Re: Re: Removing more packages from unstable

2024-10-11 Thread Rahi Imran
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Re: Removing more packages from unstable

2024-08-22 Thread Andrey Rakhmatullin
On Wed, Aug 21, 2024 at 08:40:15PM +, weepingclown wrote: > I believe at least some of these packages were probably packaged as > dependencies for packaging lazygit. I am not sure which all, but I > remember atleast gocui, pty and termbox-go to be needed by lazygit in > one way or another. Ther

Re: Removing more packages from unstable

2024-08-22 Thread Nilesh Patra
On Wed, Aug 21, 2024 at 08:40:15PM +, weepingclown wrote: > Hi, > > I believe at least some of these packages were probably packaged as > dependencies for packaging lazygit. I am not sure which all, but I remember > atleast gocui, pty and termbox-go to be needed by lazygit in one way or > a

Re: Removing more packages from unstable

2024-08-22 Thread Andreas Tille
Am Tue, Aug 20, 2024 at 11:09:31AM +0200 schrieb Helmut Grohne: > > I considered adding popcon to the criteria before hitting send. In the > end, I opted for not including it based on my own cost/benefit analysis. > While popcon may be a signal for the benefit-of-keeping aspect, it > provides litt

Re: Removing more packages from unstable

2024-08-22 Thread Andreas Tille
Hi, Am Tue, Aug 20, 2024 at 02:51:49PM +0900 schrieb Simon Richter: > > enigmail > > Thunderbird has native GPG support now, including (well-hidden) support for > calling into the installed gpg binary to use a smartcard. > > > mutextrace > > Oof, I should fix that finally, because in principle

Re: Removing more packages from unstable

2024-08-22 Thread Paul Gevers
Hi helmut, +1 On 20-08-2024 07:28, Helmut Grohne wrote: * As packages fail to migrate to testing for a long time, a release team member eventually looks at the package. I recognize myself here. But to be totally fair, that's *mostly* about testing, and we have processes for that. Once

Re: Removing more packages from unstable

2024-08-21 Thread Helmut Grohne
Hi Johannes and Bastian, On Tue, Aug 20, 2024 at 10:35:47AM +0200, Bastian Venthur wrote: > On 20.08.24 07:55, Johannes Schauer Marin Rodrigues wrote: > > Hi, > [...] > > if I remember correctly, a package can also become a key package by having a > > high-enough popcon value. If that is correct,

Re: Removing more packages from unstable

2024-08-21 Thread Hector Oron
Hello Andrey, On Wed, 21 Aug 2024 at 16:08, Andrey Rakhmatullin wrote: > > I have also been wondering if we could take a different approach for > > packaging libraries for language ecosystems that already have > > packaging managers to play nicer with Debian packaging > > maintainability. I find

Re: Removing more packages from unstable

2024-08-21 Thread Héctor Orón Martínez
Hi Salvo, On Wed, 21 Aug 2024 at 16:19, Salvo Tomaselli wrote: > > > maintainability. I find myself when I need to use such libraries I > > need to build my own bundle to support specific applications since > > Debian packaged versions don't tend to work well with the application > > (the same is

Re: Removing more packages from unstable

2024-08-21 Thread Chris Hofstaedtler
* Scott Kitterman [240820 14:35]: > On August 20, 2024 12:16:47 PM UTC, Andrey Rakhmatullin > wrote: > >On Tue, Aug 20, 2024 at 12:12:33PM +, Scott Kitterman wrote: > >> There are people doing this, we could use more, but it does > >> happen. I've processed lots of these and it's virtually

Re: Removing more packages from unstable

2024-08-21 Thread weepingclown
On 21 August 2024 3:22:16 pm UTC, Nilesh Patra wrote: >My last installation of Debian on a laptop was approximately 1.5 years ago and >it was off by default. It asked me if I want to enable it or not. > >Did that change recently in D-I? > I don't think it did. I have had a bunch of reinstallation

Re: Removing more packages from unstable

2024-08-21 Thread weepingclown
Hi, I believe at least some of these packages were probably packaged as dependencies for packaging lazygit. I am not sure which all, but I remember atleast gocui, pty and termbox-go to be needed by lazygit in one way or another. There has been further work on packaging lazygit towards the end o

