Re: Reporting 1.2K crashes

2013-06-29 Thread Stefano Zacchiroli
so you will likely find even *more* people willing to help with this experiment if you do so. But doing so is also in the interest of better reproducibility and peer review of scientific experiments, as you certainly know. Cheers. -- Stefano Zacchiroli . . . . . . . z...@upsilon.cc . . . . o . .

Re: Reporting 1.2K crashes

2013-07-04 Thread Stefano Zacchiroli
de2013/StudentApplications/LeoCavaille Cheers. -- Stefano Zacchiroli . . . . . . . z...@upsilon.cc . . . . o . . . o . o Maître de conférences . . . . . http://upsilon.cc/zack . . . o . . . o o Former Debian Project Leader . . @zack on identi.ca . . o o o . . . o . « the first rule of tautology club is the firs

Re: Berkeley DB 6.0 license change to AGPLv3

2013-07-04 Thread Stefano Zacchiroli
ement, worrying about the fact that simply providing URLs to tarballs wouldn't be considered enough? Or is it something else? Cheers. -- Stefano Zacchiroli . . . . . . . z...@upsilon.cc . . . . o . . . o . o Maître de conférences . . . . . http://upsilon.cc/zack . . . o . . . o o Former

Re: Berkeley DB 6.0 license change to AGPLv3

2013-07-04 Thread Stefano Zacchiroli
th the copyleft approach (and of course not all of us are) AGPL shouldn't be particularly shocking. In that sense, AGPL is just a new release of GPL that closes a long outstanding bug titled "provide a license port for the Software-as-a-Service era". Cheers. -- Stefano Zacchiroli .

Re: Berkeley DB 6.0 license change to AGPLv3

2013-07-04 Thread Stefano Zacchiroli
*modified* version of INN. But it is exactly the > same kind of difficulties that people distributing modified copylefted > software will have to face to uphold GPL (or equivalent) terms. -- Stefano Zacchiroli . . . . . . . z...@upsilon.cc . . . . o . . . o . o Maître de conférences

Re: Berkeley DB 6.0 license change to AGPLv3

2013-07-10 Thread Stefano Zacchiroli
the shift in the most common deployment pattern for software: handing software copies in the past, using remote services over the net nowadays. (Anyway, here we're getting quite off-topic...) -- Stefano Zacchiroli . . . . . . . z...@upsilon.cc . . . . o . . . o . o Maître de conférences .

Re: Status of deb(5) format support in Debian

2013-07-31 Thread Stefano Zacchiroli
e the good moment to rather ask them to migrate to some libdpkg* API instead. Thanks in advance for your advice, Cheers. -- Stefano Zacchiroli . . . . . . . z...@upsilon.cc . . . . o . . . o . o Maître de conférences . . . . . http://upsilon.cc/zack . . . o . . . o o Former Debian Project Leader . .

Re: Status of deb(5) format support in Debian

2013-08-01 Thread Stefano Zacchiroli
frequent ABI changes, well, "so be it" would be my take. YMMV of course. Cheers. -- Stefano Zacchiroli . . . . . . . z...@upsilon.cc . . . . o . . . o . o Maître de conférences . . . . . http://upsilon.cc/zack . . . o . . . o o Former Debian Project Leader . . @zack on identi.ca . .

Re: Status of deb(5) format support in Debian

2013-08-01 Thread Stefano Zacchiroli
On Thu, Aug 01, 2013 at 02:18:13PM +0200, Helmut Grohne wrote: > On Wed, Jul 31, 2013 at 06:56:40PM +0200, Stefano Zacchiroli wrote: > > I'm myself guilty of having implemented, back in 2007, python-debian's > > support to manipulate .deb files: the debian.debfile modu

Re: Bits from the Release

2013-09-03 Thread Stefano Zacchiroli
ood work! Cheers. [1]: preliminary, not necessarily up to date, results are available at http://firewoes.debian.net/ for those who are interested [2]: http://debile.debian.net/ -- Stefano Zacchiroli . . . . . . . z...@upsilon.cc . . . . o . . . o . o Maître de conférences . . . . .

Re: asking for advice: all dependencies incl. version numbers

2013-09-05 Thread Stefano Zacchiroli
n the field, that might be valuable to you. As we're quickly getting off-topic for debian-devel, feel free to contact me (and likely the others who have participated in this thread, even though I cannot speak for them) off-list. All the best for your studies, Cheers. -- Stefano Zacchiroli

Re: Bug#688251: #688251: Built-Using description too aggressive

2013-09-28 Thread Stefano Zacchiroli
n libraries; I'm not sure if that's the case also for Haskell or not. Now, does that mean that you need to add OCaml/Haskell software to the list of exceptions? I'm not sure, it really depends on the intended Built-Using use cases. Cheers. -- Stefano Zacchiroli . . . . . . .

