Re: Q: Where is keyring packaging guideline?

2018-08-23 Thread Kentaro Hayashi
Hi, 2018年8月23日(木) 22:01 Sean Whitton : > > > However, we shouldn't start shipping random key material for various > > other places that just happen to offer their software in a format that > > is consumable by apt. > > Providing the keyrings just as data, and not automatically adding them > as tru

Work-needing packages report for Aug 24, 2018

2018-08-23 Thread wnpp
The following is a listing of packages for which help has been requested through the WNPP (Work-Needing and Prospective Packages) system in the last week. Total number of orphaned packages: 1298 (new: 25) Total number of packages offered up for adoption: 173 (new: 1) Total number of packages reque

Re: Bug#907117: ITP: sacc -- simple terminal gopher client

2018-08-23 Thread Adam Borowski
On Thu, Aug 23, 2018 at 11:28:33PM +0200, Paride Legovini wrote: > * Package name: sacc > Version : 1.00 > Upstream Author : Quentin Rameau > * URL : gopher://bitreich.org/1/scm/sacc > (lynx will do.) > > sacc is a terminal gopher client. It it writ

Bug#907122: ITP: poolcounter -- network daemon which provides mutex-like functionality

2018-08-23 Thread Kunal Mehta
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Kunal Mehta * Package name: poolcounter Version : 1.0.0 Upstream Author : Platonides * URL : https://wikitech.wikimedia.org/wiki/PoolCounter * License : GPL-3.0-or-later Programming Lang: C Description : network

Bug#907117: ITP: sacc -- simple terminal gopher client

2018-08-23 Thread Paride Legovini
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Paride Legovini * Package name: sacc Version : 1.00 Upstream Author : Quentin Rameau * URL : gopher://bitreich.org/1/scm/sacc (lynx will do.) * License : OpenBSD (~ISC) Programming Lang: C Descri

Re: Migrating away from ucf without dpkg prompting

2018-08-23 Thread Mark Hindley
Steve, Many thanks for your input on this. On Thu, Aug 23, 2018 at 10:52:24AM -0700, Steve Langasek wrote: > And dropping ucf handling is certainly not required for addressing Policy > 4.1.3 compatibility, which is what you mention in the changelog. > > Why do you think it's necessary here to re

Re: Migrating away from ucf without dpkg prompting

2018-08-23 Thread Steve Langasek
Hi Mark, On Wed, Aug 22, 2018 at 02:21:03PM +0100, Mark Hindley wrote: > Hello, > I am working on fixing bug #905178 which is caused by moving away from using > ucf > to manage /etc/default/apt-cacher back to handling it as a standard dpkg > conffile. > I have a working solution which avoids un

Bug#907064: ITP: wikitrans -- MediaWiki markup translator

2018-08-23 Thread أحمد المحم
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: "أحمد المحمودي (Ahmed El-Mahmoudy)" * Package name: wikitrans Version : 1.0 Upstream Author : Sergey Poznyakoff * URL : https://puszcza.gnu.org.ua/projects/wikitrans * License : GPL-3+ Programming Lang: Python Descri

Re: salsa irker bot moved to ssl

2018-08-23 Thread Raphael Hertzog
Hi, On Thu, 23 Aug 2018, Alexander Wirt wrote: > > properties seems to be JSON data in a text field and it contains the > > IRC URI multiple times. > done, thanks. Please check in your settings if all is fine now. Looks good, thanks. Cheers, -- Raphaël Hertzog ◈ Debian Developer Support Debia

Bug#907058: ITP: python-sphinx-feature-classification -- generate a matrix of pluggable drivers and their support to an API

2018-08-23 Thread Thomas Goirand
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Thomas Goirand * Package name: python-sphinx-feature-classification Version : 0.3.0 Upstream Author : OpenStack Foundation * URL : https://github.com/openstack/sphinx-feature-classification/ * License : Apache-2.0 Prog

Bug#907051: Say much more about vendoring of libraries

2018-08-23 Thread Sean Whitton
Package: debian-policy Version: 4.2.0.1 Hello, On Thu 23 Aug 2018 at 12:27PM +0200, Alec Leamas wrote: > https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Packaging:Guidelines#Bundling_and_Duplication_of_system_libraries Thank you for sharing this link -- it seems like Fedora have thought harder about this than w

Re: Q: Where is keyring packaging guideline?

