Re: Bug#1074176: packages.debian.org: allow seeing files

2024-06-24 Thread Soren Stoutner
bin/filelist > but cannot click them to see their contents. -- Soren Stoutner so...@debian.org [1] https://sources.debian.org/src/gdal/3.9.1~rc2%2Bdfsg-1~exp1/ signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part.

Re: Mini-DebConf in Cambridge, UK - October 10-13 2024

2024-06-24 Thread Soren Stoutner
Sweden and chill > > > Let's keep the discussion civil shall we ? You're sending mail to the Debian > > devel list which is read and parsed by many, many people and bots in a > > plethora of environments. This is not the right place for profanity. Take > > care > > > > > -- Soren Stoutner so...@debian.org signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part.

Re: Q: Ubuntu PPA induced version ordering mess.

2024-07-01 Thread Soren Stoutner
one. As a general rule, I wouldn’t expect a user to keep a PPA package installed when switching to an official package. There is generally no guarantee that upgrading from a PPA package to an official one will work without errors. Or, once the official package had entered the system, they could

Re: Q: Ubuntu PPA induced version ordering mess.

2024-07-01 Thread Soren Stoutner
f the *users* to do so. In my mind, the users always come first when making these types of decisions. -- Soren Stoutner so...@debian.org signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part.

Re: Q: Ubuntu PPA induced version ordering mess.

2024-07-01 Thread Soren Stoutner
o is already running Linux instead of Windows, is fully capable of handling a “downgrade” to an official package. Asking users to remove the PPA they manually added and install an official package doesn’t really seem like that hard of an ask to me. -- Soren Stoutner so...@debian.org signature.asc

Re: Q: Ubuntu PPA induced version ordering mess.

2024-07-01 Thread Soren Stoutner
and debian/ directories. > > On other words, a rather good example on when an epoch makes sense. > > --alec -- Soren Stoutner so...@debian.org [1] https://opencpn.org/OpenCPN/info/downloadopencpn.html signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part.

Re: Q: Ubuntu PPA induced version ordering mess.

2024-07-01 Thread Soren Stoutner
cumstance, adding an epoch is the best way forward. It allows you to maintain the current upstream program version number, while unifying the Debian, Ubuntu, and PPA version numbers in such a way that packages from those repositories can be used interchangeably. -- Soren Stoutner so..

Re: DD's, Debian Mentors needs you!

2024-07-06 Thread Soren Stoutner
; time on the 'devel' list works, this could become a weekly thing. > > [1] https://mentors.debian.net > > Regards > > Phil -- Soren Stoutner so...@debian.org signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part.

Re: DD's, Debian Mentors needs you!

2024-07-06 Thread Soren Stoutner
t; Mentor page: > https://mentors.debian.net/package/selint/ > Request For Sponsorship (RFS): > https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=1074592 > > Your assistance will be extremely appreciated and if announcing a few at a > time on the 'devel' list works, t

Re: Bug#1033747: chromium: Build Chromium without the embedded libtiff

2024-07-29 Thread Soren Stoutner
On Monday, July 29, 2024 1:28:31 PM MST Andres Salomon wrote: > On 7/29/24 16:10, Soren Stoutner wrote: > I replaced the first three steps with a single 'tar --exclude-from', so > that we save time by not writing deleted files to disk only to manually > delete them: >

Re: Request for feedback on draft: DEP-18: Enable true open collaboration on all Debian packages

2024-08-03 Thread Soren Stoutner
workflow (or a very small number of workflows) that all packages are expected to follow, both for packaging and for collaboration. -- Soren Stoutner so...@debian.org signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part.

Re: Request for feedback on draft: DEP-18: Enable true open collaboration on all Debian packages

2024-08-03 Thread Soren Stoutner
strong benefit for all packages, whether or not they are team maintained. > If as a project this has to change, I think a vote is warranted. Absolutely. This is such a core aspect of Debian that any changes or mandates would need to involve a vote. -- Soren Stoutner so...@debian.org signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part.

Re: Help me with publishing package

2024-08-26 Thread Soren Stoutner
, 2024 4:38:11 AM MST Вероника Кабанкова wrote: > I have this repo https://github.com/vo6i/termux-package.git and work pckg > for Termux, how I can upload in Debian Distro Repository? -- Soren Stoutner so...@debian.org signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part.

Re: lintian.debian.org off ?

