Bug#528273: ITP: twittare -- A Twitter client for Linux written in Qt

2009-05-11 Thread Dominik George
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Dominik George * Package name: twittare Version : 0.7.42 Upstream Author : TabaréCaorsi * URL : http://www.twittare.com/ * License : GPL-3+ Programming Lang: C++ Description : A Twitter client for Linux written

Re: systemd is here to stay, get over it now

2014-07-04 Thread Dominik George
Hi Thorsten, while I tend to basically acknowledge your points here, there is still one thing you obviously did not get until now, if I followed along correctly. >For example, systemd has support for its own (S)NTP client, but also >supports xntpd (rudely leaving OpenNTPD out already). The commi

Re: Debian.

2014-07-07 Thread Dominik George
Hi, I have sent a reply off-list because I do not think the question is really related to Debian development by itself. As Teckids is dedicated to teaching Free Software (development) to children and adolescents, I saw fit here. Just for your information that someone has taken care of the inqu

Re: systemd-sysv/shim in testing

2014-07-27 Thread Dominik George
>To make it short: I suggest that systemd should only migrate together >with systemd-shim. ACK! -nik -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: https://lists.debian.org/8667e39c-b7ef-

libfreerdp changed soname without transition - rebuilds necessary

2014-08-17 Thread Dominik George
Hi, the libfreerdp1 package changed its soname without a transition and without introducing a new package. That broke binary compatibility of at least remmina and libguac-client-rdp0 [0]. I expect more rebuilds / binNMUs to be necessary. As I do not find anything about that triggered by the main

Re: bash exorcism experiment ('bug' 762923 & 763012)

2014-10-12 Thread Dominik George
>> Array variables practically imply arithmetic evaluation, amd this is >a >> shell feature which is rather difficult to use correctly because >> compatibility with other shell encourages both recursive evaluation >> and access to the full shell language in a few corners. I think the idea here was

Re: apt-get install sysvinit-core removes gnome?

2014-10-16 Thread Dominik George
Hi, >but it seems there is some dependency in jessie which makes gnome >unavailable >without systemd. It is there because upstream requires it. There is no GNOME without systemd. This is not specific to Debian. -nik -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a sub

Re: Technical committee acting in gross violation of the Debian constitution

2014-11-17 Thread Dominik George
Hi, > Le lundi 17 novembre 2014 à 11:15 -0800, Don Armstrong a écrit : >> §6.3.6 does not prevent the CTTE from being presented an issue early. It >> stops the CTTE from deciding an issue before a consensus approach has >> been attempted. In this particular case, I felt that a consensus >> approac

Bug#712219: ITP: libjs-forge -- a native implementation of TLS in JavaScript

2013-06-14 Thread Dominik George
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Dominik George -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 ** Prerequisite for geierlein, ITP #695204 ** * Package name: libjs-forge Version : Upstream Author : Digital Bazaar, Inc. * URL : https://github.com

Bug#712215: ITP: libjs-gzip -- a pure JavaScript implementation of the GZIP file format

2013-06-14 Thread Dominik George
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Dominik George -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 ** Prerequisite for geierlein, ITP #695204 ** * Package name: libjs-gzip Version : 0.3.1 Upstream Author : T. Jameson Little * URL : htts://github.com/beatgammit

Bug#712220: ITP: libjs-jsxml -- XML/XSLT to DOM parser in JavaScript

2013-06-14 Thread Dominik George
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Dominik George -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 ** Prerequisite for geierlein, ITP #695204 ** * Package name: libjs-jsxml Version : Upstream Author : Anton Zorko * URL : http://jsxml.net * License : BSD

Bug#720984: ITP: minetest-mod-mesecons -- Minetest mod - Counterpart of Redstone

2013-08-26 Thread Dominik George
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Dominik George -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 * Package name: minetest-mod-mesecons Version : 0~20130821+git96011bc Upstream Author : Jeija * URL : http://www.mesecons.net * License : LGPL-3, CC-BY-SA

Bug#720997: ITP: minetest-mod-worldedit -- Minetest mod - ingame world editor

2013-08-26 Thread Dominik George
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Dominik George -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 * Package name: minetest-mod-worldedit Version : 1.0 Upstream Author : Dominik George * License : AGPL-3 Programming Lang: Lua Description : Minetest mod

