Recommending packages not available in arch

hi all, recently on IRC, i asked why "to exclude specific archs in Recommends/Suggests?". the use case is, that some package "foo" might not be available for a specific arch (e.g. FTBFS on hurd-any), and package "bar" would still like to recommend it (since "bar" is used together with "foo" 'in a

Re: Debian CI pipeline for Developers

On 11/16/18 3:14 PM, Kentaro Hayashi wrote: > package repository, sure we can change the project's setting, but > debian/.gitlab-ci.yml seems to be the proper default setting. i don't think there is any reason to use a (hidden) dotfile in the debian/ directory. the default uses a dotfile in order

call for epoch (was Re: Bug#915553: ITP: pd-csound -- Csound external for Pure Data)

On 04.12.18 19:28, IOhannes m zmoelnig wrote: > Package: wnpp > * Package name: pd-csound > Version : 1.01.0 > > pd-csound used to be built from the csound (source) package, but upstream has > factored it out into a separate project (starting with fresh version numbers). > This is an

Re: call for epoch (was Re: Bug#915553: ITP: pd-csound -- Csound external for Pure Data)

On 12/4/18 9:34 PM, Simon McVittie wrote: > > I would suggest talking to the upstream developer of pd-csound. It seems > reasonably likely that their users will be confused by the fact that > that version 1.01.0 of the "Csound external" (I assume that's some sort > of loadable module, analogous to

Re: call for epoch (was Re: Bug#915553: ITP: pd-csound -- Csound external for Pure Data)

On 05.12.18 20:19, Paul Gevers wrote: > Hi, > > On 04-12-2018 20:03, IOhannes m zmölnig (Debian/GNU) wrote: >> as mandated by the policy, i'd like to discuss, whether an epoch bump >> for the new source package "pd-csound" (to be "2:1.01.0-1") is &g

Re: Cdbs Features

On 13.05.19 18:22, Sam Hartman wrote: >> "Holger" == Holger Levsen writes: > Holger> - packages using cdbs. cdbs has features dh doesnt have and > Holger> I dont think it's wrong to use cdbs. ( > > Just for my information, what are the big features cdbs has that dh does > not? >

Re: Cdbs Features

On 14.05.19 14:35, Mo Zhou wrote: > I'm quite interested in taking a look at how cdbs deal with such case. https://salsa.debian.org/multimedia-team/snd/blob/master/debian/rules https://salsa.debian.org/multimedia-team/soundscaperenderer/blob/master/debian/rules gfmdsrt IOhannes

Re: The Difference between debcheckout and dgit and what they try to accomplish

On 17.06.19 06:53, Helmut Grohne wrote: > Whether I use apt-get source and debdiff or dgit > and git format-patch is a detail on my side. out of curiosity (and because i usually quite enjoy your patches): do you do use dgit in *your* workflow? fgmadsr IOhannes

Re: How do you cause a re-run of autopkgtests?

On 7/21/23 12:57, G. Branden Robinson wrote: Hi folks, But I see no mechanism for interacting with autopkgtests to force them to re-run due to the remedy of a defect in the test harness itself. How is this to be done? you mean, apart from clicking on the ♻ retry icon? (you probably have to b

Re: Making Debian available - patch for webwml

On 1/29/21 1:44 PM, Holger Levsen wrote: Hi Holger, On Thu, Jan 28, 2021 at 10:53:54AM +0100, Holger Wansing wrote: FYI: a patch has been applied in the meantime, adding such hint to nearly all d.o pages, which have links to download images [eg] www.debian.org/distrib/ to make users aware of

Re: Lintian and Dpkg's :any multiarch acceptor

On 11/3/21 23:34, Felix Lechner wrote: 1. Did anyone find the latest Lintian versions (2.109.0 and up) confusing as to whether the :any should be included? The material you would have encountered includes both the context offered by Lintian (the extra information after the tag) and any relevant t

Bug#1005271: ITP: csound-plugins -- plugin collection for Csound

Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: IOhannes m zmölnig (Debian/GNU) X-Debbugs-Cc: debian-devel@lists.debian.org * Package name: csound-plugins Version : 1.0.2 Upstream Author : Csound Developers * URL : https://github.com/csound/plugins * License : LGPL

Re: Package uploads silently discarded: how to investigate?