2024-09-03 Thread Soren Stoutner
ers (efficient once you know how to do it, but it shouldn’t be that hard to approach as a new maintainer). In my work mentoring new maintainers, I find that they also run into a lot of confusion that would be easily resolved if the links on mentors.debian.net just pointed them in the right directi

Bug#1081971: ITP: python-construct-classes -- Python module for parsing and packing data classes

2024-09-16 Thread Soren Stoutner
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Soren Stoutner X-Debbugs-Cc: debian-devel@lists.debian.org * Package name: python-construct-classes Version : 0.1.2 Upstream Contact: matejcik * URL : https://github.com/matejcik/construct-classes/tree/main * License

Re: Any volunteers for lintian co-maintenance?

2024-05-09 Thread Soren Stoutner
I would like to respectfully disagree will some of the opinions expressed in this email. First, I should say that I am painfully aware of how long it takes to run lintian on large packages. When working on qtwebengine-opensource-src it takes my system (Ryzen 7 5700G) about 2 hours to build t

Re: Any volunteers for lintian co-maintenance?

2024-05-10 Thread Soren Stoutner
Niels, On Friday, May 10, 2024 3:18:29 AM MST Niels Thykier wrote: > Soren Stoutner: > > I would like to respectfully disagree will some of the opinions expressed in > > this email. > Hi Soren > > Not sure if we disagree all that much to be honest. :) Yes, I th

Bug#1031755: ITP: privacybrowser -- web browser that respects your privacy

2023-02-21 Thread Soren Stoutner
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Soren Stoutner X-Debbugs-Cc: debian-devel@lists.debian.org * Package name: privacybrowser Version : 0.1 Upstream Contact: Soren Stoutner * URL : https://www.stoutner.com/privacy-browser-pc/ * License : (GPLv3

Re: lintian deps in current Sid

2024-10-15 Thread Soren Stoutner
main contrib > non-free non-free-firmware. > If I can help with an apt list --installed or something, let me know. > > Cheers, > Alexandru Mihail -- Soren Stoutner so...@debian.org [1] https://lists.debian.org/debian-devel-announce/2024/10/msg1.html signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part.

Bug#1085285: ITP: ruby-with-advisory-lock -- Advisory locking (mutexes) for ActiveRecord when used with MySQL or PostgreSQL

2024-10-17 Thread Soren Stoutner
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Soren Stoutner X-Debbugs-Cc: debian-devel@lists.debian.org * Package name: ruby-with-advisory-lock Version : 5.1.0 Upstream Contact: Matthew McEachen * URL : https://github.com/ClosureTree/with_advisory_lock * License

Bug#1085286: ITP: python-pyinstaller-hooks-contrib -- Community hooks for PyInstaller

2024-10-17 Thread Soren Stoutner
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Soren Stoutner X-Debbugs-Cc: debian-devel@lists.debian.org * Package name: python-pyinstaller-hooks-contrib Version : 2024.9 Upstream Contact: PyInstaller Development Team * URL : https://github.com/pyinstaller/pyinstaller-hooks

Re: Bug#1084798: ITS: aiocoap

2024-10-09 Thread Soren Stoutner
t; > > Last maintainer upload was more than 5 years ago. > > Last commit to git on salsa was on February 2019. > > > > If no objection, I will proceed to upload of latest upstream version > > in 21 days. > > > > Best Regards, -- Soren Stoutner so...@debian.org signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part.

Re: Bug#1084798: ITS: aiocoap

2024-10-09 Thread Soren Stoutner
On Wednesday, October 9, 2024 9:00:38 PM MST Soren Stoutner wrote: > On Tuesday, October 8, 2024 10:48:54 PM MST Agustin Henze wrote: > > Hey Mazen, thanks for adopting this package :). Please don't wait for 21 > > days, feel free to upload it now. > > Waiting 21 days

Bug#1084906: ITP: python-pyinstaller -- bundle a Python application and all its dependencies into a single package

2024-10-10 Thread Soren Stoutner
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Soren Stoutner X-Debbugs-Cc: debian-devel@lists.debian.org * Package name: python-pyinstaller Version : 6.10.0 Upstream Contact: David Cortesi * URL : https://pyinstaller.org/en/stable/ * License : GPL-2 and Apache-2.0

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

2024-11-07 Thread Soren Stoutner
ced to some of the proposals do not apply to this proposal. If having this type of option would be helpful (and if the maintainers of apt don't have objections to someone implementing this) than I also do have any objections as it doesn't cause any extra work for package maintainers in