Re: Bug#724980: ITP: trove -- Database as a Service for OpenStack

2013-09-30 Thread Stefano Zacchiroli
his point wasn't to dispute the usefulness of this software, but rather to encourage the packager to add a more comprehensive description of it to the Debian package :-) Adding some of your points about API availability would be a very good start. -- Stefano Zacchiroli . . . . . . . z...@upsilo

Re: Please assume good faith (was Re: systemd effectively mandatory now due to GNOME)

2013-10-24 Thread Stefano Zacchiroli
e to GNome?) > are silence by > Code of Conduct > > Now, let me know - is this the new way of silencing critical voices? No. But it is a gigantic leap forward in the culture of our community. Thanks Adam! -- Stefano Zacchiroli . . . . . . . z...@upsilon.cc . . . . o . .

Re: Proposal: let’s have a GR about the init system

2013-10-26 Thread Stefano Zacchiroli
t the init system (both "which are the supported ones?" and "which is the default one?") clearly belong to the tech-ctte at this point. Cheers. -- Stefano Zacchiroli . . . . . . . z...@upsilon.cc . . . . o . . . o . o Maître de conférences . . . . . http://upsilon.cc/zack . .

Re: Proposal: switch default desktop to xfce

2013-10-28 Thread Stefano Zacchiroli
ill be the criteria for assessing whether the experiment has been successful (and hence worth keeping for Jessie) or a failure (and hence reverting it)? Hint: I don't think that the amount of opinionated posts anti-GNOME or anti-Xfce posted on debian-devel is a good success metric :-) Ch

Re: New package doesn't fix the problem in the old version

2011-10-08 Thread Stefano Zacchiroli
in actually improving the life of users affected by the issue than this intriguing discussion about who *in theory* is responsible of cleaning up old debris. Share the code, we'll all be happier. -- Stefano Zacchiroli zack@{upsilon.cc,pps.jussieu.fr,debian.org} . o . Maître de conférences

call for volunteers: Debian liaisons for Google Code-In

2011-10-21 Thread Stefano Zacchiroli
eedback from past admins, it'd be wise to have at least 3 volunteers before deciding to apply. Many thanks in advance!, Cheers. -- Stefano Zacchiroli zack@{upsilon.cc,pps.jussieu.fr,debian.org} . o . Maître de conférences .. http://upsilon.cc/zack .. . . o Debian Proje

relationship with Ubuntu - call for feedback

2011-10-21 Thread Stefano Zacchiroli
;d like to discuss the above publicly, I suggest doing so on -derivatives. If OTOH you want to point me to specific episodes you'd like to remain private, feel free to mail me at leader@d.o. Many thanks in advance for your help, Cheers. -- Stefano Zacchiroli zack@{upsilon.cc,pps.jussieu.

Re: Package mailing lists (was: bits from the DPL for September 2011)

2011-11-09 Thread Stefano Zacchiroli
all maintenance team to have a mailing list. Maybe starting archiving @packages.d.o addresses could be a first step? What do others think? Cheers. -- Stefano Zacchiroli zack@{upsilon.cc,pps.jussieu.fr,debian.org} . o . Maître de conférences .. http://upsilon.cc/zack .. . . o Deb

Re: Lintian ERROR saying dpatch is obsolete

2011-11-28 Thread Stefano Zacchiroli
hall-not-exec-stuff-while-patching" alone make me score quilt way higher than dpatch, for sanity of the archive sake.) Cheers. -- Stefano Zacchiroli zack@{upsilon.cc,pps.jussieu.fr,debian.org} . o . Maître de conférences .. http://upsilon.cc/zack .. . . o Debian Proj

Re: Lintian ERROR saying dpatch is obsolete

2011-11-28 Thread Stefano Zacchiroli
or or even override it. Eventually, the change will just happen. Or not. And that is part of the reason why tool transitions in Debian might take several years to complete. -- Stefano Zacchiroli zack@{upsilon.cc,pps.jussieu.fr,debian.org} . o . Maître de conférences .. http://upsilon.cc/

Re: The state of geoclue in Debian

2011-12-03 Thread Stefano Zacchiroli
ning to him what was going on and how he could help, if he had approached me saying that Debian sucks. /me, in mystic mode. -- Stefano Zacchiroli zack@{upsilon.cc,pps.jussieu.fr,debian.org} . o . Maître de conférences .. http://upsilon.cc/zack .. . . o Debian Project Leader

Re: exFAT fuse driver and the patent situation

2012-01-02 Thread Stefano Zacchiroli
uld not be in that business. Cheers. -- Stefano Zacchiroli zack@{upsilon.cc,pps.jussieu.fr,debian.org} . o . Maître de conférences .. http://upsilon.cc/zack .. . . o Debian Project Leader... @zack on identi.ca ...o o o « the first rule of tautology club is

Re: Providing a dummy web server package in Debian (Removing web server dependencies from web apps)

2012-01-07 Thread Stefano Zacchiroli
opying -webapps, as this discussion should probably continue there. Cheers. -- Stefano Zacchiroli zack@{upsilon.cc,pps.jussieu.fr,debian.org} . o . Maître de conférences .. http://upsilon.cc/zack .. . . o Debian Project Leader... @zack on identi.ca ...o