Bug#721073: ITP: minetest-mod-pipeworks -- Minetest mod - Pipeworks

2013-08-27 Thread Dominik George
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Dominik George -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 * Package name: minetest-mod-pipeworks Version : 0~20130827+git59362e3d20 Upstream Author : Vanessa Ezekowitz * License : WTFPL Programming Lang: Lua Description

Bug#721086: ITP: minetest-mod-plantlife -- Minetest mod - Plantlife

2013-08-27 Thread Dominik George
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Dominik George -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 * Package name: minetest-mod-plantlife Upstream Author : Vanessa Ezetowski * License : WTFPL, CC-BY-SA-2.0+ Programming Lang: Lua Description : Minetest mod - Plantlife

Bug#721121: ITP: minetest-mod-moreores -- Minetest mod - More Ores

2013-08-28 Thread Dominik George
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Dominik George -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 * Package name: minetest-mod-moreores Upstream Author : Calinou * License : GPL-3+, CC-BY-SA-3.0 Programming Lang: Lua Description : Minetest mod - More Ores This mod

Bug#721193: ITP: minetest-mod-moreblocks -- Minetest mod - More Blocks

2013-08-28 Thread Dominik George
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Dominik George -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 * Package name: minetest-mod-moreblocks Upstream Author : Calinou * License : zlib/libpng Programming Lang: Lua Description : Minetest mod - More Blocks This mod adds

Bug#721197: ITP: minetest-mod-technic -- Minetest mod - Technic

2013-08-28 Thread Dominik George
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Dominik George -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 * Package name: minetest-mod-technic Upstream Author : RealBadAngel * License : GPL-2 Programming Lang: Lua Description : Minetest mod - Technic All technic stuff for

Bug#721200: ITP: minetest-mod-moretrees -- Minetest mod - more trees

2013-08-28 Thread Dominik George
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Dominik George -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 * Package name: minetest-mod-moretrees Upstream Author : Vanessa Ezekowitz * License : WTFPL Programming Lang: Lua Description : Minetest mod - more trees This mod adds

Bug#722309: ITP: minetest-mod-itemdrop -- Minetest mod - Item Drop

2013-09-09 Thread Dominik George
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Dominik George -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 * Package name: minetest-mod-itemdrop Upstream Author : PilzAdam * License : WTFPL Programming Lang: Lua Description : Minetest mod - Item Drop This mod adds Minecraft

Replacing unrar-free with unar wrapper

2013-09-23 Thread Dominik George
Hi, maintainers of unar and unrar-free, as you might have seen on the BTS, I have today filed a bug report on unrar-free and revisited an old bug, both of which make unrar-free largely unusable [1][2]. I found that unrar-free seems to be umaintained and has not had any commits by upstream for the

Re: Replacing unrar-free with unar wrapper

2013-09-25 Thread Dominik George
Howdy, here is a short update on the progress of the compatibility script. I have put together a shell script that accepts all command-lines that unrar-free or unrar-nonfree would accept and correctly parses them into internal variables. Doing so, I found that: - Both unrar-free and unrar-nonfr

Re: Replacing unrar-free with unar wrapper

2013-09-25 Thread Dominik George
Hi, > Not directly related to this, I noticed that unar depends on > gnustep-base-runtime, which in turn spawns the gdomap daemon. Is this > thing needed at all? I also noticed that. It comes from ${shlibs:Depends} in the package, so I figure it is indeed needed (the runtime, not the gdomap daemo

Re: Replacing unrar-free with unar wrapper

2013-09-25 Thread Dominik George
Hi, > This all sounds like a great idea, but I would suggest that rather than > attempt to be command-line compatible with the existing tool, you > clearly define a set of command line arguments and their corresponding > semantics that you *do* support, ensuring that it is an accurate and > correc

Re: dpkg-buildpackage creating uninstallable packages?

2013-09-30 Thread Dominik George
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 Norbert Preining schrieb: >On So, 29 Sep 2013, Stephen Kitt wrote: >> > Uninstall the libc6-amd64:i386 package. >> > See http://lists.debian.org/debian-mentors/2013/03/msg00139.html. >> >> But watch out for http://bugs.debian.org/699206 - make sur

Re: dpkg-buildpackage creating uninstallable packages?

