Re: Summary: Git Packaging Round 2 [comments by 11/05/2019]

2019-10-12 Thread Tomas Pospisek
Hi Sam & Debianistas, this is far TLDR for me. That is not meant as a critique, but as a feedback so you have a data point from some random Debianer's available CPU resources. (in general I'm fine to declare best practices for whatever issue so that people can orient themselves on where to head t

Re: requirements and regulations concerning upgrade checks/statistics callback on program start

2019-12-26 Thread Tomas Pospisek
On 26.12.19 06:42, Norbert Preining wrote: > (please Cc) > > are there any requirements or restriction what a program packaged in > Debian is allowed to do when starting up? Calibre is normally doing the > following checks: > - check for updates of itself > - check for updates of plugins > - send

spammer closing bug report

2020-03-02 Thread Tomas Pospisek
Hi all, I just got a mail from the BTS, that this spam mail [1] has closed the bug report. I can't spot why that spam mail would close the report. Can you? Possibly other bugreports have been closed by similar spams, I don't know (this - BTS cleaning - would still be an area I'd like to get invol

Re: spammer closing bug report

2020-03-02 Thread Tomas Pospisek
On 02.03.20 18:06, Sven Joachim wrote: > On 2020-03-02 17:20 +0100, Tomas Pospisek wrote: > >> I just got a mail from the BTS, that this spam mail [1] has closed the >> bug report. I can't spot why that spam mail would close the report. Can you? > > Without even l

Re: spammer closing bug report

2020-03-03 Thread Tomas Pospisek
On 02.03.20 21:34, Alexis Murzeau wrote: > Hi, > >> Most likely it has been BCC'ed, that's what spammers like to do when >> they send the same mail to thousands of recipients. >> > > Indeed, this can be seen by clicking on "full text" here in the bug report: > --- > Reply sent to nore...@no.com:

not starting a daemon upon installation

2020-03-07 Thread Tomas Pospisek
Hi all, tldr: why is not having a daemon started on install so involved? Can't there be a better way? I'm hacking around an ansible playbook that needs to configure an etcd cluster. The problem is that installing the package will automatically start the daemon cluster in a "default" configuratio

Re: apt 2.0 release notes

2020-03-08 Thread Tomas Pospisek
On 08.03.20 19:10, Jonas Smedegaard wrote: > Quoting Matthias Klose (2020-03-08 18:40:34) >> On 3/7/20 9:41 PM, Julian Andres Klode wrote: >>> # APT 2.0 >>> >>> After brewing in experimental for a while, and getting a first outing in >>> the Ubuntu 19.10 release; both as 1.9, APT 2.0 is now landing

Re: not starting a daemon upon installation

2020-03-08 Thread Tomas Pospisek
On 07.03.20 21:30, Tomas Pospisek wrote: > tldr: why is not having a daemon started on install so involved? Can't > there be a better way? to which Jonas, Marco & jnqnfe replied (see thread). Thanks a lot Jonas, Marco & jnqnfe! *t

documenting on how not starting a daemon upon installation

2020-03-09 Thread Tomas Pospisek
> On Sun, 8 Mar 2020, Marc Haber wrote: > > On Sat, 7 Mar 2020 21:30:33 +0100, Tomas Pospisek > > >When I duckduckgo "dpkg do not start service on install" first hit is > >[1] which contains /absurdly involved/ suggestions to achieve "not > >st

Re: FTP Team -- call for volunteers

2020-03-16 Thread Tomas Pospisek
On 14.03.20 22:41, Roberto C. Sánchez wrote: > On Sat, Mar 14, 2020 at 09:18:48PM +, Neil McGovern wrote: >> Hi debian-project and ftpmaster folks, >> >> On Sat, Mar 14, 2020 at 01:37:59PM -0700, Sean Whitton wrote: >>> - cope well with flames in response to your decisions >> >>> - after tr

Re: RFC: Replacing vim-tiny with nano in essential packages

2020-03-16 Thread Tomas Pospisek
On 16.03.20 11:06, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote: > I would like to suggest to replace vim-tiny with nano as the default minimal > editor installed with debootstrap and therefore debian-installer. +1

Re: RFC: Replacing vim-tiny with nano in essential packages

2020-03-16 Thread Tomas Pospisek
On 16.03.20 12:29, Marco d'Itri wrote: > On Mar 16, Simon McVittie wrote: > >> `busybox vi` is rather limited, but is reasonable as an editor of last >> resort; busybox is smaller than either nano or vim-tiny; full systems > Agreed: this is a very good idea since I really think that every default

rereadmin the ln manpage

2020-03-17 Thread Tomas Pospisek
On 17.03.20 15:48, Wouter Verhelst wrote: > Yes. I keep messing that up in production (ln is one of those commands > that I continually need to read the man page of) I suggest the `tldr` command for that... *t