2018-08-23 Thread Sean Whitton
Hello, On Tue 21 Aug 2018 at 10:25AM GMT, Peter Palfrader wrote: > I'm not convinced that 3rd party keyring packages belong in the Debian > archive. > > If the software itself is good and free, then it belongs into Debian > itself. > > However, we shouldn't start shipping random key material for

Re: Developing - Devices - Scanner - Running Canon CanoScan 5600F Scanner on Debian in an official way?

2018-08-23 Thread Paul Wise
On Thu, Aug 23, 2018 at 7:30 PM, Andreas Jakowidis wrote: > Developing - Devices - Scanner - Running Canon CanoScan 5600F Scanner on > Debian in an official way? In general, user support is off-topic on this mailing list. In future, please contact Debian user support channels: https://www.debian

Re: Running "mobius actioncam/dashcam" on debian "officially" - Creation of a necessary official debian-package?

2018-08-23 Thread Jim Popovitch
On Thu, 2018-08-23 at 13:50 +0200, Andreas Jakowidis wrote: > Running "mobius actioncam/dashcam" on debian "officially" - Creation > of a necessary official debian-package? Hello! The mobius cam is great, excellent quality for the price! I have one and it's so small and easy to use that I often

Bug#907044: ITP: r-cran-satellite -- GNU R handling and manipulating remote sensing data

2018-08-23 Thread Andreas Tille
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Andreas Tille * Package name: r-cran-satellite Version : 1.0.1 Upstream Author : Thomas Nauss, Hanna Meyer, Tim Appelhans, Florian Detsch * URL : https://cran.r-project.org/package=satellite * License : GPL-3+ Programmi

Bug#907043: ITP: r-cran-svglite -- GNU R 'SVG' graphics device

2018-08-23 Thread Andreas Tille
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Andreas Tille * Package name: r-cran-svglite Version : 1.2.1 Upstream Author : Hadley Wickham, Lionel Henry, T Jake Luciani, * URL : https://cran.r-project.org/package=svglite * License : GPL-2+ Programming Lang: GNU R

Re: salsa irker bot moved to ssl

2018-08-23 Thread Alexander Wirt
On Thu, 23 Aug 2018, Raphael Hertzog wrote: > On Thu, 23 Aug 2018, Alexander Wirt wrote: > > > A simple SQL update query would save us a lot of time. Thank you for > > > considering it. > > Sure, do you have the query? And please ensure not to affect bots > > running on other networks. > > I don

Running "mobius actioncam/dashcam" on debian "officially" - Creation of a necessary official debian-package?

2018-08-23 Thread Andreas Jakowidis
Running "mobius actioncam/dashcam" on debian "officially" - Creation of a necessary official debian-package?Exists some official driver/package, that makes mobius actioncam/dashcam running on debian OS?Without "Wine", "KVM", oder "Oracle Virtualbox", without "special codes"?I want to use this camer

Developing - Devices - Scanner - Running Canon CanoScan 5600F Scanner on Debian in an official way?

2018-08-23 Thread Andreas Jakowidis
Developing - Devices - Scanner - Running Canon CanoScan 5600F Scanner on Debian in an official way?Is there an option to run a Canon CanoScan 5600F scanner on debian stretch, amd64 (x64): Or is there a possibilityin offering driver and/or tools in "debian buster" for that scanner/device next year (

Bug#907041: ITP: swupdate -- SWUpdate provides a reliable way to update the software on an embedded system

2018-08-23 Thread Stefano Babic
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Stefano Babic * Package name: swupdate Version : 2018.03 Upstream Author : Name * URL : https://github.com/sbabic/swupdate * License : GPL Programming Lang: C, Lua Description : SWUpdate provides a reliable way t

Bug#907040: ITP: vim-julia -- vim support for julia language

2018-08-23 Thread Mo Zhou
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Mo Zhou * Package name: vim-julia Version : 0.0~git20180821.120a0b6 Upstream Author : Carlo Baldassi and other contributors * URL : https://github.com/JuliaEditorSupport/julia-vim * License : Expat Programming Lang: vim

Re: Q: Debian position on bundled libraries

2018-08-23 Thread Alec Leamas
On 23/08/18 12:01, Paul Wise wrote: Hi, thanks for replies! > On Thu, Aug 23, 2018 at 3:51 PM, Alec Leamas wrote: > >> It's not that I don't understand your reasoning. Still, if this is the >> conclusion, it's kind of sad because it's means that a price-awarded [1] >> application won't be packag

Re: Q: Debian position on bundled libraries

2018-08-23 Thread Paul Wise
On Thu, Aug 23, 2018 at 3:51 PM, Alec Leamas wrote: > It's not that I don't understand your reasoning. Still, if this is the > conclusion, it's kind of sad because it's means that a price-awarded [1] > application won't be packaged in Debian. Upstream is very clear on this. Please note that I onl

