Debbugs-Cc: debian-devel@lists.debian.org, team+pyt...@tracker.debian.org, r...@debian.org * Package name: python-test-tunnel Version : 0.1.1 Upstream Contact: Peter Pentchev * URL : https://devel.ringlet.net

Re: Bug#1069256: debian-policy: clarify requirement for use of Static-Built-Using

2024-07-14 Thread Peter B
ttps://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=997948 Regards, Peter

Bug#1073849: ITP: python-imapclient -- easy-to-use Python IMAP client library

2024-06-19 Thread Peter Wienemann
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Peter Wienemann X-Debbugs-Cc: debian-devel@lists.debian.org Package name: python-imapclient Version : 3.0.1 Upstream Author : Menno Smits URL : https://github.com/mjs/imapclient License : BSD-3-Clause

Re: Make /tmp/ a tmpfs and cleanup /var/tmp/ on a timer by default [was: Re: systemd: tmpfiles.d not cleaning /var/tmp by default]

2024-05-30 Thread Peter Pentchev
$dirname: $!\n"; say "locked, it seems"; sleep(3600);' I only put the sleep() part so I could check using lsof that the directory was indeed locked. And yeah, the v5.10 part is a leftover from the days (...until a month or two ago...) when I still had to support st

Re: Make /tmp/ a tmpfs and cleanup /var/tmp/ on a timer by default [was: Re: systemd: tmpfiles.d not cleaning /var/tmp by default]

2024-05-07 Thread Peter Pentchev
ty, default "yes", so that it is activated on new automatically installed systems, but people who upgrade their current Debian installations can choose to keep the old behavior? I do realize that more debconf prompts are not always desirable, and such decisions must be taken on a case-by-cas

Re: Git and SHA1 collisions

2024-03-31 Thread Peter Pentchev
that not what "the second countermeasure" part was? If a first commit has ever been pushed, the second one would not be "visible". G'luck, Peter -- Peter Pentchev r...@ringlet.net r...@debian.org p...@storpool.com PGP key:http://people.FreeBSD.org/~roam/roam.ke

Re: Bug#1063380: ITP: libuio -- Linux Kernel UserspaceIO helper library

2024-03-13 Thread Peter Pentchev
On Wed, Mar 13, 2024 at 10:40:51AM +, Traut Manuel LCPF-CH wrote: > > On Thu, Mar 07, 2024 at 05:02:29PM +0200, Peter Pentchev wrote: > >> On Thu, Mar 07, 2024 at 03:25:01PM +0100, Manuel Traut wrote: > >>> On 7 Feb 2024, at 18:27, Dima Kogan wrote: >

Re: Bug#1065669: ITP: raven -- A lightweight http file upload service used for penetration testing and incident response.

2024-03-09 Thread Peter Pentchev
umbrella. > > What's the problem with > > nc -lp 80 > file > > ? > > Does this provide some sort of browser interface? To start with, raven seems to allow uploading more than one file :) The description on the project homepage lists several features such as access

Re: 64-bit time_t transition in progress in unstable

2024-03-07 Thread Peter Pentchev
g *all* of these problems and making sure none of the libraries that might cause them ever migrates to testing - this is the whole point. So yeah, thanks a lot to the drivers of this transition, to the Release Team, and to DDs (porters and otherwise) who help with that! IMHO, it is goi

Re: Bug#1063380: ITP: libuio -- Linux Kernel UserspaceIO helper library

2024-03-07 Thread Peter Pentchev
On Thu, Mar 07, 2024 at 05:02:29PM +0200, Peter Pentchev wrote: > On Thu, Mar 07, 2024 at 03:25:01PM +0100, Manuel Traut wrote: > > Hi Dima, > > > > > On 7 Feb 2024, at 18:27, Dima Kogan wrote: > > > > > > Hi. Thanks for your contribution. I looked at

