Re: New lintian warning: vcs-deprecated-in-debian-infrastructure

2018-03-22 Thread Jonas Smedegaard
maintaining a redirector, or new service incompatible with indirections, or? Please someone just point me to previous announcement covering this, If I am too stupid to have noticed that detail from the flow of information related to this. - Jonas -- * Jonas Smedegaard - idealist & Internet-arkitekt * Tlf.: +45 40843136 Website: http://dr.jones.dk/ [x] quote me freely [ ] ask before reusing [ ] keep private signature.asc Description: signature

Re: A proposal for improving transparency of the FTP NEW process

2018-03-02 Thread Jonas Smedegaard
> with or without modification, are permitted provided that this Notice > and any statement of authorship are reproduced on all copies. Thanks for elaborating. Please consider filing bugreports against licensecheck. I can be slow to respond to them, but dearly appreciate examples of challenging cases. - Jonas -- * Jonas Smedegaard - idealist & Internet-arkitekt * Tlf.: +45 40843136 Website: http://dr.jones.dk/ [x] quote me freely [ ] ask before reusing [ ] keep private signature.asc Description: signature

Re: Repackaging upstream source with file modifications?

2018-02-12 Thread Jonas Smedegaard
step and adding in another. The tarball should contain only upstream code. Not patched code (then you arguably are making a fork). Omitting some files when redistributing an upstream project is common and well-documented - please follow that same pattern. - Jonas -- * Jonas Smedegaard - ideali

Re: ITP: lsmount -- a simple formatter for /proc/mounts

2018-02-04 Thread Jonas Smedegaard
w. I would use dfc for user-friendly list of mount points, and "lsblk -J" for machine-parsable output of both mounted and unmounted block devices. - Jonas -- * Jonas Smedegaard - idealist & Internet-arkitekt * Tlf.: +45 40843136 Website: http://dr.jones.dk/ [x] quote me freely [ ] ask before reusing [ ] keep private signature.asc Description: signature

Re: Maintaining a custom out-of-tree patched Debian kernel for specific hardware

2018-01-23 Thread Jonas Smedegaard
Quoting Kumar Appaiah (2018-01-23 01:02:04) > On Mon, Jan 22, 2018 at 04:29:22PM +0100, Jonas Smedegaard wrote: >>> 1. The laptop will ship with stretch preinstalled, but with a custom >>> kernel built using the linux-source-x.xx.xx package with a custom >>> versi

Re: Maintaining a custom out-of-tree patched Debian kernel for specific hardware

2018-01-22 Thread Jonas Smedegaard
ivatives/Guidelines#Packages You might find other things in that and related wiki pages useful too :-) - Jonas -- * Jonas Smedegaard - idealist & Internet-arkitekt * Tlf.: +45 40843136 Website: http://dr.jones.dk/ [x] quote me freely [ ] ask before reusing [ ] keep private signature.asc Description: signature

Re: Salsa Beta - Updates

2018-01-06 Thread Jonas Smedegaard
s IRC gateway; with Matrix, you don't need > to run a daemon, you just execute a webhook or use a simple Python > wrapper for it; see e.g. > https://kallithea-scm.org/repos/integration/matrix/files/tip/__init__.py Please let's self-host, not rely on resources outside our control.

Re: Why do we list individual copyright holders?

2018-01-03 Thread Jonas Smedegaard
packages (not all of them updated in 2016, though). I find the S-V field quite valuable for the project, and find that it should be kept part of the actual packaging, not externalized. Not really sure how that helps this conversation, but there you go. - Jonas -- * Jonas Smedegaard - id

Bug#886238: Please introduce official nosystemd build profile

2018-01-03 Thread Jonas Smedegaard
take the burden of maintaining added complexity to their build routines. - Jonas -- * Jonas Smedegaard - idealist & Internet-arkitekt * Tlf.: +45 40843136 Website: http://dr.jones.dk/ [x] quote me freely [ ] ask before reusing [ ] keep private signature.asc Description: signature

Re: On debhelper compat levels (Was: Re: Why do we list individual copyright holders?)

2018-01-02 Thread Jonas Smedegaard
Quoting Niels Thykier (2018-01-02 12:19:00) > Jonas Smedegaard: > > Quoting Niels Thykier (2018-01-02 09:23:00) > >> Andrey Rahmatullin: > >>> On Mon, Jan 01, 2018 at 08:40:38PM +0100, Jérémy Lal wrote: > >>>> wouldn't it be simpler to couple

Re: Why do we list individual copyright holders?

2018-01-02 Thread Jonas Smedegaard
t; That said, I do agree that a maintainer should have to care about > fewer turning wheels in debian/control than what our current packaging > design requires us to do. Maybe extend debhelper to support compat file content of "latest". Or simply treat a missing compat file as im

Re: Why do we list individual copyright holders?

2018-01-01 Thread Jonas Smedegaard
ge complies with that newer version, should you bump Standards-Version. (possibly that's what you meant) Purpose of the Standards-Version field is *not* to keep you busy silencing corresponding lintian warning, but to state which version of Debian Policy the package is verified to co

Re: Why do we list individual copyright holders?