2013-09-30 Thread Dominik George
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 Norbert Preining schrieb: >Hi Dominik, > >> Simply put: Because you made no effort to fix it :). > >Thanks for the very useful comment. > >Yes, I care for RC bugs in my own packages ... and that are quite >a lot. So no time to fix RC bugs of other

Re: how do deal with versionless mercurial software ?

2013-10-02 Thread Dominik George
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 Jerome BENOIT schrieb: >Hello, > >I am packaging a versionless library software maintained via a >mercurial repository. >Is there any custom for this case ? >If not, can we use the version format 'hgMMDD' ? > > >Best regards, >Jerome I tend t

Re: how do deal with versionless mercurial software ?

2013-10-02 Thread Dominik George
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 Hi, >What does 'XX' stand for ? The short commit hash, as proposed in your initial mail. >You should use a version derived from the date only. This way, you >won't be in >trouble if upstream switches to git. I absolutely do not see why this s

Re: how do deal with versionless mercurial software ?

2013-10-02 Thread Dominik George
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 >0~MMDD > >should be fine. It isn't, it is not a unique identifier for the one "release" you are packaging. - -nik -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: APG v1.0.8-fdroid iQFNBAEBCgA3BQJSTCxtMBxEb21pbmlrIEdlb3JnZSAobW9iaWxlIGtleSkgPG5p a0BuYX

Re: how do deal with versionless mercurial software ?

2013-10-02 Thread Dominik George
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 Wookey schrieb: >+++ Dominik George [2013-10-02 16:23 +0200]: >> >> >0~MMDD >> > >> >should be fine. >> >> It isn't, it is not a unique identifier for the one "release" you are &

Re: how do deal with versionless mercurial software ?

2013-10-02 Thread Dominik George
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 Dominique Dumont schrieb: >On Wednesday 02 October 2013 16:05:18 Dominik George wrote: >> >You should use a version derived from the date only. This way, you >> >won't be in >> >trouble if upstream switches to

Re: how do deal with versionless mercurial software ?

2013-10-02 Thread Dominik George
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 >A packager is not required to serve users with such specific needs. Hmm, I last saw that attitude when being explained "the Arch way". I established an advantage for the user using my proposal - go get me a disadvantage for the packager. That sa

Re: how do deal with versionless mercurial software ?

2013-10-04 Thread Dominik George
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 Vincent Lefevre schrieb: >Then, do you mean that VCS hashes are sortable? Of course not. One would have to do something like 0~MMDDnn+git in that rare case. My argument for keeping the VCS hash is to ease identifying the code in the pac

Bug#726393: general: Possible malware infections in source packages

2013-10-15 Thread Dominik George
Hi, I have looked into this a bit. > Some of the source packages were caught on a gateway anti-virus scanner while > downloading. Using a gateway anti-virus scanner for downloads from the Debian archive seems a bit inappropriate, well, paranoid. Checking the signed hashsums would seem a lot bett

Re: Bug#726393: general: Possible malware infections in source packages

2013-10-16 Thread Dominik George
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 Marc Haber schrieb: >On Tue, 15 Oct 2013 13:19:38 +0200, "Thijs Kinkhorst" > wrote: >>I'm missing why the package cannot use the EICAR test virus signature >for >>its purposes. > >eicar.com does not have a distributable license. I do not think it

Re: Bug#726393: general: Possible malware infections in source packages

2013-10-16 Thread Dominik George
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 Dominik George schrieb: >I do not think it is actually copyrightable software. It is a string >that was agreed in to trigger antivirus scanners, so it is more or less >a protocol. Consider the downloads at eicar.com reference >imp

Re: Propose Release Goals (delayed ;) - xz compression

2013-10-16 Thread Dominik George
Hi, > The only problem is that on small machines (things like the BeagleBone) > xz compression requires enough memory that you have to enable swap to > use dpkg. Now on a machine with a sensible disk this is not a problem, > but on a machine where the "disk" is an SD-card it is a disaster. corre

Bug#726660: ITP: morse2ascii -- tool for decoding the morse codes from a PCM WAV file

