Does anybody know the roadmap of getting migration of boost 1.67 to 1.71

Dear all, Please cc me if somebody answers it, Does anybody know when boost 1.67 will be out of the archive and boost 1.71 or later will be the only one in buster cycle. I have been watching 936227 [1] as well as the python2-rm transition slot [2] as well as the python 3.8 transition slot [3] .

Could somebody look at quic and see if there is some implementation worth packaging ?

Hi all, I was reading https://blog.cloudflare.com/http-3-from-root-to-tip/ and it seems to be interesting solution to a problem esp. to people traveling. While there are some implementations already done https://github.com/quicwg/base-drafts/wiki/Implementations I wasn't able to find any in

Re: what do people feel think of changing the configuration file path from ~/.aptitude/config to ~/.config/aptitude

Reply in-line :- On 29/04/2018, Chris Lamb wrote: > Shirish, > Chris, >> Had already done it, see #894332 , But don't think it's not going to >> go anywhere from the last two times :( as it seems the effort to do it >> is not the worth the effort as shared by the maintainer.

Re: what do people feel think of changing the configuration file path from ~/.aptitude/config to ~/.config/aptitude

at bottom :- On 29/04/2018, Chris Lamb wrote: > Hi shirish, > >> Re: what do people feel think of changing the configuration file >> path from ~/.aptitude/config to ~/.config/aptitude > > Unless you are requesting a distribution-wide move from ~/.foo > to XDG ~/.config/foo,

what do people feel think of changing the configuration file path from ~/.aptitude/config to ~/.config/aptitude

Dear all, First of all thank you all the fine people who have contributed to packaging and maintaining the whole suit of apt, aptitude, apt-get, dpkg low and high-level variety of tools in Debian for system administration and making good choices. Please CC me if you any thoughts as although I'm

Re: why hasn't the debian transition freeze been announced or shared in debin testing info. or bits.debian.org ?

at bottom :- On 26/04/2018, Emilio Pozuelo Monfort wrote: > > Yes. In any case, those dates (as well as links to the announcement) are > also > available from https://release.debian.org/ > > Emilio > Thank you Emilio/Pochu, Just the link I was looking for to link to :) --

why hasn't the debian transition freeze been announced or shared in debin testing info. or bits.debian.org ?

Dear all, I had read https://lists.debian.org/debian-devel-announce/2018/04/msg6.html so knew when the transition freeze is going to happen. For a blog post/technical article I wanted to share about the transition freeze and went to https://www.debian.org/releases/testing/ as well as

Re: PTS, salsa and knowing if a Debian Maintainer has uploaded a point release.

On 18/03/2018, Andrey Rahmatullin wrote: Dear Audrey, Thank you again by responding. > https://tracker.debian.org/pkg/ipdb > My query is actually solved by the link you shared. I'm sorry if I was a mess :) > > -- > WBR, wRAR > -- Regards, Shirish

Re: PTS, salsa and knowing if a Debian Maintainer has uploaded a point release.

Reply in-line :- On 18/03/2018, Andrey Rahmatullin <w...@debian.org> wrote: > On Sun, Mar 18, 2018 at 01:54:20PM +0530, shirish शिरीष wrote: Dear Andrey, First of all thank you for responding. >> and maybe at some point also the BTS although then reportbug would >>

PTS, salsa and knowing if a Debian Maintainer has uploaded a point release.

Dear all, While I read some bits of [1] I haven't read through the whole thread, only some. While the gentleman concerned has shared about getting through the 'new' process, I feel even for users some parts could use more love. Now as I understand it and please share if I'm in the wrong, alioth

Re: Question about dpkg Re: X facts about Debian - some fact checking and looking for ideas.

at bottom :- On 30/08/2017, Colin Watson <cjwat...@debian.org> wrote: > On Tue, Aug 29, 2017 at 11:26:55PM +0530, shirish शिरीष wrote: >> I was under the impression that due to rpm brokeness Debian and >> thereafter dpkg came into being. > > This is entirely wrong.

DPL election terms 1 year was Re: X facts about Debian - some fact checking and looking for ideas.

Dear all, Please CC me if somebody puts a reply Another query but of more recent vintage is the idea of having yearly elections for choosing DPL. Now while sadly Ian Murdock is not there but am sure there are more than enough people who know and remember why Ian Murdock felt the need to have

Question about dpkg Re: X facts about Debian - some fact checking and looking for ideas.