Re: Bug#1063380: ITP: libuio -- Linux Kernel UserspaceIO helper library

2024-03-07 Thread Peter Pentchev
four bytes to the kernel - and they are 0, 0, 0, and... 0. So it turns out that uio_disable_irq() and uio_enable_irq() do exactly the same - send a 32-bit zero value to the kernel. Is this the expected behavior indeed? G'luck, Peter -- Peter Pentchev r...@ringlet.net r...@debian.org p...@stor

Re: Setting permissions on new users in postinst

2024-02-28 Thread Peter Pentchev
fix this? I haven't tested that, but my first attempt would be to add --no-start to the invocation of dh_installsystemd in your rules file (you may need to add an override_dh_installsystemd target to do that), and then your postinst script would look something like that: #DEBHELPER# setup f

Re: On merging bin and sbin

2024-02-28 Thread Peter Pentchev
-dev sbin localization/locales > > Are any of these (like arping) literally duplicates of the same binary for > some reason? Or are they true conflicts (different binaries with the same > name)? I don't know about many of the others (although I have my suspicions), but the two pr

Re: usrmerge breaks POSIX

2024-02-15 Thread Peter Pentchev
o > >determine whether the user is in a restricted shell, and pkexec is > >essentially a type of sudo and should be unavailable to anyone who is > >using a restricted shell. > > Ah okay, makes sense…ish (sudo does not check this). It does if one configures it to by settin

Bug#1063880: ITP: tmpwatch -- tmpwatch is a utility searches for files not accessed in a specific time and deletes them

2024-02-13 Thread Peter Hyman
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Peter Hyman X-Debbugs-Cc: debian-devel@lists.debian.org * Package name : tmpwatch Version : 2.12 * Upstream Contact: Peter Hyman URL : https://github.com/pete4abw/tmpwatch * License : GPL Programming Lang: C Description : tmpwatch is a utility searches

Re: Changes to abi=+time64 behavior (was Re: 64-bit time_t transition in progress)

2024-02-09 Thread Peter Green
So when introducing a new soname (no just a new package name), then one should move to time64 even on i386 ? The problem with doing this is that 1. A reverse dependency may depend on more than one library that uses time_t in it's API. Said reverse dependency would not be able to be sanely b

Re: Proper handling of Lintian warnings due to other packages

2024-01-30 Thread Peter Pentchev
nd in this particular case, Lauren, I *will* get around to taking a look at yours soon, honest!) G'luck, Peter -- Peter Pentchev r...@ringlet.net r...@debian.org p...@storpool.com PGP key:http://people.FreeBSD.org/~roam/roam.key.asc Key fingerprint 2EE7 A7A5 17FC 124C F115 C354 651E

Re: Proposal for how to deal with Go/Rust/etc security bugs (was: Re: Limited security support for Go/Rust? Re ssh3)

2024-01-24 Thread Peter Pentchev
w been proven through testing that some of the dependent modules are not really affected by the incompatible change. In my experience, nowadays this happens much, much more rarely than 10 or 15 years ago. I have no idea how long it will take the Rust ecosystem to realize that. I know that some of the most widely used modules have already done that, some of them have been at the same 0.x.* or even 1.* version for years (yes, really, years). So... here's hoping. G'luck, Peter -- Peter Pentchev r...@ringlet.net r...@debian.org p...@storpool.com PGP key:http://people.FreeBSD.org/~roam/roam.key.asc Key fingerprint 2EE7 A7A5 17FC 124C F115 C354 651E EFB0 2527 DF13 signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Re: Static analyzer / linter for debian/rules?

2024-01-10 Thread Peter B
On 10/01/2024 07:20, Otto Kekäläinen wrote: Hi! Is anybody aware if there is some kind of static analyzer for the `debian/rules` file? Not being aware of such a tool, I usually run 'debuild -S' Much faster than a full build.

