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

2024-08-03 Thread Tobias Frost
On Sat, Aug 03, 2024 at 09:40:51PM +0900, Kentaro Hayashi wrote: > Hi, > > Even though +1 for DEP-18 basically, I think that it might be better > to add an option > to formalize package owner's (single person maintainer) collaboration policy > especially about non-team maintained packages under >

Question regarding maintainer email

2006-10-16 Thread Tobias Frost
Hi, I have a question according maintainer email contact addresses: A group of packages have a - well - kind of private email list. But if reporting bugs, for example, you get a kind of bounce, which is quite annoying: (shows also up in the bug tracking system) --- quote --- Your mail to ... w

Re: New project goal: Get rid of Berkeley DB (post jessie)

2014-06-19 Thread Tobias Frost
On Thu, 2014-06-19 at 11:38 +0200, Ondřej Surý wrote: > Hi, > > > > my view is that Berkeley DB is dead since Oracle relicenced it to AGPL3; > I also think there are better alternatives for key-value storage > databases > like LMDB (http://symas.com/mdb/) (or possibly others like LevelDB, > Toky

Bug#752696: ITP: soci -- C++ database access library

2014-06-25 Thread Tobias Frost
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Tobias Frost * Package name: soci Version : 3.2.2 Upstream Author : see http://soci.sourceforge.net/people.html * URL : http://soci.sourceforge.net/ * License : Boost Software License 1.0 Programming Lang: C

Bug#753013: ITP: cppdb -- SQL Connectivity Library

2014-06-28 Thread Tobias Frost
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Tobias Frost * Package name: cppdb Version : 0.3.1 Upstream Author : Artyom Beilis (Tonkikh) * URL : http://cppcms.com/sql/cppdb/index.html * License : Boost Software License 1.0 Programming Lang: C++) Description

Re: How to restart New Member Process?

2014-07-01 Thread Tobias Frost
On 1. Juli 2014 09:41:17 MESZ, Kiwamu Okabe wrote: >Hi developers, > >How to restart New Member Process? > >I have had New Member Process in the past. >But It's canceled, because I had not a good response to it. > >https://nm.debian.org/public/process/13039 > >Now, I would like to dput packages fo

Re: Transition plan for changing the default init system

2014-07-16 Thread Tobias Frost
On Thu, 2014-07-17 at 03:05 +0200, Michael Biebl wrote: > Am 17.07.2014 02:31, schrieb Ben Hutchings: > > On Wed, 2014-07-16 at 23:22 +0200, Tollef Fog Heen wrote: > > [...] > >> New installations > >> = > >> The new "init" package will ensure that systemd-sysv is installed as > >>

Bug#753013: ITP: cppdb -- SQL Connectivity Library

2014-07-19 Thread Tobias Frost
Package: wnpp Followup-For: Bug #753013 Packing repository will be here: https://gitorious.org/cppdb-debian/cppdb-debian/source -- tobi -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: htt

Bug#752696: ITP/RFA soci -- C++ database access library

2014-07-19 Thread Tobias Frost
Package: wnpp Followup-For: Bug #752696 Owner: Tobias Frost Originally I intended to package soci as I planned to utilize it in solarpowerlog. However as soci was not a perfect match for my needs, I'm now using antother library, cppdb (#753013). So if anyone wants/need/... to take over,

Bug#753013: ITP: cppdb -- SQL Connectivity Library

2014-08-02 Thread Tobias Frost
Package: wnpp Tags: -1 pending Followup-For: Bug #753013 Owner: Tobias Frost cppdb is now in NEW. -- tobi -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: https://lists.

Bug#764200: ITP: rbdoom3bfg -- Doom3 BFG edition game engine

2014-10-06 Thread Tobias Frost
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Tobias Frost * Package name: rbdoom3bfg Version : 1.0.2 (plus latest git commits Upstream Author : Robert Beckebans * URL : https://github.com/RobertBeckebans/RBDOOM-3-BFG * License : GPL-3+ (with addtional terms by id

Bug#766342: ITP: gnome-shell-extension-suspend-button -- Gnome-shell extension allowing to modify the suspend/shutdown button in the status menu

2014-10-22 Thread Tobias Frost
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Tobias Frost * Package name: gnome-shell-extension-suspend-button Upstream Author : Raphael Freudiger * URL : https://github.com/laserb/gnome-shell-extension-suspend-button * License : GPL Programming Lang: javascript

Re: What is the policy on audio group? and, proposal of a new group for the jack audio server

2014-10-27 Thread Tobias Frost
Am Montag, den 27.10.2014, 02:58 +0100 schrieb Marco d'Itri: > On Oct 27, Kaj Ailomaa wrote: > > > Ok, so you are for removing audio group from user default groups? > Eventually, yes. Did you mean "maybe" or "for sure, someone" Just to avoid an (common) non-native* error: eventually != maybe --

Re: What is the policy on audio group? and, proposal of a new group for the jack audio server

2014-10-30 Thread Tobias Frost
Am Mittwoch, den 29.10.2014, 23:25 +0100 schrieb Ralf Jung: > Hi, > > > Marco d'Itri: > >> On Oct 27, Tobias Frost wrote: > >> > >>>>> Ok, so you are for removing audio group from user default groups? > >>>> Eventually, yes.

