Re: Linux Future

2013-01-22 Thread Mike Hommey
On Tue, Jan 22, 2013 at 03:05:58PM +0100, Josselin Mouette wrote: > Le mardi 22 janvier 2013 à 14:57 +0100, Svante Signell a écrit : > > Worthwhile to read, definitely. > > Yet full of misinformation, like the idea that using D-Bus makes a > service less scriptable (while the reality is a complet

Re: Bug#602034: jpeg8 vs jpeg-turbo

2013-04-24 Thread Mike Hommey
On Wed, Apr 24, 2013 at 05:01:50PM +0300, Riku Voipio wrote: > Libjpeg-turbo website [3] has all the signs of an healthy open source > project - A SVN repo with many commiters, bug tracker, a mailing list > with open discussion etc. libjpeg-turbo is also used by webkit, blink, and gecko. Mike -

Re: jessie release goals

2013-05-09 Thread Mike Hommey
On Mon, May 06, 2013 at 02:49:57PM +0200, Andreas Beckmann wrote: > Hi, > > now might be the right time to start a discussion about release goals > for jessie. Here are some points that come into my mind right now (and > some were already discussed very recently): > > * multiarch compatible binNM

Re: Upcoming switch to ESR24 for iceweasel in stable-security

2014-01-17 Thread Mike Hommey
On Fri, Jan 17, 2014 at 06:11:29PM -0400, David Prévot wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA256 > > Hi, > > Le 16/01/2014 17:36, Moritz Mühlenhoff a écrit : > > > quick heads up for everyone maintaining xul-ext-* packages: > > (CCing pkg-mozext-maintainers@lado then) > > > We

Re: jquery debate with upstrea

2014-03-12 Thread Mike Hommey
On Wed, Mar 12, 2014 at 11:02:27PM +0100, Joachim Breitner wrote: > Hi, > > Am Mittwoch, den 12.03.2014, 18:37 -0300 schrieb Lisandro Damián Nicanor > Pérez Meyer: > > > Do you (or anyone) know if it repacks the file consistently? I.e. will > > > two developers, who both use uscan to get the origi

Re: jquery debate with upstrea

2014-03-12 Thread Mike Hommey
On Thu, Mar 13, 2014 at 08:06:14AM +0800, Paul Wise wrote: > On Thu, Mar 13, 2014 at 6:14 AM, Mike Hommey wrote: > > > I guess it just unpacks, removes and repacks. Which also means it would > > be quite annoying in my own workflow which involves unpacking/repacking > &g

Re: Debian default desktop environment

2014-04-08 Thread Mike Hommey
On Tue, Apr 08, 2014 at 11:53:21AM +0200, Josselin Mouette wrote: > Le lundi 07 avril 2014 à 23:55 +0100, Wookey a écrit : > > +++ Kevin Chadwick [2014-08-27 20:55 +0100]: > > > It also supports focus follows mouse, no raise on click > > > > I had forgotten, but this was the 'killer feature' tha

Re: preparing for GCC 4.9 (bug squashing on May 16/17)

2014-05-18 Thread Mike Hommey
On Tue, May 13, 2014 at 02:56:39PM +0200, Matthias Klose wrote: > With gcc-4.9 now available in testing, it is time to prepare for the change of > the default to 4.9, for a subset of architectures or for all (release) > architectures. The defaults for the gdc, gccgo, gcj and gnat frontends > alre

Re: Why not 03 ?

2014-05-29 Thread Mike Hommey
On Thu, May 29, 2014 at 12:21:06PM -0700, Russ Allbery wrote: > Xavier Roche writes: > > > I have a rather silly question: most (all ?) packages are built by > > default with -02 - something which is inherited from autotool's '-g -O2' > > default flagsd, I presume. > > > Is -O3 considered too da

Re: open(URL) and how to distinguisch between iceweasel instances?

