ibus debian/control recommends best practice

2019-02-10 Thread Osamu Aoki
Hi, The Intelligent Input Bus (IBus, pronounced as I-Bus) is an input method (IM) framework for multilingual input in Unix-like operating-systems. The ibus package can work via XIM but it is non-optimal. For GTK or QT applications, it is desirable to have corresponding libraries installed and en

Adding translation and freeze

2019-03-07 Thread Osamu Aoki
Hi, I just uploaded "Source: maint-guide" to the archive. Problem is I added Vietnamese translation as a part of active build contents. This created an extra binary package maint-guide-vi which got stack in the NEW queue. Should I wait quietly hoping fr the best or do I have things to do to get

Concern for: A humble draft policy on "deep learning v.s. freedom"

2019-06-08 Thread Osamu Aoki
Hi, On Tue, May 21, 2019 at 12:11:14AM -0700, Mo Zhou wrote: > Hi people, I see your good intention but this is basically changing status-quo for the main requirement. > https://salsa.debian.org/lumin/deeplearning-policy > (issue tracker is enabled) I read it ;-) > This draft is conservati

Re: Concern for: A humble draft policy on "deep learning v.s. freedom"

2019-06-09 Thread Osamu Aoki
Hi Mo, On Sat, Jun 08, 2019 at 10:07:13PM -0700, Mo Zhou wrote: > Hi Osamu, > > On 2019-06-08 18:43, Osamu Aoki wrote: > >> This draft is conservative and overkilling, and currently > >> only focus on software freedom. That's exactly where we > >> start,

Re: Concern for: A humble draft policy on "deep learning v.s. freedom"

2019-06-09 Thread Osamu Aoki
Hi, Let's think in a bit different perspective. What is the outcome of "Deep Lerning". That's "knowledge". If the dictionary of "knowledge" is expressed in a freely usable software format with free license, isn't it enough? If you want more for your package, that's fine. Please promote such p

Re: Concern for: A humble draft policy on "deep learning v.s. freedom"

2019-06-12 Thread Osamu Aoki
Hi, On Sun, Jun 09, 2019 at 09:27:42AM -0700, Mo Zhou wrote: > Hi Osamu, > > On 2019-06-09 13:48, Osamu Aoki wrote: > > Let's think in a bit different perspective. ... ... (I have some explanation for GPL-contamination concern later) ... > Let me emphasize this again: Don

Re: Uninformative hyperlink in O: (package orphaning) bug reports

2019-06-28 Thread Osamu Aoki
Hi, On Fri, Jun 28, 2019 at 10:37:58AM +0200, Michael Kesper wrote: > Hi Boyuan, > > On 27.06.19 21:38, Boyuan Yang wrote: > [I'm also not sure what's the best mailing list for discussing this, devel, > doc, mentors?] > > > I noticed that for all bug reports that orphan a package in Debian, a s

Re: Uninformative hyperlink in O: (package orphaning) bug reports

2019-07-07 Thread Osamu Aoki
On Sat, Jun 29, 2019 at 10:07:19AM +0200, Tobias Frost wrote: > On Thu, Jun 27, 2019 at 03:38:48PM -0400, Boyuan Yang wrote: > > Dear -devel list, > > > > (Please forward this email to proper mailing lists if there's other lists > > that > > this email would suit in better.) > > > > I noticed th

Re: Apt-secure and upgrading to bullseye

2019-07-10 Thread Osamu Aoki
On Wed, Jul 10, 2019 at 12:31:51PM +0100, Julian Gilbey wrote: > Hooray, buster's released! Congrats to all! > > So I tried upgrading my machine to bullseye today, and > aptitude/apt-get update don't like this, giving me errors such as: > > E: Repository 'http://ftp.uk.debian.org/debian testing

Why? "Marked for autoremoval on 24 March due to xdelta3: #965883"

2022-02-24 Thread Osamu Aoki
Hi, I favor moving away from pre-dh7 packages and I support people pushing for it. But I am in intriguing situation with this effort. Can someone help me. At: https://udd.debian.org/cgi-bin/autoremovals.cgi I see: Osamu Aoki debian-history: buggy deps xdelta3, flagged for removal in