Bug#1056605: ITP: licenserecon -- Reconcile licenses from debian/copyright against license-check

2023-11-23 Thread Peter Blackman
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Peter X-Debbugs-Cc: debian-devel@lists.debian.org, pe...@pblackman.plus.com * Package name    : licenserecon   Version : 1.0   Upstream Contact: Peter Blackman * URL : https://salsa.debian.org/PeterB/licenserecon * License

Re: Bug#1055198: ITP: lzfse -- LZFSE Compression library

2023-11-04 Thread Peter Pentchev
nd shipped in macOS > containing embedded firmwares. See asahi-fwextract ITP: #1055206 > > Regards, > Andreas Henriksson > > > [1]: > https://salsa.debian.org/bananas-team/asahi-fwextract/-/blob/debian/unstable/debian/patches/0001-Use-versioned-library-name-for-liblzfs

Re: Control header sent with done email didn't do what I expected, should it have?

2023-09-25 Thread Peter B
On 25/09/2023 14:25, Jonathan Kamens wrote: So putting a Control: line in the pseudo-header of a message sent to ###-d...@bugs.debian.org doesn't work at all? It should work if the syntax is correct. The + character was missing.

Re: Control header sent with done email didn't do what I expected, should it have?

2023-09-25 Thread Peter B
On 25/09/2023 12:16, Jonathan Kamens wrote: Hi all, I recently tried to close a bug, explain why, and set a "wontfix" tag all at once by sending my explanation to ###-d...@bugs.debian.org with "Control: tags ### wontfix" as the first line of my message body. The bug was closed but the tags co

Bug#1052135: ITP: check-build -- Check whether some example programs can be compiled and built

2023-09-17 Thread Peter Pentchev
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Peter Pentchev X-Debbugs-Cc: debian-devel@lists.debian.org, Debian Python Team , r...@debian.org * Package name: check-build Version : 0.1.0 Upstream Contact: Peter Pentchev * URL : https://gitlab.com/ppentchev/check-build

Re: [idea]: Switch default compression from "xz" to "zstd" for .deb packages

2023-09-17 Thread Peter Pentchev
hich seems to be the only way it supports multithreaded operation right now), this could be arranged - I just never thought anybody wanted that until now. G'luck, Peter -- Peter Pentchev r...@ringlet.net r...@debian.org p...@storpool.com PGP key:http://people.FreeBSD.org/~roam/roa

Re: Do not plan to support /usr/lib/pam.d for Debian pam

2023-09-15 Thread Peter Pentchev
en, if there is a default shipped in /usr, the service authentication attempts may suddenly start succeeding when the PAM packages are upgraded on an existing system. Yes, I know that the override/drop-in mechanism provides a way to do that by creating a /dev/null override symlink, but the sysad

Re: Bug#1050005: ITP: pdftopng -- Convert PDF to PNG

2023-08-22 Thread Peter Pentchev
package, that the "Python library" part may be important: the upstream authors of the other project may have decided to use it, as a Python library, instead of fiddling with child process management by themselves. G'luck, Peter -- Peter Pentchev r...@ringlet.net r...@debian.org p...@storpool.com PGP key:http://people.FreeBSD.org/~roam/roam.key.asc Key fingerprint 2EE7 A7A5 17FC 124C F115 C354 651E EFB0 2527 DF13 signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Re: autodep8 test for C/C++ header

2023-08-07 Thread Peter Pentchev
ight now. So... yeah. Thanks for your work, I know you mean well and you are trying to make the life of Debian developers better, but this particular approach will likely fail on a non-trivial set of Debian -dev packages. G'luck, Peter -- Peter Pentchev r...@ringlet.net r...@debian.org p.

Bug#1042088: ITP: lrzip-next -- lrzip-next is an enhanced version of the lrzip package with many new features.