2017-12-24 Thread Jonas Smedegaard
Quoting Thomas Goirand (2017-12-24 11:28:06) > This is a very interesting discussion, it's IMO important to have it. > On 12/23/2017 02:45 AM, Jonas Smedegaard wrote: >>> The only thing we really need is to make sure about the license of >>> the software. Having a

Bug#885070: ITP: libatteanx-compatibility-trine-perl -- compatibility layer between RDF::Trine and Attean

2017-12-23 Thread Jonas Smedegaard
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Jonas Smedegaard -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 * Package name: libatteanx-compatibility-trine-perl Version : 0.001 Upstream Author : Kjetil Kjernsmo * URL : https://metacpan.org/release/AtteanX-Compatibility

Re: Why do we list individual copyright holders?

2017-12-22 Thread Jonas Smedegaard
Quoting Thomas Goirand (2017-12-23 01:45:43) > On 12/20/2017 10:31 AM, Jonas Smedegaard wrote: >> Quoting Holger Levsen (2017-12-19 22:01:52) >>> On Tue, Dec 19, 2017 at 06:44:54PM +0100, Jonas Smedegaard wrote: >>>>> What if the author is anonymous then?

Re: Why do we list individual copyright holders?

2017-12-20 Thread Jonas Smedegaard
Quoting Felipe Sateler (2017-12-19 23:52:55) > On Tue, 19 Dec 2017 15:41:00 +0100, Jonas Smedegaard wrote: >> Quoting Felipe Sateler (2017-12-19 14:20:42) >>> Sometimes the license requires listing the copyright holders. In >>> those cases, the list of holders must

Re: Why do we list individual copyright holders?

2017-12-20 Thread Jonas Smedegaard
Quoting Holger Levsen (2017-12-19 22:01:52) > On Tue, Dec 19, 2017 at 06:44:54PM +0100, Jonas Smedegaard wrote: >>> What if the author is anonymous then? >> Then who granted the license? > > the anonymous author. Ok. Then (assuming the source mentions only that anonymous

Re: Why do we list individual copyright holders?

2017-12-19 Thread Jonas Smedegaard
Quoting Thomas Goirand (2017-12-19 17:23:08) > On 12/19/2017 03:41 PM, Jonas Smedegaard wrote: >> Quoting Felipe Sateler (2017-12-19 14:20:42) >>> Sometimes the license requires listing the copyright holders. In >>> those cases, the list of holders must be present in

Re: Why do we list individual copyright holders?

2017-12-19 Thread Jonas Smedegaard
nse" would therefore, I fear, have similar risk of confusion as to what it should contain, with the added risk of tracking too _little_ information rather than (arguably - I am still not convinced) too much. - Jonas -- * Jonas Smedegaard - idealist & Internet-arkitekt * T

Re: Why do we list individual copyright holders?

2017-12-19 Thread Jonas Smedegaard
ile copyright messages. > > Maybe the right answer is to paste the output of > git-log | grep '^Signed-off-by' > into debian/copyright ? Those are authors, which might be copyright holders but possibly not. Like code lacking copyright might be freely licensed but possibly not.

Re: Has Copyright summarizing outlived its usefulness?

2017-12-16 Thread Jonas Smedegaard
cover _all_ sources for the project you are maintaining then perhaps you should team up with someone who does find it worthwhile to do that part of the packaging maintenance - because that part of the packaging maintenance is not optional in Debian! - Jonas -- * Jonas Smedegaard - idealist & Internet-arkitekt * Tlf.: +45 40843136 Website: http://dr.jones.dk/ [x] quote me freely [ ] ask before reusing [ ] keep private signature.asc Description: signature

Re: Should tasks be considered harmful?

2017-12-04 Thread Jonas Smedegaard
ll reasonable for older hardware (obviously "smaller" implies "covers less corner cases") You chose LXDE. Your described success rate of features covered seems reasonable to me, given that choice. - Jonas -- * Jonas Smedegaard - idealist & Internet-arkitekt * T

Bug#883383: ITP: liblog-any-adapter-tap-perl -- logging adapter suitable for use in TAP testcases

2017-12-03 Thread Jonas Smedegaard
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Jonas Smedegaard -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 * Package name: liblog-any-adapter-tap-perl Version : 0.3.3 Upstream Author : Michael Conrad * URL : https://github.com/silverdirk/perl-Log-Any-Adapter-TAP

Bug#882991: ITP: libdata-tablereader-perl -- locate and read records from human-edited data tables

2017-11-28 Thread Jonas Smedegaard
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Jonas Smedegaard -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 * Package name: libdata-tablereader-perl Version : 0.005 Upstream Author : Michael Conrad * URL : https://github.com/nrdvana/perl-Data-TableReader * License

Bug#882583: ITP: python-quamath -- implementation of the PEP 3156 event-loop with Qt

2017-11-24 Thread Jonas Smedegaard
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Jonas Smedegaard -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 * Package name: python-quamath Version : 0.5.5 Upstream Author : Mark Harviston , Arve Knudsen * URL : https://github.com/harvimt/quamash

