Re: debian/gbp.cnf analytics? (Re: Re: Accepting DEP14?)

2024-08-18 Thread Stuart Prescott
i/sha256/?checksum=c4a26b58ec236eab6919435af0267c29840191a97beeb3caa4712e42a6d51be8 which might permit some pre-filtering of the list of packages to inspect. regards Stuart -- Stuart Prescott http://www.nanonanonano.net/ stu...@nanonanonano.net Debian Developer http://www.debian.org/ stu...@debian.org GPG fingerprint 9

Re: debian/gbp.cnf analytics? (Re: Re: Accepting DEP14?)

2024-08-18 Thread Stuart Prescott
For those playing along at home... On 19/08/2024 14:53, Stuart Prescott wrote:     url=$(curl -s https://sources.debian.org/api/src/zzuf/0.15-4/debian/gbp.conf/ | jq -r .raw_url) The API URL should obviously be https://sources.debian.org/api/src/$pkg/latest/debian/gbp.conf/ and

Bug#431905: ITP: latexdraw -- vector drawing program for LaTeX using PSTricks

2007-07-05 Thread Stuart Prescott
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Stuart Prescott <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * Package name: latexdraw Version : 1.9.3 Upstream Author : Arnaud BLOUIN <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * URL : http://latexdraw.sourceforge.net/ * License : GPL Programmin

Bug#431907: ITP: java-imaging-utilities -- library to load, analyze, process and save pixel images and sample application

2007-07-05 Thread Stuart Prescott
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Stuart Prescott <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * Package name: java-imaging-utilities Version : 0.14.2 Upstream Author : Marco Schmidt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * URL : http://schmidt.devlib.org/jiu/` * License : GPL Prog

Bug#431908: ITP: libwmfview-java -- library to load and display wmf images

2007-07-05 Thread Stuart Prescott
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Stuart Prescott <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * Package name: libwmfview-java Version : 0.8.1 Upstream Author : Marco Schmidt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * URL : http://latexdraw.sf.net/ * License : GPL Programmin

Bug#447525: ITP: jlibeps -- Java library to create EPS images

2007-10-21 Thread Stuart Prescott
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Stuart Prescott <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * Package name: jlibeps Version : 0.1.0 Upstream Author : Arnaud BLOUIN <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * URL : http://jlibeps.sourceforge.net/ * License : GPLv2 or later Programmin

Re: systemd now appears to be only possible init system in testing

2014-07-23 Thread Stuart Prescott
find more information about that in this thread. A little empathy for fellow developers, a little time looking in the mirror and some effort to see things from other perspectives would go a long way and be greatly appreciated. Stuart -- Stuart Prescotthttp://www.nanonanonano.net/ stu.

Bug#758638: ITP: python-diff-match-patch -- robust algorithms for synchronizing plain text

2014-08-19 Thread Stuart Prescott
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Stuart Prescott * Package name: python-diff-match-patch Version : 20121119 Upstream Author : Neil Fraser * URL : https://pypi.python.org/pypi/diff-match-patch * License : Apache-2.0 Programming Lang: Python 2 and 3

Re: inconsistent versions of M-A: same packages

2014-11-07 Thread Stuart Prescott
t's quite feasible to extend that script to prepare a list of version→arch mappings for each source package. cheers Stuart -- Stuart Prescotthttp://www.nanonanonano.net/ stu...@nanonanonano.net Debian Developer http://www.debian.org/ stu...@debian.org GPG fingerprint90E2 D2C1

Re: DEP-8 extension proposal: Add source package header

2012-06-13 Thread Stuart Prescott
/main/Contents-source.gz - -- Stuart Prescott www.nanoNANOnano.net -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.10 (GNU/Linux) iEYEARECAAYFAk/Ye/oACgkQn+i4zXHF0ai1hQCguRLGOfvM1BrOKlhAcH8YsPtw ZmsAn0gjtAi1YRF03VyT/yYgBoxLbjvT =Hwvn -END PGP SIGNATURE- -- To

Bug#709143: ITP: cssmin -- YUI CSS compression algorithm in Python

2013-05-20 Thread Stuart Prescott
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Stuart Prescott * Package name: cssmin Version : 0.1.4 Upstream Author : Zachary Voase * URL : http://github.com/zacharyvoase/cssmin * License : Expat Programming Lang: Python Description : YUI CSS compression

