Re: epoch bump request for gnome-calculator

2018-09-26 Thread Andreas Henriksson
Hi Jeremy, My comments below for what it's worth. You should likely not take anything I say too seriously, but maybe I happen to mention something that can be food for thought. On Wed, Sep 26, 2018 at 09:47:38AM -0400, Jeremy Bicha wrote: > Emailing both debian-devel and the Debian GNOME mailing

Re: epoch bump request for gnome-calculator

2018-09-26 Thread Jeremy Bicha
On Wed, Sep 26, 2018 at 9:33 PM Paul Wise wrote: > FTR, this is currently this set of changes: > > https://patches.ubuntu.com/g/gnome-calculator/gnome-calculator_1:3.30.0-1ubuntu1.patch Yes, I felt my email was getting a bit long. Ubuntu's gnome-calculator now has some patches that depend on prop

Re: Question regarding patching in 4.9 kernel

2018-09-26 Thread Ben Hutchings
[Note Reply-to: debian-kernel.] On Wed, 2018-09-26 at 18:00 +, Harish Venkatraman wrote: > Hi, > > I want the following patch to be back ported to 4.9 kernel. Can you > please let me know if it can be back ported to 4.9 kernel? > > https://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/63a6fff353d01da5a22

Re: epoch bump request for gnome-calculator

2018-09-26 Thread Paul Wise
On Wed, Sep 26, 2018 at 9:48 PM Jeremy Bicha wrote: > A month later, a Debian GNOME team member recognized that we could use > a dh_gencontrol hack [1] to only add the epoch to the gcalctool > transitional package and we didn't need an epoch for gnome-calculator. I wouldn't characterise this as a

Question regarding patching in 4.9 kernel

2018-09-26 Thread Harish Venkatraman
Hi, I want the following patch to be back ported to 4.9 kernel. Can you please let me know if it can be back ported to 4.9 kernel? https://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/63a6fff353d01da5a22b72670c434bf12fa0e3b8 Thanks

Re: epoch bump request for gnome-calculator

2018-09-26 Thread Jonas Smedegaard
Hi Jonathan, and Jeremy and others, Quoting Jonathan Carter (2018-09-26 20:45:13) > On 26/09/2018 16:59, Jonas Smedegaard wrote: >>> More recently, I have worked to reduce the difference between Debian >>> and Ubuntu packaging for many GNOME packages. It gets very tedious >>> to need to upload g

Re: epoch bump request for gnome-calculator

2018-09-26 Thread Michael Biebl
Am 26.09.2018 um 15:47 schrieb Jeremy Bicha: > So is it appropriate to bump an epoch in Debian to match an important > downstream's epoch? I don't think it is. -- Why is it that all of the instruments seeking intelligent life in the universe are pointed away from Earth? signature.asc Des

Re: Let's start salvaging packages!

2018-09-26 Thread Chris Knadle
Joël Krähemann: > Hi all > > Seriously, this is the wrong approach. > > I am the upstream of a package. I have dependencies but am unsure > about how to monetize my software or fund my dependencies. > > Might be I decide once to stop work full-time on it. Just because > someone feels uncomfortab

Re: epoch bump request for gnome-calculator

2018-09-26 Thread Jonathan Carter
Hey Jonas On 26/09/2018 16:59, Jonas Smedegaard wrote: >> More recently, I have worked to reduce the difference between Debian >> and Ubuntu packaging for many GNOME packages. It gets very tedious to >> need to upload gnome-calculator in Debian and then do a separate >> upload in Ubuntu (along wit

Re: Let's start salvaging packages!

2018-09-26 Thread Joël Krähemann
Hi all Seriously, this is the wrong approach. I am the upstream of a package. I have dependencies but am unsure about how to monetize my software or fund my dependencies. Might be I decide once to stop work full-time on it. Just because someone feels uncomfortable about the situation of a partic

Re: Let's start salvaging packages!

2018-09-26 Thread Joël Krähemann
Let's salvaging developers. On Wed, Sep 26, 2018 at 9:14 PM Chris Knadle wrote: > > Tobias Frost: > > Hallo everyone, > > > > The yesteday uploaded Developer's Reference has now got a chapter > > about "Package Salvaging". [1] > > > > So, package salvaging is now implemented and ready to be used,

Re: Let's start salvaging packages!