Re: RFC: DEP-14: Recommended layout for Git packaging repositories

2014-11-13 Thread Tobias Frost
> I think you need to be more explicit about the implications for `3.0 > (quilt)' format packages. Something like: > >If the git tree contains debian/format specifying `3.0 (quilt)', >the git tree must also contain debian/patches/series and all the >patch files contained within it.

Re: RFC: DEP-14: Recommended layout for Git packaging repositories

2014-11-13 Thread Tobias Frost
> On Tue, 11 Nov 2014, Raphael Hertzog wrote: First, I'm a fan of trying to ease the workflow for all by having some standardisation / best-practice recommendation/documentation. Kudos to the initiattors! >> QUESTION: some people have argued to use debian/master as the latest >> packaging tar

Re: RFC: DEP-14: Recommended layout for Git packaging repositories

2014-11-13 Thread Tobias Frost
> 2014-11-12 10:28 GMT+01:00 Raphael Hertzog : >> On Wed, 12 Nov 2014, Mathieu Parent wrote: > OK. Makes sense. The unstripped upstream can then live in an > non-namespaced branch if needed (this is not my usual workflow but should be possible). > On Wed, 12 Nov 2014, Mathieu Parent wrote: >> May

Re: Being part of a community and behaving

2014-11-13 Thread Tobias Frost
> On Thu, 13 Nov 2014, Bálint Réczey wrote: >> I have just noticed your blog post on planet.debian.org: >> https://np237.livejournal.com/34598.html > > You lack any sense of humor, really! > > Although I am a strong opponent of systemd, I had to laugh out loud > on that one, actually love it. > > S

Re: Current and upcoming toolchain changes for jessie

2013-06-13 Thread Tobias Frost
Am Donnerstag, den 13.06.2013, 15:46 +0100 schrieb Steven Chamberlain: > Hi, > > On 13/06/13 13:51, Matthias Klose wrote: > > GCC 4.8 is now the default on all x86 architectures, and on all ARM > > architectures (the latter confirmed by the Debian ARM porters). I did not > > get > > any feedback

Bug#652904: ITP: solarpowerlog -- logging photovoltaic data

2011-12-21 Thread Tobias Frost
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Tobias Frost * Package name: solarpowerlog Version : 0.21 Upstream Author : Tobias Frost * URL : http://solarpowerlog.coldtobi.de * License : GPL, LGPL Programming Lang: C++ Description : logging photovoltaic

Re: ltsp & pulseaudio

2014-02-08 Thread Tobias Frost
Hallo Oleg, thanks for the report, but you should file a bug against the package ltsp (using the Debian BTS) as this is the general Debian devel list. (You can use e.g the tool "reportbug" for that, a "reportbug ltsp" should get you going) -- Best regrads, coldtobi Am Freitag, den 07.02.2014,

Re: Upstart support for LSB headers (Two line init.d scripts? Sure, that will work!)

2014-02-17 Thread Tobias Frost
> Hi, > > Wouter Verhelst: >> discussion. No, we should not depend on it for Debian; but we should >> provide the interface for system administrators who wish to use it, >> because it is not Debian's place to tell them that they cannot use that >> interface. >> > It's not our place to tell people t

Re: Anyone using amanda-server?

2014-02-26 Thread Tobias Frost
Hallo Jose, You should also ping your RFS bug and maybe upload to mentors.d.n for easier reviews and broader sponsor audience... I could not find the package there to take a look. (Though I could not sponsor you -- only just entered the NM process and waiting for an AM :) (BTW: You mail client i

Re: how to deal with a missed so bump already uploaded ?

2014-05-16 Thread Tobias Frost
On Fri, 2014-05-16 at 20:56 +, PICCA Frederic-Emmanuel wrote: > Hello, > > the zeromq upstream forgot to do an so bump when releasing the 4.x series. > The breakage was discovers quite late so it is now in testing. > the package should be revert to the 3.2.4 version. > > you can find all the

Re: Q: non-x86 build machine for Ruby upstream developers

2014-06-08 Thread Tobias Frost
On 8. Juni 2014 04:16:08 MESZ, Pascal Giard wrote: > >Le 2014-06-07 à 11:23, Adam Borowski a écrit : > >> I'd heartily recommend getting a hardkernel's Odroid-U3: >> http://hardkernel.com/main/products/prdt_info.php >> >> For $59 you get a 4-core 1.7-2.0Ghz 2GB mem machine that runs Debian >> na

Bug#777373: ITP: doom3-dhewm3 -- GPL'ed Source code modification of the Doom3 game engine

2015-02-07 Thread Tobias Frost
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Tobias Frost * Package name: doom3-dhewm3 Version : 0~git20130917 Upstream Author : Daniel Gibson * URL : https://github.com/dhewm/dhewm3 * License : GPL, BSD, ZLIB Programming Lang: C++ Description : GPL Source