Re: trimming changelogs

2020-03-20 Thread Tomas Pospisek
On 20.03.20 00:50, Adam Borowski wrote: > In the rush for cutting away small bits of minbase [...] > [trim changelogs] I don't know man minbase is, so I don't know what you are talking about. On a normal desktop/server I'd expect /usr/share/doc/$PKG/changelog.Debian* to contain the whole history

Re: Repeated Debian WiFi problem

2020-03-23 Thread Tomas Pospisek
On 22.03.20 10:47, Marc Haber wrote: > On Sun, 22 Mar 2020 02:20:18 -0700, Peter Pynchon > wrote: > >> *In future Debian versions, could you please include the ASUS driver in the >> standard package?* *The model number is the ASUS N53 USB WiFi adapter with >> the rt3572 chip.* I see on your web

Re: What to do when DD considers policy to be optional? [kubernetes]

2020-03-25 Thread Tomas Pospisek
On 25.03.20 14:43, Christian Kastner wrote: > This is not to say that licensing is an unimportant issue -- it clearly > is. But our analyze-and-document down-to-the-file approach is on the > other extreme end of the spectrum, and it causes lots of tiresome work > that nobody apart from us seems to

Re: What to do when DD considers policy to be optional? [kubernetes]

2020-03-25 Thread Tomas Pospisek
On 25.03.20 15:19, Andrey Rahmatullin wrote: > On Wed, Mar 25, 2020 at 03:14:41PM +0100, Tomas Pospisek wrote: >> On 25.03.20 14:43, Christian Kastner wrote: >> >>> This is not to say that licensing is an unimportant issue -- it clearly >>> is. But our anal

Re: What to do when DD considers policy to be optional? [kubernetes]

2020-04-09 Thread Tomas Pospisek
On 09.04.20 08:47, Thomas Goirand wrote: > As a user, I'd prefer Kubernets to be in Stable if possible. I'd be one > of these users who don't care about the latest shiny feature, and prefer > something stable, supported for YEARS to come, not just 3 months. To give a datapoint: Kubernetes as a S

Re: Salsa update: no more "-guest" and more

2020-04-30 Thread Tomas Pospisek
On 30.04.20 01:15, Bernd Zeimetz wrote: > > On 4/28/20 3:20 PM, Thomas Goirand wrote: > >> That's not the case. An MITM attack could gain a session and maintain it >> open, while the end user would just notice "oh shit, I miss-typed the >> 2FA numbers, let's try again". Then the only thing the at

Re: Packaging devel-only C++ library

2020-05-28 Thread Tomas Pospisek
On 27.05.20 21:16, Enrico Zini wrote: > Hello, > > I'd like to package a new version of https://github.com/ARPA-SIMC/meteosatlib, > for which I'm upstram, which depends on the recently freed > https://gitlab.eumetsat.int/open-source/PublicDecompWT > > PublicDecompWT is a C++ development-only libr

Re: Upload of package (Closes: #952788) in bug reports

2020-05-29 Thread Tomas Pospisek
On 28.05.20 18:44, Leandro Cunha wrote: > Close https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=952788  > With several changes in the package. > > Em qui., 28 de mai. de 2020 às 12:52, Leandro Cunha > mailto:leandrocunha...@gmail.com>> escreveu: > > Can I help with uploading a package? I'm

Re: Running autopkgtest on porter boxes: dd-autopkgtest

2020-06-02 Thread Tomas Pospisek
On 31.05.20 22:40, Michael Banck wrote: > it's possible for DDs to build/test packages on porter boxes via > dd-schroot-cmd, see https://dsa.debian.org/doc/schroot/. > > However, e.g. arm64 autopkgtest failures are RC bugs and so far, it was > difficult to reproduce and debug those on the porter

Bug#962579: RFH: debtags -- Debian Package Tags support tools

2020-06-10 Thread Tomas Pospisek
Package: wnpp Severity: normal I request assistance with maintaining the debtags package. The package description is: debtags extracts tag information from the apt database and makes it available to the system, either in /var/lib/debtags/debtags or via apt-xapian-index. . Package tags are cat

Bug#967029: take the bug to irc/support channel?

