Re: TC decision on ownership of top-level filesystem aliases - #1091995

2025-03-07 Thread Marvin Renich
* Helmut Grohne [250307 07:05]: > Hi Sean, > > On Thu, Mar 06, 2025 at 05:39:06PM +0800, Sean Whitton wrote: > > Just to note that the most recent release of Policy sort-of defines > > ownership of this, though it is not as explicit as the TC decision: > > > > Packages must not install files

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

2025-03-07 Thread Dirk Lehmann
Hello Debian-Devel mailing list =D imho, an interesting topic. In conjunction with [1] my first notion was: We should not guide that proprietary software is insecure. That's not correct, i.e. in the case of non-free-firmware it is nearly equivalent to say that the usage of proprietary hardware i

Re: Revisiting the idea of pre-NEW peer review? (Re: Bits from DPL)

2025-03-07 Thread Charles Plessy
Le Fri, Mar 07, 2025 at 06:21:53PM +0100, Simon Josefsson a écrit : Thanks for starting this -- could you re-enable Issues for the Pipelines project? Hi Simon, I have enabled the issues in all repository. It seems that Salsa's policy is to have them disabled by default. I suggest to use 'l

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

2025-03-07 Thread Mario Limonciello
On 3/7/25 12:42, Soren Stoutner wrote: On Friday, March 7, 2025 11:33:53 AM MST Simon Josefsson wrote: > pan...@disroot.org writes: > > I urge Debian to rethink its decision to officially include non-free > > firmware and correct the social contract. Instead of making non-free > > firmw

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

2025-03-07 Thread Leandro Cunha
On Fri, Mar 7, 2025 at 3:42 PM Soren Stoutner wrote: > > On Friday, March 7, 2025 11:33:53 AM MST Simon Josefsson wrote: > > > pan...@disroot.org writes: > > > > I urge Debian to rethink its decision to officially include non-free > > > > firmware and correct the social contract. Instead of making

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

2025-03-07 Thread Jeremy Stanley
On 2025-03-07 19:33:53 +0100 (+0100), Simon Josefsson wrote: [...] The recent AMD Microcode vulnerability is a good case-study on the dangers of permitting non-free code to run on your CPU: https://bughunters.google.com/blog/5424842357473280/zen-and-the-art-of-microcode-hacking There is no way

Re: STFU please (Re: Bits from DPL)

2025-03-07 Thread Soren Stoutner
On Thursday, March 6, 2025 1:53:27 AM MST Marc Haber wrote: > On Thu, Mar 06, 2025 at 08:39:13AM +, Holger Levsen wrote: > >On Thu, Mar 06, 2025 at 08:58:48AM +0100, Marc Haber wrote: > >> Marc. I'll take my Popcorn with salt please. > > > >yeah, it's pretty funny to see a team burn out and hav

Re: Change the expectation that emails should wrap at 80 characters

2025-03-07 Thread Thorsten Glaser
Otto Kekäläinen wrote: > I think this a reasonable suggestion by Soren. […] Incidentally, the suggestion is good as illegible on a usual-to-read-longer-text-sized webbrowser on the mailing list archive (and it would be almost as illegible on the usual slightly wider-sized work xterm due to its in

Re: Processing times for the NEW queue (was Re: Bits from DPL)

2025-03-07 Thread Simon Josefsson
Your graph and statistics on this is great, thank you! Timo Röhling writes: > 2. Source packages going through NEW merely because they introduce new > binary packages are typically processed faster than completely new > ones. Good point. Therefore, I think your graph gives a biased view for an

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

2025-03-07 Thread Simon Josefsson
pan...@disroot.org writes: > I urge Debian to rethink its decision to officially include non-free > firmware and correct the social contract. Instead of making non-free > firmware the default, Debian should ensure that users consciously > choose to install it while being made aware of the implicat

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

2025-03-07 Thread Michael Biebl
I wonder if we get a reply from the OP or if this was just an attempt to trigger a flame war. We will see... OpenPGP_signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Bug#1099779: ITP: rust-oid-registry -- object identifier (OID) database

2025-03-07 Thread Jonas Smedegaard
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Jonas Smedegaard X-Debbugs-Cc: debian-devel@lists.debian.org -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 * Package name: rust-oid-registry Version : 0.8.1 Upstream Contact: Pierre Chifflier * URL : https://github.com/rustic