Bug#1086975: ITP: feather-wallet -- Small and fast Monero desktop wallet

2024-11-07 Thread Soren Stoutner
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Soren Stoutner X-Debbugs-Cc: debian-devel@lists.debian.org * Package name: feather-wallet Version : 2.7.0 Upstream Contact: The Monero Project * URL : https://github.com/feather-wallet/feather * License : BSD

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

2024-11-06 Thread Soren Stoutner
interests of Debian users. Unless you can point to a systematic problem with Recommends in Debian (which the examples you have presented so far have not shown), I don’t think upstream Debian is the place to fix the particular needs of your derivative distribution. -- Soren Stoutner so...@debian.org signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part.

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

2024-11-06 Thread Soren Stoutner
I would find an additional category unnecessary and even confusing, especially because users already have the option to not auto-install recommended packages if they really don’t want them (which usually comes down to space-saving concerns, especially on embedded systems). -- Soren Stoutner so..

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

2024-11-06 Thread Soren Stoutner
On Wednesday, November 6, 2024 10:41:46 PM MST Aaron Rainbolt wrote: > Again, this isn't a problem limited to a derivative distribution. I > respect that your opinion of how Recommends should work differs from > mine. That doesn't change the policy though, and it doesn't change that > neglecting or

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

2024-11-06 Thread Soren Stoutner
at, set your system to not automatically install recommended packages, and then you can manually install whatever you want to get all the features of the app to work correctly. But please don’t mess up Recommends working correctly for the rest of us. -- Soren Stoutner so...@debian.org signatur

Re: Misc Developer News (#60)

2024-11-25 Thread Soren Stoutner
a Dell Precision 3800M, 16GB RAM, on an SSD drive (a computer from early 2015): > >Format Tarball size Time > >.xz ~100MB 179,60s user 7,09s system 75% cpu 4:07,49 total >.gz ~150MB 38,51s user 6,13s system 83% cpu 53,423 total >.zst ~139MB 22,68s user 6,28s system 74% cpu 38,868 total So, more than 1 second, but 22 seconds with .zst doesn’t feel too bad. -- Soren Stoutner so...@debian.org signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part.

Re: Misc Developer News (#60)

2024-11-25 Thread Soren Stoutner
stem 74% cpu 38,868 total > > IIRC these times are for tarball creation (incl. downloading and > apt). Unpacking is AFAICT a lot faster in many cases. Locally it > feels like <1s. Thanks. I see I misunderstood what was being stated on the website. -- Soren Stoutner so...@debian.org signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part.

Re: DEP-0, DEP0 or DEP 0?

2024-11-18 Thread Soren Stoutner
Thanks! > > I vote for DEP-0. I actually think that using two merge requests like this with the thumbs-up options is a really good way to get group feedback without the need for a large number of emails. For simple decisions like this, I would hope we do more of it. -- Soren Stoutner so...@debian.org signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part.

Re: Simpler git workflow for packaging with upstreamless repositories

2024-11-18 Thread Soren Stoutner
id, but if you want an example of me explaining how to use gbp on Debian Mentors you can take a look at: https://lists.debian.org/debian-mentors/2024/09/msg00057.html And yes, it is a steep learning curve. -- Soren Stoutner so...@debian.org signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part.

Re: DEP-0, DEP0 or DEP 0?

2024-11-14 Thread Soren Stoutner
#x27;t care which spelling we choose, I just want it to be consistent. While it obviously wasn’t standardized from the beginning, I am in favor of it becoming standardized. Of all the available options, I personally like DEP-0 the best. -- Soren Stoutner so...@debian.org signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part.

Re: Misc Developer News (#60)

2024-11-26 Thread Soren Stoutner
On Tuesday, November 26, 2024 12:27:22 PM MST Andrey Rakhmatullin wrote: > On Tue, Nov 26, 2024 at 12:21:55PM -0700, Soren Stoutner wrote: > > > > # Specify the distribution, -d > > > > $distribution = 'unstable'; > > > > > > Setting t

Re: Misc Developer News (#60)

2024-11-26 Thread Soren Stoutner
Johannes, On Monday, November 25, 2024 11:37:41 PM MST Johannes Schauer Marin Rodrigues wrote: > Hi, > > Quoting Soren Stoutner (2024-11-26 01:07:06) > > > I suppose I should note that I have made a few modifications to the example > > file because it wasn’t behaving as

