Re: is Wayland/Weston mature enough to be the default desktop choice in Buster?

2019-04-12 Thread John Scott
> Even then, AFAIR Qt does not enable Wayland support by default, and it > might need the following environment variables Having installed the packages, I'm able to choose KDE's Wayland session from SDDM and it works out-of-the-box. Applications don't run with Xwayland, and I've stumbled on some

Bug#1035318: ITP: golang-github-bemasher-rtltcp -- Go library interface to an rtltcp daemon

2023-04-30 Thread John Scott
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: John Scott X-Debbugs-Cc: debian-devel@lists.debian.org Control: block 1025210 by -1 * Package name: golang-github-bemasher-rtltcp * URL : https://github.com/bemasher/rtltcp * License : AGPLv3 Programming Lang: Go Description

Re: [External] Re: Intel SOF audio firmware packaging

2020-12-08 Thread John Scott
> firmware could also be built but dependencies would be hard to > package/maintain - as I understood - those need a forked xtensa > compiler. I'm adopting the firmware-ath9k-htc package at the moment, which also uses a forked xtensa compiler and is built from source. Rather than package the cus

Re: Making Debian available

2021-01-17 Thread John Scott
On Sunday, January 17, 2021 6:06:15 AM EST Bjørn Mork wrote: > All these USB devices work only because they come with firmware on a largish > flash. That's not the complete case. Of the modern libre USB WiFi dongles I know of, carl9170 (firmware for AR9170 chips) is included in firmware-linux-free

Re: Making Debian available

2021-01-24 Thread John Scott
On Sunday, January 24, 2021 7:19:58 AM EST Bjørn Mork wrote: > What we are left with is users who are offended by the mere existence of > non-free binaries on a Debian image, and who see this as significantly > worse than the non-free firmware in their NIC, SSD, EC, CPU etc. The reason why, say, wi

Bug#986778: ITP: gcc-sh-elf -- GNU C compiler for embedded SuperH devices

2021-04-11 Thread John Scott
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: John Scott X-Debbugs-Cc: debian-devel@lists.debian.org, pkg-electronics-de...@alioth-lists.debian.net Control: block -1 by 912271 980889 * Package name    : gcc-sh-elf   Upstream Author : GNU Project * URL : https://gcc.gnu.org * License

Re: debian 11 Bullseye RC 1

2021-05-29 Thread John Scott
On Sat, 2021-05-29 at 07:27 -0400, Timothy M Butterworth wrote: > Can anyone suggest a WiFi USB adapter that works with debian? (Disclaimer: I'm the maintainer of the firmware-ath9k-htc package, and ThinkPenguin, one of the vendors, has compensated me for my work.) I suggest getting a wireless ad

Re: debian 11 Bullseye RC 1

2021-05-29 Thread John Scott
On Sat, 2021-05-29 at 23:26 +0500, Andrey Rahmatullin wrote: > > On Sat, 2021-05-29 at 07:27 -0400, Timothy M Butterworth wrote: > > > Can anyone suggest a WiFi USB adapter that works with debian? > > > > (Disclaimer: I'm the maintainer of the firmware-ath9k-htc package, > > and ThinkPenguin, one

Bug#994625: ITP: carl9170fw -- libre firmware for AR9170 USB wireless adapters

2021-09-18 Thread John Scott
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: John Scott X-Debbugs-Cc: debian-devel@lists.debian.org, debian-ker...@lists.debian.org Control: block -1 by 986778 Control: block 890601 by -1 Control: affects -1 linux-firmware-free * Package name    : carl9170fw   Version : 1.9.9-399-gcd480b9

Re: Bug#980889: RFP: binutils-sh-elf -- cross binary utilities for SuperH bare-metal systems

2021-10-22 Thread John Scott
On Fri, 2021-10-22 at 11:18 +0200, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote: > I had a look at the package and it throws a number of lintian errors. Are you > planning to address these or are they common for all binutils-$ARCH-elf > packages > we currently have in Debian? I believe you're referring to debi

Bug#1025210: ITP: rtlamr -- RTL-SDR receiver for smart utility meters

2022-11-30 Thread John Scott
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: John Scott X-Debbugs-Cc: debian-devel@lists.debian.org, debian-h...@lists.debian.org, debian...@lists.debian.org * Package name    : rtlamr   Version : 0.9.1   Upstream Author : Douglas Hall * URL : https://github.com/bemasher/rtlamr

Bug#1033888: ITP: usbscale -- read weight data from a USB scale

2023-04-03 Thread John Scott
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: John Scott Tags: newcomer X-Debbugs-Cc: debian-devel@lists.debian.org * Package name    : usbscale   Upstream Contact: Eric Jiang * URL : https://github.com/erjiang/usbscale * License : GPL 3.0 or any later version   Programming Lang: C

Re: What is going on with atomics?

2025-01-21 Thread John Scott
Hello everyone, (TL;DR at the end) I've mostly been lurking on Debian mailing lists for a long time, so if you don't know me, I'm John, a Debian Maintainer working on a couple cross toolchains for building the device firmware that *is* free from source, but I pitch in on many packages here and