Re: Change the expectation that emails should wrap at 80 characters

2025-03-07 Thread IOhannes m zmölnig
Am 8. März 2025 00:14:10 MEZ schrieb Thorsten Glaser : >Otto Kekäläinen wrote: > >> I think this a reasonable suggestion by Soren. […] > >Incidentally, the suggestion is good as illegible on a I think I'm misunderstanding something here, because - assuming you attached the screenshot as an examp

Re: Change the expectation that emails should wrap at 80 characters

2025-03-07 Thread Holger Levsen
On Fri, Mar 07, 2025 at 04:40:04PM -0700, Soren Stoutner wrote: > My question is, is there any other decision making process that would be > preferable to a GR to decide this issue? another outcome would be to leave things like they are. of course we could have a GR to get to that result too. -

Re: Change the expectation that emails should wrap at 80 characters

2025-03-07 Thread Jonathan Dowland
On Thu Mar 6, 2025 at 7:08 AM GMT, Henrik Ahlgren wrote: It is essential to have a method for distinguishing between hard and soft newlines if you want to reflow text properly. Agreed! And, as Jeremy Stanley points out in another msg, this is not *quite* what format=flowed promises. -- Pl

Re: Revisiting the idea of pre-NEW peer review? (Re: Bits from DPL)

2025-03-07 Thread Simon McVittie
On Fri, 07 Mar 2025 at 13:27:54 +0530, Pirate Praveen wrote: > On 7/3/25 12:29 AM, Otto Kekäläinen wrote: > > > Around 12 years ago, I proposed a peer-review system to increase the > > > quality of > > > the packages in the NEW queue. https://wiki.debian.org/CopyrightReview > > For packages that

Re: Improvement of headless server upgrades

2025-03-07 Thread Richard Lewis
Lee Garrett writes: >> On Tue, 4 Mar 2025 20:39:43 -0500, "Helmut K. C. Tessarek" >> wrote: >>>Network interface name changed: please update config files before reboot. > P.S.: This failure mode isn't even documented in the release notes. This does seem to be correct given that the OP was upg

Re: Change the expectation that emails should wrap at 80 characters

2025-03-07 Thread Jeremy Stanley
On 2025-03-07 10:08:23 + (+), Jonathan Dowland wrote: On Thu Mar 6, 2025 at 7:08 AM GMT, Henrik Ahlgren wrote: > It is essential to have a method for distinguishing between hard > and soft newlines if you want to reflow text properly. Agreed! And, as Jeremy Stanley points out in anothe

Re: TC decision on ownership of top-level filesystem aliases - #1091995

2025-03-07 Thread Helmut Grohne
Hi Sean, On Thu, Mar 06, 2025 at 05:39:06PM +0800, Sean Whitton wrote: > Just to note that the most recent release of Policy sort-of defines > ownership of this, though it is not as explicit as the TC decision: > > Packages must not install files to paths whose first component is a > name

Re: Revisiting the idea of pre-NEW peer review? (Re: Bits from DPL)

2025-03-07 Thread Otto Kekäläinen
How about adding a new header field in debian/copyright (https://dep-team.pages.debian.net/deps/dep5/) called something like "Reviews" which would be a list of URLs pointing to whatever public system was used to record a review? Then whoever reviews the debian/copyright file has easy access to rev

Re: Bug#1091394: nproc: add new option to reduce emitted processors by system memory

2025-03-07 Thread Julien Plissonneau Duquène
Hi, As a followup, Helmut's script is now available in unstable [1] and will probably soon be in testing. I'm going to give it a try with Gradle and Kotlin builds. If anyone is interested in the alternative, shell-script implementation please let me know, as otherwise it's unlikely to ever e

Re: Growing new FTP-masters (Re: Bits from DPL)

2025-03-07 Thread Matthias Urlichs
On 05.03.25 19:51, Otto Kekäläinen wrote: With this experience I am surprised that one FTP-team member is saying that no help is needed? Apparently the problem isn't that no help is needed but that nobody has time to train the new help, citing possible burn-out trying to get answers from the

Bug#1099783: ITP: golang-github-jesseduffield-minimal -- Worse versions of packages that already exist (library)

2025-03-07 Thread Maytham Alsudany
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Maytham Alsudany X-Debbugs-CC: debian-devel@lists.debian.org, debian...@lists.debian.org, jm...@debian.org Control: block 908894 by -1 * Package name: golang-github-jesseduffield-minimal Version : 0.0~git20211018.9cde264 Upstream Contact: h