Re: Misc Developer News (#60)

2024-11-26 Thread Soren Stoutner
On Tuesday, November 26, 2024 3:17:45 AM MST Jochen Sprickerhof wrote: > Hi Soren, > > * Soren Stoutner [2024-11-25 16:57]: > >I am not able to get the example unshare .sbuildrc to work with piuparts. > > > >0m0.0s DEBUG: Unpacking /home/soren/.cache/sbuild/unstable-

Re: Misc Developer News (#60)

2024-11-26 Thread Soren Stoutner
On Tuesday, November 26, 2024 12:23:00 PM MST Soren Stoutner wrote: > On Tuesday, November 26, 2024 3:17:45 AM MST Jochen Sprickerhof wrote: > > Hi Soren, > > > > * Soren Stoutner [2024-11-25 16:57]: > > >I am not able to get the example unshare .sbuildrc to work wi

Re: Misc Developer News (#60)

2024-11-27 Thread Soren Stoutner
On Monday, November 25, 2024 4:57:50 PM MST Soren Stoutner wrote: > On Saturday, November 23, 2024 2:20:45 PM MST Philipp Kern wrote: > > Debian buildds are using sbuild with unshare now > > > > > > The wanna-build team

Re: Misc Developer News (#60)

2024-11-25 Thread Soren Stoutner
ermitted tar: ./dev/tty: Cannot mknod: Operation not permitted tar: ./dev/urandom: Cannot mknod: Operation not permitted tar: ./dev/zero: Cannot mknod: Operation not permitted tar: Exiting with failure status due to previous errors Does anyone have any pointers as to the root of the problem? -- Soren Stoutner so...@debian.org signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part.

Re: Misc Developer News (#60)

2024-11-25 Thread Soren Stoutner
On Monday, November 25, 2024 4:57:50 PM MST Soren Stoutner wrote: > On Saturday, November 23, 2024 2:20:45 PM MST Philipp Kern wrote: > > The news are collected on https://wiki.debian.org/DeveloperNews > > Please contribute short news about your work/plans/subproject. > &g

Re: Epoch accept request for plasma-dialer and spacebar

2024-11-30 Thread Soren Stoutner
this correctly, > but I'm not so experienced so any hint is welcome. > > Is it fine for the Debian project to add the epoch to these 2 apps' > version number? I would agree that this is an appropriate use of an epoch, and I can’t think of any other way to handle the situation. -- Soren Stoutner so...@debian.org signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part.

Re: Bits from DPL

2024-12-02 Thread Soren Stoutner
ontributor’s experiences with Debian are closer to what I experienced with Guix than what I experienced with Debian. If we can change that, I think we would see an influx of contributions to the project. -- Soren Stoutner so...@debian.org signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part.

Re: Problems to find sponsors (Was: Bits from DPL)

2024-12-04 Thread Soren Stoutner
On Wednesday, December 4, 2024 10:30:34 AM MST Andreas Tille wrote: > Am Mon, Dec 02, 2024 at 06:15:22PM -0700 schrieb Soren Stoutner: > > I think one of the best things we could do to attract new contributors, and > > to encourage those who are currently Sponsored Maintainers to

Re: Bits from DPL / Feedback on attracting newcomers

2024-12-04 Thread Soren Stoutner
yond all the things we have previously tried. And as far as I can tell, having a really good onboarding process that doesn’t depend on having real-life contact with a Debian Developer is something that has never been tried. -- Soren Stoutner so...@debian.org signature.asc Description: This is

Re: Bits from DPL

2024-12-04 Thread Soren Stoutner
On Wednesday, December 4, 2024 2:30:05 PM MST Richard Lewis wrote: > Soren Stoutner writes: > > On Monday, December 2, 2024 9:32:27 AM MST Andreas Tille wrote: > >> Attracting newcomers > >> > >> > >> In my own talk[mt3], I reg

Re: Musings about Usernames in adduser and Debian

2024-12-03 Thread Soren Stoutner
adduser in > the Red Hat World uses --badname to allow such names as well. > > I would love to hear your opinion. Silence is agreement ;-) > > Greetings > Marc > > > ¹ RFC 8264, RFC 8265, and Unicode TR 15 linked in this thread were > educating for me -- Soren Stoutner so...@debian.org signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part.