Bug#777373: ITP: doom3-dhewm3 -- GPL'ed Source code modification of the Doom3 game engine

2015-02-15 Thread Tobias Frost
Package: wnpp Followup-For: Bug #777373 Owner: Tobias Frost Control: tags -1 pending Package is now in the new queue. Repository at: https://alioth.debian.org/plugins/scmgit/cgi-bin/gitweb.cgi?p=pkg-games/dhewm3.git -- tobi -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org

Bug#782988: (no subject)

2015-04-20 Thread Tobias Frost
Package: wnpp Followup-For: Bug #782988 Owner: Tobias Frost Did you want to file an ITP or RFP? Please retitle the subject accordingly. Thanks! tobi -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Conta

Bug#782749: All browsers except Links2 crash constantly and iceweasel is broken

2015-04-21 Thread Tobias Frost
Control: -1 tags fixed-upstream fixed-in-experimental Control: -1 fixed 1.14.2-1 Am Montag, den 20.04.2015, 14:00 +0100 schrieb Adam D. Barratt: > Given that nothing about the patch appears to be sparc-specific, it > should probably be applied in unstable first in case of regressions on > other

Re: mudlet bug #787354: icon had wrong license

2015-06-12 Thread Tobias Frost
Am Freitag, den 12.06.2015, 20:50 +1000 schrieb Craig Small: > On Mon, Jun 08, 2015 at 02:05:11PM +0100, Adam D. Barratt wrote: > > With my SRM hat on, we're generally happy to consider the issue resolved if > > the package in unstable contains the correct license information and the > > file(s) in

Bug#793979: ITP: darkradiant -- Level design toolchain for idtech4 based games like DOOM3 and The Dark Mod

2015-07-29 Thread Tobias Frost
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Tobias Frost * Package name: darkradiant Version : 2.0.2 Upstream Author : OrbWeaver and others * URL : http://darkradiant.sourceforge.net/ * License : GPL2+ Programming Lang: C++ Description : Level design

Re: Mass bug filing about non free lena image.

2015-08-12 Thread Tobias Frost
Am Mittwoch, den 12.08.2015, 15:32 +0200 schrieb Andreas Tille: > Hi Gianfranco, > > On Fri, Aug 07, 2015 at 10:17:53AM +, Gianfranco Costamagna > wrote: > > Hi Debian Developers, I would like to let you know I would like to > > do an MBF for ~11 packages > > (not so mass bug filing actually

Re: Cdbs Features

2019-05-14 Thread Tobias Frost
On Tue, May 14, 2019 at 05:35:21AM -0700, Mo Zhou wrote: > Hi, > > On 2019-05-14 07:59, IOhannes m zmölnig wrote: > > i've migrated many of my packages from cdbs to dh, but there's one > > feature which cdbs sports and which i miss strongly (at least: the last > > time i checked) in dh (so much, t

Re: Suspending Offer to Reimburse Expenses for Attending Future Bug Squashing Parties

2019-06-08 Thread Tobias Frost
On Fri, Jun 07, 2019 at 11:10:12PM +, Holger Levsen wrote: > On Wed, Jun 05, 2019 at 09:19:03AM -0400, Sam Hartman wrote: > > Handling reimbursements for BSPs has significantly crossed my threshhold > > for not being fun with our current procedures. We absolutely should > > reimburse developer

Re: Uninformative hyperlink in O: (package orphaning) bug reports

2019-06-29 Thread Tobias Frost
On Thu, Jun 27, 2019 at 03:38:48PM -0400, Boyuan Yang wrote: > Dear -devel list, > > (Please forward this email to proper mailing lists if there's other lists that > this email would suit in better.) > > I noticed that for all bug reports that orphan a package in Debian, a semi- > standard paragr

Re: Packaging Games with In-App Purchases

2019-07-14 Thread Tobias Frost
On Sun, Jul 14, 2019 at 12:37:52PM +0700, Bagas Sanjaya wrote: > Hello, > > Let's imagine that I will package a city-building game titled > makaecity. Can you share a link? My $searchengine vodoo failed on me... The game is licensed under GPL(v3), but it has virtual > currency which can be purc

Re: Packaging Games with In-App Purchases

2019-07-14 Thread Tobias Frost
On Sun, Jul 14, 2019 at 08:50:54AM -0400, Sam Hartman wrote: > >>>>> "Tobias" == Tobias Frost writes: > > Tobias> Well, if it is GPL3, you can patch out the > Tobias> real-money-purchasing thing, I guess, can't you? > > Tobias&g

Re: Question about embedded Lua

2019-07-25 Thread Tobias Frost
Hi Kyle, On Thu, Jul 25, 2019 at 10:27:42AM -0400, Kyle Edwards wrote: > Hi all, > > As per Debian policy, programs and libraries are generally not allowed > to embed their own copies of libraries that are present in another > package, in order to avoid duplication of code and to enable security