Bug#878419: ITP: ruby-sass-listen -- Ruby library listening to file modifications - Sass fork

2017-10-13 Thread Jonas Smedegaard
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Jonas Smedegaard -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 * Package name: ruby-sass-listen Version : 4.0.0 Upstream Author : Thibaud Guillaume-Gentil * URL : https://github.com/sass/listen * License : Expat

Bug#877506: ITP: libcatmandu-template-perl -- modules for working with templates within the Catmandu framework

2017-10-02 Thread Jonas Smedegaard
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Jonas Smedegaard -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 * Package name: libcatmandu-template-perl Version : 0.12 Upstream Author : Nicolas Steenlant * URL : https://github.com/LibreCat/Catmandu-Template * License

Bug#877502: ITP: libcatmandu-xsd-perl -- modules for handling XML data with XSD compilation

2017-10-02 Thread Jonas Smedegaard
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Jonas Smedegaard -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 * Package name: libcatmandu-xsd-perl Version : 0.04 Upstream Author : Patrick Hochstenbach * URL : https://github.com/LibreCat/Catmandu-XSD * License

Bug#877426: ITP: libmods-record-perl -- module for handling MODS records

2017-10-01 Thread Jonas Smedegaard
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Jonas Smedegaard -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 * Package name: libmods-record-perl Version : 0.12 Upstream Author : Patrick Hochstenbach * URL : https://github.com/LibreCat/MODS-Record * License

Bug#877423: ITP: libcatmandu-mods-perl -- modules for working with MODS data within the Catmandu framework

2017-10-01 Thread Jonas Smedegaard
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Jonas Smedegaard -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 * Package name: libcatmandu-mods-perl Version : 0.31 Upstream Author : Nicolas Franck * URL : https://github.com/LibreCat/Catmandu-MODS * License

Bug#877410: ITP: libcatmandu-xml-perl -- modules for handling XML data within the Catmandu framework

2017-10-01 Thread Jonas Smedegaard
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Jonas Smedegaard -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 * Package name: libcatmandu-xml-perl Version : 0.16 Upstream Author : Jakob Voß * URL : https://github.com/LibreCat/Catmandu-XML * License : Artistic or

Bug#876652: ITP: libcode-tidyall-plugin-sortlines-naturally-perl -- sort lines of a file using Unicode::Collate::Locale

2017-09-24 Thread Jonas Smedegaard
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Jonas Smedegaard -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 * Package name: libcode-tidyall-plugin-sortlines-naturally-perl Version : 0.03 Upstream Author : Olaf Alders * URL : https://metacpan.org/release/Code

Re: pasting license text into debian/copyright

2017-09-16 Thread Jonas Smedegaard
cuss mailinglist: https://lists.alioth.debian.org/mailman/listinfo/licenses-discuss - Jonas -- * Jonas Smedegaard - idealist & Internet-arkitekt * Tlf.: +45 40843136 Website: http://dr.jones.dk/ [x] quote me freely [ ] ask before reusing [ ] keep private

Bug#875632: ITP: libregexp-pattern-perl -- collection of regexp patterns

2017-09-12 Thread Jonas Smedegaard
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Jonas Smedegaard -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 * Package name: libregexp-pattern-perl Version : 0.1.4 Upstream Author : perlancar * URL : https://metacpan.org/pod/Regexp::Pattern * License : Artistic

Bug#875628: ITP: libregexp-pattern-license-perl -- regular expressions for legal licenses

2017-09-12 Thread Jonas Smedegaard
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Jonas Smedegaard -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 * Package name: libregexp-pattern-license-perl Version : 3.0.31 Upstream Author : Jonas Smedegaard * URL : https://metacpan.org/pod/Regexp::Pattern::License

Bug#875581: ITP: sass-mixins-compass -- mixins for Sass derived from Compass

2017-09-12 Thread Jonas Smedegaard
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Jonas Smedegaard -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 * Package name: sass-mixins-compass Version : 0.12.10 Upstream Author : Christopher M. Eppstein * URL : https://github.com/Igosuki/compass-mixins * License

Bug#873202: ITP: astroid -- graphical notmuch email client

2017-08-25 Thread Jonas Smedegaard
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Jonas Smedegaard -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 * Package name: astroid Version : 0.9.1 Upstream Author : Gaute Hope * URL : http://astroidmail.github.io/ * License : GPL-3+ Programming Lang: C

Re: openssl/libssl1 in Debian now blocks offlineimap?

