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

2025-03-15 Thread Charles Plessy
On Fri, 2025-03-07 at 09:51 +0900, Charles Plessy wrote: > > I have prepared a stub for a "Gateway to NEW" on Salsa: > > > > https://salsa.debian.org/newgateway-team Le Sun, Mar 09, 2025 at 06:00:55PM +0800, Maytham Alsudany a écrit : > Am I correct in assuming that each package to be reviewed

Re: Should GPU shaders be considered firmware?

2025-03-15 Thread Stephan Verbücheln
Am Donnerstag, dem 13.03.2025 um 02:37 +0100 schrieb Dirk Lehmann: > GPU shaders should be clearly respected as software (and not > hardware).  Therefore, `intel-media-va-driver-non-free` is rightly in > the Debian archive `non-free`. First of all, I completely agree that: 1. shaders are computer

Re: Salsa CI job 'missing-breaks' to be enabled by default starting March 1st

2025-03-15 Thread Bastian Blank
On Thu, Mar 06, 2025 at 05:23:00PM +0100, NoisyCoil wrote: > oss4-dev is fine (unless diversions of files in linux-libc-dev are > forbidden): oss4-dev is correctly diverting the header, as a consequence it > needs not Break or Conflict with linux-libc-dev. linux-libc-dev defines the interface the

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

2025-03-15 Thread Soren Stoutner
On Saturday, March 15, 2025 7:41:02 AM Mountain Standard Time Antonio Terceiro wrote: > On Fri, Mar 14, 2025 at 02:49:26PM -0700, Soren Stoutner wrote: > >On Wednesday, March 12, 2025 5:38:40 PM Mountain Standard Time Mario > >Limonciello> > >wrote: > >> > >> > >> >Mario Limonciello (hints o

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

2025-03-15 Thread Ansgar 🙀
Hi, On Mon, 2025-03-10 at 10:57 +0100, Simon Josefsson wrote: > I don't think the above fully resolve my concerns though.  The mere > presence of official documented hooks to load non-free software is > problematic from a freedom perspective. Maybe a "free" version of Debian could be provided wit

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

2025-03-15 Thread Bjørn Mork
Simon Richter writes: > their questionable choices in buying hardware that ships with non-free > firmware Is there hardware that ships with free firmware? Seriously. Bjørn

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

2025-03-15 Thread Jonathan Dowland
On Fri Mar 14, 2025 at 9:49 PM GMT, Soren Stoutner wrote: I am planning on proposing a GR, but I want to take the time to make sure I word it well. I expect to be able to do so in the next few days. Short of a GR, you could determine who "owns" the CoC at the moment: it's not clearly a Debia

Bug#1100491: ITP: blazar-nova -- Nova scheduler filter used for the host reservation feature

2025-03-15 Thread Thomas Goirand
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Thomas Goirand X-Debbugs-Cc: debian-devel@lists.debian.org * Package name: blazar-nova Version : 7.0.0~rc1 Upstream Contact: OpenStack Discuss * URL : https://github.com/openstack/blazar-nova * License : Apache-2.0 Pro

Should uncoordinated NMUs unilaterally choose Salsa as the VCS for a package?

2025-03-15 Thread Roberto C . Sánchez
Question: Should uncoordinated NMUs unilaterally choose Salsa as the VCS for a package? I ask because one of my packages was NMUed earlier today. I have listed myself in the LowThresholdNmu wiki page (that is, any packages for which I am the sole maintainer). However, I did not think that placing

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

2025-03-15 Thread Antonio Terceiro
On Fri, Mar 14, 2025 at 02:49:26PM -0700, Soren Stoutner wrote: On Wednesday, March 12, 2025 5:38:40 PM Mountain Standard Time Mario Limonciello wrote: >Mario Limonciello (hints of format=flowed support) Thanks for the summary. I am of the camp of f=f. At least with the MUA I'm using m