2018-09-26 Thread Chris Knadle
Tobias Frost: > Hallo everyone, > > The yesteday uploaded Developer's Reference has now got a chapter > about "Package Salvaging". [1] > > So, package salvaging is now implemented and ready to be used, > and whenever you find some package in need, you can now consider to > salvage it for the bene

Re: Re: Bug#906183: Dependency change and upgrade

2018-09-26 Thread Devarajulu, Mohanasundaram
Hi Russ, Just checked it. Yes, apt upgrade does upgrade successfully. Thank you so much. My whole question is mute now. Regards Mohan

Re: installation-guide is marked for autoremoval from testing

2018-09-26 Thread Samuel Thibault
Michael Biebl, le mer. 26 sept. 2018 19:53:22 +0200, a ecrit: > Am 26.09.2018 um 19:50 schrieb Holger Wansing: > > Debian testing autoremoval watch wrote: > >> installation-guide 20180603 is marked for autoremoval from testing on > >> 2018-10-11 > >> > >> It is affected by these RC bugs: > >> 898

Re: installation-guide is marked for autoremoval from testing

2018-09-26 Thread Michael Biebl
Am 26.09.2018 um 19:50 schrieb Holger Wansing: > Hi, > > Debian testing autoremoval watch wrote: >> installation-guide 20180603 is marked for autoremoval from testing on >> 2018-10-11 >> >> It is affected by these RC bugs: >> 898665: installation-guide: [installation-guide] change "Alioth" and "

Re: installation-guide is marked for autoremoval from testing

2018-09-26 Thread Holger Wansing
Hi, Debian testing autoremoval watch wrote: > installation-guide 20180603 is marked for autoremoval from testing on > 2018-10-11 > > It is affected by these RC bugs: > 898665: installation-guide: [installation-guide] change "Alioth" and "svn" to > "Salsa" and "git" we got this note today. Ho

Re: Behaviour inconsistency between apt and aptitude (on nvidia-related packages)

2018-09-26 Thread Sven Joachim
On 2018-09-26 10:38 -0400, Boyuan Yang wrote: > I just encountered some weird problem around installing bumblebee-nvidia > using > apt and aptitude on Debian Unstable. Here's what I did: > > $ sudo apt purge '*nvidia*' > $ sudo apt autoremove --purge > $ sudo apt update > $ dpkg --print-architec

Bug#909675: ITP: equinox-p2 -- Provisioning technology for OSGi-based applications

2018-09-26 Thread Emmanuel Bourg
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Emmanuel Bourg * Package name: equinox-p2 Version : 4.7.3 Upstream Author : Eclipse Foundation, Inc. * URL : http://www.eclipse.org/equinox/p2/ * License : EPL-1.0 Programming Lang: Java Description : Provisioning

Re: Let's start salvaging packages!

2018-09-26 Thread Paride Legovini
Tobias Frost wrote on 26/09/2018: > The yesteday uploaded Developer's Reference has now got a chapter > about "Package Salvaging". Thanks Tobias for this work, I truly think Debian will benefit a lot from it. I already filed an ITS: #909663. The Developer's Reference was smooth to follow, I just

Re: Let's start salvaging packages!

2018-09-26 Thread Chris Lamb
Gregor wrote: > > The yesteday uploaded Developer's Reference has now got a chapter > > about "Package Salvaging". [1] > > That's excellent news. Thanks Tobi for driving this inititiative! Indeed — congratulations and thank you for seeing this all the way through. Best wishes, -- ,''`.

Re: epoch bump request for gnome-calculator

2018-09-26 Thread Jonas Smedegaard
Quoting Jeremy Bicha (2018-09-26 15:47:38) > Emailing both debian-devel and the Debian GNOME mailing list. > > I am requesting project approval for me to upload gnome-calculator > with an epoch. > > Five years ago, gcalctool 6.4 was renamed to gnome-calculator and > renumbered to 3.8. This seemed

Bug#909670: ITP: gnome-remote-desktop -- Remote desktop daemon for GNOME using Pipewire