2017-08-20 Thread Jonas Smedegaard
der ciphers, he should be able to, but > it shouldn't be default... I believe noone in this thread disagree with _recommending_ only TLS 1.2 and that no services _should_ use anything else. Question is if Debian _force_ only TLS 1.2 so that no services _can_ use anything else. -

Re: Bug#856139: certspotter: long description advertises *unused* commercial service

2017-08-10 Thread Jonas Smedegaard
Quoting Philipp Kern (2017-08-10 06:45:39) > On 09.08.2017 23:30, Jonas Smedegaard wrote: > > Stuff like s3cmd are tools connecting to cloud services. Arguably > > usable to have tools to free data from the clouds. > > > > ...but bug#856139 is, I believe, about

Bug#856139: certspotter: long description advertises *unused* commercial service

2017-08-09 Thread Jonas Smedegaard
installing and using the Free tool. Anyone having opinions more narrowly on that kind of advertisements? - Jonas -- * Jonas Smedegaard - idealist & Internet-arkitekt * Tlf.: +45 40843136 Website: http://dr.jones.dk/ [x] quote me freely [ ] ask before reusing [ ] keep pri

Re: Bug#798476: Returning to the requirement that Uploaders: contain humans

2017-08-03 Thread Jonas Smedegaard
Do the MIA team also track MIA teams? My concern is that packages without maintainers may go unnoticed when none of its previously active maintainers were tracked individually. For such detection of abandonment we need not track _all_ active maintainers, but at least one - as individual. - Jonas

Re: Bits from the 10th Debian Groupware Meeting

2017-08-03 Thread Jonas Smedegaard
". The wiki page only tracks things that are, well, tracked. Please share your ideas for packaging nextcloud at http://bugs.debian.org/835086 - i.e. by posting not here but to 835...@bugs.debian.org which is read by those actively working on it, now or later. - Jonas -- * Jonas

Re: Debian built from non-Debian sources

2017-07-17 Thread Jonas Smedegaard
Quoting Steve McIntyre (2017-07-18 02:32:11) > On Tue, Jul 18, 2017 at 02:04:04AM +0200, Jonas Smedegaard wrote: > >Quoting Steve McIntyre (2017-07-18 01:09:43) > >> I've corrected several of your incorrect assertions already. I'm bored > >> of this. > >

Re: Debian built from non-Debian sources

2017-07-17 Thread Jonas Smedegaard
Quoting Steve McIntyre (2017-07-18 01:09:43) > I've corrected several of your incorrect assertions already. I'm bored > of this. Your arrogant attitude hurts! - Jonas -- * Jonas Smedegaard - idealist & Internet-arkitekt * Tlf.: +45 40843136 Website: http://dr.jone

Re: Debian built from non-Debian sources

2017-07-17 Thread Jonas Smedegaard
Quoting Steve McIntyre (2017-07-17 02:00:25) > Jonas wrote: > >Quoting Steve McIntyre (2017-07-16 22:14:29) > >> Jonas wrote: > >> >Quoting Andrey Rahmatullin (2017-07-16 19:28:06) > >> >> On Sun, Jul 16, 2017 at 07:05:10PM +0200, Jonas Smedegaard &

Re: Debian built from non-Debian sources

2017-07-16 Thread Jonas Smedegaard
Quoting Steve McIntyre (2017-07-16 22:14:29) > Jonas wrote: > >Quoting Andrey Rahmatullin (2017-07-16 19:28:06) > >> On Sun, Jul 16, 2017 at 07:05:10PM +0200, Jonas Smedegaard wrote: > >> > Is our install images excepmt from our Policy that all dependencies must

Re: Debian built from non-Debian sources

2017-07-16 Thread Jonas Smedegaard
Quoting Andrey Rahmatullin (2017-07-16 19:28:06) > On Sun, Jul 16, 2017 at 07:05:10PM +0200, Jonas Smedegaard wrote: > > Is our install images excepmt from our Policy that all dependencies must > > be in Debian, or am I mistaken that we have such Policy? > Do we? The Debian

Debian built from non-Debian sources

2017-07-16 Thread Jonas Smedegaard
uch Policy? - Jonas -- * Jonas Smedegaard - idealist & Internet-arkitekt * Tlf.: +45 40843136 Website: http://dr.jones.dk/ [x] quote me freely [ ] ask before reusing [ ] keep private signature.asc Description: signature

Re: Too many Recommends (in particular on mail-transport-agent)

2017-06-07 Thread Jonas Smedegaard
Quoting Afif Elghraoui (2017-06-07 01:44:45) > > على الثلاثاء 6 حزيران 2017 ‫04:42، كتب Jonas Smedegaard: >> Quoting Ghislain Vaillant (2017-06-06 10:13:55) >>> >>> Given this is a Python package, we should not even have to argue >>> about package rela

Re: Too many Recommends (in particular on mail-transport-agent)

2017-06-06 Thread Jonas Smedegaard
> * BLOAT: wut? This and other lib*-xs-perl recommendations are faster implementations that you commonly want: An example (exotic!) need for avoiding those is when bootstrapping a new architecture. - Jonas -- * Jonas Smedegaard - idealist & Internet-arkitekt * Tlf.: +45 40843136 Website: http://dr.jones.dk/ [x] quote me freely [ ] ask before reusing [ ] keep private signature.asc Description: signature

Re: Too many Recommends (in particular on mail-transport-agent)