Bug#1100579: general: After latest update problems with super key

2025-03-15 Thread Andrey
Package: general Severity: normal X-Debbugs-Cc: andrey.scherstobi...@gmail.com Dear Maintainer, After latest update: can not unassign super key from overview action can not assign super key to swith keyboard layout due to onscreen indicator, swithing layout become very slow. If you localize somet

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

2025-03-15 Thread Tollef Fog Heen
]] Soren Stoutner Because the primary interaction that most people have with Debian is through email, changing the way that interaction works is a big enough issue that I don’t see any other appropriate way of making it outside of a GR. Given we've never established this by way of a GR, the

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

2025-03-15 Thread Stephan Verbücheln
Am Samstag, dem 15.03.2025 um 07:47 -0700 schrieb Soren Stoutner: > It’s important enough to me. Not important enough to fix your formatting and encoding, it appears. Regards signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part

Re: STFU please (Re: Bits from DPL)

2025-03-15 Thread Holger Levsen
On Thu, Mar 06, 2025 at 02:54:32PM +0530, Pirate Praveen wrote: > On 3/6/25 2:09 PM, Holger Levsen wrote: > > so if the/a team says they cannot handle new members right now and thus > > there should be no big announcement asking for new members, I very much > > think this should be respected and no

Re: salsa.debian.org maintenance

2025-03-15 Thread Manuel Choorly
unsubscribe сб, 15 мар. 2025 г. в 20:36, Alexander Wirt : > Am Sat, Mar 15, 2025 at 08:38:03PM +0100 schrieb Alexander Wirt: > > Hi, > > > > I will do a security upgrade for salsa right now, please expect some > > service outage(s). > And we are back. > > Thanks for your patience > > Alex > >

Re: Should GPU shaders be considered firmware?

2025-03-15 Thread Bastian Blank
On Wed, Mar 12, 2025 at 11:10:49AM +, Stephan Verbücheln wrote: > Arguments for this: >1. The shaders are loaded into the GPU, very much like firmware. Shaders are not what makes the device function. You need the firmware first. >2. They are not linked into any libraries or applicati

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

2025-03-15 Thread Stephan Verbücheln
Am Montag, dem 03.03.2025 um 14:42 -0700 schrieb Soren Stoutner: > Interesting.  I guess that text could be interpreted as “Do not send > an HTML part, even if you also send a plain text part.” Are you serious? That does not make any sense. > Please don't send your messages in HTML; use plain tex

Re: Should GPU shaders be considered firmware?

2025-03-15 Thread Stephen Kitt
On Wed, 12 Mar 2025 20:58:50 +0100, Hakan Bayındır wrote: > > On 12 Mar 2025, at 18:09, Marco d'Itri wrote: > > On Mar 12, Hakan Bayındır wrote: > >> If we think that a shader is a firmware, any software running on the > >> second socket on a system is also a firmware, since the program is > >>

Re: Call for participation in tag2upload closed beta

2025-03-15 Thread Simon Josefsson
Yay! I'm happy to beta-test this. Exactly what features are required from dgit to be able to use tag2upload? Maybe I can offer myself to vet the process as a package maintainer that only minimally uses dgit, assuming that I can manage to install and get dgit to work on my machine. A simple 'dpk

Re: Call for participation in tag2upload closed beta

2025-03-15 Thread Johannes Schauer Marin Rodrigues
Hi Sean, Quoting Sean Whitton (2025-03-15 02:49:58) > - (At least some of) the packages are uploaded relatively often. with the upcoming freeze, I do not expect too many uploads to be necessary (but can be done if needed). But is that a problem? > - You already use dgit to upload. The wiki page

Re: NEW review & revision process (or lack thereof) (Re: Growing new FTP-masters (Re: Bits from DPL))

2025-03-15 Thread Jonathan Dowland
I've recently been trying to help rescue a package that is dropped for Trixie, partly for technical reasons (source package split means a round trip through NEW) and party for license reasons (some uncertainty about copyright of some icons, which have been in the archive for decades, but since