Re: Patch Tagging Guidelines: DEP-3 moved to ACCEPTED status

2012-01-18 Thread Stefano Zacchiroli
IIRC, it is the case for DEP-5). The above notwithstanding, we can probably learn from this thread that, for the future, it would help to first announce "I'm about to mark DEP-$x as ACCEPTED" and then doing that. I personally don't think it is a big deal, but given that others di

Re: Making mentors.debian.net a .org (was: proposed new pseudo-package 'debian-mentors' for handling sponsoring requests)

2012-01-21 Thread Stefano Zacchiroli
#x27;ll come back given that I've sought in the past very similar legal advice for Debian's "PPA" [2] [2] http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel-announce/2011/06/msg0.html -- Stefano Zacchiroli zack@{upsilon.cc,pps.jussieu.fr,debian.org} . o . Maître de con

Re: A few questions from a new DD

2012-02-29 Thread Stefano Zacchiroli
f you could capitalize your recent experience to make the path easier for others in the future. And, of course, welcome! Cheers. -- Stefano Zacchiroli zack@{upsilon.cc,pps.jussieu.fr,debian.org} . o . Maître de conférences .. http://upsilon.cc/zack .. . . o Debian Project Lead

Re: Enabling hardened build flags for Wheezy

2012-03-01 Thread Stefano Zacchiroli
use cases like this one? -- Stefano Zacchiroli zack@{upsilon.cc,pps.jussieu.fr,debian.org} . o . Maître de conférences .. http://upsilon.cc/zack .. . . o Debian Project Leader... @zack on identi.ca ...o o o « the first rule of tautology club is the firs

Re: Unofficial repositories on 'debian' domains

2012-03-04 Thread Stefano Zacchiroli
e ready to advertise all its entries, otherwise people should not register them in the first place. Cheers. -- Stefano Zacchiroli zack@{upsilon.cc,pps.jussieu.fr,debian.org} . o . Maître de conférences .. http://upsilon.cc/zack .. . . o Debian Project Leader... @zack

Re: Unofficial repositories on 'debian' domains

2012-03-05 Thread Stefano Zacchiroli
ion to the official debian.org infrastructure. Cheers. -- Stefano Zacchiroli zack@{upsilon.cc,pps.jussieu.fr,debian.org} . o . Maître de conférences .. http://upsilon.cc/zack .. . . o Debian Project Leader... @zack on identi.ca ...o o o « the first rule of tauto

Re: Unofficial repositories on 'debian' domains

2012-03-05 Thread Stefano Zacchiroli
d the world, unfortunately). To distribute something like libdvdcss2, unfortunately, we will need to resurrect something like "non-us", rename it to "non-dmca-like-embargoed-country" + pick "wisely" the country where to host it. Cheers. -- Stefano Zacchiroli zack@{

Re: Unofficial repositories on 'debian' domains

2012-03-05 Thread Stefano Zacchiroli
out the case of debian.net services that are not 'web' services, but they should be documented anyhow, so...) Cheers. -- Stefano Zacchiroli zack@{upsilon.cc,pps.jussieu.fr,debian.org} . o . Maître de conférences .. http://upsilon.cc/zack .. . . o Debian Project Leade

Re: Unofficial repositories on 'debian' domains

2012-03-13 Thread Stefano Zacchiroli
On Mon, Mar 05, 2012 at 08:40:33AM +0100, Stefano Zacchiroli wrote: > While we are at it, I also think we should provide an index of > *.debian.net entries on that splash page. > http://wiki.debian.org/DebianNetDomains is just too prone to outdateness > and incompleteness. The

Re: On init in Debian

2012-03-24 Thread Stefano Zacchiroli
about accepting new ports. We will probably worry more and more about the impact on (currently) popular ports, of accepting new ports as supported. In the long run, we will probably diminish our willingness to accept new port as supported. That would be a shame and also a strategic error. Cheers.

Re: bug reports with urls in them

2012-04-02 Thread Stefano Zacchiroli
hen taking this discussion to a bug report against the "lists.debian.org" pseudo-package and attaching a patch to it? That would be a way more appropriate place for this discussion. (I suggest not to mention "foo.org" verbatim in your bug report, though.) Cheers. -- Stefano

Re: Hijacking^W^W^W^W^W^WSalvaging packages for fun and profit: A proposal

2012-09-30 Thread Stefano Zacchiroli
but is not clear to me how to raise the interest by other DDs in reviewing the "intent to orphan" bugs filed by 3rd parties. Maybe we should document to post them on -qa? That *might* have the side-effect of fostering the creation of a review community for these kind of actions on -qa. Mu

Re: Hijacking^W^W^W^W^W^WSalvaging packages for fun and profit: A proposal

2012-09-30 Thread Stefano Zacchiroli
), we might end up attracting there people who have an interest in doing this sort of package quality review. That sounds like a useful side-effect to me. But I'm still unsure about the benefits of the seconds principle, though. Cheers. -- Stefano Zacchiroli . . . . . . . z...@upsilon.cc . .