2017-06-06 Thread Jonas Smedegaard
olicy: Upstream (or other) package relation hints can be a valuable _aid_ in resolving Debian package relations, but only that: An aid! Debian packaging follows Debian Policy - other hints do not. - Jonas -- * Jonas Smedegaard - idealist & Internet-arkitekt * Tlf.: +45 40843136 Website: http://dr.jones.dk/ [x] quote me freely [ ] ask before reusing [ ] keep private signature.asc Description: signature

VAC - jbig2dec security patches

2017-05-14 Thread Jonas Smedegaard
7;s a cheap consumer subscription where I cannot report failures during weekends). Quite likely our new competing ISP broke the wire digging holes to lay out fibre optics. -- * Jonas Smedegaard - idealist & Internet-arkitekt * Tlf.: +45 40843136 Website: http://dr.jones.dk/ [x] quote

Re: Bug#860170: node-brfs -- browserify fs.readFileSync() static asset inliner

2017-04-14 Thread Jonas Smedegaard
d without the > initial aspirant even in dialects (etc.) which ordinarily don't elide > such. Thanks for educating me: I thought the "h" in "herb" wasn't silent. A probably more common example (in computer context) is "hour". - Jonas -- * Jonas Smedegaard - idealist & Internet-arkitekt * Tlf.: +45 40843136 Website: http://dr.jones.dk/ [x] quote me freely [ ] ask before reusing [ ] keep private signature.asc Description: signature

Re: init system agnosticism [WAS: how to remove libsystemd0 from a live-running debian desktop system]

2017-04-12 Thread Jonas Smedegaard
idiots, perhaps? - Jonas -- * Jonas Smedegaard - idealist & Internet-arkitekt * Tlf.: +45 40843136 Website: http://dr.jones.dk/ [x] quote me freely [ ] ask before reusing [ ] keep private signature.asc Description: signature

Re: System libraries and the GPLv2

2017-03-31 Thread Jonas Smedegaard
y_ going on in their minds - and when their mindset and ours do not align, then surely they cannot be trusted to mean what the say - our need for simple distribution has higher priority than their right to grant complex licensing. Right? - Jonas -- * Jonas Smedegaard - idealist &

Re: System libraries and the GPLv2

2017-03-30 Thread Jonas Smedegaard
Quoting Carlos Alberto Lopez Perez (2017-03-30 19:12:53) > On 30/03/17 10:44, Jonas Smedegaard wrote: > > Quoting Carlos Alberto Lopez Perez (2017-03-30 05:08:24) > >> On 30/03/17 03:11, Clint Byrum wrote: > >>> Excerpts from Carlos Alberto Lopez Perez's message

Re: System libraries and the GPLv2

2017-03-30 Thread Jonas Smedegaard
ing it on the first place? Yes, I believe so. As a concrete example, the Netatalk project has for many years released code with plugins linking to OpenSSL, but has not added an exception. Authors of Netatalk try to make a living out of commercial support for their product, and I genuinely t

Bug#859018: ITP: libpandoc-wrapper-perl -- wrapper for the mighty Pandoc document converter

2017-03-29 Thread Jonas Smedegaard
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Jonas Smedegaard -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 * Package name: libpandoc-wrapper-perl Version : 0.6.0 Upstream Author : Jakob Voß * URL : https://github.com/nichtich/Pandoc-Wrapper * License : GPL-2

Re: Depends/Recommends from libraries

2017-03-08 Thread Jonas Smedegaard
us place too many restrictions on > Recommends. If you don't want additional helpful programs, disable > installing Recommends by default. I think it's very odd to worry > about bloat while simultaneously installing Recommends by default; > those aren't really consist

Re: apt-get upgrade removing ifupdown on jessie→stretch upgrade

2017-02-22 Thread Jonas Smedegaard
talled, a recent prior APT process upgraded to netbase 5.4 (no longer recommending ifupdown), and your latest APT process just finished an auto-removal of the no longer needed ifupdown for some reason not finalized earlier. - Jonas -- * Jonas Smedegaard - idealist & Internet-arkitekt * Tlf.: +

Re: [Pkg-xfce-devel] Processed: reassign 853084 to xfce4-pulseaudio-plugin

2017-01-30 Thread Jonas Smedegaard
t, then it makes sense for the package relation to be a recommendation. If you cannot describe a single use case for this package without its related package, then depend on that other package (no matter needs of _reverse_ related packages further up the stack!). - Jonas -- * Jonas Smede

Re: What is exactly the "canonical URI" for Vcs-{Git,Browser}?

2017-01-20 Thread Jonas Smedegaard
> > Originally, "cgit" is for web browser to see, and "git" is for "git > clone" or "git remote add" to checkout the source tree. > Rewrite rules of web server makes them equivalent. Oh, that change making them equivalent interesting. Thanks! No

Re: What is exactly the "canonical URI" for Vcs-{Git,Browser}?