2023-07-26 Thread Peter Hyman
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Peter Hyman X-Debbugs-Cc: debian-devel@lists.debian.org * Package name : lrzip-next * Version : 0.12.0 * Upstream Contact: Peter Hyman * URL : https://github.com/pete4abw/lrzip-next * License : GPL * Programming Lang: C, C++, Assembler, Bash Shell

Re: Proposed MBF - removal of pcre3 by Bookworm

2023-07-02 Thread Peter Pentchev
reating and testing patches for this transition. > Marking removal is too much. On the other hand, the bugs have been open for an year and a half now... G'luck, Peter -- Peter Pentchev r...@ringlet.net r...@debian.org p...@storpool.com PGP key:http://people.FreeBSD.org/~roa

Re: FTBFS (reprotest) on all recent uploads

2023-06-20 Thread Peter B
On 20/06/2023 05:31, Joachim Zobel wrote: I can see two logs of successful builds and a diff for them. Looks to me like the 2nd build is aborting.     .. I: Building the package I: user script /srv/workspace/pbuilder/1086848/tmp/hooks/A99_set_merged_usr starting Re-configuring usrmerge

Re: 64-bit time_t transition for 32-bit archs: a proposal

2023-06-07 Thread Peter Van Eynde
onment). x86 is the last active architecture for this system, but as a whole it is slowly drying. Most people moved on to using sbcl, which supports amd64 and has a more active development. I planned to ask for removal of cmucl after the next release. End of an era... Best regards, Peter

Bug#1035883: general: TMOUT and autologout are set to 3600, but logout occurs much earlier

2023-05-20 Thread Peter Wienemann
session or a shell session? TMOUT only controls the time-out of shell sessions. Best regards, Peter

Re: Bug#1035904: dpkg currently warning about merged-usr systems (revisited)

2023-05-14 Thread Peter Pentchev
/snaps exactly for that reason. But nothing do with > anything discussed here though, as far as I can tell? If an ELF executable, compiled on Debian, records its interpreter as /usr/lib/ld-linux.so.2, what happens when one tries to run it on a non-usr-merged system? Even one wi

Bug#1035747: ITP: cevomapgen -- External Map Generator for C-Evo

2023-05-08 Thread Peter Blackman
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Peter X-Debbugs-Cc: debian-devel@lists.debian.org, pe...@pblackman.plus.com * Package name    : cevomapgen   Version : 26   Upstream Contact: * URL : https://sourceforge.net/projects/cevomapgen/ * License : GPL3+   Programming

Bug#1035103: ITP: cdreaper -- Graphical audio CD ripper and encoder

2023-04-29 Thread Peter Blackman
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Peter X-Debbugs-Cc: debian-devel@lists.debian.org, pe...@pblackman.plus.com * Package name    : cdreaper   Version : 3.0.0   Upstream Contact: Salamandar * URL : https://gitlab.gnome.org/Salamandar/Reaper * License : GPL2

Re: Upgrade package from init script to Systemd, move config folder

2023-04-27 Thread Peter Pentchev
ay (consciously or not) learn to ignore it. I think a one-time notification via a (Debian) NEWS entry would be a better choice. G'luck, Peter -- Peter Pentchev r...@ringlet.net r...@debian.org p...@storpool.com PGP key:http://people.FreeBSD.org/~roam/roam.key.asc Key fingerprint 2EE7 A7A5 17FC 124C F115 C354 651E EFB0 2527 DF13 signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Re: Help with a libzstd sparc64 FTBFS on the buildd

2023-04-06 Thread Peter Pentchev
On Thu, Apr 06, 2023 at 05:01:07PM +0200, Paul Gevers wrote: > Hi Peter, > > On 06-04-2023 15:37, Peter Pentchev wrote: > > I feel like I cannot ask for an unblock from the release > > managers since the sparc64 buildd started failing on this package > > at some point i

Re: Help with a libzstd sparc64 FTBFS on the buildd

2023-04-06 Thread Peter Pentchev
On Thu, Apr 06, 2023 at 04:37:16PM +0300, Peter Pentchev wrote: > Hi, > > The libzstd package in testing is currently missing a couple of > build-time tests and a fix for a very rare data corruption bug. > Both of these have been fixed in libstd-1.5.4+dfsg2-5 in unstable; ..