Re: (seemingly) declinging bug report numbers

2012-10-11 Thread Stefano Zacchiroli
users and bug report to them than before, albeit now they are mediated. Looks like the same situation. -- Stefano Zacchiroli . . . . . . . z...@upsilon.cc . . . . o . . . o . o Maître de conférences . . . . . http://upsilon.cc/zack . . . o . . . o o Debian Project Leader . . . . . . @zack on ident

Re: Salvaging packages for fun and profit: A proposal

2012-10-14 Thread Stefano Zacchiroli
ly, on the procedure. Thanks a bunch to Lucas, you, and all the others who helped keeping this discussion going. I'm looking forward to a new draft, for further review and assessment of what remains pending. Cheers. -- Stefano Zacchiroli . . . . . . . z...@upsilon.cc . . . . o . .

Re: Discarding uploaded binary packages

2012-10-16 Thread Stefano Zacchiroli
appear out of thin area the code implementing the decision. Cheers. -- Stefano Zacchiroli . . . . . . . z...@upsilon.cc . . . . o . . . o . o Maître de conférences . . . . . http://upsilon.cc/zack . . . o . . . o o Debian Project Leader . . . . . . @zack on identi.ca . . o o o . . . o . « the first

Re: delegation for the Policy Editors

2012-10-17 Thread Stefano Zacchiroli
On Wed, Oct 17, 2012 at 09:51:48PM +0200, Stefano Zacchiroli wrote: > (Andreas Barth, Bill Allombert, and Russ Allombert have confirmed their > interest in working as editors and remain on board.) Erm, overzealous M-/ in my favorite editor :-) So let's thank here Andreas Barth, Bil

Re: (seemingly) declinging bug report numbers

2012-10-20 Thread Stefano Zacchiroli
s, which looks like a WIN to me. Please review the above data and methods, and show me wrong! Tentative bottom line: I've joined the project around the same time as Christian, so I'm entitled my old chap badge too. But at the same time, I like to fight with data my natural old chap tende

Re: (seemingly) declinging bug report numbers

2012-10-21 Thread Stefano Zacchiroli
oaders? In the former case (Maintainer only), you'll probably end up interpreting the evolution from individual maintenance to team maintenance as a decrease in the available people power, incorrectly imo. -- Stefano Zacchiroli . . . . . . . z...@upsilon.cc . . . . o . . . o . o Ma

Re: Vote result (was: Poll)

2012-10-23 Thread Stefano Zacchiroli
ree with Benjamin's interpretation of user feedback from the other part of the decision, that could be surely discussed with him. But it doesn't seem to me a good reason to give up, or discourage, the approach altogether. Just my 0.02€, Cheers. -- Stefano Zacchiroli . . . . . . . z...

Re: [SUMMARY/PROPOSAL] Orphaning another maintainer's packages

2012-10-23 Thread Stefano Zacchiroli
consensus. But I do think in that case we should _eventually_ allow the orphaning to happen (after all 1/0 > 3/1 ACK/NACK ). Any suggestion on how to word that properly, without adding yet another timeout rule carved in stone? Cheers. -- Stefano Zacchiroli . . . . . . . z...@upsilon.cc .

Re: [SUMMARY/PROPOSAL] Orphaning another maintainer's packages

2012-10-23 Thread Stefano Zacchiroli
ained packages should not be hard. We need people to > do it. We need people to do it more than they do today. We need to make > it easy. I agree. But what you need to make easy are the common cases. The difficult cases will be difficult no matter what. Cheers. -- Stefano Zacchiroli .

Re: GR: Orphaning another maintainer's packages

2012-10-26 Thread Stefano Zacchiroli
last resort. I don't think we're nowhere near the need of it in this specific case. Cheers. -- Stefano Zacchiroli . . . . . . . z...@upsilon.cc . . . . o . . . o . o Maître de conférences . . . . . http://upsilon.cc/zack . . . o . . . o o Debian Project Leader . . . . . . @zack on ident

Re: GR: Orphaning another maintainer's packages

2012-10-26 Thread Stefano Zacchiroli
On Fri, Oct 26, 2012 at 01:54:19PM +0200, Stefano Zacchiroli wrote: > I don't think we're nowhere near the need of it in this specific case. s/don't// obviously :) -- Stefano Zacchiroli . . . . . . . z...@upsilon.cc . . . . o . . . o . o Maître de conférences . . . . . http

Re: Candidates for removal from testing (results)

2012-10-28 Thread Stefano Zacchiroli
I understand you probably want to further inspect the individual removals), and/or run on a fixed cadence? -- Stefano Zacchiroli . . . . . . . z...@upsilon.cc . . . . o . . . o . o Maître de conférences . . . . . http://upsilon.cc/zack . . . o . . . o o Debian Project Leader . . . . . . @zack on i

Re: [SUMMARY/PROPOSAL] Orphaning another maintainer's packages

2012-10-28 Thread Stefano Zacchiroli
#x27;m weary of safeguards that block individuals to act forever if everyone else in the world happen to be busy. -- Stefano Zacchiroli . . . . . . . z...@upsilon.cc . . . . o . . . o . o Maître de conférences . . . . . http://upsilon.cc/zack . . . o . . . o o Debian Project Leader . . .