2020-08-05 Thread Tomas Pospisek
Hello bebyx, could you please take this bug to a Debian support channel [1] (I suggest IRC!) and find out, what package this needs to be reassigned to? And maybe collect more info along the way? Thanks, *t [1] https://www.debian.org/support

Re: Accepted firefox-esr 68.10.0esr-1~deb9u1 (source) into oldstable-proposed-updates->oldstable-new, oldstable-proposed-updates

2020-08-07 Thread Tomas Pospisek
Could you please send the original email *including* the headers (!!!) so that we know where your emails are coming from? *t On 06.08.20 17:31, arc...@tutanota.com wrote: > Could I please unsubscribe? Its filling up this mailbox there is no sort > function. > > -- > Securely sent with Tutanota. Ge

Lenovo and forced labor [was: Re: Lenovo discount portal update (and a few other things)]

2020-09-03 Thread Tomas Pospisek
On 02.09.20 15:08, Mark Pearson wrote: > Hi Debian developers, > > Following on from DebConf 2020 (which I thoroughly enjoyed - thank you!) > the Lenovo portal that was announced is now available: > > US: http://www.lenovo.com/us/en/Linux > Canada: http://www.lenovo.com/ca/en/linuxca I think bef

Re: Lenovo and forced labor [was: Re: Lenovo discount portal update (and a few other things)]

2020-09-03 Thread Tomas Pospisek
On 03.09.20 11:05, Andrey Rahmatullin wrote: > On Thu, Sep 03, 2020 at 10:47:06AM +0200, Tomas Pospisek wrote: >> I think before jumping on this offer, one should consider this: >> https://www.aspi.org.au/report/uyghurs-sale > The list of brands from the article: Abercrombie &am

"Dear Customer" spam in the BTS

2016-10-26 Thread Tomas Pospisek
Hello all, I've recently received "Dear Customer" spam on a bug of mine. I've searched the BTS [1], and there are many, many, many of these spam postings in the BTS, see f.ex. [2]. I think it doesn't make sense to press "this bug log contains spam" on each of those pages. Better would be to go di

Re: Q: How to get build depends package from debian/control

2018-02-12 Thread Tomas Pospisek
Am 12.02.2018 um 05:41 schrieb Yao Wei: > [...] I'd prefer mk-build-deps from devscripts since this > produces pseudo-package that depends on the build dependencies, and the > dependencies can be removed by removing the pseudo-package. Whoa, what a gem, I did not know existed! Just what I was loo

Re: Limiting the power of packages

2018-10-07 Thread Tomas Pospisek
On 3 Oct 2018 Lars Wirzenius wrote: > A suggestion: we restrict where packages can install files and what maintainer scripts can do. On 4 Oct 2018 Enrico Weigelt wrote: > Finally, I'd really like to reduce complexity, not introduce even more. +1 I think Linux systems per se, Debian as a runtim

Re: convention on listen port local or all network interfaces etc.

2017-02-20 Thread Tomas Pospisek
Am 21.02.2017 um 01:55 schrieb Patrick Schleizer: > for file_name in /usr/lib/server-config.d/*.conf ; do >file_list="$file_list $file_name" > done > > for file_name in /etc/server-config.d/*.conf ; do >file_list="$file_list $file_name" > done > > for file_name in /home/.config/server-co

Re: convention on listen port local or all network interfaces etc.

2017-02-23 Thread Tomas Pospisek
Am 23.02.2017 um 03:26 schrieb Patrick Schleizer: > Tomas Pospisek: >> Am 21.02.2017 um 01:55 schrieb Patrick Schleizer: >> >>> for file_name in /usr/lib/server-config.d/*.conf ; do >>>file_list="$file_list $file_name" >>> done >&

Re: Qupzilla Deb-stretch x86_64

2017-04-29 Thread Tomas Pospisek
Please install the package reportbug and use reportbug to report the bug. *t Am 28.04.2017 um 11:06 schrieb Fungi4All: > --- Please fill out the fields below. --- > >Package name: qupzilla > Version: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64) AppleWebKit/538.1 > (KHTML, like$ > Upstream Author:

Re: Improvement of sensible-utils

2017-08-18 Thread Tomas Pospisek
Am 11.08.2017 um 18:37 schrieb Bastien ROUCARIES: > Hi, > > I have done some work for sensible-utils but I am a little stuck due > to lack of documentation/policy. > > I want first to create desktop file for > sensible-editor/sensible-pager/sensible-browser in order to open from > firefox text fi

Re: Bug#875545: ITP: cpdf -- The tool provide a wide range of professional, robust tools to modify PDF files.

2017-09-15 Thread Tomas Pospisek
Am 15.09.2017 um 04:22 schrieb Francisco Vilmar Cardoso Ruviaro: >> If this is your first package to Debian, for a variety of reasons I >> don't recommend packaging something that will go to non-free. > > Yes, this would be my first package, I understood that it is > inappropriate to initially sen

Bug#799057: general: After my laptop hung and reset KDE4 doesn't start

2015-09-16 Thread Tomas Pospisek
Hello Vitaly, Am 15.09.2015 um 12:43 schrieb root: > Package: general > Severity: important > > [long Xsession dump without any further info] I'm closing your report. The "general" pseudo package is not a support channel to help debug and sort problems out. Please use one of the available suppo

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