Re: tag2upload service architecture and risk assessment - draft v2

2019-08-27 Thread Tobias Frost
On Tue, Aug 27, 2019 at 05:04:06PM -0700, Russ Allbery wrote: > Scott Kitterman writes: > > > As an example, I recall concerns about there not being an uploader > > signature on the source anymore, so we would lose the ability to verify > > from the archive who was responsible for the upload. >

Re: what about package for my simple program

2023-08-03 Thread Tobias Frost
Hi Oleg, debian-devel is the wrong mailing list for your topic, may I re-suggest to move this thread to the debian-mentors mailing list, which is more appropiate. (I've set the Reply-To Header to hint your MUA accordingly.) (For d-mentors readers, the original thread on debian-devel is starting a

Re: Bug#1053165: ITS: nunit

2023-09-28 Thread Tobias Frost
Hi Bastian, I'd just want to chime in and confirm what David wrote aleady. When we wrote the ITS procedure during Debconf Tawain, it was an explicitly designed that way, that it must not be a way to fast-orphan packages, bypassing the processes we have for that. This was intentional engineered tha

Re: Hyphens in man pages

2023-10-23 Thread Tobias Frost
Am 24. Oktober 2023 03:43:29 UTC schrieb Paul Wise : >BTW: as a Debian member, you have access to a gratis subscription: > >https://wiki.debian.org/MemberBenefits#LWN AFAIK this is no longer available.

Re: reference Debian package of multiple binaries sharing one man page

2023-11-10 Thread Tobias Frost
On Fri, Nov 10, 2023 at 08:20:35PM +0100, Norwid Behrnd wrote: > Hello, > > I seek a maintained Debian package which provides multiple binaries sharing > one > man page in common -- do you know an example? devscripts - it links debchange.1 to dch.1 via debian/links (dh_link) $grep -r dch debia

Re: Wolfram Research Debian Package Submission

2024-01-13 Thread Tobias Frost
Control: tags 1032150 wontfix Hello Blake, (Dropping several mails from CC, as those are the wrong adressees for the topic; Adding the ITP bug though, as the discussion should happen there.) On Fri, Jan 12, 2024 at 09:42:18AM -0600, Blake Gilbert wrote: > Hello, > > My name is Blake Gilbert an

Bug#1068957: ITP: gnome-shell-extension-vertical-workspaces -- A GNOME Shell extension that lets you customize your GNOME Shell UX to suit your workflow, whether you like horizontally or vertically st

2024-04-14 Thread Tobias Frost
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Tobias Frost X-Debbugs-Cc: debian-devel@lists.debian.org * Package name: gnome-shell-extension-vertical-workspaces Version : (tbd, likely a git snapshot) Upstream Contact: GdH * URL : https://github.com/G-dH/vertical-workspaces

Re: Making Debian available

2021-01-25 Thread Tobias Frost
Am Sun, Jan 24, 2021 at 07:28:07PM +0100 schrieb Philipp Kern: > On 24.01.21 17:08, John Scott wrote: > > Changing the firmware on an EEPROM is far less practical for the user or > > manufacturer (they're on similar footing), and if it's not electronically > > erasable, it's merely an object that

Bug#982087: ITP: timg -- terminal image and video viewer

2021-02-06 Thread Tobias Frost
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Tobias Frost X-Debbugs-Cc: debian-devel@lists.debian.org * Package name: timg Version : 0.9.9 Upstream Author : Henner Zeller * URL : https://github.com/hzeller/timg * License : GPL-2 Programming Lang: C

Re: Q: Use https for {deb,security}.debian.org by default

2021-08-21 Thread Tobias Frost
On Sat, Aug 21, 2021 at 10:40:32AM +0200, Wouter Verhelst wrote: > On Fri, Aug 20, 2021 at 07:20:22PM +, Jeremy Stanley wrote: > > Yes transparent proxies or overridden DNS lookups could be used to > > direct deb.debian.org and security.debian.org to your alternative > > location, > > I've bee

Bug#996556: ITP: gnome-shell-extension-vertical-overview -- GNOME shell extension for vertical stacked workspaces

2021-10-15 Thread Tobias Frost
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Tobias Frost X-Debbugs-Cc: debian-devel@lists.debian.org * Package name: gnome-shell-extension-vertical-overview Version : 8 Upstream Author : Rens Althuis * URL : https://github.com/RensAlthuis/vertical-overview * License

Re: Re: sbuild/schroot: need to get .deb files internally downloaded as package dependencies

2021-10-28 Thread Tobias Frost
On Thu, Oct 28, 2021 at 07:11:05PM +0300, Uladzimir Bely wrote: > Thanks for the answer > > > You have not explained why you don't want to use a caching proxy like apt- > cacher-ng. > > The question appeared while developing for Isar, a tool build create debian- > based distro for embedded system

Re: Remove packages from NEW queue?

2021-11-18 Thread Tobias Frost
Am 18. November 2021 10:30:37 MEZ schrieb Stephan Lachnit : >I tried to remove a package from NEW with `dcut rm package.deb`, `dcut >rm package.changes` and `dcut cancel package.changes`, but nothing >worked. >Is there even a way to remove a package from NEW? > >Regards, >Stephan > ask FTP Master

Re: Lost package?