Re: Bits from DPL / Feedback on attracting newcomers

2024-12-05 Thread Soren Stoutner
other packages easily. > > https://wiki.debian.org/Packaging/Learn That’s a really nice resource. I am surprised I haven’t seen it before. -- Soren Stoutner so...@debian.org signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part.

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

2024-12-30 Thread Soren Stoutner
at the minimum the ones I am familiar with would include: qtwebengine-opensource-src qt6-webengine chromium I would recommend that if we want to enable Salsa CI by default we need to increase the timeouts to be able to handle large packages. -- Soren Stoutner so...@debian.org signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part.

Bug#1095198: ITP: ruby-rails-propshaft -- asset pipeline library for Rails

2025-02-04 Thread Soren Stoutner
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Soren Stoutner X-Debbugs-Cc: debian-devel@lists.debian.org, debian-r...@lists.debian.org * Package name: ruby-rails-propshaft Version : 1.1.0 * URL : https://github.com/rails/propshaft * License : Expat Programming Lang

Re: Do we need a conflict of interest policy?

2025-02-08 Thread Soren Stoutner
DPL would > delegate their authority if there wasa clear conflict of interest, of > course. And if a DPL abuses their authority, then they can be voted > out at the next election. But saying that the DPL "must not > participate in a decision", per the ChatGPT authored statement, I > would argue does't work given what trust and power we vest in the DPL. > > Cheers, > > - Ted I agree wholeheartedly with this reasoning. -- Soren Stoutner so...@debian.org signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part.

Re: Results (Re: DEP-0, DEP0 or DEP 0?)

2024-12-18 Thread Soren Stoutner
yond "hardly anywhere" yet not spammy. My personal feeling is that -devel is the correct place to raise this discussion (and a Salsa MR is the correct place to vote on it). Everyone who wanted to participate had the chance to do so. I don’t see any reason to wait before moving forward. -- Soren Stoutner so...@debian.org signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part.

Re: Strategy advice

2024-11-22 Thread Soren Stoutner
easy) I will drop them a line once the package has entered Debian with a link to the tracker.debian.org page. -- Soren Stoutner so...@debian.org signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part.

Re: Simpler git workflow for packaging with upstreamless repositories

2024-11-21 Thread Soren Stoutner
ver get the number of Debian workflows down to 1, but I would like to see it somewhere lower than 1,000 (that is only a slight exaggeration) in my lifetime. -- Soren Stoutner so...@debian.org signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part.

Re: criteria for acceptable languages for central QA tools in Debian (was: Re: coordination between lintian/piuparts/adequate)

2025-01-09 Thread Soren Stoutner
On Thursday, January 9, 2025 2:36:21 PM MST Serafeim (Serafi) Zanikolas wrote: > if you care about adequate, *please* tone down the negativity and file actual > bugs with specifics +1 -- Soren Stoutner so...@debian.org signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part.

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

2025-01-24 Thread Soren Stoutner
ote with MR options (similar to the one you did for DEP-0 naming). Once there is a strong consensus on what the name should be, I would recommend that gbp be reprogrammed to default to that name (I know it is a lot of work), and after that it will probably be fairly easy to to get DEP-14

Re: Bug#1093373: general: lots of dependencies missing fro upgrade on trixie

2025-01-17 Thread Soren Stoutner
n try: apt full-upgrade (or atp dist-upgrade) aptitude Also, the wiki might be helpful to you: https://wiki.debian.org/Plasma%206 -- Soren Stoutner so...@debian.org signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part.

Re: Fwd: warzone2100_4.5.5-1_amd64.changes REJECTED

2025-01-20 Thread Soren Stoutner
adapt the override > with wildcards to match both old and new output and hopefully not too much > else.. qt6-webengine uses the two-override solution. See lines 2 and 14 of: https://salsa.debian.org/qt-kde-team/qt6/qt6-webengine/-/blob/master/debian/ source/lintian-overrides?ref_type=heads -- Soren Stoutner so...@debian.org signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part.

Re: Accepted libxstream-java 1.4.20-1+deb12u1 (source) into proposed-updates

2025-01-27 Thread Soren Stoutner
You can unsubscribe yourself at: https://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/ On Monday, January 27, 2025 1:13:51 PM MST John Homer wrote: > Please unsubscribe hom...@vt.edu from you list -- Soren Stoutner so...@debian.org signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part.

Re: A 2025 NewYear present: make dpkg --force-unsafe-io the default?