2011-03-24 Thread Mike Hommey
On Thu, Mar 24, 2011 at 03:40:17PM +0100, Michelle Konzack wrote: > Hello *, > > there are several programs which open(URL) and span external webbrowsers > like "icewesel2. The problem I am encountering is, if you use several > profiles and have them open like "private", "devel" and "electronic

Re: Bug#622172: ITP: git-hg -- Script to track mercurial repositories in git

2011-04-10 Thread Mike Hommey
On Sun, Apr 10, 2011 at 11:22:24PM +0600, Andrey Rahmatullin wrote: > Package: wnpp > Severity: wishlist > Owner: Andrey Rahmatullin > > * Package name: git-hg > Version : 20110408-1 > Upstream Author : Barak A. Pearlmutter > * URL : https://github.com/barak/git-hg >

Re: Question about the version of debian

2011-04-16 Thread Mike Hommey
On Sat, Apr 16, 2011 at 04:09:45PM +0100, Ben Hutchings wrote: > On Sat, 2011-04-16 at 09:19 +0200, Josselin Mouette wrote: > > Le mercredi 13 avril 2011 à 14:02 +0100, Ben Hutchings a écrit : > > > On Wed, 2011-04-13 at 20:47 +0800, YANG,Chao wrote: > > > > dpkg --print-architecture shows > > > >

Re: Crypto consolidation in debian ?

2011-04-27 Thread Mike Hommey
On Wed, Apr 27, 2011 at 10:25:30AM +0200, Marco d'Itri wrote: > On Apr 27, Bastian Blank wrote: > > > On Tue, Apr 26, 2011 at 07:20:55PM +0200, Marco d'Itri wrote: > > > The reason is that the kind of entities which require FIPS 140 probably > > > also tend to require corporate vendor support, wh

Re: Bits from the Release Team - Kicking off Wheezy

2011-04-30 Thread Mike Hommey
On Sat, Apr 30, 2011 at 07:48:54AM +, Philipp Kern wrote: > On 2011-04-30, Raphael Hertzog wrote: > > On Fri, 29 Apr 2011, Andreas Barth wrote: > >> People try out new things in experimental, and it seems to work mostly > >> well to get new stuff migrated from there via unstable to testing onc

Re: mozilla.d.n (was: Bits from the Release Team - Kicking off Wheezy)

2011-04-30 Thread Mike Hommey
On Sat, Apr 30, 2011 at 01:06:57PM +0200, Andreas Barth wrote: > * Mike Hommey (m...@glandium.org) [110430 12:16]: > > That being said, it would be really helpful to be able to get buildds > > to build the mozilla.d.n packages... > > Would it work to build the packages in uns

Re: mozilla.d.n (was: Bits from the Release Team - Kicking off Wheezy)

2011-04-30 Thread Mike Hommey
On Sat, Apr 30, 2011 at 02:18:06PM +0200, Andreas Barth wrote: > * Mike Hommey (m...@glandium.org) [110430 13:28]: > > On Sat, Apr 30, 2011 at 01:06:57PM +0200, Andreas Barth wrote: > > > * Mike Hommey (m...@glandium.org) [110430 12:16]: > > > > That being said, it

Re: mozilla.d.n

2011-04-30 Thread Mike Hommey
On Sat, Apr 30, 2011 at 08:30:26PM +0200, Andreas Barth wrote: > * Mike Hommey (m...@glandium.org) [110430 17:57]: > > On Sat, Apr 30, 2011 at 02:18:06PM +0200, Andreas Barth wrote: > > > * Mike Hommey (m...@glandium.org) [110430 13:28]: > > > > On Sat, Apr 30, 201

Re: Bits from the Release Team - Kicking off Wheezy

2011-04-30 Thread Mike Hommey
On Sun, May 01, 2011 at 01:32:19AM +0200, Pierre Habouzit wrote: > FWIW I think that "rolling" or "CUT" miss the point entirely. As a > Debian user I use stable on my servers (with a few backports for the 3-4 > things I need bleeding edge for). For my desktop I use unstable, and > when that breaks

Re: PPAs for Debian

2011-05-03 Thread Mike Hommey
On Wed, May 04, 2011 at 01:23:12AM -0400, Scott Kitterman wrote: > On Wednesday, May 04, 2011 12:16:54 AM Paul Tagliamonte wrote: > > On Wed, May 4, 2011 at 12:02 AM, Julien Valroff wrote: > > > Le mercredi 04 mai 2011 à 00:02:01 (+0200 CEST), René Mayorga a écrit : > > >> On Tue, May 03, 2011 at

Debian x86 32-bits built for i586 !?