2022-01-06 Thread Tobias Frost
On Thu, Jan 06, 2022 at 03:43:22PM +0100, Alec Leamas wrote: > Dear list, > > I had a bullseye backport of opencpn uploaded to the backports-new queue > before Christmas (thanks, Tobi). This is the first backport I've done. > > This morning the queue seems to be processed, it is (was) empty. But

Epoch bump for gnome-shell-extension-autohidetopbar

2022-03-28 Thread Tobias Frost
Dear -devel, gnome-shell-extension-autohidetopbar is currently packaged with a date/name version, eg. 20209, unfortunatly without a leading 0~... I recently agreed [1] with upstream to tag their releases to match the version as on extensions.gnome.org as this has been source of confusion for

Bug#1016726: ITP: libcommuni -- A cross-platform IRC framework written with Qt

2022-08-06 Thread Tobias Frost
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Tobias Frost X-Debbugs-Cc: debian-devel@lists.debian.org * Package name: libcommuni Version : 3.7.0 Upstream Author : The Communi Project * URL : https://communi.github.io/ * License : BSD-3-clause Programming Lang: C

Bug#1016962: ITP: swift-im -- C++ library for implementing XMPP applications

2022-08-10 Thread Tobias Frost
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Tobias Frost X-Debbugs-Cc: debian-devel@lists.debian.org * Package name: swift-im Version : 5.0~alpha2 Upstream Author : Kevin Smith * URL : https://swift.im * License : GPL3 Programming Lang: C++ Description : C

Re: Epoch for node-markdown-it

2022-08-20 Thread Tobias Frost
On Fri, Aug 19, 2022 at 10:00:58PM +0530, Nilesh Patra wrote: > On Fri, Aug 19, 2022 at 09:51:14PM +0530, Nilesh Patra wrote: > > > As Jonas said, an epoch cannot be undone, +really can, regardless when > > > this is going to happen. > > > > I think ignoring when it happens is not the right way t

Re: packages expected to fail on some archs

2022-09-12 Thread Tobias Frost
On Sun, Sep 11, 2022 at 11:07:13PM +0300, Adrian Bunk wrote: > On Sun, Sep 11, 2022 at 05:08:57PM +0200, Samuel Thibault wrote: > >... > > The issue we see is that some DDs end up setting a hardcoded list in > > the "Architecture" field, rather than just letting builds keep failing > > on these arc

Re: packages expected to fail on some archs

2022-09-12 Thread Tobias Frost
On Mon, Sep 12, 2022 at 05:11:46PM +0200, Samuel Thibault wrote: > Hello, > > Tobias Frost, le lun. 12 sept. 2022 16:08:08 +0200, a ecrit: > > The problem is that if you want to exclude an arch explicitly, you have to > > list all archs you want to build it on. IOW, I

Re: Firmware GR result - what happens next?

2022-10-06 Thread Tobias Frost
On Thu, Oct 06, 2022 at 05:03:20PM +0200, Julien Cristau wrote: > On Thu, Oct 6, 2022 at 15:45:25 +0100, Steve McIntyre wrote: > > > On Wed, Oct 05, 2022 at 10:11:27PM +0200, Julien Cristau wrote: > > >On Sun, Oct 02, 2022 at 08:21:31PM +0100, Steve McIntyre wrote: > > >> On Sun, Oct 02, 2022 at

Re: Firmware GR result - what happens next?

2022-10-13 Thread Tobias Frost
On Thu, Oct 13, 2022 at 05:08:57PM +0200, Julien Cristau wrote: > On Thu, Oct 06, 2022 at 05:13:22PM +0200, Tobias Frost wrote: > > Maybe and idea would to do something like isa-support does for e.g > > sseX-support > > on CPUs that does not have that feature: It fails on

Re: wxWidgets update & opencpn.

2022-10-28 Thread Tobias Frost
Hi Alec, On Fri, Oct 28, 2022 at 10:15:49AM +0200, Alec Leamas wrote: > Dear list, > > I'm maintaining the opencpn and libwxsvg packages. They both depend on > wxWidgets which now is updated to version 3.2 in testing. Hence, I have two > bugs [1], [2] requesting an update of my packages. > > The

Re: libc6-dev have unmet dependencies in stable-bullseye

2022-11-01 Thread Tobias Frost
On Mon, Oct 31, 2022 at 04:42:00PM +0100, Markus wrote: > Hi, > > Thank you for your answer. > > > If you used debootstrap or mmdebstrap to create your own chroot or > > container that only includes bullseye, and not bullseye-security or > > bullseye-updates, then you would get libc6 (= 2.31-13+d

Bug#1024542: general: Add Budgie-Desktop to the software selection menu list

2022-11-21 Thread Tobias Frost
On Mon, Nov 21, 2022 at 04:31:45PM +0900, Green wrote: > Package: general > Severity: normal > > Dear Maintainers, > > I have filed a bug report, but I got a reply that it was posted at the wrong > section. The bug (#1024529) has been closed because it was assigned to the wrong package, as Cyr