Re: [PROPOSAL v2] Orphaning another maintainer's packages

2012-10-28 Thread Stefano Zacchiroli
eems to be culturally associated with a "long" delay we give to people to react. Cheers. -- Stefano Zacchiroli . . . . . . . z...@upsilon.cc . . . . o . . . o . o Maître de conférences . . . . . http://upsilon.cc/zack . . . o . . . o o Debian Project Leader . . . . . . @zack on id

Re: [PROPOSAL v2] Orphaning another maintainer's packages

2012-11-01 Thread Stefano Zacchiroli
we're diverging quite a bit in this sub-thread, whereas there seems to be agreement on the timings, at last...) Cheers. -- Stefano Zacchiroli . . . . . . . z...@upsilon.cc . . . . o . . . o . o Maître de conférences . . . . . http://upsilon.cc/zack . . . o . . . o o Debian Project Leader

MBF: packages with autopkgtest tests but no XS-Testsuite

2012-11-04 Thread Stefano Zacchiroli
doc/README.package-tests;hb=HEAD [3]: http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=692282 [4]: https://lists.debian.org/debian-qa/2012/11/msg9.html -- Stefano Zacchiroli . . . . . . . z...@upsilon.cc . . . . o . . . o . o Maître de conférences . . . . . http://upsilon.cc/zack . .

Re: MBF: packages with autopkgtest tests but no XS-Testsuite

2012-11-08 Thread Stefano Zacchiroli
On Sun, Nov 04, 2012 at 07:01:12PM +0100, Stefano Zacchiroli wrote: > I'd like to go ahead with a "Severity: wishlist" mass bug filing to > kindly ask maintainers to add the missing header. The proposed mail > template for mass-bug is attached. This is now done, sta

Re: Mass bug filling about proprietary code of adobe in our type1 fonts

2012-11-26 Thread Stefano Zacchiroli
oal --- increasing Debian quality --- even if when they arrive at a moment that might seem untimely. Cheers. -- Stefano Zacchiroli . . . . . . . z...@upsilon.cc . . . . o . . . o . o Maître de conférences . . . . . http://upsilon.cc/zack . . . o . . . o o Debian Project Leader . . . . . . @zack

Re: Really, ...

2012-12-01 Thread Stefano Zacchiroli
ueling these threads already (especially when the subject is not meaningful at all). Cheers. -- Stefano Zacchiroli . . . . . . . z...@upsilon.cc . . . . o . . . o . o Maître de conférences . . . . . http://upsilon.cc/zack . . . o . . . o o Debian Project Leader . . . . . . @zack on identi.ca . . o

Re: Contributor agreements and copyright assignment

2012-12-03 Thread Stefano Zacchiroli
the CAA/CLAs are optional, as it happens for KDE. IMO that is what we should worry about before adopting as a rather foundational part of the Debian OS something that requires mandatory CAA/CLA. Cheers. -- Stefano Zacchiroli . . . . . . . z...@upsilon.cc . . . . o . . . o . o Maître de confére

Re: Ubuntu have done it again,

2012-12-08 Thread Stefano Zacchiroli
daily on Debian PR --- it would likely be much more effective than shouting against other distributions on a mailing list devoted to Debian development kthxbye -- Stefano Zacchiroli . . . . . . . z...@upsilon.cc . . . . o . . . o . o Maître de conférences . . . . . http://upsilon.cc/zack .

Re: installation/live-cd

2012-12-16 Thread Stefano Zacchiroli
an.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=686819 there is a bug report, aiming at fixing this. I've been trying to get review before applying it since quite a while, without much success. I'll try again this week and push the patch. Thanks for your feedback. Cheers. -- Stefano Zacchiroli . . . . . . . z

Re: bits from the DPL: December 2012

2013-01-06 Thread Stefano Zacchiroli
On Fri, Jan 04, 2013 at 05:31:46PM +0100, Stefano Zacchiroli wrote: > buildd usage for events like BSP. Many thanks to Lucas Nussbaum and Erm, typo here. This should have been "Many thanks to Lucas Nussbaum and James Bromberger". Sorry James! -- Stefano Zacchiroli . .

