New lintian warnings helping to detect FTBFS and license violation

2018-06-02 Thread Bastien ROUCARIÈS
Hi, Newest lintian will detect a few new problems in our package. It will first detect minified javascript/css embedded in html file (source only). It it possible to avoid this warning by creating a symlink to source or adding source under debian/missing-source/$nameoffile.fragment (better nam

Feedback request about the Alba Upstream to Debian packaging effort

2018-06-02 Thread PICCA Frederic-Emmanuel
Hello, the Alba[1] synchrotron radiation facilities, recently switch to Debian for their OS. They are part of the Tango[2] control system community which contain most of the European Synchrotron Radiation Facilities and others[3]. At least three instituts have already choosen Debian (partially Sol

Re: [good new]Type 1 font hinting is now free software

2018-06-02 Thread Marco d'Itri
On Jun 01, Bastien ROUCARIÈS wrote: > The license choosen by adobe is unfortunalty apache 2 and thus not compatible > with GPL2 only. In which cases this would be relevant? -- ciao, Marco signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Re: packages which have not been rebuild since December 2016

2018-06-02 Thread Emilio Pozuelo Monfort
On 01-06-18 16:32, Chris Lamb wrote: > … wouldn't we just binNMU these? There are many packages in your list that are arch:all only, and those can't be binNMU'ed. Still I'm not sure we can do some several thousand binNMUs. But that number could get reduced due to maintainer uploads and binNMUs due

Re: [good new]Type 1 font hinting is now free software

2018-06-02 Thread Bastien ROUCARIES
On Fri, Jun 1, 2018 at 10:35 PM, Marco d'Itri wrote: > On Jun 01, Bastien ROUCARIÈS wrote: > >> The license choosen by adobe is unfortunalty apache 2 and thus not compatible >> with GPL2 only. > In which cases this would be relevant? If font is GPL2 only, is type 1 and use font hinting it is a

Re: packages which have not been rebuild since December 2016

2018-06-02 Thread Holger Levsen
On Sat, Jun 02, 2018 at 10:36:58AM +0200, Emilio Pozuelo Monfort wrote: > On 01-06-18 16:32, Chris Lamb wrote: > > … wouldn't we just binNMU these? > There are many packages in your list that are arch:all only, and those can't > be > binNMU'ed. Still I'm not sure we can do some several thousand bi

Re: path to gitlab upstream

2018-06-02 Thread Ian Jackson
Geert Stappers writes ("path to gitlab upstream"): > There is https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab-ce/ > It has currently 10,712 issues and 595 merge requests. > > About the issues: Open: 10,712 Closed: 25,941 All: 36,653 > MR: Open: 595 Merged: 15,906 Closed 2,696 All: 19,198 > > That tel

Re: Feedback request about the Alba Upstream to Debian packaging effort

2018-06-02 Thread Ian Jackson
PICCA Frederic-Emmanuel writes ("Feedback request about the Alba Upstream to Debian packaging effort"): > Since I am not at all a specialist of gitlab-ci, I would like your > advice on the pipeline, and also on the numbering scheme propose by > Alba. In fact all feedback which should smooth the up

Re: New lintian warnings helping to detect FTBFS and license violation

2018-06-02 Thread Sean Whitton
Hello Bastien and others, On Sat, Jun 02 2018, Bastien ROUCARIÈS wrote: > It will first detect minified javascript/css embedded in html file > (source only). It it possible to avoid this warning by creating a > symlink > to source or adding source under > debian/missing-source/$nameoffile.fragm

Re: path to gitlab upstream

2018-06-02 Thread Jonathan Carter
On 02/06/2018 15:25, Ian Jackson wrote: >> That tells me that a Merge Request has a better success ratio. >> Also that it is wise to keep notes of the MR number :-/ > > I doubt it would be sensible for me to (probably incompetently) > reimplement the feature that the proprietary Gitlab EE has in

Re: packages which have not been rebuild since December 2016

2018-06-02 Thread Chris Lamb
Hi Holger, > at the MiniDebConf 2018 in Hamburg we listed a few issues in Debian with > regards to making Debian Buster reproducible in practice. (*) > > One issue we forgot to mention there is that Given that we forgot to mention this issue at least once, I would like to create a bug in the BTS