Re: Removing more packages from unstable

2024-08-21 Thread Steve McIntyre
Noah wrote: >On Tue, Aug 20, 2024 at 11:09:51AM +0200, Bastian Venthur wrote: >> I think popcon does give a good approximation of how much percent of people >> installed a certain package even if not everyone uses it, don't you agree? > >No, definitely not. There are hundreds of thousands of Debia

Re: Removing more packages from unstable

2024-08-21 Thread Nilesh Patra
On Tue, Aug 20, 2024 at 11:09:51AM +0200, Bastian Venthur wrote: > I think popcon does give a good approximation of how much percent of people > installed a certain package even if not everyone uses it, don't you agree? > > Last time I installed Debian it was still enabled by default. When was it

Re: Removing more packages from unstable

2024-08-21 Thread Noah Meyerhans
On Tue, Aug 20, 2024 at 11:09:51AM +0200, Bastian Venthur wrote: > I think popcon does give a good approximation of how much percent of people > installed a certain package even if not everyone uses it, don't you agree? No, definitely not. There are hundreds of thousands of Debian systems running

Re: Removing more packages from unstable

2024-08-21 Thread Andrey Rakhmatullin
On Wed, Aug 21, 2024 at 03:39:11PM +0200, Héctor Orón Martínez wrote: > I am surprised to not see more of those packages in the list, there > are many packages in those ecosystems with popcon between 1-10 users. popcon wasn't used when building this list though (even via the key packages condition

Re: Removing more packages from unstable

2024-08-21 Thread Héctor Orón Martínez
Hello Helmut, Thanks for starting this topic. On Tue, 20 Aug 2024 at 07:29, Helmut Grohne wrote: > golang-github-bsm-pool > golang-github-coreos-go-tspi > golang-github-crewjam-saml > golang-github-form3tech-oss-jwt-go > golang-github-go-redis-redis > golang-github-jesseduffield-asciigraph > go

Re: Removing more packages from unstable

2024-08-21 Thread Andrey Rakhmatullin
On Wed, Aug 21, 2024 at 10:06:38AM +, Holger Levsen wrote: > Hi, > > I also like us to remove more broken and unused packages from unstable. > > On Tue, Aug 20, 2024 at 11:20:10AM +0200, Lucas Nussbaum wrote: > > Maybe we could also reduce the cost of removals for users and potential > > new

Re: Removing more packages from unstable

2024-08-21 Thread Holger Levsen
Hi, I also like us to remove more broken and unused packages from unstable. On Tue, Aug 20, 2024 at 11:20:10AM +0200, Lucas Nussbaum wrote: > Maybe we could also reduce the cost of removals for users and potential > new maintainers, by improving the information provided in various places > on how

Re: Removing more packages from unstable

2024-08-21 Thread nick black
Helmut Grohne left as an exercise for the reader: > notcurses i need decide whether i'm putting out a new upstream release with ffmpeg 7 support, or whether i ought patch it in debian (thanks to sebastian ramacher for originally bringing the issue to my attention). i suppose i can do the latter no

Re: Removing more packages from unstable

2024-08-20 Thread Charles Plessy
Le Tue, Aug 20, 2024 at 07:28:52AM +0200, Helmut Grohne a écrit : > > please allow me to open a can of worms. Package removal from unstable. Hi all, I think that package removal from Unstable, total or partial (for instance, 32-bit architectures) should be an automated self-sevice system for lea

Re: Removing more packages from unstable

2024-08-20 Thread Scott Kitterman
On August 20, 2024 12:16:47 PM UTC, Andrey Rakhmatullin wrote: >On Tue, Aug 20, 2024 at 12:12:33PM +, Scott Kitterman wrote: >> >Removing packages that aren't formally orphaned always sounds too bold to >> >me, though it should be fine if we formalize a process (any process) for >> >that. >

Re: Removing more packages from unstable

2024-08-20 Thread Andrey Rakhmatullin
On Tue, Aug 20, 2024 at 12:12:33PM +, Scott Kitterman wrote: > >Removing packages that aren't formally orphaned always sounds too bold to > >me, though it should be fine if we formalize a process (any process) for > >that. > > > The process currently is file an rm but against ftp.debian.org for

Re: Removing more packages from unstable

2024-08-20 Thread Scott Kitterman
On August 20, 2024 7:46:05 AM UTC, Andrey Rakhmatullin wrote: >On Tue, Aug 20, 2024 at 07:28:52AM +0200, Helmut Grohne wrote: >> please allow me to open a can of worms. Package removal from unstable. >> Deciding when it is time to remove a package from unstable is difficult. >> There may be use