Bug#1100052: ITP: python-enaml -- Declarative DSL for building rich user interfaces in Python

2025-03-15 Thread Alexander Sulfrian
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Alexander Sulfrian X-Debbugs-Cc: debian-devel@lists.debian.org * Package name: python-enaml Version : 0.18.0 Upstream Contact: Matthieu C. Dartiailh * URL : https://github.com/nucleic/enaml * License : BSD-3-clause Pr

Bug#1100571: ITP: mgmt -- next generation config management

2025-03-15 Thread Thomas Goirand
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Thomas Goirand X-Debbugs-Cc: debian-devel@lists.debian.org * Package name: mgmt Version : 0.0.26.git.2024.10.25.85e1d6c0e8 Upstream Contact: James Shubin * URL : https://github.com/purpleidea/mgmt * License : GPL-3 Pro

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

2025-03-15 Thread Jonathan Dowland
On Mon Mar 10, 2025 at 1:41 PM GMT, Jeremy Stanley wrote: My groff/troff reply to your earlier suggestion of this was only somewhat tongue-in-cheek. Markdown isn't a singular clearly-specified syntax, but a family of them with several popular flavors in widespread use (as Timo's parser option c

Re: Bug#1100571: ITP: mgmt -- next generation config management

2025-03-15 Thread Simon Richter
Hi, On 3/15/25 22:58, Thomas Goirand wrote: Description : next generation config management [...] Can you reword the description so that it reads less like an advertisement? "next generation", compared to what? Simon OpenPGP_0xEBF67A846AABE354.asc Description: OpenPGP public k

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

2025-03-15 Thread Pirate Praveen
On 3/9/25 9:20 PM, Ansgar 🙀 wrote: What is the point of this then? If I understood the argument of FSF correctly, the point is, having the same freedom as the hardware manufacturer to modify or not modify. In case of hardware without firmware (or fused firmware that cannot be modified furt

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

2025-03-15 Thread Soren Stoutner
On Saturday, March 15, 2025 3:08:01 AM Mountain Standard Time Stephan Verbücheln wrote: > Am Montag, dem 03.03.2025 um 14:42 -0700 schrieb Soren Stoutner: > > Interesting. I guess that text could be interpreted as “Do not send > > an HTML part, even if you also send a plain text part.” > > Are

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

2025-03-15 Thread Soren Stoutner
On Saturday, March 15, 2025 2:53:28 AM Mountain Standard Time Jonathan Dowland wrote: > On Fri Mar 14, 2025 at 9:49 PM GMT, Soren Stoutner wrote: > > I am planning on proposing a GR, but I want to take the time to make > > sure I word it well. I expect to be able to do so in the next few > > days

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

2025-03-15 Thread Andrea Pappacoda
Hi Soren, On Sat Mar 15, 2025 at 3:47 PM CET, Soren Stoutner wrote: On Saturday, March 15, 2025 7:41:02 AM Mountain Standard Time Antonio Terceiro wrote: Please don't. Mobilizing the entire project to discuss and vote on the exact format for sending plain text email is ridiculous. That silent

Re: Should uncoordinated NMUs unilaterally choose Salsa as the VCS for a package?

2025-03-15 Thread Roberto C . Sánchez
On Sat, Mar 15, 2025 at 05:23:54PM -0400, Jeremy Bícha wrote: > On Sat, Mar 15, 2025 at 4:34 PM Roberto C. Sánchez wrote: > > Question: Should uncoordinated NMUs unilaterally choose Salsa as the VCS > > for a package? > > Why are you opposed to using Salsa as the VCS for cpuset? You use > Salsa f

Re: Should uncoordinated NMUs unilaterally choose Salsa as the VCS for a package?

2025-03-15 Thread Marco d'Itri
On Mar 15, "Roberto C. Sánchez" wrote: This appears, at least to me, to have rather substantially exceeded what is appropriate for an uncoordinated NMU. Indeed. -- ciao, Marco signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Re: Should uncoordinated NMUs unilaterally choose Salsa as the VCS for a package?