Re: SONAME bumps (transitions) always via experimental

2023-01-06 Thread Tobias Frost
On Thu, Jan 05, 2023 at 02:29:42PM +0100, Sebastian Ramacher wrote: > > From recent memory and assuming there are no issues with d/copyright, > binary-NEW uploads to experimental have been processed swiftly. This is also my experience that binary-NEW uploads for library SONAME bumps are handled v

Re: Adding epoch to kworkflow package to correct a wrong upstream version

2023-03-12 Thread Tobias Frost
On Sat, Mar 11, 2023 at 06:35:39PM -0700, Rodrigo Siqueira wrote: > Hi, > > While working on a new version of the kworkflow package > (https://tracker.debian.org/pkg/kworkflow), we noticed that the current > version is 20191112-1.2, and the latest upstream version is 0.6.2. > Version 20191112-1.2

Re: Building Debian source packages reproducibly (was: Re: [RFC] Proposal for new source format)

2019-10-29 Thread Tobias Frost
Hi Ian, On Mon, Oct 28, 2019 at 05:53:00PM +, Ian Jackson wrote: (...) > For example, you would not be able to do this: >git clone salsa:something >cd something >make some straightforward change >git tag# } [1] >git push # } > Instead you would have to download the

Re: How much data load is acceptable in debian/ dir and upstream (Was: edtsurf_0.2009-7_amd64.changes REJECTED)

2020-09-14 Thread Tobias Frost
On Mon, Sep 14, 2020 at 03:32:54PM -0500, Richard Laager wrote: > >> Don't forget to mention the copyright information. > > > > In principle yes, but these data are not copyrightable as far as I know. > > Nilesh has mentioned the origin of data in debian/tests/README to > > provide a reference.

Re: How much data load is acceptable in debian/ dir and upstream

2020-09-17 Thread Tobias Frost
On Wed, Sep 16, 2020 at 04:55:41PM +0200, Andreas Tille wrote: > > Provided that license and copyright of the data in question is OK > is there any size limit for data to be stored under debian/? my 2 cents: debian/ should not be used for much data: It will be duplicated by the upload of eve

Re: Policy 12.3: should I rename?

2016-07-24 Thread Tobias Frost
Am Samstag, den 23.07.2016, 22:59 +0200 schrieb Tollef Fog Heen: > ]] Jonas Smedegaard  > > > Quoting Tollef Fog Heen (2016-07-23 18:58:37) > > > ]] Geert Stappers  > > > > > > > FWIW I agree with both '"main package "should have > > > > documentation' and  > > > > 'additional documentation in se

Re: Standards-Version field should be deprecated

2016-09-08 Thread Tobias Frost
On Thu, Sep 08, 2016 at 06:37:33PM +0200, Markus Koschany wrote: > > On 08.09.2016 17:39, Russ Allbery wrote: > > > > Markus Koschany writes: > > > > > > > > I have written a macro to update the Standards-Version field > > > because it > > > is such a boring task. Declaring compliance with the

[MBF]: json_checker testsuite, likely licensed "Good not Evil"

2016-10-10 Thread Tobias Frost
Dear Developers,  while packaging an updated version of one of my packages which included now rapidjson I became aware that this library includes the test suite  date of http://json.org/JSON_checker/. While there is no license on the testsuite.zip, json_checker is licensed by json.org with the inf

Re: [MBF]: json_checker testsuite, likely licensed "Good not Evil"

2016-10-10 Thread Tobias Frost
Am Montag, den 10.10.2016, 21:48 +0200 schrieb Bastien ROUCARIES: > On Mon, Oct 10, 2016 at 8:30 PM, Tobias Frost > wrote: > > Dear Developers, > > > > while packaging an updated version of one of my packages which > > included > > now rapidjson I became aware

Re: [MBF]: json_checker testsuite, likely licensed "Good not Evil"

2016-10-12 Thread Tobias Frost
Thanks Bastien! Am 12. Oktober 2016 14:56:23 MESZ, schrieb Bastien ROUCARIES : >Fixed in lintian. > >Lintian will tag these files > >Thanks > >On Mon, Oct 10, 2016 at 10:50 PM, Tobias Frost wrote: >> Am Montag, den 10.10.2016, 21:48 +0200 schrieb Bastien ROUCARIES: &g

Re: DEP 8: Gathering Django usage analytics

2016-11-18 Thread Tobias Frost
On Fri, Nov 18, 2016 at 08:54:08AM +1100, Brian May wrote: > Lars Wirzenius writes: > > > If I understand this correctly, Django wants to gather usage > > statistics from installed Django instances, in a way that they say > > respects user privacy (though I failed to understand how, given a > > q

Re: dput: Call for feedback: What should change? What should stay the same?