On 6/27/22 03:08, Scott Kitterman wrote: On June 27, 2022 1:06:10 AM UTC, Russ Allbery wrote: Ben Finney writes: My guess is that this is something to do with an update to the signing GnuPG key expiry date. I can get into that in a different thread if needed. The trouble is, I can only g

Bug#1020295: ITP: dh-puredata -- debhelper addon for building Pd externals

Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: IOhannes m zmölnig (Debian/GNU) X-Debbugs-Cc: debian-devel@lists.debian.org * Package name: dh-puredata Version : 1 Upstream Author : IOhannes m zmölnig * URL : * https://salsa.debian.org/multimedia-team/pd/dh-puredata

Re: Namespaces for Lintian Tags

On 21.11.19 10:55, Wouter Verhelst wrote: >> 1. Shortens tag names. > I do not see how that is a good thing. > > "debian-copyright-file-uses-obsolete-national-encoding" is a sentence, which > inherently makes it extremely human-readable. For a tool that is > primarily meant to validate the output

Re: Salsa update: no more "-guest" and more

On 4/25/20 8:34 PM, Bernd Zeimetz wrote: > Hi, > > https://docs.gitlab.com/ee/security/two_factor_authentication.html > > Enforce that (if Salsa is doing that in the meantime, ignore me). i hope you don't suggest to enforce 2FA system-wide for all users of salsa. i read you original mail as a

Bug#836163: ITP: python-bottle-cork -- authentication for the bottle web framework

Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: "IOhannes m zmölnig (Debian/GNU)" * Package name: python-bottle-cork Version : 0.12.0 Upstream Author : Federico Ceratto * URL : http://cork.firelet.net/ * License : LGPL Programming Lang: Python D

Bug#836165: ITP: python-bottle-sqlite -- SQLite3 database integration for Bottle.

Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: "IOhannes m zmölnig (Debian/GNU)" * Package name: python-bottle-sqlite Version : 0.1.3 Upstream Author : Marcel Hellkamp * URL : http://bottlepy.org/docs/dev/plugins/sqlite.html * License : MIT Programming La

Bug#836167: ITP: python-bottle-beaker -- Bottle plugin to session and caching library with WSGI Middleware

Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: "IOhannes m zmölnig (Debian/GNU)" * Package name: python-bottle-beaker Version : 0.1.3 Upstream Author : Thiago Avelino * URL : https://github.com/bottlepy/bottle-beaker * License : MIT Programming La

Re: Bug#837805: Acknowledgement (ITP: python-can -- Controller Area Network interface module for Python)

message was also forwarded to > debian-pyt...@lists.debian.org, debian-devel@lists.debian.org > (after having been given a Bug report number, if it did not have one). > > Your message has been sent to the package maintainer(s): > w...@debian.org > IOhannes m zmölnig (De

Re: Converting to dgit

On 01/04/2017 05:42 AM, Colin Watson wrote: > git-dpm does too, and I agree it's nice. here's an opposite data point: being forced to use git-dpm by the python-modules-team policy - i haven't had a single joyful experience with git-dpm. so far, every import of a new upstream release turned into a

Re: Default page view for salsa repositories

On 2018-01-22 16:14, Alexander Wirt wrote: >>> >> >> Depending on the version of salsa's gitlab, this MR might be applicable >> for debian/changelog: >> >> https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab-ce/merge_requests/16550 >> >> The issue on the gitlab's tracker: >> >> https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/g

Re: Updated proposal for improving the FTP NEW process

On 2018-03-05 12:18, Gert Wollny wrote: > (1) Given that all new source package come with an ITP bug, when a > package must be rejected, the FTP team could CC this bug in the > rejection message. i would really like to see this. sometimes i miss rejection emails - or at least wonder whether i miss

Re: New package netgen-lvs with binary /usr/bin/netgen - already taken

On 9/7/18 10:10 PM, Ruben Undheim wrote: > 3. The netgen-lvs-base binary package comes with all the (main) files for >netgen-lvs. The executable will be called /usr/bin/netgen-lvs >It will NOT conflict with "netgen". > > 4. the netgen-lvs source package will be patched such that it works w

Bug#864408: ITP: dehydrated-dnspython-hook -- dehydrated dns-01 challenge response support

Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: =?utf-8?q?IOhannes_m_zm=C3=B6lnig_=28Debian/GNU=29?= * Package name: dehydrated-dnspython-hook Version : 0.1 Upstream Author : Elizabeth Ferdman * URL : https://github.com/eferdman/dnspython-hook * License : GPL-3 Pro

Bug#865419: ITP: libmysofa -- C library to read HRTFs stored in the AES69-2015 SOFA format

Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: =?utf-8?q?IOhannes_m_zm=C3=B6lnig_=28Debian/GNU=29?= * Package name: libmysofa Version : 0.4 Upstream Author : Christian Hoene * URL : https://github.com/hoene/libmysofa * License : BSD-3-clause Programming Lang: C

Re: alioth down?