2025-03-15 Thread gregor herrmann
On Sat, 15 Mar 2025 16:34:09 -0400, Roberto C. Sánchez wrote: This appears, at least to me, to have rather substantially exceeded what is appropriate for an uncoordinated NMU. In particular, this seems to be inconsistent with the following paragraph from the Developer's Reference, section 5.11.1

Re: Should GPU shaders be considered firmware?

2025-03-15 Thread Dirk Lehmann
Hell Stephan =) On 3/15/25 12:52 PM, Stephan Verbücheln wrote: Am Donnerstag, dem 13.03.2025 um 02:37 +0100 schrieb Dirk Lehmann: GPU shaders should be clearly respected as software (and not hardware).  Therefore, `intel-media-va-driver-non-free` is rightly in the Debian archive `non-free`.

Re: Should uncoordinated NMUs unilaterally choose Salsa as the VCS for a package?

2025-03-15 Thread Andrey Rakhmatullin
On Sat, Mar 15, 2025 at 04:34:09PM -0400, Roberto C. Sánchez wrote: Question: Should uncoordinated NMUs unilaterally choose Salsa as the VCS for a package? That doesn't make sense to me, at least without context, not because setting Vcs-* doesn't make sense in a NMU but because creating an off

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

2025-03-15 Thread Christoph Berg
Re: Soren Stoutner > I thought about doing that, but those who are against this change feel so > strongly about > their position I don’t think they would accept a change made that way as > valid. In > addition, such a change doesn’t just need to apply to the mailing lists, but > also to other

Re: Should uncoordinated NMUs unilaterally choose Salsa as the VCS for a package?

2025-03-15 Thread Tollef Fog Heen
]] Roberto C. Sánchez How do others suggest to handle this particular situation? Last time it happened to me, I rolled back the inappropriate changes in the package and let the NMUer clean up the mess left on salsa. -- Tollef Fog Heen UNIX is user friendly, it's just picky about who its

Re: Should uncoordinated NMUs unilaterally choose Salsa as the VCS for a package?

2025-03-15 Thread Jeremy Bícha
On Sat, Mar 15, 2025 at 4:34 PM Roberto C. Sánchez wrote: > Question: Should uncoordinated NMUs unilaterally choose Salsa as the VCS > for a package? Why are you opposed to using Salsa as the VCS for cpuset? You use Salsa for many other packages and Github for some others. Although there are obv

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

2025-03-15 Thread Soren Stoutner
On Saturday, March 15, 2025 11:19:25 AM Mountain Standard Time Andrea Pappacoda wrote: > Hi Soren, > > On Sat Mar 15, 2025 at 3:47 PM CET, Soren Stoutner wrote: > > On Saturday, March 15, 2025 7:41:02 AM Mountain Standard Time Antonio > > > > Terceiro wrote: > >> Please don't. Mobilizing the ent

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

2025-03-15 Thread Soren Stoutner
On Friday, March 14, 2025 2:49:26 PM Mountain Standard Time Soren Stoutner wrote: > On Wednesday, March 12, 2025 5:38:40 PM Mountain Standard Time Mario > Limonciello > wrote: > > > > > > >Mario Limonciello (hints of format=flowed support) > > > > Thanks for the summary. I am of the camp of

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

2025-03-15 Thread Jonathan Dowland
Thank you for the summation Phil! To clarify my position: At present I am against the proposal. Regarding format=flowed: I would not want the CoC complicated with it at this time; I'd rather first gather more data on the current state of client support, which MUAs are in popular use for Debian

Re: Improvement of headless server upgrades

2025-03-15 Thread Marc Haber
On Thu, 6 Mar 2025 14:00:46 +0100, Lee Garrett wrote: >P.S.: This failure mode isn't even documented in the release notes. But they do, don't they, recommend to have console access available during an upgrade right? Greetings Marc -- -