2016-12-30 Thread Tobias Frost
ese >questions. I'd like to see #791828 fixed and make it possible to habe dput and dput-ng installed the same time. -- Tobias Frost GPG fingerprint: 13C9 04F0 CE08 5E7C 3630 7985 DECF 849A A635 7FB7

Re: Bug#791828: dput-ng: Please make coinstallable with dput

2017-01-03 Thread Tobias Frost
Am Montag, den 02.01.2017, 10:16 +1100 schrieb Ben Finney: > On 08-Jul-2015, Tobias Frost wrote: > > > I'd love to use both dput and dput-ng without the need of > > installing > > the version I'd use next.. > > As discussed briefly in the thread from 20

Re: Why do we list individual copyright holders?

2018-01-03 Thread Tobias Frost
On Tue, Jan 02, 2018 at 10:51:56PM +0100, Markus Koschany wrote: > Am 02.01.2018 um 21:57 schrieb Tollef Fog Heen: > > ]] Markus Koschany > > [...] > > Also, the Standards-Version header is only recommended to be included, > > it's not mandatory. If its existence offends you so much and you have

Re: Spam targeting nnn-done@bugs.d.o

2018-02-21 Thread Tobias Frost
opped in a filter for these messages on Saturday; I personally > haven't seen any since I dropped in the filter, but I haven't been > watching all of the bugs. > > On Wed, 21 Feb 2018, Tobias Frost wrote: > > How's about for starting blocking attachment that are kind

Re: Spam targeting nnn-done@bugs.d.o

2018-02-21 Thread Tobias Frost
On Wed, Feb 21, 2018 at 06:31:46PM +0100, Sven Joachim wrote: > On 2018-02-21 17:48 +0100, Georg Faerber wrote: > > Apart from restricting access to the BTS (which I think nobody really > wants), the answer is to train the spam filters. In fact, I am quite > surprised that the current spam wave

Re: Lucas Kanashiro and Athos Ribeiro hijack my package

2018-04-15 Thread Tobias Frost
On Mon, Apr 16, 2018 at 08:28:08AM +0800, Rolf Leggewie wrote: > https://anonscm.debian.org/gitweb/?p=collab-maint/gjots2.git You know that collab-maint stands for "Collaborative Maintaince"? IMHO by placing it into collab-maint, everyone is allowed / suggested to work on those packages. If you d

Re: Lucas Kanashiro and Athos Ribeiro hijack my package

2018-04-15 Thread Tobias Frost
On Mon, Apr 16, 2018 at 08:28:08AM +0800, Rolf Leggewie wrote: PS: I'm seeing that you move all your packages to github. Please do not do that, please prefer free services hosted by Debian over non-free ones. Thanks for considering.

Re: Lucas Kanashiro and Athos Ribeiro salvaged my package

2018-04-16 Thread Tobias Frost
Am 16. April 2018 09:43:10 MESZ schrieb Andreas Tille : >Hi, > >On Mon, Apr 16, 2018 at 09:10:34AM +0200, Ansgar Burchardt wrote: >> Scott Kitterman writes: >> > Personally, I think people should be more annoyed at the people >doing >> > the hijacking than the one they did it to. >> >> I thought t

Re: Lucas Kanashiro and Athos Ribeiro hijack my package

2018-04-16 Thread Tobias Frost
On Mon, Apr 16, 2018 at 03:29:32PM +0800, Rolf Leggewie wrote: > On 16.04.2018 14:28, Tobias Frost wrote: > > > On Mon, Apr 16, 2018 at 08:28:08AM +0800, Rolf Leggewie wrote: > >> https://anonscm.debian.org/gitweb/?p=collab-maint/gjots2.git > > You know that collab-main

Let's start salvaging packages!

2018-07-29 Thread Tobias Frost
Dear fellow Debinites, tl;dr: Let's bring the package salvage process discussed some years earlier to life! There will be a BoF at DebConf18 Thursday, August 2nd 11:00 in Room Xueshan [a] for dicussion and fine tuning. (We will likely have video coverage.) I'm sending out our proposal draft alre

Re: Let's start salvaging packages!

2018-07-29 Thread Tobias Frost
On Mon, 2018-07-30 at 03:25 +0100, Chris Lamb wrote: > Dear Tobi, > > > There will be a BoF at DebConf18 Thursday, August 2nd 11:00 in Room > > Xueshan [a] > > for dicussion and fine tuning. (We will likely have video > > coverage.) > > > > I'm sending out our proposal draft already now so you wi

Re: Let's start salvaging packages!

2018-08-03 Thread Tobias Frost
Dear all, The BoF has happened, thanks for your participation and all your valuable input! Thanks to the Video Team, the BoF recording is now available at [1], and the html version of the gobby document can be found by following [2]. I did not yet find the time to condense the input from the BoF

Let's start salvaging packages -- Summary of the BoF Session.

2018-08-04 Thread Tobias Frost
Hello everyone, tl;dr: at the BoF the proposal seems to be uncontroversial at the session. So we will go forward with discussing it and propose a patch to e.g dev-ref (if we're still aiming for dev-ref then) Generally, the people at the BoF seemed to be supportive of the proposal, but a few thin

Re: Let's start salvaging packages -- Summary of the BoF Session.