Help with a libzstd sparc64 FTBFS on the buildd

2023-04-06 Thread Peter Pentchev
ully. Is it possible that something is wrong with the sparc64 buildd? Could somebody with an actual sparc64 box try to build libstd-1.5.4+dfsg2-5 and let me know if it works for them? Thanks in advance! G'luck, Peter -- Peter Pentchev r...@ringlet.net r...@debian.org p...@storpool.co

Re: Introducing Declarative Debian

2023-04-05 Thread Peter Pentchev
" pledge is hard enough, but doing it as a good phishing campaign with a large chance of success makes it a lot harder. G'luck, Peter -- Peter Pentchev r...@ringlet.net r...@debian.org p...@storpool.com PGP key:http://people.FreeBSD.org/~roam/roam.key.asc Key fingerprint 2EE7 A7A5 17FC 124C F115 C354 651E EFB0 2527 DF13 signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Re: dh_auto_test: use check target instead of the test target

2023-03-28 Thread Peter Pentchev
dh_auto_test: dh_auto_test -- check (any arguments after the ones that the debhelper tools understand will be passed right on through to the build tools that they execute) G'luck, Peter -- Peter Pentchev r...@ringlet.net r...@debian.org p...@storpool.com PGP key:http://people.

Bug#1033413: ITP: profile-cleaner -- Reduces browser profile size by cleaning their sqlite databases

2023-03-24 Thread Peter Blackman
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Peter X-Debbugs-Cc: debian-devel@lists.debian.org, pe...@pblackman.plus.com * Package name    : profile-cleaner   Version : 2.44 * URL : https://github.com/graysky2/profile-cleaner * License : Expat   Programming Lang: Bash

Re: Adding epoch to kworkflow package to correct a wrong upstream version

2023-03-12 Thread Peter Wienemann
Dear IOhannes, On 12.03.23 18:48, IOhannes m zmölnig wrote: Could lintian warn when a date based version is used? Lintian already does this - see [0]. Best regards, Peter [0] https://salsa.debian.org/lintian/lintian/-/blob/f03fc15a45df4965e374b1e3a40c51cf6fe545ed/tags/n/new-package-uses

Re: Yearless copyrights: what do people think?

2023-02-22 Thread Peter Pentchev
On Wed, Feb 22, 2023 at 03:26:47PM +0200, Peter Pentchev wrote: > On Wed, Feb 22, 2023 at 01:55:02PM +0100, Jonas Smedegaard wrote: > > Quoting Peter Pentchev (2023-02-22 10:49:30) > > > So I've seen this idea floating around in the past couple of years > > > (and i

Re: Yearless copyrights: what do people think?

2023-02-22 Thread Peter Pentchev
On Wed, Feb 22, 2023 at 01:55:02PM +0100, Jonas Smedegaard wrote: > Quoting Peter Pentchev (2023-02-22 10:49:30) > > So I've seen this idea floating around in the past couple of years > > (and in some places even earlier), but I started doing it for > > the couple of pi

Yearless copyrights: what do people think?

2023-02-22 Thread Peter Pentchev
Thanks for reading this far, and keep up the great work! G'luck, Peter -- Peter Pentchev r...@ringlet.net r...@debian.org p...@storpool.com PGP key:http://people.FreeBSD.org/~roam/roam.key.asc Key fingerprint 2EE7 A7A5 17FC 124C F115 C354 651E EFB0 2527 DF13 signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Re: Bug#1030785: -ffile-prefix-map option and reproducibility

2023-02-14 Thread Peter Pentchev
On Tue, Feb 14, 2023 at 09:51:50AM +, Simon McVittie wrote: > On Tue, 14 Feb 2023 at 10:21:31 +0200, Peter Pentchev wrote: > > I can't speak of many other systems, but at least with Perl's XS > > (the standard way to write Perl modules parts of which are compiled C

Re: Bug#1030785: -ffile-prefix-map option and reproducibility

2023-02-14 Thread Peter Pentchev
s for that. [2] Well, okay, that's not strictly true, since the binary called "gcc" now may not be the same that was provided by the C compiler package a couple of months ago, but it ought to be guaranteed to generate compatible code and object files. So yeah, I'