2013-10-17 Thread Dominik George
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Dominik George -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 * Package name: morse2ascii Version : 0.2 Upstream Author : Luigi Auriemma * URL : http://aluigi.altervista.org/mytoolz.htm * License : GPL-2

Bug#726668: ITP: dtmf2num -- tool for decoding the DTMF and MF tones from PCM wave files

2013-10-17 Thread Dominik George
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Dominik George -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 * Package name: dtmf2num Version : 0.1e Upstream Author : Luigi Auriemma * URL : http://aluigi.altervista.org/mytoolz.htm * License : GPL-2+ Programming

Re: Proposal: switch default desktop to xfce

2013-10-25 Thread Dominik George
Hi, > > * Does not depend on replacing init > > Wasn’t there some mention of xfce needing gnome-settings-daemon as well, > which would kinda defeat the point? Not as far as I can tell: nik@keks:~ $ apt-rdepends xfce4 | grep gnome

Re: Proposal: switch default desktop to xfce

2013-10-25 Thread Dominik George
> > xfswitch-plugin -> gdm3 -> gnome-settings-daemon > > xfswitch-plugin is suggested by xfce4-goodies, so irrelevant for this > discussion. However, I must admit that even if the standard XFCE installation does not depend on systemd, it would be even worse if a user came along and wanted to ext

Re: Proposal: switch default desktop to xfce

2013-10-25 Thread Dominik George
On Fri, Oct 25, 2013 at 01:06:02PM +0100, Jonathan Dowland wrote: > On Fri, Oct 25, 2013 at 02:02:48PM +0200, Dominik George wrote: > > However, I must admit that even if the standard XFCE installation does > > not depend on systemd, it would be even worse if a user came along an

Bug#666527: ITP: ssb-sprom -- A tool for modification of the Broadcom Sonics Silicon Backplane SPROM

2012-03-31 Thread Dominik George
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Dominik George -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 * Package name: ssb-sprom Version : 20120331 Upstream Author : Michael Buesch * URL : http://linuxwireless.org/en/users/Drivers/b43 * License : GPL-2

Re: privacy-breach-google-adsense: how to get rid of it ?

2013-12-25 Thread Dominik George
Hi, > is there a proper way to get rid of the recent > privacy-breach-google-adsense Lintian violation/error report [1] ? obviously, remove all Adsense and related spyware fetching code from your package. Cheers, Nik -- * concerning Mozilla code leaking assertion failures to tty without D-BUS

Re: privacy-breach-google-adsense: how to get rid of it ?

2013-12-25 Thread Dominik George
Hi, > Obviously, but the problem is that the involved html pages correspond to > the manual of my package so it sounds not reasonable to wipe them out: > is there any tools that may help to clean up the corrupted html pages ? I assume there are Adsense images included from the HTML docs in your p

Re: mupdf (Was: xpdf removed from testing?)

2014-01-14 Thread Dominik George
> I would love to have it *real* fullscreen >since > > f Toggles fullscreen mode. > >... but the rendered PDF remains in a small section in the middle of >the >window. Not sure whether this is a bug or a feature - but for >presentations ist seems I need to stick to evince. Or you cont

Re: mupdf (Was: xpdf removed from testing?)

2014-01-14 Thread Dominik George
>I also read this (I love that short docs) but there is a very thick >remaining gray frame - it seems the scaling is done only by integer >numbers which is for sure quick but the result is not what I want. Hmm. I cannot reproduce that, sorry! -nik -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ

Bug#736124: ITP: nxt-firmware -- Improved firmware for LEGO® Mindstorms® NXT bricks

2014-01-19 Thread Dominik George
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Dominik George -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 * Package name: nxt-firmware Version : 1.29-20120908 Upstream Author : Nicolas Schodet * URL : http://nxt-firmware.ni.fr.eu.org/ * License : LOSLA, MPL

Re: Valve games for Debian Developers

2014-01-23 Thread Dominik George
>That's belittled out non DM/DD people that are contributing too (and >probably >at the same level...) ;) Then, obviously, they should apply for DM. Seriously, I think we should stop begging for more. Valve's (subsidiary's) offer is a very kind move and I'd not abuse that community attitude. J

Tired of my fellow SysV supporters

2014-02-11 Thread Dominik George
Hi there, I think we all agree that the init system discussion is far away from what is good for the project, under any political andsocial aspect. I don't like systemd either, and I do not like the decision of the TC, but what annoys me most is the attitude of some (too many) of my fellow SysV s

State of Roundcube packaging in Debian?