Re: systemd .service file conversion

2013-06-02 Thread Stuart Prescott
iles; I think we're good at misidentifying which files are configuration files. So in all these other cases including traditional unix tools and our own tools that we use on a daily basis, we manage to have defaults *not* in /etc and the local configuration files that change the defaults in /e

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

2012-10-30 Thread Stuart Prescott
gmane.org [2] I would encourage them to let their sponsors know this since the sponsors are in the position of helping care for their packages anyway - -- Stuart Prescotthttp://www.nanonanonano.net/ stu...@nanonanonano.net Debian Developer http://www.debian.org/ stu...@debian.org G

Re: Multiple source package entries in Sources file

2012-12-18 Thread Stuart Prescott
120313 version, which is why it's still there in the ia64 port. [1] https://buildd.debian.org/status/package.php?p=gcc-snapshot&suite=sid -- Stuart Prescotthttp://www.nanonanonano.net/ stu...@nanonanonano.net Debian Developer http://www.debian.org/ stu...@debian.org GPG fin

Bug#696833: ITP: i18nspector -- checking tool for gettext POT, PO and MO files

2012-12-27 Thread Stuart Prescott
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Stuart Prescott * Package name: i18nspector Version : 0.6 Upstream Author : Jakub Wilk * URL : http://jwilk.net/software/i18nspector * License : Expat Programming Lang: python Description : checking tool for

Bug#705452: docbook-xml: Fail to upgrade due to pre-depend problem

2013-04-17 Thread Stuart Prescott
Helmut Grohne wrote: > > Stuart Prescott also tried demoting this Pre-Dependency to Depends and > > showed that the very same upgrade failure occurs. So this is not an > > option. > > The conclusion here is that the only way to fix this bug in sgml-base is > to have

Re: Bits from the autopkgtest maintainer

2014-03-04 Thread Stuart Prescott
tive implementation etc) but that still isn't build-deps. (I don't know if that's what Jakub had in mind, but that's my 2¢) cheers Stuart [1] Where possible, separate tests for Depends, Depends+Recommends, Depends+Recommends+Suggests would seem even better t

Re: packaging of MATLAB files

2014-03-10 Thread Stuart Prescott
't pretend that the examples are universally useful though and a README to that effect would be appropriate. Of course if they just worked with octave, then that would be even better. cheers Stuart -- Stuart Prescotthttp://www.nanonanonano.net/ stu...@nanonanonano.net Debian D

Re: ':any' syntax in package names in jessie/sid Packages

2014-04-18 Thread Stuart Prescott
e not been implemented in Debian or have been implemented differently in Debian -- it's not a substitute for having this in Policy) Hope that helps Stuart -- Stuart Prescotthttp://www.nanonanonano.net/ stu...@nanonanonano.net Debian Developer http://www.debian.org/ stu...@debian.org

Re: ':any' syntax in package names in jessie/sid Packages

2014-04-20 Thread Stuart Prescott
Thorsten Glaser wrote: > Stuart Prescott debian.org> writes: > >> Unfortunately, the people who understand multiarch well enough to write >> it up for policy haven't done so which leaves us with no normative >> documentation in policy for the the Multi-Arch fiel

Re: ':any' syntax in package names in jessie/sid Packages

2014-04-20 Thread Stuart Prescott
e" to then seek a change in policy. (And as observed recently, this also means that when given a choice between A and B, we end up choosing A, B, C and Z [2].) cheers Stuart [1] #723586 [2] http://lists.debian.org/87y4zc3jix.fsf%40windlord.stanford.edu -- Stuart Prescotthttp://www.n

Re: Age of built packages to be part of the jessie release?

2014-11-23 Thread Stuart Prescott
of source packages in each release: http://ircbots.debian.net/stats/package_ages.png (note: this is based on source package uploads; binNMUs not included) -- Stuart Prescotthttp://www.nanonanonano.net/ stu...@nanonanonano.net Debian Developer http://www.debian.org/

Re: debian github organization ?

2015-04-17 Thread Stuart Prescott
o that puts git as the declared VCS for > 50% source packages (and leading the next most popular by almost a factor of 4). -- Stuart Prescotthttp://www.nanonanonano.net/ stu...@nanonanonano.net Debian Developer http://www.debian.org/ stu...@debian.org GPG fingerprint90E2 D2C1

Re: How continious is debci?