2011-05-15 Thread Mike Hommey
Hi, I just found out that gcc is compiled with --with-arch-32=i586, which effectively means it builds with -march=i586 by default (and that it still claims an i486-linux-gnu target). I'm wondering. Is the project at large aware that we're not building for i486, but for i586 ? That even the mainta

Re: Link-time optimization in debian packages

2011-06-05 Thread Mike Hommey
On Sun, Jun 05, 2011 at 01:18:43PM +0200, Emil Langrock wrote: > Hi, > > I have currently the problem that I have to use large, computing intensive > applications [1,2]. These are usually implemented in many source files. I > used > in the past pseudo c files which include all other c files [3]

Re: debian-ppc port for ps3-otheros++

2011-06-26 Thread Mike Hommey
On Sun, Jun 26, 2011 at 10:35:08PM +0100, Ben Hutchings wrote: > On Sun, 2011-06-26 at 08:04 -0400, Durandal Dokucheyav wrote: > > Hello, > > > > I am contacting you guys on behalf of http://gitbrew.org. We have > > recently released the otherOS++ firmware for the Sony Playstation 3, > > allowing

Re: [kfreebsd] massive report for uninstallable FUSE packages

2011-07-16 Thread Mike Hommey
On Sat, Jul 16, 2011 at 04:10:18PM +0200, Robert Millan wrote: > Hi! > > There are 23 packages in unstable which can't be installed on Debian > GNU/kFreeBSD because of their unconditional dependency on fuse-utils. > On this platform, fuse4bsd should be used instead. > > I indent to file one bug r

Re: [Lennart Poettering] Re: A few observations about systemd

2011-07-18 Thread Mike Hommey
On Mon, Jul 18, 2011 at 01:22:37PM -0700, Steve Langasek wrote: > On Sun, Jul 17, 2011 at 06:51:17PM +0200, Lennart Poettering wrote: > > In fact, a minimal systemd system will win in almost very aspect against > > a remotely similarly powerful sysvinit system: you will need much fewer > > processe

Re: [Lennart Poettering] Re: A few observations about systemd

2011-07-18 Thread Mike Hommey
On Mon, Jul 18, 2011 at 04:03:41PM -0700, Steve Langasek wrote: > On Mon, Jul 18, 2011 at 11:14:39PM +0200, Mike Hommey wrote: > > > I'm sure that systemd does much better than a traditional sysvinit boot > > > with > > > /bin/bash and no dependency-based b

Re: A few observations about systemd

2011-07-19 Thread Mike Hommey
On Tue, Jul 19, 2011 at 02:00:40PM +0100, Ian Jackson wrote: > Ben Hutchings writes ("Re: A few observations about systemd"): > > What's more, neither of the 'ports' to other kernels increases hardware > > support. > > What they do provide is healthy competition for Linux. There are > reasons why

Re: [Lennart Poettering] Re: A few observations about systemd

2011-07-20 Thread Mike Hommey
On Wed, Jul 20, 2011 at 04:31:24PM +0200, Marco d'Itri wrote: > On Jul 20, Russ Allbery wrote: > > > > Again, why? > > ZFS is a pretty big one. > It is about as stable as BTRFS on Linux, so I do not see either a > compelling argument right now. BTRFS ? stable ? You must be living in the future.

Re: .la file removal, multiarch for plugins

2011-07-21 Thread Mike Hommey
On Thu, Jul 21, 2011 at 10:51:44AM +, Philipp Kern wrote: > On 2011-07-19, Steve Langasek wrote: > > If we're talking about shared libraries, this is a non issue. the .la file > > is named like the .so symlink, i.e. without the soname; dlopening a shared > > library without specifying an sona

Re: Fwd: Re: BLAST+ speed & build issues

2011-08-04 Thread Mike Hommey
On Thu, Aug 04, 2011 at 01:50:01PM +0200, Yves-Alexis Perez wrote: > On jeu., 2011-08-04 at 13:27 +0200, Samuel Thibault wrote: > > Julian Taylor, le Thu 04 Aug 2011 12:32:27 +0200, a écrit : > > > You might be able to reduce startup time by only linking against the > > > libraries you need or lazy

Re: Bug#637454: RFP: bluegriffon -- Next Generation WYSIWYG HTML editor based on Gecko