2015-03-14 Thread Dominik George
partially fixed package was uploaded to unstable in January, but was not unblocked, and - is not in the package VCS Could you please elaborate a bit on the state of Roundcube in Debian, and what I (or others) could do to get it straight again? Cheers, Nik -- Dominik George (1

Bug#782749: general: All browsers except Links2 crash constantly and iceweasel is broken

2015-04-17 Thread Dominik George
Control: tags -1 + moreinfo Hi, > All browsers I have tried but Links2 crash constantly. Often they will not > run at all. Please provide more detail about this. Which browsers did you try: How did you install and start them? What do they output? > I expect the browsers to work and not crash

Re: Is the Debian dependency system broken? (wget vs libgnutls-deb0-28)

2015-06-14 Thread Dominik George
Hi, > Note that the problem still occurs on an available set of packages: > just start with a Debian/stable system (jessie) and upgrade > libgnutls-deb0-28 to unstable (no dependencies/conflicts will > yield an upgrade of wget, which will occasionally segfault). well, then, obviously, the depende

Bug#794468: general: no watchdog support in installer kernel

2015-08-03 Thread Dominik George
Package: general Severity: normal The Debian installer images for jessie apparently do not have watchdog support enabled in the kernel, so they do not send heartbeats to the BIOS. This results in the installer system aborting and the machine resetting after five minutes, or whatever the BIOS sees

Bug#912226: ITP: shelltux -- interactive bash tutorial

2018-10-29 Thread Dominik George
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Dominik George -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 * Package name: shelltux Version : not yet a versioned release Upstream Author : Gregor Mitsch * URL : https://framagit.org/feinstaub/shelltux * License

Mass bug-filing to move to python3-pygame

2018-10-31 Thread Dominik George
Hi, as the maintainer of pygame, I'd like to bring the move to Python 3 forward, and thus intend to ask all rdepends that are applications to try and move to python3-pygame. The packages are: angrydd ardentryst bambam bouncy bubbros childsplay deluge-gtk ffrenzy fofix freealchemist fr

Re: Mass bug-filing to move to python3-pygame

2018-10-31 Thread Dominik George
Hi, >that is fine in general. Since Python 2 is supported in Buster, please >use severity: normal for now. Most of these games are considered to be >complete and/or no longer supported upstream. If we want to preserve as >many of those games as possible, we should come up with a plan how we >can p

Re: I resigned in 2004

2018-11-10 Thread Dominik George
>But at the same time, I consider mine a very polite answer, without any >particularly accusatory wording or anything like that, nor I consider >any of what I wrote worthy of being replied with: >Fuck you. Do not contact me again. I shall consider >any further contact (from you or anyone else

Re: I resigned in 2004

2018-11-11 Thread Dominik George
> > he agreed with the CoC, > > He did not, the CoC didn't exist yet 14 years ago. He did, if not before, when he sent his mail to a mailing list @lists.debian.org. He might not have realised that, of course. -nik signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Re: I resigned in 2004

2018-11-11 Thread Dominik George
> I don't think that you can claim that the act of sending a mail to a > list @lists.debian.org can constitute an implied agreement to accept and > abide by the code of conduct. That is no different than "by reading > this, you are bound by these terms." No reasonable person would > consider eith

Re: Is using experimental distribution for shelter during freeze useful?

2018-11-27 Thread Dominik George
> Your thoughts? sid is not a rolling release for the public, it is a development area. Some users use it as a rolling release to get bleeding edge software, but in fact they become a developer that way (not meaning DD). If you think regular development prevents you from staying up to date durin

Nasty dependency/bug situation (with php-zmq, but applicable in general)

2018-12-03 Thread Dominik George
Hi everybody, situation is as follows: I have a package (movim) which just got accepted into sid, and used to work properly. It now turns out that it is broken with PHP 7.3 - or rather, php-zmq has issues with PHP 7.3 [1]. Now the situation is as follows: * The bug is in php-zmq, but only with