Re: debian/* license of non-free packages

2013-01-10 Thread Stefano Zacchiroli
de discussion on CAA/CLAs. Here are a couple of relevant contributions: - http://opensource.com/law/11/7/trouble-harmony-part-1 - http://opensource.com/law/11/7/trouble-harmony-part-2 Look for "inbound=outbound" in them. Cheers. -- Stefano Zacchiroli . . . . . . . z...@upsilon

Re: debian/* license of non-free packages

2013-01-10 Thread Stefano Zacchiroli
ut the basics are what we can all imagine: inspecting VCS histories, patch submission to public mailing lists and bug trackers, etc. Cheers. -- Stefano Zacchiroli . . . . . . . z...@upsilon.cc . . . . o . . . o . o Maître de conférences . . . . . http://upsilon.cc/zack . . . o . . . o o

Re: [cut-team] Time to merge back ubuntu improvements!

2013-01-11 Thread Stefano Zacchiroli
olling derivatives (e.g. Mint), or as a distribution for power users that still want some sort of "protection" between them and the latest uploads to unstable & experimental. Cheers. -- Stefano Zacchiroli . . . . . . . z...@upsilon.cc . . . . o . . . o . o Maître de conférence

Re: Debian logo svg file is not loadable in Inkscape

2013-01-24 Thread Stefano Zacchiroli
o some minor syntactic issues (I speculate: due to the age of the .svg in question) it doesn't work properly with current version of popular FOSS SVG editors. Let's "just" find SVG experts in our community and ask them to fix the source code. Posting a call for help about this on

Bug#698872: Debian logo svg file is not loadable in Inkscape

2013-01-24 Thread Stefano Zacchiroli
debian-...@lists.debian.org might want to give it a > test and replace the old file with this one? Anyhow I now have my > Debian logo for my slides! > > Thanks all for helping with this issue. > > Cheers, > Filippo > > -- > Filippo Rusconi, PhD - public crypto key C78F68

Re: No native packages?

2013-01-29 Thread Stefano Zacchiroli
upstreams (including ourselves) to make it as easy as possible for downstreams to first apply patches, according to their own schedule and needs, and then forward them upstream. Cheers. -- Stefano Zacchiroli . . . . . . . z...@upsilon.cc . . . . o . . . o . o Maître de conférences . . . . . http:

Re: Go (golang) packaging, part 2

2013-01-30 Thread Stefano Zacchiroli
such example. > Do all Haskell packages add Built-Using headers? The OCaml toolchain in Debian doesn't either, #699330 has now been filed to address that. Cheers. -- Stefano Zacchiroli . . . . . . . z...@upsilon.cc . . . . o . . . o . o Maître de conférences . . . . . http://upsil

[RFH] answering trademark@d.o inquiries

2013-02-11 Thread Stefano Zacchiroli
-- "minimal" because all non-obvious cases should better be routed to SPI legal support. Regarding documentation on www.d.o/intro/organization of who is behind trademark@d.o: sure, that's a good idea. Patches/commits welcome :-) Thanks in advance, Cheers. -- Stefano Zacchiroli

Re: bits from the DPL: January 2013

2013-02-11 Thread Stefano Zacchiroli
he very first section on that page, named "Trademarks" give a natural language description of the trademarks we currently own, with pointers to the relevant offices who have registered them. It's possibly not very well structured, but it has been considered good enough by Debian leg

Re: Bug#700630: ITP: gitorious -- Git based tool for collaborating on distributed open source projects

2013-02-15 Thread Stefano Zacchiroli
? I understand it's a "concurrent" of gitorious :-), but AFAICT from the RFP, it was expected to land under the hood of pkg-ruby-extras as well. Thanks for your work, Cheers. -- Stefano Zacchiroli . . . . . . . z...@upsilon.cc . . . . o . . . o . o Maître de conférences . . . . .

Re: No native packages?

2013-02-16 Thread Stefano Zacchiroli
other developers can help using NMUs. That way they help both the maintainers in question, relieving some of their duties if they are gone only temporarily, and the project as a whole that avoids being technically stalled for a while. Cheers. -- Stefano Zacchiroli . . . . . . . z...@upsilon

Re: No native packages?

2013-02-19 Thread Stefano Zacchiroli
for the misunderstanding, Cheers. -- Stefano Zacchiroli . . . . . . . z...@upsilon.cc . . . . o . . . o . o Maître de conférences . . . . . http://upsilon.cc/zack . . . o . . . o o Debian Project Leader . . . . . . @zack on identi.ca . . o o o . . . o . « the first rule of tautology club is

Re: detailed lists with archive contents - more than just Contents

2013-02-21 Thread Stefano Zacchiroli
ind other contributors ;-) (And if you find other services lacking such information, bug them!) TIA! Cheers. -- Stefano Zacchiroli . . . . . . . z...@upsilon.cc . . . . o . . . o . o Maître de conférences . . . . . http://upsilon.cc/zack . . . o . . . o o Debian Project Leader . . . . . . @zack

Re: detailed lists with archive contents - more than just Contents

2013-02-21 Thread Stefano Zacchiroli
p with a larger one once the import is complete. > > And finally to answer Zack's mail: I added the missing service > information in git, but I need to wait with deploying until the import > run is complete. Great stuff Helmut, thanks! Cheers. -- Stefano Zacchiroli . . . . .