Re: Why? "Marked for autoremoval on 24 March due to xdelta3: #965883"

2022-02-24 Thread Osamu Aoki
Thanks -Original Message- From: Simon McVittie ... If anyone has a better wording for the autoremoval message, that can express this message as clearly and concisely as possible: - the package you maintain does not have a RC bug itself - but it (recursively) (build-)depends on xdelta3, w

Re: debian-faq in NEW - or: remove documentation from the archive at all

2022-04-17 Thread Osamu Aoki
Hi, FYI: FAQ is published automatically upon uploading the package using cron script which unpack deb package to www.debian.org pages. So I think we can simply drop by hand if we put short static file in package archive mirror containing something like: --- For help, please see: * https://www.d

Bug#1011749: ITP: interception-tools -- minimal composable infrastructure on top of libudev and libevdev

2022-05-26 Thread Osamu Aoki
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Osamu Aoki X-Debbugs-Cc: debian-devel@lists.debian.org, Ethan Djeric , Francisco Lopes * Package name: interception-tools Version : 0.6.8 Upstream Author : Francisco Lopes * URL : https://gitlab.com/interception/linux/tools

Bug#1019967: ITP: caps2esc -- Filter for dual function Ctrl and Esc key at CapsLock

2022-09-17 Thread Osamu Aoki
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Osamu Aoki X-Debbugs-Cc: debian-devel@lists.debian.org * Package name: caps2esc Version : 0.3.2 Upstream Author : Francisco Lopes * URL : https://gitlab.com/interception/linux/plugins/caps2esc * License : MIT

Bug#1020274: ITP: dual-function-keys -- interception plugin for generic dual function keys

2022-09-19 Thread Osamu Aoki
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Osamu Aoki X-Debbugs-Cc: debian-devel@lists.debian.org * Package name: dual-function-keys Version : 1.5.0 Upstream Author : Alexander Courtis * URL : https://gitlab.com/interception/linux/plugins/dual-function-keys.git

Re: Idea: frontend tool for more efficient license reviewing based on tree-structured IR

2020-03-12 Thread Osamu Aoki
Hi, On Fri, Dec 27, 2019 at 04:54:32PM +0100, Jonas Smedegaard wrote: > Quoting Mo Zhou (2019-12-27 02:56:07) > > I created an amount of NEW packages as a DD, and reviewed an amount of > > NEW packages in the NEW queue as FTP trainee. > > Great. Also because your experience as FTP trainee sheds

Re: Mass bug filing: use and misuse of dbus-launch (dbus-x11)

2016-09-18 Thread Osamu Aoki
Hi from im-config maintainer. > Osamu Aoki >im-config On Sun, Aug 28, 2016 at 02:59:13PM +0100, Simon McVittie wrote: > I'm about to do a mass-bug-filing against packages that mention > dbus-x11 in their dependencies, or dbus-launch in their code, asking > maintai

Re: Doxygen has 3 RC bugs preventing packages to build - is droping documentation a sensible option?

2016-10-28 Thread Osamu Aoki
Hi, On Fri, Oct 28, 2016 at 01:09:46PM +0200, Andreas Tille wrote: > Hi, > > I really want to update cimg since a long time, missing several upstream > releases but I cimg does not build due to #836168. In the bug report it > was also suggested to use sphinx as doxygen replacement but I'm not su

Re: Intended MBF: maintainer scripts not starting on #!

2016-11-05 Thread Osamu Aoki
> debian-reference-common_2.58_all/postinst > debian-reference-de_2.58_all/postinst > debian-reference-en_2.58_all/postinst > debian-reference-fr_2.58_all/postinst > debian-reference-it_2.58_all/postinst > debian-reference-ja_2.58_all/postinst > debian-reference-pt_2.58_all/postinst Hmmm... it's a

Hello: https://manpages.debian.org/man/1/uscan

2016-12-06 Thread Osamu Aoki
Hi, I know the problem is gone but: > The URL https://manpages.debian.org/man/1/uscan Did you find that reading this extremely long document in manpage is not what you want? You'd rather read it in html? (Yes, I wrote it into this length) I find it difficult to read long manpages, sometimes.