Bug#915387: ITP: ratchet-pawl -- Asynchronous WebSocket client for RatchetPHP

2018-12-03 Thread Dominik George
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Dominik George -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 * Package name: ratchet-pawl Version : 0.3.2 Upstream Author : Chris Boden * URL : https://github.com/ratchetphp/Pawl * License : MIT Programming Lang

Re: Bug#915050: (gitlab) Re: Bug#915050: Keep out of testing

2018-12-18 Thread Dominik George
>> We had volatile, which, redefined properly, could help. I am trying >to draft such a definition. > >Did you get a chance to work on it? I do have this on my todo list for around Christmas. People who know me that I deliberately leave out the year, but my intentions are 2018 ;). -nik

Proposal: Repository for fast-paced package backports

2018-12-25 Thread Dominik George
Heisann, alle sammen, as announced in the recent thread about maintaining, I hereby propose a repository that allows making “backports” of packages available to users of the stable distribution, if those packages cannot be maintained in testing and backported in the usual way. If you are intereste

Re: Proposal: Repository for fast-paced package backports

2018-12-25 Thread Dominik George
> We already told you to build your own repo. You should probably start with identifying the senders of mail correctly ☺. I am not the gitlab maintainer (and will never be). > Imho you should start the same way backports started - outside of > debian. > Prove that it works and integrate into Debi

Re: Proposal: Repository for fast-paced package backports

2018-12-25 Thread Dominik George
On Tue, Dec 25, 2018 at 10:11:43PM +0100, Alexander Wirt wrote: > https://lists.debian.org/debian-backports/2018/12/msg00028.html > > This wasn't about gitlab. Oh. I must have misread the "gitlab" in the subject, along withthe mail being sent to the gitlab maintainer, a gitlab bugreport in the B

Re: Proposal: Repository for fast-paced package backports

2018-12-25 Thread Dominik George
> In short: This proposal addresses the exact concerns you raised before > )although I am not the person you expressed them towards). Well, sure, I was involved in that thread, but only in the way that I announced a proposal (this one). Not in any of the stuff concerning adding something to -backp

Re: Proposal: Repository for fast-paced package backports

2018-12-25 Thread Dominik George
Hi, >having read the whole Gitlab discussion, I still don't get how/why the >new repository depends or relates to backports. Instead it could be >self-contained, except for stuff already available in stable. Couldn't >you roll the new repository entirely independent of any backports? Even >if you

Re: Proposal: Repository for fast-paced package backports

2018-12-25 Thread Dominik George
Hi, I like the general direction, but there are some aspects of your >proposal >which should be improved. Thanks! >> Other ideas: fastlane, unsupported > >Or maybe something like "fastpaced", after all this repo would not be >unsupported at all, the very point is to provide actual support after

Re: Proposal: Repository for fast-paced package backports

2018-12-25 Thread Dominik George
>Just to make things a bit clearer for people who may not have followed >some of the discussions on d-bp-users lately: the point is to be able >to >support fast-moving software with not-so-fast moving dependencies; >the dependencies may easily be backported without too large a burden >(their versio

Re: Proposal: Repository for fast-paced package backports

2018-12-25 Thread Dominik George
Hi, >I would, however, completely separate it from backports. I.e. > > - separate NEW queue > - different suffix > - no need to keep a volatile package out of testing > >Why? > > - volatile is a different beast from backports, this should be > very clear to both package maintainers and our users

Re: Proposal: Repository for fast-paced package backports

2018-12-25 Thread Dominik George
> - no need to keep a volatile package out of testing Oh, and yes. Having a package in testing means it will be supported for a stable lifecycle - a full contradiction to volatile! -nik

Re: Proposal: Repository for fast-paced package backports

2018-12-26 Thread Dominik George
>> I actually think volatile is a good name. After all, it's not so far >from the previous volatile. > >volatile is a very bad name for this because we've used it already for >something else. Well, I consider it more or less the same basic idea. The old and new ideas have more in common than not,

Re: Proposal: Repository for fast-paced package backports

2018-12-26 Thread Dominik George
Hi, On Wed, Dec 26, 2018 at 03:05:55PM +0100, gregor herrmann wrote: > (Can we keep this on one mailing list, please? /me restricts this to > -devel) No. This has the potential of keeping people who are directly impacted by this proposal out of the loop. > And besides that, I think the more univ