2018-09-26 Thread Jeremy Bicha
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist X-Debbugs-CC: debian-devel@lists.debian.org Owner: jbi...@debian.org Package Name: gnome-remote-desktop Version: 0.1.6 Upstream Authors: Jonas Ådahl, Red Hat License : GPL-2+ Programming Lang: C Homepage: https://wiki.gnome.org/Projects/Mutter/RemoteDesktop Descrip

Behaviour inconsistency between apt and aptitude (on nvidia-related packages)

2018-09-26 Thread Boyuan Yang
Dear all, I just encountered some weird problem around installing bumblebee-nvidia using apt and aptitude on Debian Unstable. Here's what I did: $ sudo apt purge '*nvidia*' $ sudo apt autoremove --purge $ sudo apt update $ dpkg --print-architecture amd64 $ dpkg --print-foreign-architectures i386

Re: Let's start salvaging packages!

2018-09-26 Thread gregor herrmann
On Wed, 26 Sep 2018 07:45:45 +0200, Tobias Frost wrote: > The yesteday uploaded Developer's Reference has now got a chapter > about "Package Salvaging". [1] That's excellent news. Thanks Tobi for driving this inititiative! Cheers, gregor -- .''`. https://info.comodo.priv.at -- Debian Devel

epoch bump request for gnome-calculator

2018-09-26 Thread Jeremy Bicha
Emailing both debian-devel and the Debian GNOME mailing list. I am requesting project approval for me to upload gnome-calculator with an epoch. Five years ago, gcalctool 6.4 was renamed to gnome-calculator and renumbered to 3.8. This seemed like a clear case for an epoch since this was a permanen

request to collaboratively maintain rss2email

2018-09-26 Thread Jonathan Dowland
Hi there, (CC -devel FYI) Whilst chasing down a bug I noticed rss2email seems to be in a little bit of trouble. I see it is not team-maintained, you are not listed as LowThresholdNMU and it has not been updated since at least the Alioth VCS URIs were turned off. Would you be happy to collaborati

Re: [Pkg-julia-devel] julia_1.0.0-1_amd64.changes REJECTED

2018-09-26 Thread Graham Inggs
Hi Andrey On 26/09/2018 13:13, Andrey Rahmatullin wrote: It's not clear why the debug symbols are necessary to be in the binary and not detached as with most other binaries in the archive. I believe the debug symbols can be detached, but we would still need to depend on them, so I don't think

Re: julia_1.0.0-1_amd64.changes REJECTED

2018-09-26 Thread Ian Jackson
Graham Inggs writes ("Re: julia_1.0.0-1_amd64.changes REJECTED"): > I thought Lumin had made it clear enough that being able to obtain a > stacktrace from within Julia is actually a feature [1]. One of Julia's > tests checks this, and hence autopkgtests fail if debug symbols are > missing from

Re: julia_1.0.0-1_amd64.changes REJECTED

2018-09-26 Thread Ian Jackson
Lumin writes ("Re: julia_1.0.0-1_amd64.changes REJECTED"): > 1. Isn't "incomplete backtrace" a sensible reason to keep debug symbols? >Policy said "should" but not "must". Please tell me what I can do in >order to help improve the src:julia package to satisfy the requirements? My main conc

Re: julia_1.0.0-1_amd64.changes REJECTED

2018-09-26 Thread Andrey Rahmatullin
On Wed, Sep 26, 2018 at 12:52:41PM +0200, Graham Inggs wrote: > I thought Lumin had made it clear enough that being able to obtain a > stacktrace from within Julia is actually a feature [1]. One of Julia's > tests checks this, and hence autopkgtests fail if debug symbols are missing > from sys.so,

Re: julia_1.0.0-1_amd64.changes REJECTED

2018-09-26 Thread Graham Inggs
Hi Bastian I sponsored Lumin's original upload of Julia 1.0.0-1 and worked with him closely, reviewing the commits leading up to the upload. In the meantime, Lumin has become a Debian Developer and uploaded the subsequent versions himself, although still with some input and testing from me.

Bug#909645: ITP: golang-github-maraino-go-mock -- A mocking framework for the Go Programming Language

2018-09-26 Thread Sascha Steinbiss
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Sascha Steinbiss * Package name: golang-github-maraino-go-mock Version : 0.0~git20180321.4c74c43-1 Upstream Author : Mariano Cano * URL : https://github.com/maraino/go-mock * License : MIT Programming Lang: Go Descrip