Dear all, Please CC me when answering or putting something on the thread. When I started using ubuntu and then later Debian one of the first tools I fell in love with was dpkg. Although nowadays we have multiple tools like apt, aptitude, one of the biggest features of dpkg (which is replicated

Re: X facts about Debian - some fact checking and looking for ideas.

at bottom :- On 28/08/2017, Guillem Jover wrote: > Hi! > > On Mon, 2017-08-28 at 12:50:48 +0100, Colin Watson wrote: >> It did take a little while for the current format to evolve. For >> example, very early source packages had changes recorded in a >> "debian.README" file

PackageConfigUpgrade: Was X facts about Debian - some fact checking and looking for ideas.

Dear Audrey, Please CC me. I read https://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/2017/08/msg00600.html My mistake, I assumed the package was named lcdproc and not pkg-config-model which the package is all about. Sorry for being a bit incoherent, just not in the best of the health. I had seen the page

Re: X facts about Debian - some fact checking and looking for ideas.

at bottom :- On 27/08/2017, Dominique Dumont <d...@debian.org> wrote: > On Thursday, 24 August 2017 08:01:54 CEST shirish शिरीष wrote: >> Are there any such unsung technical/non-technical or social >> innovations that Debian has done that is now known/or lesser known >&g

lcdproc was Re: X facts about Debian - some fact checking and looking for ideas.

Dear Dominique, Thank you for sharing about lcdproc as response to my mail. For my 2 cents, I disliked the idea (of lcdproc) immediately as simply applying maintainer changes defeats the very purpose the tool declares or claims to help. For e.g. I know of quite a few people where the modem login

history questions about how changelog.gz and changelog.Debian.gz came about.

Dear all, Please CC me if anybody has an answer to below as I'm not subscribed to either of the mailing lists due to the volume both ML generate. I like the way Debian gives various changelogs . For instance for most packages it has - changelog.gz - This is the upstream changelog giving

X facts about Debian - some fact checking and looking for ideas.

Dear all, I have been writing some beginner articles in my spare-time to talk/share about Debian and make it more popular. In that direction I have and had been penning few articles at https://itsfoss.com/author/shirish/ As shared before, these are beginner articles and are meant only to bring

what's the latest on the update of moving from alioth to pagure.

Dear all, While I love and loved alioth, I know for probably newish people the interface is somewhat ugly. >From what I did see in https://lwn.net/Articles/724986/ it seems there were lots of pros and cons which were discussed. I was also able to converse with Alexander Wirt and download the

Re: IMPORTANT: Do live Debian images have a future?

at bottom :- On 12/07/2017, Fernando Toledo wrote: > El 26/06/17 a las 11:08, Steve McIntyre escribió: >> [ Note the cross-posting... ] >> >> Hey folks, >> > > Our Use-case: > > We develop a derivated distro from Debian called Huayra GNU/Linux, this > is for educational

Re: IMPORTANT: Do live Debian images have a future?

at bottom :- On 26/06/2017, Steve McIntyre wrote: > [ Note the cross-posting... ] > > Hey folks, > > Background: we released live images for Stretch using new tooling, > namely live-wrapper. It is better than what we had before (live-build) > in a number of ways, particularly

Re: Fwd: debian stretch being released without fixing wpagui and wpasupplicant ?

at bottom :- On 17/06/2017, gregor herrmann wrote: > > Yeah, maybe apt-listbugs is a bit confused here: > > # apt-listbugs list wpasupplicant > Retrieving bug reports... Done > Parsing Found/Fixed information... Done > grave bugs of wpasupplicant (-> ) > b1 - #849122 -

Re: Fwd: debian stretch being released without fixing wpagui and wpasupplicant ?

at bottom :- On 17/06/2017, gregor herrmann <gre...@debian.org> wrote: > On Sat, 17 Jun 2017 07:44:17 +0530, shirish शिरीष wrote: > >> On 17/06/2017, gregor herrmann <gre...@debian.org> wrote: >> > On Sat, 17 Jun 2017 02:48:25 +0530, shirish शिरीष wrote: >&

Re: Fwd: debian stretch being released without fixing wpagui and wpasupplicant ?

at bottom :- On 17/06/2017, gregor herrmann <gre...@debian.org> wrote: > On Sat, 17 Jun 2017 02:48:25 +0530, shirish शिरीष wrote: > >> b1 - #849122 - With 2.6-2 i dont have the wifi adapter in the >> (network-manager) list available >> b2 - #849077 - wpasup