2025-01-01 Thread Soren Stoutner
On Wednesday, January 1, 2025 11:27:38 AM MST Aurélien COUDERC wrote: > Le mardi 31 décembre 2024, 18:32:09 UTC+1 Soren Stoutner a écrit : > > On Tuesday, December 31, 2024 10:16:32 AM MST Michael Stone wrote: > > > On Tue, Dec 31, 2024 at 05:31:36PM +0100, Sven Mueller wrot

Re: A 2025 NewYear present: make dpkg --force-unsafe-io the default?

2025-01-01 Thread Soren Stoutner
On Wednesday, January 1, 2025 5:00:10 PM MST Aurélien COUDERC wrote: > Le mercredi 1 janvier 2025, 19:33:34 UTC+1 Soren Stoutner a écrit : > > That is an interesting data point. Could you also run with > > --force-unsafe-io > > instead of eatmydata? I don’t know if the

Re: A 2025 NewYear present: make dpkg --force-unsafe-io the default?

2024-12-31 Thread Soren Stoutner
On Tuesday, December 31, 2024 10:44:58 AM MST Marc Haber wrote: > On Tue, Dec 31, 2024 at 10:32:09AM -0700, Soren Stoutner wrote: > > On my system, which has a Western Digital Black SN850X NVMe (PCIe 4) > > formatted ext4, dpkg runs really fast (and feels like it runs faster than &

Re: A 2025 NewYear present: make dpkg --force-unsafe-io the default?

2024-12-31 Thread Soren Stoutner
I don’t experience anything I could describe as a performance problem on any of my systems, I think the burden of proof is on those who are experiencing those problems to demonstrate them concretely before we need to spend effort trying to figure out what changes should be made to address them.

Re: Canonical way for a package to set an environment variable

2025-01-16 Thread Soren Stoutner
Santiago, On Thursday, January 16, 2025 1:50:15 PM MST Santiago Vila wrote: > El 16/1/25 a las 21:01, Soren Stoutner escribió: > > Is there a canonical way for a package to set an environment variable? > > You should try to find another way, because Debian Policy 9.9 says thi

Canonical way for a package to set an environment variable

2025-01-16 Thread Soren Stoutner
, even when no graphical environment is running. -- Soren Stoutner so...@debian.org signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part.

Re: chroot-debianizer - Tool that automates routine work with Debian packages.

2025-02-12 Thread Soren Stoutner
owever it > doesn't support duck nor lrc, I don't even know what lrc is...). lrc is the binary executable for licenserecon. https://tracker.debian.org/pkg/licenserecon -- Soren Stoutner so...@debian.org signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part.

Re: Need advice on coordinating libkdumpfile update and introducing pykdumpfile

2025-02-13 Thread Soren Stoutner
other packages). Once everything is settled, you can upload a version of these experimental packages that only changes the target to unstable and they will all drop in immediately. -- Soren Stoutner so...@debian.org signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part.

Bug#1098522: ITP: python-shamir-mnemonic -- reference implementation of SLIP-0039: Shamir’s Secret-Sharing for Mnemonic Codes

2025-02-21 Thread Soren Stoutner
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Soren Stoutner X-Debbugs-Cc: debian-devel@lists.debian.org * Package name: python-shamir-mnemonic Version : 0.3.0 Upstream Contact: Trezor * URL : https://pypi.org/project/shamir-mnemonic/ * License : Expat

Change the expectation that emails should wrap at 80 characters

2025-02-26 Thread Soren Stoutner
layed. I have composed this email without an arbitrary column wrap, so that those receiving it can see how it is handled by their various clients and devices. -- Soren Stoutner so...@debian.org signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part.

Bug#1098975: ITP: python-slip10 -- Reference implementation of the SLIP-0010 specification

2025-02-26 Thread Soren Stoutner
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Soren Stoutner X-Debbugs-Cc: debian-devel@lists.debian.org * Package name: python-slip10 Version : 1.0.1 * URL : https://pypi.org/project/slip10/ * License : Expat Programming Lang: Python Description : Reference

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

2025-03-03 Thread Soren Stoutner
Thunderbird Which has instructions for disabling format=flowed, saying it caused problems. I’m not sure how much OpenStack represents general consensus for what works best on mailing lists, but it is at least one data point. -- Soren Stoutner so...@debian.org signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part.