Re: git dangerous operations on alioth

2013-02-28 Thread Stefano Zacchiroli
would be *much* appreciated. ... and thanks for raising the topic, Daniel! Cheers. -- Stefano Zacchiroli . . . . . . . z...@upsilon.cc . . . . o . . . o . o Maître de conférences . . . . . http://upsilon.cc/zack . . . o . . . o o Debian Project Leader . . . . . . @zack on identi.ca . . o o o . . . o

Re: Availability of Debian official cloud images from debian.org

2013-03-15 Thread Stefano Zacchiroli
s are all to be figured out before we will be able to move forward. If you can look into it, it would be great. Thanks! PS setting M-F-T to -cloud -- Stefano Zacchiroli . . . . . . . z...@upsilon.cc . . . . o . . . o . o Maître de conférences . . . . . http://upsilon.cc/zack . . . o . . . o o De

Re: Legal possibility of more open package reviews.

2013-04-10 Thread Stefano Zacchiroli
1] unfortunately, DMCA is not the only "bad" draconian law that exists around the world, many other countries have similar laws -- Stefano Zacchiroli . . . . . . . z...@upsilon.cc . . . . o . . . o . o Maître de conférences . . . . . http://upsilon.cc/zack . . . o . . . o o Debian

Re: bits from the DPL: March-April 2013

2013-04-16 Thread Stefano Zacchiroli
an.org/pipermail/fsf-collab-discuss/2013-March/000383.html FWIW it's fixed in the version of the report that is going to show up on Planet. Cheers. -- Stefano Zacchiroli . . . . . . . z...@upsilon.cc . . . . o . . . o . o Maître de conférences . . . . . http://upsilon.cc/zack . . . o . .

Re: Developer repositories for Debian

2013-05-05 Thread Stefano Zacchiroli
t the buildds do, except they do that for build dependencies, while you likely want to do that for binary package dependencies). Doing so might be simpler than having to support other britney runs/installations. Cheers. -- Stefano Zacchiroli . . . . . . . z...@upsilon.cc . . . . o . . . o . o Maît

Re: Merging / and /usr (was: jessie release goals)

2013-05-07 Thread Stefano Zacchiroli
EP, or a wiki page, or a bug report, whatever is appropriate), containing a summary of the arguments in favors and against and corresponding counterarguments. Cheers. -- Stefano Zacchiroli . . . . . . . z...@upsilon.cc . . . . o . . . o . o Maître de conférences . . . . . http://upsilon.cc/zack

Re: [DEP 8] About "XS-Testsuite: autopkgtest": time to remove "XS-" ?

2014-01-03 Thread Stefano Zacchiroli
olved issues were initially marked wontfix, but have then been corrected. Most of the remaining bugs seem to be affecting zope-related packages and other zope packages have been fixed already. Cheers. [1]: http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/pkgreport.cgi?tag=missing-testsuite-header;users=autopkg

Re: [DEP 8] About "XS-Testsuite: autopkgtest": time to remove "XS-" ?

2014-01-03 Thread Stefano Zacchiroli
BF, I didn't mean to propose another one. I was merely pointing to the old one to observe its evolution over time. Cheers. -- Stefano Zacchiroli . . . . . . . z...@upsilon.cc . . . . o . . . o . o Maître de conférences . . . . . http://upsilon.cc/zack . . . o . . . o o Former Debian Project Lea

Re: removal of the vacation package

2014-01-12 Thread Stefano Zacchiroli
ong; arguably doing so will contribute to be even worse email citizens. If we do have such a replacement (I just don't know) please mention it in the removal bug report. Thanks for having maintained vacation over all these years! Cheers. -- Stefano Zacchiroli . . . . . . . z...@upsilon.cc .

Re: autopkgtest + chroot howto ? - Was: Re: Is it possible to run autopkgtest without a virtual machine ?

2014-01-26 Thread Stefano Zacchiroli
on (sorry), but you might also be interested in sadt --- "simple DEP-8 test runner" --- by Jakub Wilk, which has recently joined the devscripts happy bunch. Just install devscripts (>= 2.14.1, currently in unstable only) and have a look at man 1 sadt. Cheers. -- Stefano Zacchiroli

Re: Debian source packages file types and SLOC

2014-02-03 Thread Stefano Zacchiroli
e service to retrieve it. Rather contact me in private and I could provide a dump of the relevant database tables. HTH, Cheers. -- Stefano Zacchiroli . . . . . . . z...@upsilon.cc . . . . o . . . o . o Maître de conférences . . . . . http://upsilon.cc/zack . . . o . . . o o Former Debian Proj

Re: Debian default desktop environment

2014-04-04 Thread Stefano Zacchiroli
n to you when he is stuck choosing among names that are absolutely obscure to him like "GNOME", "Xfce", and "KDE"? We are software integrators, making default choices is what we do. We can't pass the bucket down to our users. -- Stefano Zacchiroli . . . .

Re: Release Notes (and any other documentation) (was: systemd-fsck?)

