Bug#1072900: ITP: qt6-quickeffectmaker -- Qt 6 Quick Effect Maker

2024-06-09 Thread Aaron Rainbolt
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Aaron Rainbolt X-Debbugs-Cc: debian-devel@lists.debian.org, arraybo...@gmail.com * Package name    : qt6-quickeffectmaker   Version : 6.6.2   Upstream Contact: Debian Qt/KDE Maintainers * URL : https://www.qt.io/developers

Bug#1058651: ITP: qtilitools -- Scripts/commands used in the Qtilities organization.

2023-12-13 Thread Aaron Rainbolt
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Aaron Rainbolt X-Debbugs-Cc: debian-devel@lists.debian.org, arraybo...@ubuntu.com * Package name: qtilitools Version : 0.1.2 Upstream Contact: redtide * URL : https://github.com/qtilities/qtilitools * License : BSD-3

Bug#1058712: ITP: sddm-conf -- Graphical editor for SDDM

2023-12-14 Thread Aaron Rainbolt
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Aaron Rainbolt X-Debbugs-Cc: debian-devel@lists.debian.org, arraybo...@ubuntu.com * Package name: sddm-conf Version : 0.1.0 Upstream Contact: redtide * URL : https://github.com/qtilities/sddm-conf * License : MIT (with

Bug#1058713: ITP: picom-conf -- Configuration editor for Picom

2023-12-14 Thread Aaron Rainbolt
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Aaron Rainbolt X-Debbugs-Cc: debian-devel@lists.debian.org, arraybo...@ubuntu.com * Package name: picom-conf Version : 0.17.0 Upstream Contact: redtide * URL : https://github.com/qtilities/picom-conf * License : Mixed

RFC: "Recommended bloat", and how to possibly fix it

2024-11-05 Thread Aaron Rainbolt
Hello, and thanks for your time. I've been a Debian user and contributor for a while, and have noticed a rather frustrating issue that I'm interested in potentially contributing code to fix. The issue is what I call "Recommended bloat", which in short is what happens when you install a package wit

Re: RFC: "Recommended bloat", and how to possibly fix it

2024-11-05 Thread Aaron Rainbolt
replies are inline. On Wed, 06 Nov 2024 02:28:33 +0100 Johannes Schauer Marin Rodrigues wrote: > Hi, > > Quoting Aaron Rainbolt (2024-11-06 00:35:59) > > According to the Debian Policy Manual, section 7.2, the Recommends > > field in Debian packages "declares a strong, but

Re: RFC: "Recommended bloat", and how to possibly fix it

2024-11-06 Thread Aaron Rainbolt
On Wed, 6 Nov 2024 22:55:43 + Colin Watson wrote: > On Wed, Nov 06, 2024 at 04:06:59PM -0600, Aaron Rainbolt wrote: > > (Side note, I wonder if there's a way to implement Weak-Depends that > > *doesn't* require modifying all of the tons of packages Johannes > &g

Re: RFC: "Recommended bloat", and how to possibly fix ito

2024-11-07 Thread Aaron Rainbolt
On Thu, 7 Nov 2024 19:53:27 + Roger Lynn wrote: > On 06/11/2024 19:20, Bill Allombert wrote: > > Le Tue, Nov 05, 2024 at 05:35:59PM -0600, Aaron Rainbolt a écrit : > >> Hello, and thanks for your time. > >> > >> I've been a Debian user and contrib

Re: RFC: "Recommended bloat", and how to possibly fix it

2024-11-06 Thread Aaron Rainbolt
On Wed, 06 Nov 2024 15:59:22 -0700 Soren Stoutner wrote: > On Wednesday, November 6, 2024 3:06:59 PM MST Aaron Rainbolt wrote: > > And this brings us back to the original idea of creating a > > Weak-Depends field. From my viewpoint, policy states that > > Recommends is f

Re: RFC: "Recommended bloat", and how to possibly fix it

2024-11-06 Thread Aaron Rainbolt
On Wed, 06 Nov 2024 21:41:43 -0700 Soren Stoutner wrote: > On Wednesday, November 6, 2024 8:12:29 PM MST Aaron Rainbolt wrote: > > At this point, we have two options. We can either explicitly remove > > all of the extra packages that get installed, or we can skip > > install