On 2017-09-20 14:50, Elimar Riesebieter wrote: > Hi all, > > what is the reason why alioth.debian.org can't be reached? A > traceroute for git.debian.org stops at bm-bl1.debian.org > (5.153.231.241). [#debian-devel] /topic 14:57 -!- Topic for #debian-devel: Alioth currently rebooting/fscking | [.

Re: source.changes has wrong hash sum (Was: ftp master uploads disappearing?)

On 10/05/2017 06:53 PM, Andreas Tille wrote: > Bad checksums on loki_2.4.7.4-7_source.changes: Checksum mismatch for file > loki_2.4.7.4-7.dsc: b4d2841416822842e6e6b85c44e3f4f3 != > 7acc0c03ab3a269d117decd6dd692967 > > What to try next? following this conversation with interest, i also tried te

Re: ISO download difficult

On 12/04/2017 04:41 PM, eamanu15 . wrote: >>3- if yes, let the user decide: >> >> "Your network card/wifi adapter needs non-free spftware to operate. You >> may choose to keep this install 100% free software, in which case you >> will have no network connection until you plug-in a supported ada

Re: Exclicitly or "implicitly" mark architectures a packages does not build

On 2017-12-20 15:51, Holger Levsen wrote: > On Wed, Dec 20, 2017 at 02:31:42PM +, Wookey wrote: >> As a porter I notice quite a few packages where the maintainer has >> made things 'tidy' by giving an explicit architecture list when really >> the unlisted ones were really just 'doesn't build

wontfix close vs open (was Re: Exclicitly or "implicitly" mark architectures a packages does not build)

On 2017-12-20 15:31, Wookey wrote: > Leaving it open wontfix makes it easy for someone to find the issue in > the future and see what decision was made and why, and that the > current situation is as correct as we can currently make it. But > closing is also OK IMHO. The reasoning will still get ar

Re: GitLab B.V. to host free-software GitLab for Debian project

On 07/11/2015 04:17 PM, Alessio Treglia wrote: > On Sat, Jul 11, 2015 at 2:29 PM, Pirate Praveen > wrote: >> I will be working on it. First task is to complete gitlab packaging. >> See balasankarc.in/gitlab for current status. > > That is quite a progress. Awesome, thanks! > indeed, that status

Re: GitLab B.V. to host free-software GitLab for Debian project

On 09/28/2015 08:41 PM, Balasankar C wrote: > Hi, > >> indeed, that status page got my very excited. > Maintainer of that status page here. :) >> >> however, i wonder whether that page is actually getting the status >> live or if somebody forgot to update it in the last few months... > > I just u

Re: Bug#801842: ITP: python-pulp -- an LP modeler

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 On 2015-10-15 09:59, Thomas Goirand wrote: > Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Thomas Goirand > > > * Package name: python-pulp Version : 1.6.0 Upstream > Author : Stuart Anthony Mitchell * URL > : https://github.com/coin-or/pulp

Re: Decreasing packaging overhead

On 2015-11-02 22:55, Thomas Goirand wrote: > It's not the package which is a bad practice, here, the maintainer is > only dealing with upstream. > > What's a bad practice is creating a library for 2 lines of code. > Upstream should have tried to integrate this function into a bigger > library with

Re: GitLab B.V. to host free-software GitLab for Debian project

On 2015-09-28 20:09, IOhannes m zmölnig (Debian/GNU) wrote: > On 07/11/2015 04:17 PM, Alessio Treglia wrote: >> On Sat, Jul 11, 2015 at 2:29 PM, Pirate Praveen >> wrote: >>> I will be working on it. First task is to complete gitlab packaging. >>> See balasan

Re: Are two Vcs-{Git|Svn|...} and Vcs-Browser fields sensible?