2011-08-11 Thread Mike Hommey
On Thu, Aug 11, 2011 at 04:54:37PM +0200, Axel Beckert wrote: > Package: wnpp > Severity: wishlist > > * Package name: bluegriffon > Version : 1.1.1 > Upstream Author : Disruptive Innovations, > http://www.disruptive-innovations.com/ > Daniel Glazman >

Re: Bug#637454: RFP: bluegriffon -- Next Generation WYSIWYG HTML editor based on Gecko

2011-08-11 Thread Mike Hommey
On Thu, Aug 11, 2011 at 05:46:41PM +0200, Axel Beckert wrote: > Hi Mike, > > Mike Hommey wrote: > > > Description : Modern WYSIWYG HTML editor based on Gecko > > > > Yay, one more copy of the gecko engine :( > > Your fear it won't be able t

Spending Debian money for porter boxes [Was: The archive now supports xz compression]

2011-08-20 Thread Mike Hommey
On Sun, Aug 14, 2011 at 09:19:02PM +0200, Lucas Nussbaum wrote: > On 11/08/11 at 19:52 +, Philipp Kern wrote: > > On 2011-08-11, Adam Borowski wrote: > > >> Think of both user systems and the Debian buildds which will waste more > > >> time - an especially bad problem on slower architectures.

Re: buildd machines vs. resource-hungry packages (ITK)

2011-09-16 Thread Mike Hommey
On Fri, Sep 16, 2011 at 10:06:58PM -0500, Steve M. Robbins wrote: > Hi, > > I am having a huge problem getting insighttoolkit (ITK) to build due > to the fact that it takes a huge amount of disk, memory, and time to > build. In fact, the build is now generally failing because either > disk or mem

Re: Bits from dpkg developers - dpkg 1.16.1

2011-09-28 Thread Mike Hommey
On Wed, Sep 28, 2011 at 10:52:15PM +0300, Riku Voipio wrote: > On Tue, Sep 27, 2011 at 06:01:54PM -0700, Kees Cook wrote: > > Just to be explicit, PIE tends to have small (<1%) performance hits on > > register-starved architectures (i386) in most cases, for for certain work > > loads (e.g. python)

Re: Find out what symbols in dynamic library have not been compiled with -fPIC

2014-12-24 Thread Mike Hommey
On Wed, Dec 24, 2014 at 11:03:56PM +0100, Dmitry Katsubo wrote: > Dear Debian developers, > > When trying to create a package that includes the library, I am reported > the following error by lintian: > > E: libosra1: shlib-with-non-pic-code usr/lib/libosra.so > > I understand what the problem i

Re: Developer repositories for Debian

2015-05-05 Thread Mike Hommey
On Sun, May 05, 2013 at 02:22:04PM +0200, Joerg Jaspert wrote: > Hello world, > > Now with wheezy happy and out the door, we should finally tackle a long > open issue. Developer repositories (AKA PPA) for Debian. Now with jessie happy and out the door, what is the status of Developer repositories

Re: Developer repositories for Debian

2015-05-11 Thread Mike Hommey
On Sat, May 09, 2015 at 09:23:26AM +0200, Mechtilde wrote: > Hello > > Am 05.05.2015 um 23:45 schrieb Mike Hommey: > > On Sun, May 05, 2013 at 02:22:04PM +0200, Joerg Jaspert wrote: > >> Hello world, > >> > >> Now with wheezy happy and out the door, we sh

Re: libre version of iceweasel

2015-06-10 Thread Mike Hommey
On Wed, Jun 10, 2015 at 11:42:19AM +0200, Wouter Verhelst wrote: > On Wed, Jun 10, 2015 at 12:40:45AM +0200, Marco d'Itri wrote: > > On Jun 09, Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton wrote: > > > > > open question: is there a perceived need to dig into the source code > > > of firefox and, just as was done

Re: The Spirit of Free Software, or The Reality

2015-07-14 Thread Mike Hommey
On Wed, Jul 15, 2015 at 03:51:42AM +0200, Bas Wijnen wrote: > On Wed, Jul 15, 2015 at 01:06:28AM +0200, Jakub Wilk wrote: > > POST > > https://safebrowsing.google.com/safebrowsing/downloads?client=Iceweasel&appver=38.1.0&pver=2.2&key=no-google-api-key > > + a few dozens of GET requests to https://