Bug#1099782: ITP: golang-github-jesseduffield-kill -- simple package for killing processes (library)

2025-03-07 Thread Maytham Alsudany
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Maytham Alsudany X-Debbugs-CC: debian-devel@lists.debian.org, debian...@lists.debian.org Control: block 908894 by -1 * Package name: golang-github-jesseduffield-kill Version : 0.0~git20250101.e216ddb Upstream Contact: https://github.com/jess

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

2025-03-07 Thread Stephan Verbücheln
Am Freitag, dem 07.03.2025 um 23:05 +0530 schrieb pan...@disroot.org: > I acknowledge that some users—myself included—may need to install > non-free firmware for WiFi, Bluetooth, or graphics driver > I understand that users need proprietary drivers to run certain > hardware, and Debian should not

Re: Revisiting the idea of pre-NEW peer review? (Re: Bits from DPL)

2025-03-07 Thread Simon Josefsson
Charles Plessy writes: > I have prepared a stub for a "Gateway to NEW" on Salsa: > > https://salsa.debian.org/newgateway-team > > I added `Debian` as a team member. > > I am under the impression that forking repositories will not be necessary: if > we provide CI pipeline packages like the salsa-c

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

2025-03-07 Thread Soren Stoutner
On Friday, March 7, 2025 11:33:53 AM MST Simon Josefsson wrote: > pan...@disroot.org writes: > > I urge Debian to rethink its decision to officially include non-free > > firmware and correct the social contract. Instead of making non-free > > firmware the default, Debian should ensure that users co

Bug#1099776: ITP: golang-github-humanlogio-api -- internal libraries for humanlog (library)

2025-03-07 Thread Maytham Alsudany
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Maytham Alsudany X-Debbugs-CC: debian-devel@lists.debian.org, debian...@lists.debian.org * Package name: golang-github-humanlogio-api Version : 0.0~git20250305.fa41d14 Upstream Contact: https://github.com/humanlogio/api/issues * URL

Bug#1099778: ITP: golang-github-gosimple-unidecode -- Unicode transliterator in Golang - Replaces non-ASCII characters with their ASCII approximations.

2025-03-07 Thread Luca Soler
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Luca Soler X-Debbugs-CC: debian-devel@lists.debian.org, debian...@lists.debian.org * Package name    : golang-github-gosimple-unidecode   Version         : 1.0.1-1   Upstream Author : GoSimple * URL             : https://github.com/gosimple/unidecode * Lice

Re: TC decision on ownership of top-level filesystem aliases - #1091995

2025-03-07 Thread Helmut Grohne
On Fri, Mar 07, 2025 at 08:14:00AM -0500, Marvin Renich wrote: > Are you saying that systemd creates the symlinks at runtime when it > finds them missing, rather that when the systemd package is installed? > To me, this is a clear violation of the policy quoted above. "...must > not install..." sa

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

2025-03-07 Thread Andrey Rakhmatullin
On Fri, Mar 07, 2025 at 11:05:02PM +0530, pan...@disroot.org wrote: I understand that users need proprietary drivers to run certain hardware, and Debian should not ignore this reality. That is why I am not asking Debian to become a fully GNU-endorsed distro like Trisquel, which rejects all non-

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

2025-03-07 Thread Leandro Cunha
Hi, On Fri, Mar 7, 2025 at 2:51 PM wrote: > > Dear Debian Community, > > I am Deep Pandya from Gujarat, India, and a long-time Debian user. I migrated > from Windows to Ubuntu in 2013 and later explored the philosophy of the GNU > project and the history of the free software movement. After try

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

2025-03-07 Thread pandya
Dear Debian Community, I am Deep Pandya from Gujarat, India, and a long-time Debian user. I migrated from Windows to Ubuntu in 2013 and later explored the philosophy of the GNU project and the history of the free software movement. After trying GNU-endorsed Trisquel and PureOS, I finally land

Re: Change the expectation that emails should wrap at 80 characters

2025-03-07 Thread Soren Stoutner
At this point in the discussion I would like to progress toward a decision. One way to do so would be a GR. On one hand, using a GR to modify one line of the code of conduct for the mailing list seems like a rather large hammer for a rather small problem. But on the other hand, many people fee