a naive question about EOL encoding in Debian

2023-03-18 Thread Patrice Duroux
Hi, I am facing ^M (\r) character in the .build output file using sbuild on my system (Sid). For instance: $ file timidity_2.14.0-9_amd64-2023-03-18T18:33:37Z.build timidity_2.14.0-9_amd64-2023-03-18T18:33:37Z.build: ASCII text, with very long lines (307), with CRLF, CR, LF line terminators It

a two cent suggestion

2022-11-26 Thread Patrice Duroux
Dear Debian people, Already possible or not, I would like to have a Debian system for which packages can be installed either by a specific user (root/sysadmin as usual) only or by any other (or a group of) users. But this would also depend on the class of the requested packages: 1. packages

Re: official Debian kernel-free images

2022-11-06 Thread Patrice Duroux
Many thanks Étienne and Paul for all the resources. Regards, Patrice

official Debian kernel-free images

2022-11-05 Thread Patrice Duroux
Hi, There are many projects here and there (Termux, AnLinux, etc.) that are based on some sorts of kernel-free images of a minimal Debian system to be used through chroot (other Linux) or PRoot (Android) or whatever environments. Most of the time, it is provided as an archive file downloaded at

Re: debos should depend on systemd-resolved

2022-10-05 Thread Patrice Duroux
Hi, > > So far, the package fakemachine Depends on systemd, and that was enough. > > Now with the split, and since we need systemd-resolved, we should make > > fakemachine Depend on systemd-resolved as well. However, and if I > > understand properly, installing systemd-resolved also *enables*

Re: Half the world being removed

2022-09-03 Thread Patrice Duroux
Hi, Am I observing a side effect (kind of back-in-time) regarding a repair process on this issue? Because, for instance, the following page: https://tracker.debian.org/pkg/fwanalog has now its 'news' section showing: [2017-09-05] fwanalog 0.6.9-8 MIGRATED to testing (Debian testing watch)

Re: Re: Re: facility to access the NEWS content

2021-12-18 Thread Patrice Duroux
Hi Gregor, Yes that is part of my concern target but I trying also to find out more candidate contents among the package files or may be to design a remote resource for that so it would be possible to extend 'dnews' if-else-cases with one that would be to display the output of an URL base on

Re: Re: facility to access the NEWS content

2021-12-15 Thread Patrice Duroux
Hi, So maybe too much ambitious but let's see what I can get regarding what is actually available in Debian and if I can dress something up at least like a new track for Debian QA in a similar section to https://trends.debian.net/ while also providing a command line tool to get this NEWS content

facility to access the NEWS content

2021-12-13 Thread Patrice Duroux
Hi, I do not known if this is the right list to address this, if it has been already discussed and so it can be considered as noise. ;-) Packages may provide a NEWS (or any other name, compressed or not, etc.) file that may be part of the «main» package (like in hwloc vs. libhwloc15 for

any tracker/notification on cases such like the libnfs package?

2018-11-19 Thread Patrice Duroux
Dear Debian dev, I am sorry to address you the following case to the devel mailing list if is not the right place but I think that it may concern different components in the Debian infrastructure. I was surprise to discover such case of the following package:

a stupid suggestion for dpkg?

2013-10-23 Thread Patrice Duroux
Dear Debian Developers, May be this is the wrong place or my subject has been already discussed in different ways, but is it a crazy idea that a package provides kinds of pre- prerm and/or post- postinst scripts regarding package(s) that is(are) just recommended or suggested by it? So that those