Re: Proposal: Repository for fast-paced package backports

2018-12-26 Thread Dominik George
> I don't want backports to contain things are are not suited for a > release. That's why we are doing all this. It is NOT about anything to backports. It is about adding something new that uses the same RULES as backports, with a slight diversion, and thus can also make use of infrastructure alre

Re: Proposal: Repository for fast-paced package backports

2018-12-26 Thread Dominik George
> >If there are other issues to solve than the lifespan of the package > >version, they must be solved in another way. > > I agree with you, it is the best outcome. But when people with power > (-backports ftp masters) are not willing to consider it, we have to go > with plan B, which is less than

Re: Proposal: Repository for fast-paced package backports

2018-12-26 Thread Dominik George
Hi, > 2. I am happy with the current charter of backports and I think it's > possible to move forward with fastpaced without having to change > that charter. Yep. That's exactly why the proposal changes nothing about -backports. I am still confused why Alex and you keep insisting that an

Re: Proposal: Repository for fast-paced package backports

2018-12-26 Thread Dominik George
> > - The package must not be in testing, and care must be taken for the > > package not to migrate to testing. > So what would a user of testing do? Will there be a $codename-volatile[1] > suite for testing users? Or would they directly install unstable with no > other pre-release staging gr

Re: Proposal: Repository for fast-paced package backports

2018-12-26 Thread Dominik George
> - Should the package begin to migrate to testing again, it must >be moved to stable-backports. > > - Using the same ~bpo version namespace Both of these poitns are there to *not* change anything about backports. If a package stops qualifying for -volatile, and starts qualifying for -backp

Re: Proposal: Repository for fast-paced package backports

2018-12-26 Thread Dominik George
> For backports the general supportability assumption is that you provide a > sane upgrade path from stable to the backports and from the backport to the > next stable (optimally the same package). Once you take the presence of the > stable package out of the mix, it becomes weird. How long do you

Re: Proposal: Repository for fast-paced package backports

2018-12-26 Thread Dominik George
Hi, > How to handle upgrades from stable to stable+1. Packages from backports > upgrade with no issues as stable+1 contains the same packages already > compiled for the stable+1. As long as the package is in -volatile, it is not in stable+1, and upgrades are ensured by the volatile maintainer. If

Re: Proposal: Repository for fast-paced package backports

2018-12-27 Thread Dominik George
Den 27. desember 2018 12:30:33 CET, skrev Holger Levsen : >On Wed, Dec 26, 2018 at 11:37:21PM +0100, Dominik George wrote: >> As long as the package is in -volatile > >FYI: as long as this proposal is been presented with the name -volatile >it's dead to me and saves me fro

Re: Proposal: Repository for fast-paced package backports

2018-12-27 Thread Dominik George
> Basically you would like to build an architecture equivalent to Ubuntu's > PPA No. Please at least try reading the thread first - it was explicitly explained several times that this has absolutely nothing to do with the idea of PPAs. -nik signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Bug#920896: ITP: python-asttokens -- annotate Python asbtract syntax trees with with code references

2019-01-30 Thread Dominik George
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Dominik George -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 * Package name: python-asttokens Version : 1.1.13 Upstream Author : Dmitry Sagalovskiy * URL : https://pypi.org/project/asttokens/ * License : Apache-2.0

Report from Debian BSP at tarent solutions GmbH, Bonn

2019-02-25 Thread Dominik George
Hi everybody, here is a short report from the bug squashing party, which took place at tarent solutions GmbH[1], Bonn, Germany, the last weekend. It was poartially sponsored by tarent solutions and partially by Teckids[2], with tarent sponsoring rooms and drinks, and Teckids sponsoring network and

Re: Bug#924270: O: keepassx -- Cross Platform Password Manager

2019-03-10 Thread Dominik George
Hi, > On Sun, Mar 10, 2019 at 03:14:07PM -0400, Reinhard Tartler wrote: > > I am undecided whether or not this package should be included in Debian > > 10 (aka buster). It clearly is useful to many people, but its long-term > > maintenance is unclear. > > keepassxc is also going to be in Debian 1