On 01/31/2016 10:47 AM, Jonas Smedegaard wrote: > > Instead of introducing new flags, I suggest to extend existing flags to > support "relative URLs" which are somewhere within Debian. > > E.g. [...] > > Vcs-Git: pkg-perl/packages/ciderwebmail > yes please. i very much liked andreas' basic

Re: another mount issue on jessie

On 2016-02-09 20:03, Bas Wijnen wrote: > On Tue, Feb 09, 2016 at 10:38:26AM -0700, Sebastian Kuzminsky wrote: >> On another Jessie machine I had to apply the same workaround to some >> additional services. I identified the services that needed the workaround >> by grepping for 'PrivateTmp' in /l

Re: 50.000 binary packages

On 2016-02-10 14:19, Thomas Goirand wrote: > There's an RC bug... :P > > # ./pkgquiz > Collecting package information... that's because you are in cheat mode. try playing with "--hard". ghsdt IOhannes

Re: GitLab B.V. to host free-software GitLab for Debian project

On 2016-02-10 23:12, Pirate Praveen wrote: > On Friday 22 January 2016 10:20 PM, Balasankar C wrote: >> On വ്യാഴം 21 ജനുവരി 2016 07:11 വൈകു, Pirate Praveen wrote: >>> I need help with integrating debconf for configuring hostname. Somehow I'm >>> not able to troubleshoot the error. It seems I'm m

Re: How to deal with "assets" packages shadowing real upstream

On 2016-03-08 19:23, Bas Wijnen wrote: > On Mon, Mar 07, 2016 at 03:12:10PM +0100, Jonas Smedegaard wrote: >> > Oh - I just discovered that this _is_ covered by Policy §4.13 already. > Reading that again, I see that it says code copies are acceptable if the code > is meant to be used that way (with

gitlab package (was Re: Opt out style recommends)

hi, On 04/08/2016 05:33 AM, Pirate Praveen wrote: > See #819854 for a background. > > Currently gitlab recommends letsencrypt, it means someone has to opt in for > letsencrypt by running something like > > apt-get install gitlab letsencrypt > > But I would like letsencrypt to be available by d

Re: gitlab package (was Re: Opt out style recommends)

On 2016-04-10 03:55, Pirate Praveen wrote: >> >> while i really appreciate all the work you are doing for the gitlab >> package, i honestly have the feeling that you are trying to make too >> many decisions on behalf of the system administrator who wants to >> install gitlab. > > I just want the s

Re: gitlab package (was Re: Opt out style recommends)

On 2016-04-11 11:48, Pirate Praveen wrote: > It would be a good time to add letsencrypt support to php-horde and every > other service dealing with sensitive data like passwords. no, seriously not. i am all for having all web traffic encrypted. that's why the web-server package *may* push for enc

Bug#1087939: ITP: pd-slip -- SLIP encoder/decoder for Pure Data (Pd)

Package: wnpp X-Debbugs-Cc: debian-devel@lists.debian.org Owner: IOhannes m zmölnig (Debian/GNU) Severity: wishlist * Package name: pd-slip Version : 0.1 Upstream Contact: https://github.com/pd-externals/slip * URL : https://github.com/pd-externals/slip * License

Re: Q: Ubuntu PPA induced version ordering mess.

On 7/3/24 00:28, Alec Leamas wrote: The upstream shall consider adopting 5 digit release version numbering [...] The upstream "shall" not do anything, they are open for discussions but certainly not for dictates. thou shalt not ask if thou wisheth for no answers. (please keep in mind tha

Re: Please help me fix the build pipeline for apt-listchanges on Salsa, which is failing

On 9/2/24 03:19, Jonathan Kamens wrote: However, the pipeline is still failing, now in reprotest. For example . Perhaps this is because I haven't yet finalized the changelog for the upcoming release so the trailer line is bad

Re: Limited security support for Go/Rust? Re ssh3

On 1/16/24 13:56, Jérémy Lal wrote: As Built-Using is for license compliance only, no? See https://www.debian.org/doc/debian-policy/ch-relationships.html#additional-source-packages-used-to-build-the-binary-built-using Indeed, thanks for the link. it seems that many people think that "Buil

Re: Limited security support for Go/Rust? Re ssh3

On 1/16/24 17:20, Simon Josefsson wrote: it seems that many people think that "Built-Using" can be used to express static linking (including yours truly, even though i *know* that it is meant for license compliance only). which makes me wonder: probably we should have an additional field that e

Re: DEP-14: Default branch name 'debian/latest' objections?