alioth -> salsa: closing alioth services and redirecting

2018-01-11 Thread Osamu Aoki
Hi, Moving repo to salsa and starting an alternative ML have been done. I am now wondering what is the best practice for closing alioth service when occasional diverse committers are involved. * How can I easily set up redirection service for incoming mails to an aioth ML forwarded to a new l

salsa group and DD access

2018-07-05 Thread Osamu Aoki
Hi, Point to to the right HOWTO. I want that the https://salsa.debian.org/input-method-team VCS to be all accessible by any DDs like https://salsa.debian.org/debian as the maintainer. How can I do it? Having a project specific group for write access is good feature of input-method-team. Moving

Re: salsa group and DD access

2018-07-07 Thread Osamu Aoki
Hi, On Fri, Jul 06, 2018 at 11:11:23AM +0800, Boyuan Yang wrote: > Osamu Aoki 于2018年7月5日周四 下午11:46写道: ... > > Point to to the right HOWTO. I mean "Point me to the right HOWTO." > > I want that the https://salsa.debian.org/input-method-team VCS to be all > > a

SALSA migration of XML/SGML packages (sgml-data for me)

2018-07-08 Thread Osamu Aoki
Hi, I am wondering what is happening with XML/SGML packages. I am doing SALSA migration and I realized I need to RFA or Orphan some of my packages. Specifically: sgml-data debiandoc-sgml debiandoc-sgml-doc debiandoc-sgml-pt-br All debiandoc-sgml* packages can be almost safely set to Orphan

Re: SALSA migration of XML/SGML packages (sgml-data for me)

2018-07-09 Thread Osamu Aoki
Hi, FYI: Now sgml-data is listed in https://salsa.debian.org/xml-sgml-team On Sun, Jul 08, 2018 at 06:38:38PM +0200, Mattia Rizzolo wrote: > On Sun, Jul 08, 2018 at 11:20:57PM +0900, Osamu Aoki wrote: > > I am wondering what is happening with XML/SGML packages. > > The group is

Re: SALSA migration of XML/SGML packages (sgml-data for me)

2018-07-09 Thread Osamu Aoki
Hi, On Mon, Jul 09, 2018 at 04:07:44PM +0200, Mattia Rizzolo wrote: > On Mon, Jul 09, 2018 at 10:52:29PM +0900, Osamu Aoki wrote: ... > > Since we have developer ML as debian-s...@lists.debian.org, why not use > > it as group mail address. Then we already have well supported stab

Re: SALSA migration of XML/SGML packages (sgml-data for me)

2018-07-11 Thread Osamu Aoki
Hi, On Sun, Jul 08, 2018 at 07:51:53PM +0300, Adrian Bunk wrote: > On Sun, Jul 08, 2018 at 11:20:57PM +0900, Osamu Aoki wrote: ... > All this gives sgml-base impressive popcon numbers, but the actual usage > is likely pretty limited. I'm sure we have users who still need tooling &

Re: what should I do if I want to adopt one orphaned package?

2017-08-16 Thread Osamu Aoki
On Sun, Aug 13, 2017 at 06:32:18AM -0700, Sean Whitton wrote: > Hello, > > On Sun, Aug 13 2017, Wookey wrote: > > > The policy document and debian-mentors mailing list can help you with > > packaging queries. When you have a new upload prepared you will need > > to get a sponsor to upload by aski

Re: Bug#833585: lintian: Check presence of upstream signature if signing key available

2017-08-21 Thread Osamu Aoki
Hi, (This is RFH) On Mon, Aug 21, 2017 at 09:43:13AM +0200, Kurt Roeckx wrote: > On Mon, Aug 21, 2017 at 09:30:41AM +0200, Vincent Bernat wrote: > > ❦ 15 juillet 2017 23:06 +0100, Chris Lamb  : ... > > Integration with uscan is not done either. The stretch uscan has download and verification inc

Why small "Uncompressed Size: 2,048" for ssmtp

2017-09-11 Thread Osamu Aoki
Hi, I am wondering what makes aptitude screen to print: Compressed Size: 54.2 k Uncompressed Size: 2,048 Source Package: ssmtp for ssmtp package. Uncompressed size is usually bigger than compressed Size. Am I missing something. INFO file in the ssmtp deb package has: new debian package,