Bug#1030757: ITP: python-parse-stages -- Parse a mini-language for selecting objects by tag or name

2023-02-07 Thread Peter Pentchev
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Peter Pentchev X-Debbugs-Cc: debian-devel@lists.debian.org, team+pyt...@tracker.debian.org, r...@debian.org * Package name: python-parse-stages Version : 0.1.1 Upstream Contact: Peter Pentchev * URL : https://gitlab.com

Bug#1030756: ITP: python-test-stages -- Run Tox, Nox, etc. tests in groups, stopping on errors

2023-02-07 Thread Peter Pentchev
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Peter Pentchev X-Debbugs-Cc: debian-devel@lists.debian.org, team+pyt...@tracker.debian.org, r...@debian.org * Package name: python-test-stages Version : 0.1.1 Upstream Contact: Peter Pentchev * URL : https://gitlab.com

Re: Does removal of global variables from a library break C ABI?

2023-01-18 Thread Peter Pentchev
using those symbols. JFTR (I'm pretty sure that both Scott and Russ know this), https://sources.debian.org/ can help one figure out whether some other Debian package uses them. G'luck, Peter -- Peter Pentchev r...@ringlet.net r...@debian.org p...@storpool.com PGP key:http://p

Re: need we support unshadowed passwords from the installer

2023-01-14 Thread Peter Pentchev
On Sat, Jan 14, 2023 at 02:11:00PM +0200, Peter Pentchev wrote: > On Fri, Jan 13, 2023 at 09:11:40PM -0500, nick black wrote: > > it's 2023 and imho time to stop supporting unshadowed passwords > > from the installer. > > > > https://salsa.debian.org/installer-te

Re: need we support unshadowed passwords from the installer

2023-01-14 Thread Peter Pentchev
s 2. i just don't think this belongs in the > installer anymore. I know what NIS/YP is, I know of a couple of places where it is still in use, and, as Mark Haber said, the people running those places know how to find and flip a switch. G'luck, Peter -- Peter Pentchev r...@ringle

Discrepancies between packages.d.o and tracker.d.o

2023-01-11 Thread Peter Wienemann
something went out-of-sync. Best regards, Peter [0] https://packages.debian.org/search?keywords=thunderbird&searchon=names&suite=all [1] https://tracker.debian.org/pkg/thunderbird [2] https://packages.debian.org/source/stable-security/thunderbird [3] https://packages.debian.org/source/o

Re: setting sysctl net.ipv4.ping_group_range

2023-01-02 Thread Peter Pentchev
ot;ping is not setuid" default, then mention that debconf setting in a comment in the file that the package installs in the sysctl.d/ directory. Other than that, I think making ping not setuid is a great idea. G'luck, Peter -- Peter Pentchev r...@ringlet.net r...@debian.org p.

Re: Build libzstd using cmake; add a non-cmake build profile?

2022-12-27 Thread Peter Pentchev
have autopkgtests that compile trivial programs for other library packages, I don't know why I didn't add one (and now, it seems, at least two) for libzstd when I adopted it. Thanks again for the idea! Once again, thanks to everyone for the relevant critique and helpful suggestions! G

Re: Build libzstd using cmake; add a non-cmake build profile?

2022-12-26 Thread Peter Pentchev
On Mon, Dec 26, 2022 at 02:00:31PM +0100, Andrea Pappacoda wrote: > Il giorno lun 26 dic 2022 alle 08:37:51 +02:00:00, Peter Pentchev > ha scritto: > > In #1020403 there is a request to install the CMake build glue for > > the zstd library in its -dev package. I think that this

Re: Build libzstd using cmake; add a non-cmake build profile?

2022-12-26 Thread Peter Pentchev
On Mon, Dec 26, 2022 at 08:37:51AM +0200, Peter Pentchev wrote: > Hi, > > In #1020403 there is a request to install the CMake build glue for > the zstd library in its -dev package. I think that this is a good > idea, and I have a pretty much ready-for-uploading set of changes >

Build libzstd using cmake; add a non-cmake build profile?