2017-01-20 Thread Jonas Smedegaard
.git > Vcs-Browser: https://anonscm.debian.org/git/pkg-foo/bar.git > > I would use the latter one. Would that be better? No: The latter one does not serve content usable in a browser. - Jonas -- * Jonas Smedegaard - idealist & Internet-arkitekt * Tlf.: +45 40843136 Website: http://dr.jones.dk/ [x] quote me freely [ ] ask before reusing [ ] keep private signature.asc Description: signature

Re: Auto reject if autopkgtest of reverse dependencies fail or cause FTBFS

2017-01-16 Thread Jonas Smedegaard
e to rule out that FTBFS bugs are RC, > even if they did not happen in buildd.debian.org yet? Yes, please do! I believe, however, that Ole was talking about non-critical bugs being part of a testsuite - not criticial bugs wrongly downgraded. - Jonas -- * Jonas Smedegaard - idealist &

Re: soft freeze

2017-01-14 Thread Jonas Smedegaard
ts by the release team. Can please someone in the > know confirm, or correct? I believe all official statements are collected here: https://release.debian.org/ - Jonas -- * Jonas Smedegaard - idealist & Internet-arkitekt * Tlf.: +45 40843136 Website: http://dr.jones.dk/ [x] quote m

Re: Newcomer to Debian: Help wanted

2017-01-08 Thread Jonas Smedegaard
ailinglists: https://www.debian.org/MailingLists/#codeofconduct Welcome to the World of Debian :-) - Jonas -- * Jonas Smedegaard - idealist & Internet-arkitekt * Tlf.: +45 40843136 Website: http://dr.jones.dk/ [x] quote me freely [ ] ask before reusing [ ] keep private

Re: Newcomer to Debian: Help wanted

2017-01-08 Thread Jonas Smedegaard
st get in touch with) the teams relevant for your particular interests. Here's an incomplete list: https://wiki.debian.org/Teams - Jonas -- * Jonas Smedegaard - idealist & Internet-arkitekt * Tlf.: +45 40843136 Website: http://dr.jones.dk/ [x] quote me freely [ ] ask before reusing [ ] keep private

Re: nodejs 6.9 in unstable, manual transition, schedule

2017-01-06 Thread Jonas Smedegaard
Quoting Philip Hands (2017-01-06 15:48:07) > Jonas Smedegaard writes: >> Do I understand you correctly that you recommend that we all tell our >> users - e.g. in release notes - something like this: "We acknowledge >> that the Nodejs included in this release is outdat

Re: nodejs 6.9 in unstable, manual transition, schedule

2017-01-06 Thread Jonas Smedegaard
ing like this: "We acknowledge that the Nodejs included in this release is outdated, and recommend that you avoid it: Please instead subscribe to our snapshot repository and use the newer (but lesser supported) version from there."? - Jonas -- * Jonas Smedegaard - idealist & Internet-arkitekt * Tlf.: +45 40843136 Website: http://dr.jones.dk/ [x] quote me freely [ ] ask before reusing [ ] keep private

Re: Hiding library packages from apt searches by default? (was: Re: Worthless node-* package descriptions in ITPs)

2017-01-05 Thread Jonas Smedegaard
Quoting Christian Seiler (2017-01-05 14:32:45) > On 01/05/2017 02:06 PM, Jonas Smedegaard wrote: >> Quoting Riku Voipio (2017-01-05 12:53:16) >>> Vast majority of users would only install this via dependencies. >>> It's hardly a node-specific problem that debian pa

Re: Worthless node-* package descriptions in ITPs

2017-01-05 Thread Jonas Smedegaard
the program) to a user > (system administrator) who has never met it before so that they have > enough information to decide whether they want to install it. This > description should not just be copied verbatim from the program's > documentation. - Jonas -- * Jonas Smedeg

Re: Feedback on 3.0 source format problems

2017-01-04 Thread Jonas Smedegaard
herit of all the problems to solve. > > Isn't "gbp pq" a correct execution of the same principles? > -- > Make your program read from top to bottom. > - The Elements of Programming Style (Kernighan & Plauger) Do _any_ of the systems reliably handle a "git rebase" involving a merge of new upstream release? In my experience gbp also fails that. - Jonas -- * Jonas Smedegaard - idealist & Internet-arkitekt * Tlf.: +45 40843136 Website: http://dr.jones.dk/ [x] quote me freely [ ] ask before reusing [ ] keep private

Re: nodejs 6.9 in unstable, manual transition, schedule

2017-01-04 Thread Jonas Smedegaard
get kicked out), I believe there is also the option of asking the release team for permission to do the transition even if late. - Jonas -- * Jonas Smedegaard - idealist & Internet-arkitekt * Tlf.: +45 40843136 Website: http://dr.jones.dk/ [x] quote me freely [ ] ask before reusing [ ] keep private

Re: Can we kill net-tools, please?

2016-12-26 Thread Jonas Smedegaard
Quoting Jonas Smedegaard (2016-12-26 15:32:18) > Quoting Andrey Rahmatullin (2016-12-26 14:57:26) > > For the record: > > > > # Broken Depends: > [...] > > # Broken Build-Depends: > > If by "broken" you wanted to list all packages that would be brok

Re: Can we kill net-tools, please?

