Re: Multilicense `debian/copyright` file

2012-07-14 Thread Yao Wei
It is required to look into each file header and specify these different files for each license. Yao Wei On 2012/7/14, at 13:09, Aliaksei Sheshka sheshka...@gmail.com wrote: Hi debian-devel list! Please help me to write a proper `debian/copyright` file. Original COPYING file says: Several

Re: When do we update the homepage to a modern design? (was Re: Moving away from (unsupportable) FusionForge on Alioth)

2017-05-15 Thread Yao Wei
On Mon, May 15, 2017 at 04:01:36PM +0300, Adrian Bunk wrote: > Non-informative frontpages like the LXDE one are what scares me away. Actually I agree as a user already using GNU/Linux, but for new users it might have different experience. > The contents of the Gentoo homepage is similar to what

Re: Moving away from (unsupportable) FusionForge on Alioth?

2017-05-14 Thread Yao Wei
Hi, Are there a discussion list of people working on the issue? I'd like to follow and see if there's any I could help. If no, could this issue be submitted as a Debian bug? Thanks, Yao Wei On Sun, May 14, 2017 at 02:33:19PM +0530, Pirate Praveen wrote: > This is already planned (though pag

Packaging WebExtensions compatible with multiple browsers

2017-08-21 Thread Yao Wei
will be the same. To save disk space and lower the security risk not to split the main package could be good. Some of the browser-dependent files can be splitted to their dedicated packages. Inputs are welcome! Best regards, Yao Wei signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Re: allowed uses of non-baseline CPU extensions

2017-10-23 Thread Yao Wei
, which should be also volkswagenable on user's request. Yao Wei signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Re: Debian Stretch new user report (vs Linux Mint)

2017-12-04 Thread Yao Wei
-free drivers are required for your computer hardware to work", and point the user to the add-on. I hope my idea can balance our priorities of both the free software and the users, and not give up one of them to achieve the other. Yao Wei signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Re: Which files should go in ‘/usr/share/common-licenses/’?

2017-12-09 Thread Yao Wei
Shall I also point out that it might save some spaces for Debian archive? It could be little but not effortless. Also for packagers it is easier to read shorter copyright files rather than full of license details. Yao Wei On Sun, 10 Dec 2017 at 03:39 Ole Streicher <oleb...@debian.org>

Re: kernel nvidia dkms rebuild after upgrade?

2018-01-07 Thread Yao Wei
It is caused by a missing dependency libelf-dev. It is already reported against linux-headers-4.14.0-3-amd64: https://bugs.debian.org/886474 I have the same symptom of broadcom-sta-dkms On Mon, 8 Jan 2018 at 02:47 Boyan Penkov wrote: > Hello, > > After the latest update

Re: Q: How to get build depends package from debian/control

2018-02-11 Thread Yao Wei
Though this works, I'd prefer mk-build-deps from devscripts since this produces pseudo-package that depends on the build dependencies, and the dependencies can be removed by removing the pseudo-package. On Mon, 12 Feb 2018 at 07:39 Hideki Yamane wrote: > On Mon, 12 Feb

Re: salsa.debian.org maintenance (GitLab 11.1.4 upgrade, external storage migration)

2018-08-17 Thread Yao Wei
be too much problem for us. Yao Wei On Fri, Aug 17, 2018 at 16:52 Andrey Rahmatullin wrote: > On Fri, Aug 17, 2018 at 08:27:00AM +, Ulrike Uhlig wrote: > > While I understand the simplicity of using $company's cloud storage, I'd > > rather not rely on some external company an

Re: Configure your PC to contribute to Debian community

2019-05-08 Thread Yao Wei
Debian installations to set up such as reportbug, gbp, quilt, sbuild, environment variables, etc. To put things simple I propose the kit should have generic configurations. Recently I bought a retired computer from work, and to use reportbug, I copied my setup from my laptop, and this idea came to

Debian and our frenemies of containers and userland repos

2019-07-11 Thread Yao Wei
ting systems as free and focused on its mission (like Google COOS, Yocto, Alpine etc.) is evolving steady. Could it be a disaster for us? And more importantly, do users care? Best regards, Yao Wei signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Re: On the Removal of src:tensorflow

2019-09-04 Thread Yao Wei
problems that are specific to certain ML frameworks. If anyone wants to resurrect TensorFlow in Debian, then it is a good reference to see what they would like to avoid. Best regards, Yao Wei signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Re: Mozilla Firefox DoH to CloudFlare by default (for US users)?