2022-12-25 Thread Peter Pentchev
ry. That's not a big hurdle; if people say that this is the way to go, then this is what will be done. Many thanks to all the people who keep working on all the tools and toolchains that make this message make sense at all! G'luck, Peter -- Peter Pentchev r...@ringlet.n

Re: my package uploads silently rejected

2022-11-30 Thread Peter B
On 30/11/2022 14:03, Jonas Smedegaard wrote: Hi, I am unable to succesfully dput packages. Most likely the cause is my too late updating my PGP key expiry date - but that should be solved by now, and I am unable to figure out how to debug the problem or whom to contact about it. I patiently wa

Debhelper issue on various architectures

2022-11-21 Thread Peter Wienemann
nts pointing towards the underlying issue are appreciated. Best regards, Peter [0] https://tracker.debian.org/pkg/charliecloud [1] https://salsa.debian.org/hpc-team/charliecloud/-/jobs/3544125 [2] https://salsa.debian.org/hpc-team/charliecloud/-/jobs/3544126 [3] https://buildd.debian.org/

Re: Q: Uploading huge size package and memory concern with running lintian

2022-11-13 Thread Peter Pentchev
in this: (an older version of) the unidic-mecab package is already in the Debian archive. This is not about a new package, but a package update. G'luck, Peter -- Peter Pentchev r...@ringlet.net r...@debian.org p...@storpool.com PGP key:http://people.FreeBSD.org/~roam/roam.key.a

Re: Firmware GR result - what happens next?

2022-10-14 Thread Peter Pentchev
g 5.? Do you mean having packages with the same names, but different versions (even if only Debian revisions) and totally different contents, and also built from different source packages, in different sections of the same suite in the archive?... I'm... I'm not sure this would work

Bug#1015863: ITP: qt6ct -- Qt6 Configuration Tool

2022-07-22 Thread Peter B
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist X-Debbugs-Cc: debian-devel@lists.debian.org, pe...@pblackman.plus.com Owner: pe...@pblackman.plus.com * Package name    : qt6ct   Version : 0.5-1   Upstream Author : Ilya Kotov * URL : https://github.com/trialuser02/qt6ct * License : B

Re: popularity-contest: support for XB-Popcon-Reports: no

2022-05-04 Thread Peter
On 04/05/2022 19:43, Russ Allbery wrote: I don't know if it currently does this, but it would be useful for popcon to show counts for public third-party packages that aren't in the archive. See https://popcon.debian.org/unknown/by_recent Cheers, Peter

Debian doesn't have a "core team", should it? can it?

2022-04-10 Thread Peter Michael Green
Recently andreas-tille sent the following message about libzstd to debian-devel I'd like to repeat that I'm really convinced that libzstd should *not* be maintained in the Debian Med team but rather some core team in Debian. It is here for historic reasons but should have moved somewhere more

Bug#1008207: ITP: remrun -- copy a file to a remote host and execute it there

2022-03-24 Thread Peter Pentchev
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Peter Pentchev X-Debbugs-Cc: debian-devel@lists.debian.org, r...@ringlet.net * Package name: remrun Version : 0.2.0 Upstream Author : Peter Pentchev * URL : https://gitlab.com/ppentchev/remrun/ * License : BSD-2-clause

Re: libzstd should not be maintained by Debian Med team - could some core team please take over (Was: libzstd 1.5.2 in Debian)

2022-03-20 Thread Peter Pentchev
On Mon, Mar 14, 2022 at 05:11:07PM +0100, Andreas Tille wrote: > Hi Peter, > > Am Mon, Feb 21, 2022 at 07:40:26PM +0200 schrieb Peter Pentchev: > > > there was a (private) request to upgrade libzstd to latest 1.5.2. > > > > > > I'd like to repeat that