2018-08-05 Thread Tobias Frost
On Sun, Aug 05, 2018 at 06:50:28AM +, Scott Kitterman wrote: > > Since it's explicitly in the Debian constitution that the TC is the > decider of package maintainership, how does a dev-ref change overcome > that? > Yes, the TC has the power to decide ultimately about maintainership when ther

Re: Let's start salvaging packages -- Summary of the BoF Session.

2018-08-05 Thread Tobias Frost
On Sun, Aug 05, 2018 at 02:47:58PM +, Scott Kitterman wrote: > > > On August 5, 2018 2:17:04 PM UTC, Adam Borowski wrote: > >On Sun, Aug 05, 2018 at 01:20:47PM +, Scott Kitterman wrote: > >> Package 'salvaging' is about an involuntary change of maintainer > >involving > >> someone who is

Re: Let's start salvaging packages -- Summary of the BoF Session.

2018-08-05 Thread Tobias Frost
On Sun, Aug 05, 2018 at 01:20:47PM +, Scott Kitterman wrote: > > > On August 5, 2018 7:41:41 AM UTC, Tobias Frost wrote: > > > >Yes, the TC has the power to decide ultimately about maintainership > >when > >there is an dispute and if involved parties fail

Re: Let's start salvaging packages! -- let's start working on the text.

2018-08-12 Thread Tobias Frost
Dear -devel, seems so as the discussion is more quiet than I've anticipated... So as an optimist, I'm assuming this is because the proposal has kind of rough consensus, so I will plan now for the next steps. The discussion can and should of course continue, especially as it is vacation time atm.

Re: Let's start salvaging packages! -- let's start working on the text.

2018-08-15 Thread Tobias Frost
On Mon, Aug 13, 2018 at 07:39:24AM +0100, Chris Lamb wrote: > Dear Tobias, > > > [1] https://pad.riseup.net/p/debian-salvaging-packages-keep > > Thanks for moving forward with your proposal. I'll have a poke at the > Etherpad in the upcoming days or so. > > Whilst you outline a plan of sorts, do

Let's start salvaging packages! -- draft text now available

2018-08-19 Thread Tobias Frost
Dear -devel, as announced earlier, I have together with worked on the text for the salvaging process. You can find the texts here: Titanpad [1] for dev-ref and the accompanying Wikipage [2]. Credits to Pierre-Elliott Bécue, as he wrote the first draft and thereby helped me a lot. For the timeline

Let's start salvaging packages! -- draft text now available

2018-08-20 Thread Tobias Frost
age from Tobias Frost - Date: Sun, 19 Aug 2018 18:06:47 +0200 From: Tobias Frost To: debian-devel@lists.debian.org Subject: Let's start salvaging packages! -- draft text now available User-Agent: Mutt/1.10.1 (2018-07-13) Dear -devel, as announced earlier, I have together with worked

Re: Let's start salvaging packages! -- disucssion phase closing soon.

2018-08-27 Thread Tobias Frost
1st. Many have already edited and tweaked the proposed text to correct typos and weird (for non native speakers) formulations, which is a very good thing. A BIG THANKS for that! Cheers, -- tobi On Tue, Aug 21, 2018 at 03:05:57PM +0200, Tobias Frost wrote: > Dear fellow Debinites, > > ma

Re: Let's start salvaging packages! -- draft text now available

2018-08-29 Thread Tobias Frost
Subject: developers-reference: Announcement for adding "Package Salvaging" process to dev-ref Source: developers-reference Severity: normal Dear dev-ref maintainers, as you've probably saw on -dev, I'm currently working to implement the Package Salvaging process. The discussion is still ongoing

Re: Let's start salvaging packages! -- disucssion phase closing soon.

2018-08-30 Thread Tobias Frost
Hi David, On Thu, Aug 30, 2018 at 10:43:01PM -0300, David Bremner wrote: > Tobias Frost writes: > > > Hallo everyone, > > > > This is a gentle reminder regarding the Salvaging Process discussion! > > > > For all of those, who did not yet have read the proposa

Re: Let's start salvaging packages! -- draft text now available

2018-08-31 Thread Tobias Frost
On Fri, Aug 31, 2018 at 03:23:53PM +0100, Jonathan Dowland wrote: > On Sun, Aug 19, 2018 at 06:06:47PM +0200, Tobias Frost wrote: > > [2] https://wiki.debian.org/PackageSalvaging > > Please consider adding a content license to this page. See the bottom of > [1] for an example

Re: Let's start salvaging packages! -- disucssion phase closing soon.

2018-09-02 Thread Tobias Frost
Dear all, so, I think we are now ready to proceed in the topic of the salaving process... The changes on the text on the etherpad and wiki were mostly only of editorial nature, like spelling, grammar and wiki syntax fixes and rewordings to make it less awkyard for native speakers. Again, thanks t

Re: Let's start salvaging packages! -- disucssion phase closing soon.

2018-09-03 Thread Tobias Frost
On Mon, Sep 03, 2018 at 08:17:24AM -0300, David Bremner wrote: > Tobias Frost writes: > > > > > The split was actually thought to be a feature [1] :) > > It was to make the process itself less normative about the actual > > (concrete) figures/criterias, but

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