Re: RFC: "Recommended bloat", and how to possibly fix it

2024-11-06 Thread Aaron Rainbolt
On Wed, 6 Nov 2024 18:03:07 + Holger Levsen wrote: > On Wed, Nov 06, 2024 at 06:03:45PM +0100, IOhannes m zmölnig wrote: > > Afaict, the problem is that we have 3 options to pick from, and > > it's hard for people to decide which is the "right one". I do not > > see how adding a 4th option wi

Re: RFC: "Recommended bloat", and how to possibly fix it

2024-11-06 Thread Aaron Rainbolt
On Wed, 06 Nov 2024 14:21:30 -0700 Soren Stoutner wrote: > On Wednesday, November 6, 2024 12:08:07 PM MST Aaron Rainbolt wrote: > >For instance, gwenview currently > > recommends kamera. gwenview is an image viewer, kamera is a tool for > > working with digital cameras

Re: RFC: "Recommended bloat", and how to possibly fix it

2024-11-07 Thread Aaron Rainbolt
On Thu, 7 Nov 2024 22:29:07 -0500 "Theodore Ts'o" wrote: > On Thu, Nov 07, 2024 at 12:08:22AM -0700, Soren Stoutner wrote: > > On Wednesday, November 6, 2024 10:41:46 PM MST Aaron Rainbolt > > wrote: > > > Again, this isn't a problem limited to a d

Re: Simpler git workflow for packaging with upstreamless repositories

2024-11-26 Thread Aaron Rainbolt
On Tue, Nov 26, 2024 at 10:31 PM Otto Kekäläinen wrote: > > Hi, > > (replying in one email to various comments in past 24h) > > > How common debian/gbp.conf points at something else: perhaps gbp's > > defaults are not good, if that many packages need to override them. > > First of all may I ask yo

Re: A 2025 NewYear present: make dpkg --force-unsafe-io the default?

2024-12-24 Thread Aaron Rainbolt
On Tue, Dec 24, 2024 at 3:54 AM Michael Tokarev wrote: > > Hi! > > The no-unsafe-io workaround in dpkg was needed for 2005-era ext2fs > issues, where a power-cut in the middle of filesystem metadata > operation (which dpkg does a lot) might result in in unconsistent > filesystem state. This worka

Re: Do we need three-and-a-half nigh-identical X compositors ‒ xcompmgr, compton, picom, unagi?

2024-12-13 Thread Aaron Rainbolt
On Fri, Dec 13, 2024 at 8:01 AM наб wrote: > > Hi! > > We seem to be shipping 3.5 standalone compositors > (maintainers in CC): > 1. xcompmgr ‒ the upstream's effectively finished > (we have 1.1.8, the two releases since changed nothing of > substance) > last maintaine

Re: RFC: "Recommended bloat", and how to possibly fix it

2024-11-22 Thread Aaron Rainbolt
On Fri, Nov 22, 2024 at 5:49 AM Guillem Jover wrote: > > Hi! > > On Tue, 2024-11-05 at 17:35:59 -0600, Aaron Rainbolt wrote: > > With all this in mind, I'd like to call some attention to a feature > > request made by Patrick Schleizer some time ago, whom I've cop

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

2025-02-27 Thread Aaron Rainbolt
On Thu, Feb 27, 2025 at 7:30 AM Colin Watson wrote: > > On Wed, Feb 26, 2025 at 11:21:42AM -0700, Soren Stoutner wrote: > >The purpose of this email is to propose that the expectation that > >emails should be wrapped at 80 characters when they are sent should be > >dropped. > [...] > >I understand

Re: The apt tool chain doesn't seem to sanitize it's environment

2025-03-24 Thread Aaron Rainbolt
On Mon, 24 Mar 2025 13:59:00 -0700 John Darrah wrote: > I encountered the following error while upgrading a 'testing/trixie' > install. > > Setting up network-manager (1.52.0-5) ... > Insecure $ENV{CDPATH} while running with -T switch at > /usr/share/perl5/Debian/AdduserLogging.pm line 1