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

2025-01-01 Thread Ahmad Khalifa
On 01/01/2025 18:27, Aurélien COUDERC wrote: Here’s a quick « benchmark » in a sid Plasma desktop qemu VM where I had a snapshot of up-to-date sid from Nov 24th, upgrading to today’s sid : Summary: Upgrading: 658, Installing: 304, Removing: 58, Not Upgrading: 2 Download size: 0 B / 1 032

Bug#1091681: ITP: hueplusplus -- C++ library to control Philips Hue lights

2024-12-29 Thread Ahmad Khalifa
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Ahmad Khalifa X-Debbugs-Cc: debian-devel@lists.debian.org * Package name: hueplusplus Version : 1.1.0 (describe: v1.1.0-9-g4d9e387) Upstream Contact: https://github.com/enwi/hueplusplus/issues * URL : https://github.com/enwi

Re: Problems to find sponsors

2024-12-10 Thread Ahmad Khalifa
On 09/12/2024 16:49, Andreas Tille wrote: Am Thu, Dec 05, 2024 at 08:03:36AM -0600 schrieb rhys: It's not the sort of thing that needs to be strictly updated like a man page or other technical document. It just needs to be a couple of pages that describe the "general" (big picture structure an

Re: Problems to find sponsors

2024-12-12 Thread Ahmad Khalifa
On 12/12/2024 04:05, Sean Whitton wrote: On Tue 10 Dec 2024 at 01:31pm GMT, Ahmad Khalifa wrote: As an outsider trying to help, the natural thing I looked at was the RFH process to dip my toes into things. But only 56 packages have RFH bugs and they're usually not very clear on what help

Bug#1089834: ITP: golang-github-olebedev-when -- A natural language date/time parser with pluggable rules

2024-12-13 Thread Ahmad Khalifa
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Ahmad Khalifa X-Debbugs-CC: debian-devel@lists.debian.org, debian...@lists.debian.org * Package name: golang-github-olebedev-when Version : 1.1.0-1 Upstream Author : Oleg Lebedev * URL : https://github.com/olebedev/when

Re: Complete and unified documentation for new maintainers

2025-01-11 Thread Ahmad Khalifa
On 11/01/2025 12:49, Fabio Fantoni wrote: Write on Google "Debian create new package" and first result: https:// wiki.debian.org/HowToPackageForDebian It points to various parts but mainly the more probable start point seems https://wiki.debian.org/Packaging/Intro To point to git and gbp see

Re: Call for contributions to maintain existing documentation - Salsa makes it is easy!

2025-01-12 Thread Ahmad Khalifa
On 11/01/2025 20:43, Otto Kekäläinen wrote: There is no need to start new duplicate parallel efforts. Simply contribute to the existing ones. +1, please. Too many docs already :) Anyone can edit the current wiki pages if they want to improve them (although most people I spoke to don't like u

Re: how to fix lintian error: library-not-linked-against-libc

2025-01-26 Thread Ahmad Khalifa
On 26/01/2025 11:19, Andrey Rakhmatullin wrote: On Sun, Jan 26, 2025 at 11:07:12AM +, Ahmad Khalifa wrote: I do this to confirm if lintian is correct: $ objdump -p file.so ... NEEDED libc.so.6 ... No? Lintian already says there is no "NEEDED libc

Re: how to fix lintian error: library-not-linked-against-libc

2025-01-26 Thread Ahmad Khalifa
On 26/01/2025 04:57, Steven Robbins wrote: I've come to realise the ITK build has 15 libraries that lintian flags with ... The error description seems straightforward.  But how does one solve this?  I have to assume that the linker would by default link with the libc (?), so perhaps the linke

Re: how to fix lintian error: library-not-linked-against-libc

2025-01-26 Thread Ahmad Khalifa
On 26/01/2025 12:41, Jeremy Bícha wrote: On Sun, Jan 26, 2025 at 6:28 AM Ahmad Khalifa wrote: The lintian error is a great heads-up and it's up to the reader to decide whether it's a true error to fix or a false-positive to override. I have never seen this Lintian error actually be

Re: how to fix lintian error: library-not-linked-against-libc

2025-01-27 Thread Ahmad Khalifa
On 27/01/2025 18:24, Russ Allbery wrote: Marvin Renich writes: * Russ Allbery [250126 12:47]: In theory it would be possible to do better in Lintian by scanning the symbol table to see if the libc dependency is really unneeded. But doing that sounds at least a little annoying. Annoying to

Re: how to fix lintian error: library-not-linked-against-libc

2025-01-28 Thread Ahmad Khalifa
On 28/01/2025 22:28, Sam Hartman wrote: "Russ" == Russ Allbery writes: Russ> recollection (it's been a *lot* of years so I'm hoping I'm Russ> getting this right) is that this interfered with proper symbol Russ> versioning and could cause the symbols to be resolved weirdly R

Re: how to fix lintian error: library-not-linked-against-libc

2025-01-28 Thread Ahmad Khalifa
On 27/01/2025 23:14, Russ Allbery wrote: Ahmad Khalifa writes: Having said that, lintian is slow enough as a single thread, I'd vote for downgrading the tag to Pedantic, but not deleting it. So, I guess I'll say this more explicitly: I am opposed to downgrading the tag to pedant

Re: how to fix lintian error: library-not-linked-against-libc

2025-01-29 Thread Ahmad Khalifa
On 29/01/2025 00:01, Russ Allbery wrote: Ahmad Khalifa writes: On 28/01/2025 22:28, Sam Hartman wrote: "Russ" == Russ Allbery writes: Russ> recollection (it's been a *lot* of years so I'm hoping I'm Russ> getting this right) is that this in

Re: wiki.d.o on a git-backed engine

2025-01-13 Thread Ahmad Khalifa
On 13/01/2025 21:43, Jonas Smedegaard wrote: Quoting Serafeim (Serafi) Zanikolas (2025-01-13 22:06:01) also, I'd think that nailing down the requirements for a new platform and for the content to be migrated (e.g. drop any pages that are >X years old) would be an important prerequisite for any t