Re: Urgent help with upload of netatalk to prevent being autoremoval from testing

2024-06-29 Thread IOhannes m zmölnig
Am 29. Juni 2024 13:32:40 MESZ schrieb Daniel Markstedt : > >Normally I would be more patient, but right now netatalk is slated to get >removed from Trixie testing on July 4th due to one of the bugs >(libgcrypt-config deprecation.) > I cannot offer any action right now (busy IRL as well), but: d

Re: Packaging certain libraries as "end-user software"

2015-07-21 Thread IOhannes m zmölnig
On 07/19/2015 11:06 AM, Eduard Bloch wrote: > ... even if there are no users who care! And won't care in > future because it's clear that upstream is not using a stable API. since the sceintific community was mentioned as the background for these users: i doubt whether they won't care *because* it

Re: Security concerns with minified javascript code

2015-08-30 Thread IOhannes m zmölnig
On 08/28/2015 01:14 AM, Russ Allbery wrote: > Bas Wijnen writes: > > Last time I checked, Doxygen includes minified Javascript in all of its > generated output. Would we have to move every piece of Doxygen-generated > documentation into a separate package so that we could put it in contrib, > or

Re: Is there a generic canonical way for a package script to check network connectivity?

2023-10-09 Thread IOhannes m zmölnig
Am 9. Oktober 2023 09:17:07 MESZ schrieb Thomas Goirand : >After many wrong designs, I ended up having a process that pings the service I >need to access to, Unless of course there is some paranoid firewall that considers ICMP malicious and therefore blocks pings. (We had that at university her

Re: ITP: art/6.1-1 --ASCII art

2023-10-22 Thread IOhannes m zmölnig
Am 23. Oktober 2023 02:33:37 MESZ schrieb Yogeswaran Umasankar : >Package: wnpp >Owner: Yogeswaran Umasankar >Severity: wishlist > >* Package name     : art >   Version          : 6.1-1 >   Upstream contact : Sepand Haghighi > * URL              : https://github.com/sepandhaghighi/art > * Licens

Re: reference Debian package of multiple binaries sharing one man page

2023-11-10 Thread IOhannes m zmölnig
Am 10. November 2023 20:20:35 MEZ schrieb Norwid Behrnd : >Hello, > >I seek a maintained Debian package which provides multiple binaries sharing one >man page in common -- do you know an example? > faust mfh.her.fsr IOhannes

Re: Signature strength of .dsc

2023-12-08 Thread IOhannes m zmölnig
Am 8. Dezember 2023 18:56:00 MEZ schrieb Simon Josefsson : > >I think that is unfortunate and not sustainable over time: you need to >have access to the public keys to verify old signatures, and for as long >as the old signatures are published we should make a public keyring for >them easily availa

Re: Another take on package relationship substvars

2024-02-22 Thread IOhannes m zmölnig
Am 22. Februar 2024 20:25:32 MEZ schrieb Boyuan Yang : >在 2024-02-22星期四的 19:32 +0100,Niels Thykier写道: >> I think our package helper tooling should just automatically aggregate >> all provided substvars of the format ${*:Depends} and append it the >> Depends field. Rinse and repeat for other relat

Re: Another take on package relationship substvars

2024-02-24 Thread IOhannes m zmölnig
Am 24. Februar 2024 11:26:56 MEZ schrieb Bernd Zeimetz : >On Thu, 2024-02-22 at 20:52 +0100, IOhannes m zmölnig wrote: >> >> While I like the idea in general, I wonder how I could override these >> automatic additions. >> I think there are some packages that even demot

Re: Firmware - what are we going to do about it?

2022-04-22 Thread IOhannes m zmölnig
Am 22. April 2022 07:18:50 MESZ schrieb Andreas Tille : >Am Thu, Apr 21, 2022 at 10:12:19AM -0700 schrieb Russ Allbery: >> >> I've been a Debian Developer for quite some time and can usually manage to >> figure out most tasks like this, and providing separate firmware to the >> installer has compl

Bug#1030189: Let regular users know need to put non-free-firmware in sources.list

2023-02-01 Thread IOhannes m zmölnig
Am 1. Februar 2023 01:30:10 MEZ schrieb Dan Jacobson : >So he must do Google Search. Do you think this problem only affects make users? mfh.her.fsr IOhannes

Re: Adding epoch to kworkflow package to correct a wrong upstream version

2023-03-12 Thread IOhannes m zmölnig
Am 12. März 2023 15:58:00 MEZ schrieb Simon McVittie : >On Sun, 12 Mar 2023 at 09:15:35 +0100, Tobias Frost wrote: >> >> > Version 20191112-1.2 was created because the upstream had no official >> > release at that time; for this reason, the 20191112-1.2 was created and >> > named based on a date.

Re: Adding epoch to kworkflow package to correct a wrong upstream version

2023-03-12 Thread IOhannes m zmölnig
Am 12. März 2023 19:13:46 MEZ schrieb Peter Wienemann : >Dear IOhannes, > >On 12.03.23 18:48, IOhannes m zmölnig wrote: >> Could lintian warn when a date based version is used? > >Lintian already does this - see [0]. Ah. Thx. Praise to the lintian maintainers then, and so

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

2024-11-06 Thread IOhannes m zmölnig
Am 6. November 2024 00:35:59 MEZ schrieb Aaron Rainbolt : > > >* Add a "Weak-Depends" field to the list of binary dependency control > fields in the Debian Policy Manual section 7.2, with a definition > very similar to the existing definition for "Recommends". >* Change the definition of the "Rec

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

2024-11-07 Thread IOhannes m zmölnig
Am 8. November 2024 06:42:25 MEZ schrieb Marc Haber : >Agreed! And I would also love the possibility to directly paste a >package list from apt show's output into apt install without having to >remove the commas. > This! mfh.her.fsr IOhannes

Re: Is Salsa CI easy to use for anyone learning Debian packaging?

2024-12-30 Thread IOhannes m zmölnig
Am 30. Dezember 2024 11:40:31 MEZ schrieb Thomas Goirand : >On 12/28/24 22:52, Simon Josefsson wrote: >> Is it possible to configure Salsa so instead of using the GitLab default >> of .gitlab-ci.yml it uses debian/salsa-ci.yml if that file exists but >> otherwise falls back to recipes/debian.yml@sa

Re: Musings about Usernames in adduser and Debian

2024-12-13 Thread IOhannes m zmölnig
Am 13. Dezember 2024 13:08:01 MEZ schrieb Stephan Seitz : > >I don’t need non-ASCII for my name but I would never use a system that would >forces me to rewrite my name in ASCII because it is so utterly broken in 2024. >I bet there is no problem on Windows systems. > > Stephan > Incidental

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

2025-03-07 Thread IOhannes m zmölnig
Am 8. März 2025 00:14:10 MEZ schrieb Thorsten Glaser : >Otto Kekäläinen wrote: > >> I think this a reasonable suggestion by Soren. […] > >Incidentally, the suggestion is good as illegible on a I think I'm misunderstanding something here, because - assuming you attached the screenshot as an examp

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

2014-07-28 Thread IOhannes m zmölnig (Debian/GNU)
-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

2014-07-29 Thread IOhannes m zmölnig (Debian/GNU)
-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

2014-08-01 Thread IOhannes m zmölnig (Debian/GNU)
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

2014-05-05 Thread IOhannes m zmölnig (Debian/GNU)
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

2015-07-16 Thread IOhannes m zmölnig (Debian/GNU)
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