Re: Removing more packages from unstable

2024-08-20 Thread Simon Richter
Hi, On 8/20/24 18:09, Bastian Venthur wrote: That's what I thought too: we should somehow incorporate the popcon value. I disagree -- the users most affected by a removal are those who automate installation, and those will not be running popcon. Can you elaborate on that claim? I probably mi

Re: Removing more packages from unstable

2024-08-20 Thread Lucas Nussbaum
Hi, On 20/08/24 at 07:28 +0200, Helmut Grohne wrote: > There are various QA-related teams looking at packages from other > maintainers. When it trips a check, that often incurs time from some QA > person investigating a report or failure. Examples: > * Lucas Nussbaum, Santiago Vila and a few more

Re: Removing more packages from unstable

2024-08-20 Thread Andreas Metzler
On 2024-08-20 Helmut Grohne wrote: > Hi fellow developers, > (modified resend, as first attempt didn't arrive) > please allow me to open a can of worms. Package removal from unstable. > Deciding when it is time to remove a package from unstable is difficult. > There may be users still and it is

Re: Removing more packages from unstable

2024-08-20 Thread Andrey Rakhmatullin
On Tue, Aug 20, 2024 at 11:09:51AM +0200, Bastian Venthur wrote: > I think popcon does give a good approximation of how much percent of people > installed a certain package even if not everyone uses it, don't you agree? > > Last time I installed Debian it was still enabled by default. Was it? (t

Re: Removing more packages from unstable

2024-08-20 Thread Bastian Venthur
On 20.08.24 10:45, Simon Richter wrote: Hi, On 8/20/24 17:35, Bastian Venthur wrote: That's what I thought too: we should somehow incorporate the popcon value. I disagree -- the users most affected by a removal are those who automate installation, and those will not be running popcon. Can y

Re: Removing more packages from unstable

2024-08-20 Thread Simon Richter
Hi, On 8/20/24 17:35, Bastian Venthur wrote: That's what I thought too: we should somehow incorporate the popcon value. I disagree -- the users most affected by a removal are those who automate installation, and those will not be running popcon. Popcon was introduced to determine which pac

Re: Removing more packages from unstable

2024-08-20 Thread Bastian Venthur
On 20.08.24 07:55, Johannes Schauer Marin Rodrigues wrote: Hi, [...] if I remember correctly, a package can also become a key package by having a high-enough popcon value. If that is correct, maybe there should also be the inverse. Looking at your list, about 85% of those packages have a popcon

Re: Removing more packages from unstable

2024-08-20 Thread Niels Thykier
Helmut Grohne: Hi fellow developers, (modified resend, as first attempt didn't arrive) please allow me to open a can of worms. Package removal from unstable. Deciding when it is time to remove a package from unstable is difficult. There may be users still and it is unclear whether keeping the p

Re: Removing more packages from unstable

2024-08-20 Thread Andrey Rakhmatullin
On Tue, Aug 20, 2024 at 07:28:52AM +0200, Helmut Grohne wrote: > please allow me to open a can of worms. Package removal from unstable. > Deciding when it is time to remove a package from unstable is difficult. > There may be users still and it is unclear whether keeping the package > imposes a cos

Re: Removing more packages from unstable

2024-08-19 Thread David Prévot
Hi, On 20/08/2024 07:28, Helmut Grohne wrote: […] What does a package cost? [ a lot ] What does package removal cost? […] Sometimes, packages are reintroduced. Doing so incurs a pass through NEW (and review by the ftp team). […] That’s the main reason why I usually keep packages around

Re: Removing more packages from unstable

2024-08-19 Thread Johannes Schauer Marin Rodrigues
Hi, Quoting Helmut Grohne (2024-08-20 07:28:52) > What do you think about the proposed criteria and suggested set of source > packages? Is it reasonable to remove these packages from unstable? In a > sense, it is extending the idea of the testing auto remover to unstable. > Similarly, a package ca

Re: Removing more packages from unstable

2024-08-19 Thread Simon Richter
Hi, On 8/20/24 14:28, Helmut Grohne wrote: enigmail Thunderbird has native GPG support now, including (well-hidden) support for calling into the installed gpg binary to use a smartcard. mutextrace Oof, I should fix that finally, because in principle a debugging layer to find lock hiera