2016-12-26 Thread Jonas Smedegaard
ervice (different from sugar-presence-service-0.88) is missing in Depends:, and there are also packages recommending net-tools. - Jonas -- * Jonas Smedegaard - idealist & Internet-arkitekt * Tlf.: +45 40843136 Website: http://dr.jones.dk/ [x] quote me freely [ ] ask before reusing [ ] keep private

Re: Bug#817602: olpc-xo1: Removal of debhelper compat 4

2016-12-25 Thread Jonas Smedegaard
Quoting Adam Borowski (2016-12-25 23:23:32) > On Sun, Dec 25, 2016 at 06:06:12PM +0100, Jonas Smedegaard wrote: > > > I'm pretty sure they haven't produced XO-1s in close to a decade, and > > > that us what my packages are for. XO-1.5 and XO-4 were never > >

Re: Bug#817602: olpc-xo1: Removal of debhelper compat 4

2016-12-25 Thread Jonas Smedegaard
with > such old hardware and the lack of package users. I agree it makes sense to drop this package: Despite the hardware vendor still issueing software, we can no longer do so, because the XO-1 uses an X86 chipset is incompatible with our i686 libc and kernel, I believe (I haven't te

Bug#849343: ITP: libspecio-library-path-tiny-perl -- Path::Tiny types and coercions for Specio

2016-12-25 Thread Jonas Smedegaard
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Jonas Smedegaard -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 * Package name: libspecio-library-path-tiny-perl Version : 0.04 Upstream Author : Dave Rolsky * URL : http://metacpan.org/release/Specio-Library-Path-Tiny

Bug#849341: ITP: libtext-hogan-perl -- mustache templating engine statement-for-statement cloned from hogan.js

2016-12-25 Thread Jonas Smedegaard
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Jonas Smedegaard -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 * Package name: libtext-hogan-perl Version : 1.04 Upstream Author : Alex Balhatchet * URL : https://metacpan.org/release/Text-Hogan * License : Artistic

Bug#849233: ITP: litesql -- C++ object-relational persistence framework

2016-12-23 Thread Jonas Smedegaard
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Jonas Smedegaard -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 * Package name: litesql Version : 0.3.17.4 Upstream Author : Tero Laitinen * URL : https://lab.louiz.org/louiz/litesql * License : BSD-3-clause and LGPL

Re: Crowd funding campaign to package browserify in debian

2016-12-23 Thread Jonas Smedegaard
ease developing Debian. - Jonas -- * Jonas Smedegaard - idealist & Internet-arkitekt * Tlf.: +45 40843136 Website: http://dr.jones.dk/ [x] quote me freely [ ] ask before reusing [ ] keep private pgpi7YaC2FC0K.pgp Description: PGP signature

Bug#848560: ITP: asterisk-opus -- opus module for Asterisk

2016-12-18 Thread Jonas Smedegaard
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Jonas Smedegaard -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 * Package name: asterisk-opus Version : 13.7+20161113 Upstream Author : Lorenzo Miniero * URL : https://github.com/traud/asterisk-opus * License : GPL-2

Re: Let's stop using CVS for debian.org website

2016-11-24 Thread Jonas Smedegaard
t clone * amount of data transfered over the wire for shallow git clone * amount of data transfered over the wire for CVS clone * disk space used for CVS clone Should be possible to get the git data by cloning from yourself via localhost: URL (to ensure that git does not use hardlink

Re: OpenSSL 1.1.0 / transition process

2016-11-15 Thread Jonas Smedegaard
other packages. - Jonas ¹ uwsgi build-depends not only on libssl-dev, but also libapache-dev, php-dev and libcurl4-openssl-dev now linking against conflicting libssl*-dev packages. -- * Jonas Smedegaard - idealist & Internet-arkitekt * Tlf.: +45 40843136 Website: http://dr.jones.dk/ [x] quote me freely [ ] ask before reusing [ ] keep private

Re: OpenSSL 1.1.0

2016-11-15 Thread Jonas Smedegaard
different distribution for >>> some web servers. [...] > For Apache, the choices available are: > 1. no ChaCha20 in Apache in stretch > 2. move the stretch release schedule by 6-12 months to have >only OpenSSL 1.1 in stretch > 3. apply ChaCha20 patches to OpenSSL

Re: More 5 november in the release schedule

2016-11-07 Thread Jonas Smedegaard
ce manual work and b) reduce disputes by making general logic transparent, but not (at least yet) for the processing to be fully automatic. - Jonas -- * Jonas Smedegaard - idealist & Internet-arkitekt * Tlf.: +45 40843136 Website: http://dr.jones.dk/ [x] quote me freely [ ] ask befor

Re: unattended-upgrades by default?

2016-11-04 Thread Jonas Smedegaard
ment here, I suggest we go with needrestart! - Jonas -- * Jonas Smedegaard - idealist & Internet-arkitekt * Tlf.: +45 40843136 Website: http://dr.jones.dk/ [x] quote me freely [ ] ask before reusing [ ] keep private signature.asc Description: signature

Re: Lots and lots of tiny node.js packages

2016-11-01 Thread Jonas Smedegaard
; developers were still encouraged to use the Go > package ecosystem ("go get ..."). And whenever I've built node > programs, I also just use "npm install ..." rather than looking for a > Debian package. > > If that's the primary use case, It is

Re: openssl transition

2016-10-27 Thread Jonas Smedegaard
e removed and I will notice too late... > > I keep meaning to try to find a way to figure out what package(s) it > might be, that isn't eyeballing the list. Try check the email headers - in my experience often there is am X-somethind line added hinting about the specific package.