Fwd: debian stretch being released without fixing wpagui and wpasupplicant ?

elow :- -- Forwarded message -- From: shirish शिरीष <shirisha...@gmail.com> Date: Thu, 15 Jun 2017 22:23:50 +0530 Subject: debian stretch being released without fixing wpagui and wpasupplicant ? To: debian-release <debian-rele...@lists.debian.org> Dear all, I had

would somebody be interested in packaging libcpuid and I-Nex for Debian

Hi all, For quite sometime I have been working with upstream of libcpuid and I-Nex to see if the debian packaging can be improved. See https://github.com/anrieff/libcpuid/issues/47 and https://github.com/eloaders/I-Nex/issues/29 Libcpuid is a dependancy for having I-Nex in Debian. Libcpuid

Bug#795824: general: freecad is showing up as 0.14.3702+dfsg-3 whereas tracker shows existence of 0.14.3702+dfsg-4 as well.

Package: general Severity: normal Dear Maintainer, This is my /etc/apt/sources.list $ cat /etc/apt/sources.list #testing# deb http://httpredir.debian.org//debian/ testing main contrib non-free deb-src http://httpredir.debian.org//debian testing main contrib non-free

Re: [Pkg-xfce-devel] Reverting to GNOME for jessie's default desktop

at bottom :- On 8/11/14, Thomas Weber twe...@debian.org wrote: On Mon, Aug 11, 2014 at 03:20:49AM +0100, Anthony F McInerney wrote: Would the people who are claiming that blank cdr are cheaper than dvdr, especially in third world countries, please cite sources (shops, price checkers etc) of

Bug#694308: any update on adobe copyright in fonts in debian ?

Hi all, Looking forward to updaes. -- Regards, Shirish Agarwal शिरीष अग्रवाल My quotes in this email licensed under CC 3.0 http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0/ http://flossexperiences.wordpress.com 065C 6D79 A68C E7EA 52B3 8D70 950D 53FB 729A 8B17 -- To

Re: Introducing http.debian.net, Debian's mirrors redirector

in-line :- On Tue, Jun 26, 2012 at 10:43 AM, Raphael Geissert geiss...@debian.org wrote: Hi, Hi again, On Thursday 21 June 2012 23:03:34 shirish शिरीष wrote: More details, comparison to other approaches, and more information can be found at: http://http.debian.net/ I *think* it should

Re: Introducing http.debian.net, Debian's mirrors redirector

at bottom :- On Tue, Jun 26, 2012 at 3:45 PM, shirish शिरीष shirisha...@gmail.com wrote: $ aptu just for clarity aptu is an alias :- $ alias aptu alias aptu='sudo aptitude update;sleep 5;sudo aptitude safe-upgrade; sleep 5; sudo apt-file update; sleep 5' --           Regards

Re: Introducing http.debian.net, Debian's mirrors redirector

in-line :- On Fri, Jun 22, 2012 at 2:02 AM, Raphael Geissert geiss...@debian.org wrote: Hi, Dear Raphael, After several iterations to solve problems related to Debian's mirrors network, I am happy to announce a fully-functional solution that solves many of the shortcomings of previous

No release/transition to libpoppler 0.18 ?

Hi all, A few weeks/months back libpoppler 0.18 got released. The version we have in Debian (running sid) is 0.16.7 which was released in Jun 2011. Please see http://poppler.freedesktop.org/releases.html . Subsequently a wishlist bug was filed.

Re: No release/transition to libpoppler 0.18 ?

addition at bottom :- 2012/2/10 shirish शिरीष shirisha...@gmail.com: Hi all, A few weeks/months back libpoppler 0.18 got released. The version we have in Debian (running sid) is 0.16.7 which was released in Jun 2011. Please see  http://poppler.freedesktop.org/releases.html . Subsequently

Having a webkit-maintainer team or something like that ?

Hi all, First of all please CC me if somebody feels like answering. I am a mere user/average joe who uses Debian as his OS/distribution choice on a day -to-day basis. One of the major uses I have is accessing Internet through GUI-based web-browsers. I also do have couple of CLI

network-manager,ifupdown and bittorrent Was Re: network-manager as default? No!

Hi all, I read the whole thread about network manager starting from http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/2011/04/msg00051.html I am an average joe/user who has been a Ubuntu user for few years while migrating to Debian during the Squeeze freeze cycle (about 6 months back) . The system I