On 1/26/25 01:10, gregor herrmann wrote: On Fri, 24 Jan 2025 12:22:20 +0100, Fabio Fantoni wrote: Il 24/01/2025 02:06, Otto Kekäläinen ha scritto: Why does the majority of Debian packages still use 'master' or 'debian/master' branch as the main development branch? I think: - because is not th

Re: DEP-14: Default branch name 'debian/latest' objections?

On 1/27/25 13:28, G. Branden Robinson wrote: At 2025-01-27T12:27:12+0100, IOhannes m zmölnig (Debian GNU|Linux) wrote: as for the original subject of this thread: what's actually wrong with 'debian/main' instead of 'debian/latest'? i personally do not really care, and

Re: support of 7z archives ?

On 1/28/25 09:22, PICCA Frederic-Emmanuel wrote: I could not see a 7z file there (at least not by simply looking at the file extensions). Here the file output: fiji-linux64.zip: Zip archive data, at least v2.0 to extract, compression method=deflate This is a zip archive whcih can not be ex

Re: DEP-14: Default branch name 'debian/latest' objections?

On 1/28/25 05:11, Johannes Schauer Marin Rodrigues wrote: https://salsa.debian.org/debian/devscripts/-/merge_requests/427 yes! (i guess) fmasdr IOhannes OpenPGP_0xB65019C47F7A36F8.asc Description: OpenPGP public key OpenPGP_signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Bug#200770: ITP: ladcca -- linux audio developers configuration and connection API

Package: wnpp Version: unavailable; reported 2003-07-10 Severity: wishlist * Package name: ladcca Version : 0.3.1 Upstream Author : Bob Ham * URL : http://www.some.org/ * License : GPL2 Description : linux audio developers configuration and connection AP

Bug#200855: ITP: jack-rack -- LADSPA plugin rack

Package: wnpp Version: unavailable; reported 2003-07-11 Severity: wishlist * Package name: jack-rack Version : 1.4.1 Upstream Author : Bob Ham * URL : http://pkl.net/~node/jack-rack.html * License : GPL Description : LADSPA plugin rack Jack Rack is a LAD

Bug#223807: ITP: seq24 -- Real time MIDI sequencer

Package: wnpp Version: unavailable; reported 2003-12-12 Severity: wishlist * Package name: seq24 Version : 0.4.3 Upstream Author : Rob C. Buse * URL : http://www.filter24.org/seq24/ * License : GPL Description : Real time MIDI sequencer Seq24 was created

Re: Bug#729203: [FFmpeg-devel] Reintroducing FFmpeg to Debian

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 (resending, to keep debian-devel and the bug-report in the loop) personally i would welcome if both libav and ffmpeg could co-exist within Debian¹. as i see it, libav and ffmpeg have diverged, and as such i would like to have the choice which one to

Re: Bug#729203: [FFmpeg-devel] Reintroducing FFmpeg to Debian

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 On 2014-07-29 03:20, Marco d'Itri wrote: >> if they are not drop in replacements, and it would also be a >> pain if >>> higher up packages link-in both ffmpeg & libav and some >>> clashing symbols are present... > This is why the new ffmpeg will use

Re: Bug#756446: ITP Backgammon2 - a C# implementation of Backgammon game

On 07/31/2014 07:04 PM, Alexander Alemayhu wrote: > On Wed, Jul 30, 2014 at 05:35:18PM +0600, Andrey Rahmatullin wrote: >> The name is bad too. >> But this is just an RFP, so... >> > > Why is the name bad? > has the "2" any meaning apart from being "the other" package (though i fail to see the "

Re: Point 1 of Social Contract

On 05/05/2014 05:30 PM, Solal wrote: > No +1 because proprietary firmware is unethical too. hmm, have you read the post you are replying to and what the "+1" was referring to? and please do stop top-posting... fgmards IOhannes PS: am i just feeding the troll? signature.asc Description: Open

Re: The Spirit of Free Software, or The Reality

On 07/16/2015 08:29 PM, Don Armstrong wrote: > On Thu, 16 Jul 2015, Simon Richter wrote: >> > The problem is that the icons are displayed in the search field >> > dropdown, which should be fully functional before visiting the first >> > site. > I was hoping that it could be semi-functional, with pl