2014-05-15 Thread Stefano Zacchiroli
ems, get back to us, and then we realize pretty quickly that the root cause of their problems is precisely that they haven't read the release notes. Cheers. -- Stefano Zacchiroli . . . . . . . z...@upsilon.cc . . . . o . . . o . o Maître de conférences . . . . . http://upsilon.cc/zack . . . o

Re: Packaging Openstack for Debian: anyone else interested?

2011-03-27 Thread Stefano Zacchiroli
ntitled to question existing choice and to make better choices. But please, think of the kittens. Any change that will make more difficult to share work has a cost in the long run that might, and will, impact on the quality of Openstack packages for Debian. Thanks for your interest in packaging Openst

Re: Packaging Openstack for Debian: anyone else interested?

2011-03-28 Thread Stefano Zacchiroli
oking forward to a great set of Openstack packages for Debian, Cheers. -- Stefano Zacchiroli -o- PhD in Computer Science \ PostDoc @ Univ. Paris 7 zack@{upsilon.cc,pps.jussieu.fr,debian.org} -<>- http://upsilon.cc/zack/ Quando anche i santi ti voltano le spalle, | . |. I've fans eve

Re: Meeting Minutes, FTPMaster meeting March 2011

2011-03-28 Thread Stefano Zacchiroli
hare about that? > - A dak package to upload into unstable. Although that's coming Real >Soon Now, honest (especially as one of the ftpteam needs it...). Neat! Cheers. -- Stefano Zacchiroli -o- PhD in Computer Science \ PostDoc @ Univ. Paris 7 zack@{upsilon.cc,pps.jussieu.fr,debi

throw away debs and source only uploads

2011-03-30 Thread Stefano Zacchiroli
is just an idea, little more than a brain-dump, for finding a compromise among the real needs of people with bandwidth problem and the social issues revolving around developer sloppiness. Once more: it's material for discussion which IMHO should not be in the way of the implementation of

Re: Bits from the Release Team - Kicking off Wheezy

2011-03-31 Thread Stefano Zacchiroli
'll need help to be able to push for them. Regarding (4), it has an obvious dependency on DEP8 and on the infrastructure needed to run the tests. We're still looking for help willing to do both secretarial and infrastructure work to make that a reality. Cheers. -- Stefano Zacchiroli

Re: network-manager as default? No! (was: Bits from the Release Team - Kicking off Wheezy)

2011-04-03 Thread Stefano Zacchiroli
e "if you do $foo I'll stop using Debian", I can't help thinking (and sometime commenting) that those comments are not helping pursuing a technical discussion. As the rest of this subthread is not helping either, I stop here and also apologize with the other readers for the noise.

time based freezes

2011-04-03 Thread Stefano Zacchiroli
decision, in the hopefully unlikely case that people will really want to do that. Let's fight^Wdiscuss all this! Cheers. -- Stefano Zacchiroli -o- PhD in Computer Science \ PostDoc @ Univ. Paris 7 zack@{upsilon.cc,pps.jussieu.fr,debian.org} -<>- http://upsilon.cc/zack/ Quando anch

Re: throw away debs and source only uploads

2011-04-07 Thread Stefano Zacchiroli
-f" (extending a bit the current semantics of -f) which would refuse to upload a source only binary by default? Cheers. -- Stefano Zacchiroli -o- PhD in Computer Science \ PostDoc @ Univ. Paris 7 zack@{upsilon.cc,pps.jussieu.fr,debian.org} -<>- http://upsilon.cc/zack/ Quando anche i santi

Re: time based freezes

2011-04-07 Thread Stefano Zacchiroli
[ Bcc:-ing release team ] On Sun, Apr 03, 2011 at 06:15:52PM +0200, Stefano Zacchiroli wrote: > Since other follow-ups have avoided this topic up to now, let me be the > reckless guy who jumps into it with both feet: time based freezes! Another thread, another thread summary! Here is a s

Re: time based freezes

2011-04-07 Thread Stefano Zacchiroli
for Squeeze: > | Packages that are present in unstable the day we freeze will be > | automatically allowed into testing, that is, the freeze date ... does > | not mean your package should be in testing by then, but only in > | unstable. ACK-ed as well in my other mail, thanks to

Re: time based freezes

2011-04-07 Thread Stefano Zacchiroli
it which of course might arise in the future). Cheers. -- Stefano Zacchiroli -o- PhD in Computer Science \ PostDoc @ Univ. Paris 7 zack@{upsilon.cc,pps.jussieu.fr,debian.org} -<>- http://upsilon.cc/zack/ Quando anche i santi ti voltano le spalle, | . |. I've fans everywhere ti res

Re: Bits from the Release Team - Kicking off Wheezy

2011-04-09 Thread Stefano Zacchiroli
On Thu, Mar 31, 2011 at 01:28:01PM +0200, Stefano Zacchiroli wrote: > I propose the following additions: > > 1) No uninstallable packages, according to their dependencies, are > > 2) No packages with (detectable) conflicts are shipped as part of a After Ralf's ack to docu

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