Re: Bits from DPL

2025-01-09 Thread Bill Allombert
Le Tue, Jan 07, 2025 at 10:46:25AM +1100, Stuart Prescott a écrit : > It's great to see more packages being maintained on salsa. I've certainly > noticed that it is making working on packages much simpler. > > > > In my campaign, I stated [os1] that I aimed to reduce the number of > > > packages m

Re: getting ziggy with it

2025-01-09 Thread Stéphane Glondu
Le 07/01/2025 à 21:27, Russ Allbery a écrit : I think I'm missing something. Why does the use of this file knock the package out of main? We are distributing the source code for this file, and it is presumably under a free software license. +1 OCaml uses a similar scheme. Cheers, -- Stéphan

Re: criteria for acceptable languages for central QA tools in Debian (was: Re: coordination between lintian/piuparts/adequate)

2025-01-09 Thread Soren Stoutner
On Thursday, January 9, 2025 2:36:21 PM MST Serafeim (Serafi) Zanikolas wrote: > if you care about adequate, *please* tone down the negativity and file actual > bugs with specifics +1 -- Soren Stoutner so...@debian.org signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part.

Re: getting ziggy with it

2025-01-09 Thread nick black
nick black left as an exercise for the reader: > > The bootstrap is circular and has to be kicked off with a binary blob that > > can't be recreated until one has finished the bootstrap, which is > > certainly not ideal, but is also not that atypical for compiler > > bootstrapping problems. I don't

Re: GnuPG 2.4 before Trixie freeze

2025-01-09 Thread Daniel Kahn Gillmor
On Thu 2025-01-09 07:55:36 +0100, Stephan Verbücheln wrote: > GnuPG 2.4 was released in 2022, long before the LibrePGP schism. It is > generally not clear to me how the divergence from upstream is a reason > to favor 2.2 over 2.4, except that patches have to be ported (once?). sadly, 2.4 was relea

Re: getting ziggy with it

2025-01-09 Thread nick black
Russ Allbery left as an exercise for the reader: > I think I'm missing something. Why does the use of this file knock the > package out of main? We are distributing the source code for this file, > and it is presumably under a free software license. but we are not distributing it in a way such tha

Re: criteria for acceptable languages for central QA tools in Debian (was: Re: coordination between lintian/piuparts/adequate)

2025-01-09 Thread Serafeim (Serafi) Zanikolas
On Thu Jan 9, 2025 at 10:29 AM CET, Holger Levsen wrote: > On Wed, Jan 08, 2025 at 09:11:02PM +0100, Serafeim (Serafi) Zanikolas wrote: > > hi Holger, > > as you have addressed me here and... > > > On Wed Jan 8, 2025 at 11:57 AM CET, Holger Levsen wrote: > > > (actually adequate is run on many mo

Bug#1092585: ITP: sos -- Set of tools to gather troubleshooting data from a system

2025-01-09 Thread Arif Ali
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: arif X-Debbugs-Cc: debian-devel@lists.debian.org * Package name: sos Version : 4.8.2 Upstream Contact: Jake Hunsaker * URL : https://github.com/sosreport/sos * License : GPL Programming Lang: Python Description :

Re: criteria for acceptable languages for central QA tools in Debian (was: Re: coordination between lintian/piuparts/adequate)

2025-01-09 Thread Holger Levsen
On Wed, Jan 08, 2025 at 08:22:22PM -0800, Otto Kekäläinen wrote: > There have been discussions about adding adequate to Salsa CI and run > it by default as part of the piuparts job. If you are now preparing to > have adequate by default in piuparts, then it would make sense to have > it by default

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

2025-01-09 Thread Andreas Tille
Hi Stuart, changing subject and suggest moving the topic to Debian QA list where it probably belongs. Am Thu, Jan 09, 2025 at 11:54:47AM +1100 schrieb Stuart Prescott: > Good point on anonscm as well... that really does blow out the numbers. Unfortunately yes. > However... some of them still w

Re: criteria for acceptable languages for central QA tools in Debian (was: Re: coordination between lintian/piuparts/adequate)

2025-01-09 Thread Holger Levsen
On Wed, Jan 08, 2025 at 09:11:02PM +0100, Serafeim (Serafi) Zanikolas wrote: > hi Holger, as you have addressed me here and... > On Wed Jan 8, 2025 at 11:57 AM CET, Holger Levsen wrote: > > (actually adequate is run on many more binary packages on piuparts.d.o, > > because > > p.d.o is not only

Re: DEP17 /usr-move: most mitigations (M18) for aliased diversions (P3) are broken

2025-01-09 Thread G. Branden Robinson
Hi Helmut, I have a general remark and a technical one. At 2025-01-08T15:21:42+0100, Helmut Grohne wrote: > I have bad news about /usr-move. The primary mitigation (M18) for > aliased diversions (P3) as implemented by me in quite a few packages > is broken. [...] > If your have a lot of time and