Re: The Spirit of Free Software, or The Reality

2015-07-14 Thread Mike Hommey
On Wed, Jul 15, 2015 at 01:06:28AM +0200, Jakub Wilk wrote: > GET http://www.ebay.com/favicon.ico > GET http://en.wikipedia.org/favicon.ico > GET http://www.yahoo.com/favicon.ico > GET http://www.google.com/favicon.ico > GET http://www.amazon.com/favicon.ico > GET http://www.yahoo.com/favicon.ico >

Re: The Spirit of Free Software, or The Reality

2015-07-14 Thread Mike Hommey
On Wed, Jul 15, 2015 at 01:09:47PM +0800, Paul Wise wrote: > On Wed, Jul 15, 2015 at 12:26 PM, Mike Hommey wrote: > > > FUD is easy. How about documenting yourself on how Safe browsing > > actually works? Hint: urls are _never_ sent to Google. The worst thing > > that Goo

Re: Re: The Spirit of Free Software, or The Reality

2015-07-15 Thread Mike Hommey
On Wed, Jul 15, 2015 at 03:50:18PM +, Christoph Riehl wrote: > > On Wed, Jul 15, 2015 at 03:51:42AM +0200, Bas Wijnen wrote: > > > On Wed, Jul 15, 2015 at 01:06:28AM +0200, Jakub Wilk wrote: > > > > POST > https://safebrowsing.google.com/safebrowsing/downloads?client=Iceweasel&appver=38.1.0

Re: The Spirit of Free Software, or The Reality

2015-07-15 Thread Mike Hommey
On Wed, Jul 15, 2015 at 02:18:08PM +0200, Bas Wijnen wrote: > On Wed, Jul 15, 2015 at 01:26:16PM +0900, Mike Hommey wrote: > > On Wed, Jul 15, 2015 at 03:51:42AM +0200, Bas Wijnen wrote: > > > On Wed, Jul 15, 2015 at 01:06:28AM +0200, Jakub Wilk wrote: > >

Re: The Spirit of Free Software, or The Reality

2015-07-15 Thread Mike Hommey
On Wed, Jul 15, 2015 at 12:56:29PM +0100, Ian Jackson wrote: > Nikolaus Rath writes ("Re: The Spirit of Free Software, or The Reality"): > > On Jul 15 2015, Jakub Wilk wrote: > > > So I made this experiment with Iceweasel. These are the requests it > > > makes with a fresh profile, before you even

Re: The Spirit of Free Software, or The Reality

2015-07-15 Thread Mike Hommey
On Wed, Jul 15, 2015 at 01:07:00PM +0100, Ian Jackson wrote: > > BTW, that's something that would need to be resolved once and for all by > > an SPI lawyer, because a) Mozilla's lawyers consider those icons kocher > > as MPL-licensed icons and b) that's a problem broader than just > > iceweasel, as

Re: The Spirit of Free Software, or The Reality

2015-07-17 Thread Mike Hommey
On Fri, Jul 17, 2015 at 02:38:12PM +0800, Paul Wise wrote: > On Thu, Jul 16, 2015 at 6:17 AM, Mike Hommey wrote: > > > I, myself, find our DFSG-freeness pickiness going too far, and I'm sick > > of this icon thing. So, here's what I'm going to do: unless I hear

Re: The Spirit of Free Software, or The Reality

2015-07-17 Thread Mike Hommey
On Sat, Jul 18, 2015 at 12:57:41AM +0800, Paul Wise wrote: > On Fri, Jul 17, 2015 at 9:03 PM, Thorsten Glaser wrote: > > > You could make a screenshot from where the original icons are shown, > > then re-encode those tiny 16x16px thingies into new *.ico files with > > GIMP. This is sorta like taki

Re: The Spirit of Free Software, or The Reality

2015-07-18 Thread Mike Hommey
On Sat, Jul 18, 2015 at 01:09:37PM +0800, Paul Wise wrote: > On Sat, Jul 18, 2015 at 6:26 AM, Mike Hommey wrote: > > > Screenshots of games during play are not the same as logos. > > Are you saying that screenshots of logos aren't derivative works of those > logos? I