Bug#907027: ITP: r-cran-stars -- scalable, spatiotemporal tidy arrays for GNU R

2018-08-23 Thread Andreas Tille
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Andreas Tille * Package name: r-cran-stars Version : 0.1 Upstream Author : Edzer Pebesma, Michael Sumner, Etienne Racine, Adriano Fantini * URL : https://cran.r-project.org/package=stars * License : Apache-2.0 Programm

Bug#907025: ITP: r-cran-metrics -- GNU R evaluation metrics for machine learning

2018-08-23 Thread Andreas Tille
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Andreas Tille * Package name: r-cran-metrics Version : 0.1.4 Upstream Author : Ben Hamner, Michael Frasco, Erin LeDell * URL : https://cran.r-project.org/package=Metrics * License : BSD-3-clause Programming Lang: GNU R

Bug#907024: ITP: r-cran-gdtools -- GNU R utilities for graphical rendering

2018-08-23 Thread Andreas Tille
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Andreas Tille * Package name: r-cran-gdtools Version : 0.1.7 Upstream Author : David Gohel, Hadley Wickham, Lionel Henry, Jeroen Ooms, * URL : https://cran.r-project.org/package=gdtools * License : GPL-3 Programming Lan

Re: Q: Debian position on bundled libraries

2018-08-23 Thread Alec Leamas
On 23/08/18 09:26, Paul Wise wrote: > On Thu, Aug 23, 2018 at 12:59 PM, Alec Leamas wrote: > >> Here is some libraries to unbundle; this could certainly could be done, >> However, the core issue is a few libraries which cannot realistically be >> unbundled. One example is mygdal, a heavily patched

Re: Q: Debian position on bundled libraries

2018-08-23 Thread Pierre-Elliott Bécue
Le jeudi 23 août 2018 à 09:31:09+0200, Alec Leamas a écrit : > On 23/08/18 08:34, Pierre-Elliott Bécue wrote: > > Le jeudi 23 août 2018 à 06:59:45+0200, Alec Leamas a écrit : > >> [may I keep bundled libraries?] > > Thanks for reply! > > > I'd say that as soon as there's no other way of having yo

Re: salsa irker bot moved to ssl

2018-08-23 Thread Raphael Hertzog
On Thu, 23 Aug 2018, Alexander Wirt wrote: > > A simple SQL update query would save us a lot of time. Thank you for > > considering it. > Sure, do you have the query? And please ensure not to affect bots > running on other networks. I don't have any gitlab instance where to make test so this is u

Re: Q: Debian position on bundled libraries

2018-08-23 Thread Alec Leamas
On 23/08/18 08:34, Pierre-Elliott Bécue wrote: > Le jeudi 23 août 2018 à 06:59:45+0200, Alec Leamas a écrit : >> [may I keep bundled libraries?] Thanks for reply! > I'd say that as soon as there's no other way of having your package work > (right, there's always another way, but my guess is that

Bug#907016: ITP: python-zvmconnector -- z/VM cloud management library

2018-08-23 Thread Thomas Goirand
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Thomas Goirand * Package name: python-zvmconnector Version : 1.22 Upstream Author : IBM * URL : https://github.com/mfcloud/python-zvm-sdk * License : Apache-2.0 Programming Lang: Python Description : z/VM cloud m

Re: Q: Debian position on bundled libraries

2018-08-23 Thread Paul Wise
On Thu, Aug 23, 2018 at 12:59 PM, Alec Leamas wrote: > Here is some libraries to unbundle; this could certainly could be done, > However, the core issue is a few libraries which cannot realistically be > unbundled. One example is mygdal, a heavily patched subset of the gdal > package. gdal has ha

Re: Q: Debian position on bundled libraries

2018-08-23 Thread Paul Wise
On Thu, Aug 23, 2018 at 2:34 PM, Pierre-Elliott Bécue wrote: > Per Debian's Policy section 4.13[1], the embedding of a code from an > other software packages should be avoided, unless the included package is > explicitly intended to work this way. In addition: https://wiki.debian.org/EmbeddedCod

Bug#907014: ITP: r-cran-deoptimr -- Differential Evolution Optimization in Pure R

2018-08-23 Thread Andreas Tille
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Andreas Tille * Package name: r-cran-deoptimr Version : 1.0 Upstream Author : Eduardo L. T. Conceicao, Martin Maechler * URL : https://cran.r-project.org/package=DEoptimR * License : GPL-2+ Programming Lang: GNU R Des