2015-05-16 Thread Stuart Prescott
ebci looks in d/control or in the dsc (or in Sources) to find packages to test. [1] http://sources.debian.net/src/dpkg/1.17.25/ChangeLog/#L6457 [2] http://anonscm.debian.org/cgit/collab-maint/debci.git/tree/README.md#n15 cheers Stuart -- Stuart Prescotthttp://www.nanonano

Re: Introducting Debian Trends: historical graphs about Debian packaging practices, and "packages smells"

2019-04-19 Thread Stuart Prescott
: source-format 3.0 (quilt) $ lintian --version Lintian v2.12.0~bpo9+1 FYI for prottest, you could set the locale detail LC_ALL=C.UTF-8 for the entire debian/rules rather than only for the dh call. Stuart -- Stuart Prescotthttp://www.nanonanonano.net/ stu...@nanonanonano.net Debian D

Re: Re: Updating dpkg-buildflags to enable reproducible=+fixfilepath by default

2021-01-10 Thread Stuart Prescott
r Qt6 to include them upstream. regards Stuart -- Stuart Prescotthttp://www.nanonanonano.net/ stu...@nanonanonano.net Debian Developer http://www.debian.org/ stu...@debian.org GPG fingerprint90E2 D2C1 AD14 6A1B 7EBB 891D BBC1 7EBB 1396 F2F7

Re: Is distro-tracker accessible by some sort of API?

2020-01-17 Thread Stuart Prescott
bullseye Package: libc6 bullseye/amd64 bullseye: 2.29-7 $ udd-cache versions no-such-package --release bullseye No package named 'no-such-package' was found in bullseye/amd64. cheers Stuart -- Stuart Prescotthttp://www.nanonanonano.net/ stu...@nanonanonano.net Debian Developer http://www.debian.org/ stu...@debian.org GPG fingerprint90E2 D2C1 AD14 6A1B 7EBB 891D BBC1 7EBB 1396 F2F7

Re: no-strong-digests-in-dsc MBF

2017-01-17 Thread Stuart Prescott
against this goal. It will remove the package from this list and makie it look like the the package has been uploaded with some maintenance, while changing nothing.) cheers Stuart -- Stuart Prescotthttp://www.nanonanonano.net/ stu...@nanonanonano.net Debian Developer http://www.debia

Re: no-strong-digests-in-dsc MBF

2017-01-17 Thread Stuart Prescott
-importing source packages is a challenge. Ahh... and I take it that's not configurable in dak. So reuploading the packages would solve half the problem (hashes) but not the other half (signatures). cheers Stuart -- Stuart Prescotthttp://www.nanonanonano.net/ stu...@nanonanonan

Re: CUPS GPL → Apache license change, how to proceed?

2018-02-19 Thread Stuart Prescott
s://people.debian.org/~stuart/copyright.tar.xz Happy for suggestions, merge requests etc! cheers Stuart -- Stuart Prescotthttp://www.nanonanonano.net/ stu...@nanonanonano.net Debian Developer http://www.debian.org/ stu...@debian.org GPG fingerprint90E2 D2C1 AD14 6A1B 7EBB 891D

Re: Debian Policy 4.1.4.0 released

2018-04-07 Thread Stuart Prescott
ainer Dashboard also show when new commits are made. (Thanks to Paul Wise for creating this a couple of years ago when I was musing on how to track this sort of upstream) cheers Stuart -- Stuart Prescotthttp://www.nanonanonano.net/ stu...@nanonanonano.net Debian Developer http://www.debian.

Re: Please do not drop Python 2 modules

2018-04-23 Thread Stuart Prescott
ty: certain N: N: Check: python, Type: source, binary N: -- Stuart Prescotthttp://www.nanonanonano.net/ stu...@nanonanonano.net Debian Developer http://www.debian.org/ stu...@debian.org GPG fingerprint90E2 D2C1 AD14 6A1B 7EBB 891D BBC1 7EBB 1396 F2F7

Re: make compilation not so gray

2018-05-26 Thread Stuart Prescott
gainst my chosen background. That usually means increasing saturation and decreasing lightness for the colours. The dpkg-source warning you showed appears as a brownish colour and is perfectly legible for me. cheers Stuart -- Stuart Prescotthttp://www.nanonanonano.net/ stu...@nanonanona

Re: sarge bo rex

2018-06-24 Thread Stuart Prescott
> What is the sequence of Debian release names? In addition to the other answers, machine readable data are in the package distro-info-data: /usr/share/distro-info/debian.csv See "apt-cache rdepends distro-info-data" for shell, python and perl bindings. Stuart -- St