Re: The Spirit of Free Software, or The Reality

2015-07-19 Thread Mike Hommey
On Sun, Jul 19, 2015 at 12:36:15PM +0200, Florian Weimer wrote: > * Bas Wijnen: > > > I have some experience with safe browsing, but indeed I have not > > looked up how it works. I do know that it continuously sends data > > to Google, and I have quite a bit of confidence in their capability > >

Bug#793404: massive waste of CPU time in debian/rules by inline commands

2015-07-23 Thread Mike Hommey
On Thu, Jul 23, 2015 at 09:08:15PM +0200, Jakub Wilk wrote: > * Eduard Bloch , 2015-07-23, 19:43: > >The problem: I see lots of $(shell ...) stuff. In boost, there are about > >12 such calls. And they run dpkg-architecture or dpkg-parsechangelogs or > >similar commands. When this was done a just co

Re: Uncoordinated upload of the rustified librsvg

2018-11-07 Thread Mike Hommey
On Wed, Nov 07, 2018 at 01:21:44PM -0800, Josh Triplett wrote: > > I have worked with the Rust upstream sources > > well enough to know these issues. You have a regression in Rust 1.25 and > > you will have a very hard time trying to bisect the issues simply because > > you cannot even build 1.25 u

Re: Tainted builds (was Re: usrmerge -- plan B?)

2018-11-29 Thread Mike Hommey
On Thu, Nov 29, 2018 at 09:07:46AM -0200, Antonio Terceiro wrote: > On Wed, Nov 28, 2018 at 07:02:07PM +0100, Bastian Blank wrote: > > On Wed, Nov 28, 2018 at 02:48:32PM -0200, Antonio Terceiro wrote: > > > Would you be willing to also implement > > > Tainted-By: not-built-in-a-chroot > > > ? > >

Re: Rebuilding the entire Debian archive twice on arm64 hardware for fun and proft

2019-01-07 Thread Mike Hommey
On Mon, Jan 07, 2019 at 10:28:31AM +, Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton wrote: > On Sun, Jan 6, 2019 at 11:46 PM Steve McIntyre wrote: > > > > [ Please note the cross-post and respect the Reply-To... ] > > > > Hi folks, > > > > This has taken a while in coming, for which I apologise. There's a lot

Re: Rebuilding the entire Debian archive twice on arm64 hardware for fun and proft

2019-01-07 Thread Mike Hommey
On Mon, Jan 07, 2019 at 11:46:41PM +, Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton wrote: > On Tuesday, January 8, 2019, Mike Hommey wrote: > > > . > > > > Note that Firefox is built with --no-keep-memory > > --reduce-memory-overheads, and that was still not enough for 32-bts &

Re: .deb format: let's use 0.939, zstd, drop bzip2

2019-05-08 Thread Mike Hommey
On Wed, May 08, 2019 at 09:04:49PM +, Jeremy Stanley wrote: > On 2019-05-08 22:35:58 +0200 (+0200), Ansgar wrote: > > Adam Borowski writes: > > > I've recently did some research on how can we improve the speed of > > > unpacking > > > packages. There's a lot of other stages that can be improv

Re: .deb format: let's use 0.939, zstd, drop bzip2

2019-05-09 Thread Mike Hommey
On Wed, May 08, 2019 at 09:01:27PM -0400, Michael Stone wrote: > On Thu, May 09, 2019 at 07:37:55AM +0800, Paul Wise wrote: > > On Thu, May 9, 2019 at 1:38 AM Adam Borowski wrote: > > > > > Thus, even though we'd want to stick with xz for the official archive, > > > speed > > > gains from zstd ar

Re: Debian 13 release schedule and Debian 15 codename announcement

2023-07-05 Thread Mike Hommey
On Wed, Jul 05, 2023 at 10:50:34PM +0200, Joaquín Rufo Gutierrez wrote: > Hello Debian users, > > We are happy to announce that Debian 13, codenamed "Trixie", is > expected to be released sometime in 2024, following the usual 2-year > release cycle. Bookworm was released in 2023. The usual 2-year

Re: xz backdoor

2024-04-02 Thread Mike Hommey
On Wed, Apr 03, 2024 at 02:01:23AM -0400, Robert Edmonds wrote: > This backdoor abused the IFUNC mechanism in the GNU toolchain to hook into > the sshd process. Looking on my Debian sid workstation with about 1900 library > packages installed, I see a very small handful of source packages shipping