Bug#877326: ITP: emoji-data -- The associated data files for emoji characters

2017-09-30 Thread Osamu Aoki
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Osamu Aoki * Package name: emoji-data Version : 5.0 Upstream Author : 1991-2017 Unicode, Inc. * URL : http://unicode.org/Public/emoji/latest/ * License : UNICODE, INC. LICENSE AGREEMENT - DATA FILES AND SOFTWARE

changing source and binary package names

2017-12-18 Thread Osamu Aoki
Hi, When changing only the binary package name, it is easy to do it. All I have to do is package an empty transitional package with the old binary package name in its new source package with proper dependencies and upload it :-) But what is needed when changing both the source and binary package

Re: changing source and binary package names

2017-12-24 Thread Osamu Aoki
Hi, thanks folks On Mon, Dec 18, 2017 at 01:24:08PM -0500, Scott Kitterman wrote: > On Monday, December 18, 2017 02:39:20 PM James Cowgill wrote: ... > a binary from another source package, but still don't ask for removal. Once > getmail4 doesn't produce the current version of any binaries anymo

build 2 similar binary packages from one source tree

2017-12-24 Thread Osamu Aoki
Hi, maildrop source tree can be build with different build option to produce maildrop program in 2 ways for each arch. * set GID mail without restricted caller (maildrop) * set UID root with restricted caller for courier-mta (maildrop-courier) -- This is now missing in archive but we used to

Re: Copyright file granularity

2015-11-14 Thread Osamu Aoki
Hi, On Fri, Nov 13, 2015 at 08:34:11PM +0100, Stephen Kitt wrote: > On Fri, 13 Nov 2015 10:51:11 -0800, Steve Langasek wrote: > > On Fri, Nov 13, 2015 at 04:10:14PM +, Wookey wrote: > [...] > > And we should have better tools to generate debian/copyright files - this > > shouldn't be an inten

Re: Copyright file granularity

2015-11-14 Thread Osamu Aoki
Hi, On Fri, Nov 13, 2015 at 10:51:11AM -0800, Steve Langasek wrote: ... > It is important to list all copyright holders; this is not something that > it's "easy enough" to look up in the source, because many of these free > software licenses require that you reproduce the copyright statement > whe

Re: Bug#807868: ITP: zjump -- Jump to frequent directories matching regex

2015-12-14 Thread Osamu Aoki
Hi, On Mon, Dec 14, 2015 at 11:34:53AM +0100, Jakub Wilk wrote: > * Thomas Ross , 2015-12-13, 16:57: > >The package should actually be called 'Z', but according to reportbug > >that is not a valid package name. > > reportbug is right. As per Policy §5.6.1, package names “must be at > least two ch

Re: Bug#807868: ITP: zjump -- Jump to frequent directories matching regex

2015-12-16 Thread Osamu Aoki
Hi, On Mon, Dec 14, 2015 at 07:00:40PM +0100, Jakub Wilk wrote: > * Osamu Aoki , 2015-12-14, 21:36: > >>>The package should actually be called 'Z', but according to reportbug > >>>hat is not a valid package name. > >> > >>reportbug is

Re: using whiptail and translated strings from arbitrary scripts

2016-05-04 Thread Osamu Aoki
Hi, On Wed, Apr 27, 2016 at 02:28:22PM +0200, Daniel Pocock wrote: > > > On 27/04/16 14:00, Antonio Terceiro wrote: > > On Tue, Apr 26, 2016 at 09:32:02PM +0200, Daniel Pocock wrote: > >> > >> It is well documented how developers should create po files for > >> i18n support in their debconf con

Re: using whiptail and translated strings from arbitrary scripts

2016-05-04 Thread Osamu Aoki
Hi, On Wed, Apr 27, 2016 at 02:29:19PM +, Bas Wijnen wrote: > Debian translators just translate packaging texts. Everything else is done by > upstream (which can be the same people, but it is not organized by Debian > AFAIK). I am not sure but my impression is that the i18n team seems to tra

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