Re: intended MBF: wrong redirections in maintainer scripts

2018-08-07 Thread Stuart Prescott
aces where the output is captured; the talk by Ralf and Nicholas at DebConf is well worth watching. https://debconf18.debconf.org/talks/90-mining-debian-maintainer-scripts/ Not restricting the search to maintainer scripts finds many many more... it's a common enough mistake. regards Stuart -

Re: Updating the policy for conflicting binaries names ? [was: Re: Re: New package netgen-lvs with binary /usr/bin/netgen - already taken]

2018-09-12 Thread Stuart Prescott
Jonathan Dowland wrote: > Yes. Is "environment-modules" well-known these days? I'm surprised not > to see it mentioned more often. Indeed, environment-modules and direnv and excellent tools for this sort of game. -- Stuart Prescotthttp://www.nanonanonano.net/ st

Bug#910484: ITP: python-backports.csv -- Backport of the Python 3 CSV module for Python 2

2018-10-06 Thread Stuart Prescott
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Stuart Prescott * Package name: python-backports.csv Version : 1.0.6 Upstream Author : Python Software Foundation * URL : https://github.com/ryanhiebert/backports.csv * License : Python Software Foundation License v 2

Bug#859199: ITP: dh-curl-sudo-bash -- debhelper tools for automated non-packaging

2017-03-31 Thread Stuart Prescott
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Stuart Prescott * Package name: dh-curl-sudo-bash Version : 1.1 Upstream Author : Lars Wirzenius and Stuart Prescott * URL : http://deb.li/U67E * License : BSD 3 clause Programming Lang: POSIX shell, Perl

Re: Please add lzip support in the repository

2017-06-15 Thread Stuart Prescott
an/dists/sid/main/binary-amd64/Packages.xz [7,547 kB] Fetched 7,547 kB in 5s (1,446 kB/s) $ /usr/lib/apt/apt-helper cat-file Packages.xz | less (this only looks at the repo and doesn't address package compression which Guillem discussed elsewhere) -- Stuart Prescotthttp://www.nan

Re: How to start a new packaging team now?

2017-09-16 Thread Stuart Prescott
on that the new-alioth provides that will replace the existing mailing lists as a way for users and maintainer teams to communicate to discuss development, bugs and provide support? thanks Stuart -- Stuart Prescotthttp://www.nanonanonano.net/ stu...@nanonanonano.net Debian Devel

Re: Why do we list individual copyright holders?

2017-12-31 Thread Stuart Prescott
-no-python3-foo is a much more important problem that really does need addressing *right* *now*. If it's easy to do then just do it; if it's hard to do, then now is past the time to start talking to upstream about it to make it happen. https://lintian.debian.org/tags/dependency-on-pyth

Re: 50.000 binary packages

2016-02-08 Thread Stuart Prescott
An impressive achievement indeed. I started collecting some data on source packages vs time a few years ago. It also shows some of the rhythm of the development cycle: http://ircbots.debian.net/stats/ cheers Stuart -- Stuart Prescotthttp://www.nanonanonano.net/ stu

Re: Bits from DPL

2025-01-06 Thread Stuart Prescott
ase = 'sid' AND (vcs_url IS NULL OR vcs_url NOT LIKE '%salsa%'); count --- 3906 regards Stuart -- Stuart Prescott http://www.nanonanonano.net/ stu...@nanonanonano.net Debian Developer http://www.debian.org/ stu...@debian.org GPG fingerprint 90E2 D2C1 AD14 6A1B 7EBB 891D BBC1 7EBB 1396 F2F7

Re: Bits from DPL

2025-01-08 Thread Stuart Prescott
. Note that the salsa error "could not read Username" in the table is not a misconfiguration - it means that the repo couldn't be obtained anonymously, which could be that it doesn't exist, or that it needs permissions - both are wrong for Debian. SELECT source, url, error

Re: Bits from DPL

2025-01-07 Thread Stuart Prescott
ON s.source = h.source AND s.version = h.version WHERE release = 'sid' AND vcs_url ~ '/(git|svn|alioth).debian.org' GROUP BY year ORDER BY year ASC; SELECT maintainer, COUNT(*) FROM sources WHERE release = 'sid' AND vcs_url ~ '/(git|svn|