Re: d/changelog and experimental

2019-12-03 Thread Mike Hommey
On Mon, Dec 02, 2019 at 11:21:12PM -0800, Russ Allbery wrote: > Paolo Greppi writes: > > > What is the best approach for d/changelog when releasing a package to > > unstable after it has been through a few iterations to experimental ? > > > It would seem that the right thing to do is to keep all

Re: Backports needed for Firefox/Thunderbird ESR 78 in Buster/Stretch

2020-09-01 Thread Mike Hommey
On Tue, Sep 01, 2020 at 07:17:29PM +0200, Moritz Muehlenhoff wrote: > On Tue, Sep 01, 2020 at 04:35:42PM +0200, Emilio Pozuelo Monfort wrote: > > On 01/09/2020 14:05, Christoph Martin wrote: > > > Hi, > > > > > > I am not shure if I can help, but I can try and have a look at it. > > > > > > Yes p

Re: synaptics vs libinput and GNOME 3.20 no longer supporting synaptics

2016-07-11 Thread Mike Hommey
On Tue, Jul 12, 2016 at 07:48:44AM +0300, Lars Wirzenius wrote: > On Tue, Jul 12, 2016 at 09:36:16AM +1000, Russell Stuart wrote: > > Briefly: synaptics is much better touchpad driver than libinput. > > For me, the opposite is true. After Raphael's mail yesterday, I > switched from the synaptics d

Re: [Pkg-dns-devel] Bug#833309: "Browserified" stuff (knot-resolver-module-http: please package embedded epoch.js separately)

2016-10-12 Thread Mike Hommey
On Thu, Oct 13, 2016 at 05:48:00AM +, Niels Thykier wrote: > W. Martin Borgert: > > On 2016-10-12 21:41, Vincent Bernat wrote: > >> ❦ 12 octobre 2016 18:54 CEST, Martín Ferrari : > >>> I had always understood that rebuilding from source was a hard > >>> requirement. Is this not the case any m

Re: Hiding library packages from apt searches by default? (was: Re: Worthless node-* package descriptions in ITPs)

2017-01-07 Thread Mike Hommey
On Sat, Jan 07, 2017 at 07:32:12PM +, Riku Voipio wrote: > On Thu, Jan 05, 2017 at 02:32:45PM +0100, Christian Seiler wrote: > > On 01/05/2017 02:06 PM, Jonas Smedegaard wrote: > > > Quoting Riku Voipio (2017-01-05 12:53:16) > > >> Vast majority of users would only install this via dependencies

Re: De-Branding of Icedove, reintroducing Thunderbird packages into Debian

2017-02-16 Thread Mike Hommey
On Wed, Feb 15, 2017 at 12:35:52PM -0500, Christoph Goehre wrote: > Hi Debian Developers and followers, > > Thunderbird is back in Debian! We also renamed other related packages to > use official names, e.g. iceowl-extension -> lightning. > > For now, we need testers to catch existing issues and

Re: Firefox 60esr on Stretch ?

2018-05-03 Thread Mike Hommey
On Thu, May 03, 2018 at 02:29:59PM +0200, Julien Cristau wrote: > On 05/03/2018 02:09 PM, Julien Aubin wrote: > > Hi > > > > Firefox 60esr is due for next week. > > > > As of now Debian Stretch is bound to Firefox ESR 52 which reaches EOL > > soon. The problem is that it becomes less and less usa

Re: Firefox 60esr on Stretch ?

2018-05-07 Thread Mike Hommey
On Tue, May 08, 2018 at 09:01:20AM +0800, Paul Wise wrote: > On Thu, May 3, 2018 at 8:29 PM, Julien Cristau wrote: > > > I expect nothing much different from previous ESR cycles: stretch will move > > to 60 after 52 goes EOL in September. > > Does anyone know when firefox-esr in unstable will swi

Re: Should the weboob package stay in Debian?

2018-07-21 Thread Mike Hommey
On Sun, Jul 22, 2018 at 09:39:51AM +0900, Marc Dequènes (duck) wrote: > Quack, > > It seems the project is leaving the decision about Weboob onto me, so I'll > try to address it. > > The diversity statement tells me we should welcome others even if they are > very different and with conflicting o

Re: Should the weboob package stay in Debian?