Re: [Pkg-dns-devel] Bug#833309: "Browserified" stuff (knot-resolver-module-http: please package embedded epoch.js separately)

2016-10-21 Thread Jonas Smedegaard
want to deal with the > complexity of building JS from the "upper" source for the benefit of > people that don't exist. There are likely no Debian users on lonely islands either. That is not an acceptable reason for weakening the quality of our packages. - Jonas - * Jonas Smedegaard - idealist & Internet-arkitekt * Tlf.: +45 40843136 Website: http://dr.jones.dk/ [x] quote me freely [ ] ask before reusing [ ] keep private signature.asc Description: signature

Re: [Pkg-dns-devel] Bug#833309: "Browserified" stuff (knot-resolver-module-http: please package embedded epoch.js separately)

2016-10-20 Thread Jonas Smedegaard
t we are now doing distro > > just for hipsters that can't read and write more than one twitter > > message at the time, and can't read a simple makefile. > > I don't understand why we don't just put that build process in > debian/rules. Neither do I.

Re: [Pkg-dns-devel] Bug#833309: "Browserified" stuff (knot-resolver-module-http: please package embedded epoch.js separately)

2016-10-20 Thread Jonas Smedegaard
Quoting Scott Kitterman (2016-10-20 16:35:22) > On Thursday, October 20, 2016 04:06:10 PM Jonas Smedegaard wrote: > > Quoting Ondřej Surý (2016-10-20 15:48:08) > > > > > to stop you from bickering on and on, the build script can be > > > reconstructed just f

Re: [Pkg-dns-devel] Bug#833309: "Browserified" stuff (knot-resolver-module-http: please package embedded epoch.js separately)

2016-10-20 Thread Jonas Smedegaard
Severity of bugs is ortogonal to how difficult they are to fix. - Jonas -- * Jonas Smedegaard - idealist & Internet-arkitekt * Tlf.: +45 40843136 Website: http://dr.jones.dk/ [x] quote me freely [ ] ask before reusing [ ] keep private signature.asc Description: signature

Re: Bug#841196: ITP: node-os-homedir -- Node.js 4 `os.homedir()` ponyfill

2016-10-18 Thread Jonas Smedegaard
> even from unstable, yes. Use experimental for known-broken packages (if there is reason to release at all, e.g. to try avoid burdening NEW queue closer to freeze). - Jonas -- * Jonas Smedegaard - idealist & Internet-arkitekt * Tlf.: +45 40843136 Website: http://dr.jone

Re: Debian does not have customers, but users

2016-09-18 Thread Jonas Smedegaard
ot; are > > really the same thing, you will see why this discussion does not > > make much sense. > > One nitpick: > > There are many, many people who are users of Debian who do not > contribute to the development of Debian, except possibly by way of > filing

Re: copyright precision

2016-08-17 Thread Jonas Smedegaard
source package doxygen maybe lists jquery.js source licensing b) binary package doxygen maybe lists jquery.js source licensing c) your source package build-depends on doxygen d) your binary package ignores jquery.js source licensing e) ftpmaster ignores jquery.js licensing as unimportant detail

Bug#834544: ITP: dh-copyright -- debhelper extension to aid in tracking copyright and licensing info

2016-08-16 Thread Jonas Smedegaard
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Jonas Smedegaard -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 * Package name: dh-copyright Version : 0.0.1 Upstream Author : Jonas Smedegaard * License : GPL-3+ Programming Lang: Perl Description : debhelper extension

Re: copyright precision

2016-08-16 Thread Jonas Smedegaard
Quoting Andrew Shadura (2016-08-16 19:57:05) > > > On 16 August 2016 at 14:32, Ian Jackson > wrote: > > Jonas Smedegaard writes ("Re: copyright precision"): > >> Quoting Markus Koschany (2016-08-15 23:02:06) > >> > So yes, copyright files are ha

Re: copyright precision

2016-08-16 Thread Jonas Smedegaard
Quoting Ian Jackson (2016-08-16 15:32:55) > Jonas Smedegaard writes ("Re: copyright precision"): >> Quoting Markus Koschany (2016-08-15 23:02:06) >>> So yes, copyright files are hard and unfun but why should we >>> continue to write them the way we do if w

Re: copyright precision

2016-08-16 Thread Jonas Smedegaard
ual licenses verbatim). Fedora apparently covers the Ghostscript license in a single line: "AGPLv3+ and Redistributable, no modification permitted". - Jonas ¹ I understandt that you failed in getting the _result_ you hoped for. -- * Jonas Smedegaard - idealist & Internet-arkitekt * Tlf.: +45 40843136 Website: http://dr.jones.dk/ [x] quote me freely [ ] ask before reusing [ ] keep private signature.asc Description: signature

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