Re: Debian DSA-5095-1 : linux - security update

2022-03-17 Thread Peter Wienemann
t regards, Peter

Bug#1006606: ITP: python-cfg-diag -- common configuration-storage class with a .diag() method

2022-02-28 Thread Peter Pentchev
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Peter Pentchev X-Debbugs-Cc: debian-devel@lists.debian.org, debian-pyt...@lists.debian.org, r...@debian.org * Package name: python-cfg-diag Version : 0.2.0 Upstream Author : Peter Pentchev * URL : https://github.com/storpool

Re: libzstd should not be maintained by Debian Med team - could some core team please take over (Was: libzstd 1.5.2 in Debian)

2022-02-21 Thread Peter Pentchev
ill try to do that in the next couple of days. Apologies for the months of delay, and thanks a lot for all of your team's work! G'luck, Peter -- Peter Pentchev r...@ringlet.net r...@debian.org p...@storpool.com PGP key:http://people.FreeBSD.org/~roam/roam.key.asc Key fingerp

Bug#1006178: ITP: tox-delay -- run some Tox tests after others have completed

2022-02-20 Thread Peter Pentchev
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Peter Pentchev X-Debbugs-Cc: debian-devel@lists.debian.org, r...@debian.org * Package name: tox-delay Version : 0.1.0 Upstream Author : Peter Pentchev * URL : https://devel.ringlet.net/devel/tox-delay/ * License : BSD-2

Bug#1005131: ITP: utf8-locale -- detect a UTF-8-capable locale for running child processes in

2022-02-07 Thread Peter Pentchev
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Peter Pentchev X-Debbugs-Cc: debian-devel@lists.debian.org, r...@debian.org * Package name: utf8-locale Version : 0.2.0 Upstream Author : Peter Pentchev * URL : https://gitlab.com/ppentchev/utf8-locale * License : BSD-2

Re: Adding new language/locale to system via a graphical interface

2022-01-02 Thread Peter Pentchev
ND=gnome after installing the libgtk3-perl package ought to work, and it seems to work for me: sudo env DEBIAN_FRONTEND=gnome dpkg-reconfigure locales ...brings up a GTK+ interface. G'luck, Peter -- Peter Pentchev r...@ringlet.net r...@debian.org p...@storpool.com PGP key:http://peo

Bug#1001612: ITP: deltarpm -- Tools to create and apply deltarpms

2021-12-12 Thread Peter Pentchev
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Peter Pentchev X-Debbugs-Cc: debian-devel@lists.debian.org, r...@debian.org, team+pkg-...@tracker.debian.org * Package name: deltarpm Version : 3.6.3 Upstream Author : Michael Schroeder * URL : https://github.com/rpm-software

Status of weekly live builds

2021-11-29 Thread Peter Wienemann
Dear all, I've just noticed that the weekly live builds (both the free ones [0] and the unofficial non-free ones [1]) have not been updated since August 9, 2021. Is this on purpose or did some machinery get stuck? Best regards, Peter [0] https://cdimage.debian.org/cdimage/weekly

Re: Mapping Reproducibility Bug Reports to Commits

2021-11-14 Thread peter green
I am a researcher at the University of Waterloo, conducting a project to study reproducibility issues in Debian packages. The first step for me is to link each Reproducibility-related bug at this link: https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/pkgreport.cgi?usertag=reproducible-bui...@lists.alioth.debia

Re: Debian's branches and release model

2021-10-19 Thread Peter Hoist
> > https://wiki.debian.org/ReleaseProposals > Great list, contains a lot of what I have to say. The fact that debian is laser focused on stable, and does not officially encourage using testing as a rolling release (as evidenced from a couple replies to this email chain), yet there are still peop

Debian's branches and release model

2021-10-18 Thread Peter Hoist
Hi, I am enjoying Debian's testing branch as a reasonably stable and up-to-date 'rolling' release, and I have to say it satisfies all my desires, almost. The one thing that bothers me is that every two years, the unstable/testing branches are frozen to certain extent because of the stable releases

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