2018-07-22 Thread Mike Hommey
On Sun, Jul 22, 2018 at 11:28:32PM +0200, Romain Bignon wrote: > On 22/Jul - 10:15, Marc Dequènes (duck) wrote: > > > but... https://git.weboob.org/weboob/devel/merge_requests/232 > > > > Thanks for pointing this out. It's not in yet and I've just asked upstream > > to clean this mess. > > This i

Re: Should the weboob package stay in Debian?

2018-07-26 Thread Mike Hommey
On Thu, Jul 26, 2018 at 02:44:56PM +0200, Stephan Seitz wrote: > On Do, Jul 26, 2018 at 01:59:08 +0200, Martin Steigerwald wrote: > > Stephan Seitz - 26.07.18, 11:10: > > > I don’t understand the problem. No one forces anyone to keep the > > > package in Debian. Upstream made clear it isn’t interes

Re: Limiting the power of packages

2018-10-03 Thread Mike Hommey
On Wed, Oct 03, 2018 at 08:19:17PM +0300, Lars Wirzenius wrote: > The problem: when a .deb package is installed, upgraded, or removed, > the maintainer scripts are run as root and can thus do anything. > > Sometimes what they do is an unwelcome surprise to the user. For > example, the Microsoft Sk

Re: Automatic way to install dbgsym packages for a process?

2017-08-08 Thread Mike Hommey
On Tue, Aug 08, 2017 at 04:02:59PM +0200, Vincent Lefevre wrote: > On 2017-08-08 15:53:34 +0200, Stefan Fritsch wrote: > > Now, where to put it? Into devscripts? The disadvantage is that devscripts > > already pulls in quite a few other packages via recommends. But I don't > > have a better idea.

Re: Packaging of static libraries

2016-04-10 Thread Mike Hommey
On Sun, Apr 10, 2016 at 02:28:02PM +0100, Alastair McKinstry wrote: > > > On 10/04/2016 08:05, Andreas Tille wrote: > > Hi, > > > > > The only use case I could imagine is to create an executable that can > > > run outside of Debian. > Static builds are still common in (parts of) scientific co

Re: Packaging of static libraries

2016-04-10 Thread Mike Hommey
On Mon, Apr 11, 2016 at 06:44:45AM +0100, Alastair McKinstry wrote: > > > On 10/04/2016 23:08, Mike Hommey wrote: > > On Sun, Apr 10, 2016 at 02:28:02PM +0100, Alastair McKinstry wrote: > >> > >> On 10/04/2016 08:05, Andreas Tille wrote: > >>>

Re: Interaction between dpkg's directory removal and dpkg-maintscript-helper

2016-05-05 Thread Mike Hommey
On Fri, May 06, 2016 at 02:16:32AM +0200, Iustin Pop wrote: > Hi, > > I'm not sure if this is a bug or if I'm doing something wrong, looking > for advice. If one wants to deprecate a conffile locate in an otherwise > empty directory (let's say /etc/foo/bar), the following happens at new > package

Re: Supporting alternative zlib implementations

2024-09-24 Thread Mike Hommey
On Wed, Sep 25, 2024 at 01:55:17AM +0200, Guillem Jover wrote: > Hi! > > On Wed, 2024-09-25 at 00:39:10 +0200, Fay Stegerman wrote: > > * Guillem Jover [2024-09-24 17:45]: > > > Personally, I think fully migrating from zlib to zlib-ng would sound > > > great (even for trixie), but I guess we can

Bug#1083111: ITP: git-cinnabar -- Git remote helper to interact with mercurial repositories

2024-10-01 Thread Mike Hommey
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Mike Hommey X-Debbugs-Cc: debian-devel@lists.debian.org * Package name: git-cinnabar Version : 0.7.0~beta.2 Upstream Contact: Mike Hommey * URL : https://github.com/glandium/git-cinnabar * License : MPL-2.0 and GPL-2.0

Re: Should l10n packages be Recommends or Suggests?

2024-12-05 Thread Mike Hommey
On Thu, Dec 05, 2024 at 01:02:29PM -0800, Josh Triplett wrote: > In the future, if users can easily filter out locale data, we could > decide that that's the easier path to support such users, and that fewer > package maintainers need to maintain separate -l10n packages. The future is 14 years old

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