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

2025-03-03 Thread Soren Stoutner
and simply let the receiving MUA handle all wrapping. -- Soren Stoutner so...@debian.org signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part.

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

2025-03-03 Thread Soren Stoutner
ssion have been wrapped at 80 characters inline with the current mailing list code of conduct. https://www.debian.org/MailingLists/#codeofconduct I feel that it is important I follow the current code of conduct as I advocate for its change. -- Soren Stoutner so...@debian.org signature

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

2025-03-03 Thread Soren Stoutner
On Monday, March 3, 2025 12:48:24 PM MST Jeremy Stanley wrote: > On 2025-03-03 10:35:32 -0700 (-0700), Soren Stoutner wrote: > [...] > > > I am not an expert on format=flowed, so I can’t vouch for the > > following myself, but I thought it was interesting that the > >

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

2025-03-03 Thread Soren Stoutner
On Monday, March 3, 2025 2:28:38 PM MST Stephan Verbücheln wrote: > Am Montag, dem 03.03.2025 um 13:38 -0700 schrieb Soren Stoutner: > > Also, as I mentioned elsewhere in this thread, this is not a > > discussion about the merits of HTML vs plain text. As long as emails > >

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

2025-03-03 Thread Soren Stoutner
On Monday, March 3, 2025 3:26:36 PM MST Russ Allbery wrote: > Soren Stoutner writes: > > I agree. Having the sending MUA wrap text creates problems, even with > > efforts like format=flowed that try to hint to the receiving MUA how to > > unwrap the text. > > I am g

Re: STFU please (Re: Bits from DPL)

2025-03-07 Thread Soren Stoutner
tense about it. I find this type of humor to be pleasant and helpful. I felt Marc’s comment was the second. YMMV. :) -- Soren Stoutner so...@debian.org signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part.

Re: The Project Gutenberg license, packages using its books as testdata

2025-03-08 Thread Soren Stoutner
ublic domain worldwide). Also, as you pointed out in your analysis, to exercise the public domain option the package maintainer would need to verify that “all references to Project Gutenberg are removed”, which you have stated is not currently the case with this package and doesn’t

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

2025-03-08 Thread Soren Stoutner
On Saturday, March 8, 2025 4:23:56 PM MST Philip Hands wrote: > Soren Stoutner writes: > > At this point in the discussion I would like to progress toward a decision. > > > > One way to do so would be a GR. On one hand, using a GR to modify one line > > of the code

Re: Reconsidering Debian’s Inclusion of Non-Free Firmware - A Call for Discussion

2025-03-07 Thread Soren Stoutner
r at the time and so did not vote, but I did follow the discussion). As mentioned above, I don’t think most people’s feelings have changed enough to warrant reopening this discussion, but I can imagine the day in the future where Debian moves towards this option. -- Soren Stoutner so...@debian.org signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part.

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

2025-03-07 Thread Soren Stoutner
feel strongly enough about this that a GR might be the only mechanism where people will feel like the outcome is fair. My question is, is there any other decision making process that would be preferable to a GR to decide this issue? -- Soren Stoutner so...@debian.org signature.asc Description

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

2025-02-28 Thread Soren Stoutner
On Friday, February 28, 2025 1:28:01 AM MST Jonathan Dowland wrote: > On Thu Feb 27, 2025 at 4:48 PM GMT, Soren Stoutner wrote: > > “There is no expectation that emails sent to the mailing lists are > > wrapped by the sender at a particular column, but those sending emails >

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

2025-02-28 Thread Soren Stoutner
On Friday, February 28, 2025 1:35:07 AM MST Jonathan Dowland wrote: > On Wed Feb 26, 2025 at 6:21 PM GMT, Soren Stoutner wrote: > > I have composed this email without an arbitrary column wrap, so that > > those receiving it can see how it is handled by their various clients > >

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

2025-02-28 Thread Soren Stoutner
On Friday, February 28, 2025 10:37:51 AM MST Andrea Pappacoda wrote: > [off-list] > > On Fri Feb 28, 2025 at 5:39 PM CET, Soren Stoutner wrote: > > I agree with that. I think the above statement includes that for people who > > already know what format=flowed is (and have

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

2025-02-27 Thread Soren Stoutner
On Wednesday, February 26, 2025 11:21:42 AM MST Soren Stoutner wrote: > The purpose of this email is to propose that the expectation that emails > should be wrapped at 80 characters when they are sent should be dropped. This email has sparked an interesting discussion, which is what I was

Re: Reconsidering Debian’s Inclusion of Non-Free Firmware - A Call for Discussion

2025-03-11 Thread Soren Stoutner
m looking at you, RISC-V, although I understand that the most likely short-term outcome is that companies will produce non-free firmware for their RISC-V processors), then it might be worth reopening the issue for consideration. -- Soren Stoutner so...@debian.org signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part.