Bug#927225: ITP: upass -- console UI for password-store

2019-04-16 Thread Dominik George
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Dominik George -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 * Package name: upass Version : 0.3.0 Upstream Author : Chris Warrick * URL : https://github.com/Kwpolska/upass * License : BSD-3-clause Programming Lang

Re: Suspending Offer to Reimburse Expenses for Attending Future Bug Squashing Parties

2019-06-08 Thread Dominik George
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 Hi, > I'm hurt reading your message and Holger's. > I wrote to the project saying that the current situation sucked for me. > I got some great offers of help and I think this issue will be easy to > resolve. > > But then I got a message from holger

Re: Generating new IDs for cloning

2019-08-15 Thread Dominik George
>than you think, either bind-mount tons of filesystem from the host, >and this is only safe-ish if both run sysvinit Like most of the time, your allegation is lacking any facts and sources. Why should that not work on systemd? -nik

Re: Generating new IDs for cloning

2019-08-15 Thread Dominik George
>Longer answer: it’s complicated, but I’m sure there’s >a set of bind and non-bind mounts that will work for >systemd as well. > >Back to topic now. Or I’m going pet the cat. Well, it *is* on topic. I have been using the same strategy for sysvinit and systemd systems for many years with great suc

Bug#1035108: ITP: rdflib-sqlalchemy -- RDFLib store using SQLAlchemy dbapi as back-end

2023-04-29 Thread Dominik George
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Dominik George X-Debbugs-Cc: debian-devel@lists.debian.org -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 * Package name: rdflib-sqlalchemy Version : 0.5.4 Upstream Contact: Mark Watts * URL : https://github.com/RDFLib/rdflib

Re: Questionable Package Present in Debian: fortune-mod

2023-08-18 Thread Dominik George
> So, let's at least be consistent. Totally agree with that. Debian is not a collection of harmful content, it is an operating system. But, unfortunately, there are too many people in the project who think, in the name of "free speech", protecting racists, nazists, and anarchists is more impor

Re: Questionable Package Present in Debian: fortune-mod

2023-08-19 Thread Dominik George
>The mission you have chosen for yourself, then, is to identify all those >things in the Debian distribution that are not constitutive of an >operating system. That is a major part of the work of a Debian Developer, and the ftp-master team. Packages are evaluated for eligibility to enter the dist

Re: Questionable Package Present in Debian: fortune-mod

2023-08-20 Thread Dominik George
Hi Marvin, >This is simply and blatantly incorrect. Debian is a distribution. To some, that is the same. If you think describing Debian as an "operating system", then for a start, you should go and propoae to update the banner on the front page of https://debian.org/ -nik

[RFC] Extending project standards to services linked through Vcs-*

2023-08-21 Thread Dominik George
Heisann, [ for reference, the general discussion was held in 2019 already, in a slightly ] [ too big context [3]. ] as many of you will know, I am heavily involved in tearing down obstacles in the way of contributing to free and open sour

Re: [RFC] Extending project standards to services linked through Vcs-*

2023-08-21 Thread Dominik George
Hi, On Mon, Aug 21, 2023 at 09:48:26AM -0700, Russ Allbery wrote: > Dominik George writes: > > > For the GitHub case, the problematic terms would be that in order to > > register for a GitHub account, users must be at least 13 or 16 years old > > (depending on the ju

Re: [RFC] Extending project standards to services linked through Vcs-*

2023-08-21 Thread Dominik George
Hi, > have you considered dgit? no, as that's something entirely different. dgit does not manage source packages in Git, it provides a Git frontend to source packages not managed in Git. -nik signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Re: [RFC] Extending project standards to services linked through Vcs-*

2023-08-21 Thread Dominik George
Hi, > As an aside, unless something has changed very recently, GH does not > give you a way to disable PRs (issues yes but not PRs). > > If that has suddenly become possible, I have around a thousand > projects I help maintain upstream on a non-GitHub (open source) code > forge and would love to

Re: Hosting the original youtube-dl sources on salsa?

2020-10-29 Thread Dominik George
Hi, On Thu, Oct 29, 2020 at 04:59:53PM -0300, Rogério Brito wrote: > Since the tree was taken down (and, to boot, of the 18 forks listed in the > takedown request, mine was explicitly listed), I fear that me uploading the > lastest tree to GitHub is asking for trouble. > > Given this situation, c

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