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

2025-03-04 Thread Soren Stoutner
On Tuesday, March 4, 2025 5:08:43 AM MST Jonathan Dowland wrote: > On Mon Mar 3, 2025 at 9:42 PM GMT, Soren Stoutner wrote: > > Hence, I propose that we change the expectation so that the sending > > MUA is not expected to wrap text. > > In which case, how can the receiving

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

2025-03-04 Thread Soren Stoutner
urely you mean troff/groff? > .Pp > .Bd It's \fIthe best\fP! > > ;) Thank you. I needed that smile today. -- Soren Stoutner so...@debian.org signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part.

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

2025-03-03 Thread Soren Stoutner
On Monday, March 3, 2025 11:38:29 AM MST Philipp Kern wrote: > On 2025-03-03 18:39, Soren Stoutner wrote: > > On Friday, February 28, 2025 7:30:53 PM MST Mason Loring Bliss > > > > wrote: > >> Looks pretty awful to me. Screenshot attached. > > > > Yes,

Re: Improvement of headless server upgrades

2025-03-05 Thread Soren Stoutner
reak remote access than any automated check Debian can produce. Now, if any of the breakages being discussed were not sufficiently documented in the release notes or NEWS entries, that is a different issue and one which should probably be addressed directly to the package that made the breaking chan

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

2025-03-15 Thread Soren Stoutner
On Saturday, March 15, 2025 7:41:02 AM Mountain Standard Time Antonio Terceiro wrote: > On Fri, Mar 14, 2025 at 02:49:26PM -0700, Soren Stoutner wrote: > >On Wednesday, March 12, 2025 5:38:40 PM Mountain Standard Time Mario > >Limonciello> > >wrote: > >> > &g

Re: Reconsidering Debian’s Inclusion of Non-Free Firmware - A Call for Discussion

2025-03-14 Thread Soren Stoutner
he free firmware currently shipping in Debian. But my personal opinion is that the free firmware movement won’t take off without the open hardware movement. -- Soren Stoutner so...@debian.org signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part.

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

2025-03-14 Thread Soren Stoutner
uot; vote to determine which way the > "silent majority" of developers actually lean? I am planning on proposing a GR, but I want to take the time to make sure I word it well. I expect to be able to do so in the next few days. -- Soren Stoutner so...@debian.org signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part.

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

2025-03-15 Thread Soren Stoutner
On Saturday, March 15, 2025 3:08:01 AM Mountain Standard Time Stephan Verbücheln wrote: > Am Montag, dem 03.03.2025 um 14:42 -0700 schrieb Soren Stoutner: > > Interesting. I guess that text could be interpreted as “Do not send > > an HTML part, even if you also send a plain text

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

2025-03-15 Thread Soren Stoutner
On Saturday, March 15, 2025 2:53:28 AM Mountain Standard Time Jonathan Dowland wrote: > On Fri Mar 14, 2025 at 9:49 PM GMT, Soren Stoutner wrote: > > I am planning on proposing a GR, but I want to take the time to make > > sure I word it well. I expect to be able to do so

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

2025-03-15 Thread Soren Stoutner
On Saturday, March 15, 2025 11:19:25 AM Mountain Standard Time Andrea Pappacoda wrote: > Hi Soren, > > On Sat Mar 15, 2025 at 3:47 PM CET, Soren Stoutner wrote: > > On Saturday, March 15, 2025 7:41:02 AM Mountain Standard Time Antonio > > > > Terceiro wrote: > &

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

2025-03-15 Thread Soren Stoutner
On Friday, March 14, 2025 2:49:26 PM Mountain Standard Time Soren Stoutner wrote: > On Wednesday, March 12, 2025 5:38:40 PM Mountain Standard Time Mario > Limonciello > wrote: > > > > > > >Mario Limonciello (hints of format=flowed support) > > > >

Re: fluster add epoch

2025-03-22 Thread Soren Stoutner
be compatible, like switching from a date release of 2025-01-27 to 1.0.1. -- Soren Stoutner so...@debian.org signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part.