2019-09-10 Thread Yao Wei
is around > the usual Debian policy - to not send data to 3rd party without explicit user > content and defaulting to not doing so. Should we propagate our concerns to Mozilla? Yao Wei signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Bug#962383: ITP: cffsubr -- CFF subroutinizer based on AFDKO tx

2020-06-07 Thread Yao Wei
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Yao Wei * Package name: cffsubr Version : 0.2.6 Upstream Author : Cosimo Lupo * URL : https://github.com/adobe-type-tools/cffsubr * License : Apache-2.0 Programming Lang: Python Description : CFF subroutinizer

Re: Bug#965151: /usr/bin/tx: transifex-client and afdko shipping binaries under the same name

2020-07-27 Thread Yao Wei
(CC to @paravoid as original reporter of the same issue) On Sun, Jul 26, 2020 at 05:04:42AM +, Paul Wise wrote: > This sort of thing needs to happen upstream first. I reported it, without noticing that they had the same report third time, and it was not a charm, still marked as wontfix for

Re: Bug#965151: /usr/bin/tx: transifex-client and afdko shipping binaries under the same name

2020-07-25 Thread Yao Wei
er script `afdko`, and moving all the binaries into /usr/libexec/afdko/ . If a font needs afdko to build one need to put /usr/libexec/afdko/ into their PATH. Yao Wei signature.asc Description: PGP signature

/usr/bin/tx: transifex-client and afdko shipping binaries under the same name

2020-07-19 Thread Yao Wei
d they use nodejs on package building and/or run-time? Ref on nodejs vs node CTTE: https://lists.debian.org/debian-devel-announce/2012/07/msg2.html Thanks, Yao Wei signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Bug#974141: ITP: fcitx5-chewing -- Chewing support for fcitx5

2020-11-10 Thread Yao Wei
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Yao Wei (魏銘廷) X-Debbugs-Cc: debian-devel@lists.debian.org * Package name: fcitx5-chewing Version : 5.0.1 Upstream Author : Weng Xuetian * URL : https://github.com/fcitx/fcitx5-chewing * License : GPL-2+ Programming

Package broke in stable due to old API. Fix in stable or backports?

2021-01-09 Thread Yao Wei
documented conventions that where the fixed package should be uploaded to: stable-proposed-updates or backports? Thanks, Yao Wei signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Re: Making Debian available, non-free promotor

2021-01-28 Thread Yao Wei
top users from using Debian. But if we do not want to lower the priority of free software in favor to the user, we have to increase the usability for people with non-free devices in DFSG-only realm. Just 2 cents, Yao Wei signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Re: Making Debian available, non-free promotor

2021-01-29 Thread Yao Wei
On Fri, Jan 29, 2021 at 01:38:24PM +0100, Ansgar wrote: > Yao Wei writes: > >> We encourage you to get devices that respects your freedom. > > Should this message also be shown when non-free firmware is preinstalled > in the system for educational purposes? > >

Accepted awesome 3.4.9-1.1 (source i386)

2011-05-03 Thread Ming-Ting Yao Wei
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 Format: 1.8 Date: Sat, 30 Apr 2011 13:56:39 +0800 Source: awesome Binary: awesome Architecture: source i386 Version: 3.4.9-1.1 Distribution: unstable Urgency: low Maintainer: Julien Danjou a...@debian.org Changed-By: Ming-Ting Yao Wei medical

Re: "debian.pool.ntp.org" for Debian derivatives?

2018-10-18 Thread Yao Wei (魏銘廷)
We are probably accepting their TOS without reading them first: https://www.ntppool.org/tos.html Yao Wei (This email is sent from a phone; sorry for HTML email if it happens.) > On Oct 18, 2018, at 20:51, Ansgar Burchardt wrote: > >> On Thu, 2018-10-18 at 13:57 +0200, Philip

Re: Q: secure boot

2018-11-05 Thread Yao Wei (魏銘廷)
hope Coreboot becomes more common in the market instead of Aptio, but it is hard to buy such laptop, even Chromebook, unless overseas from Taiwan...) Yao Wei (This email is sent from a phone; sorry for HTML email if it happens.)

Re: Updating the New Debian Developer welcome email

2018-10-02 Thread Yao Wei (魏銘廷)
Hi, I filed the bug yesterday in nm.debian.org package but got a reply that the welcome message is managed by admin team, not NM. https://bugs.debian.org/910057 Are there discussions about updating welcome email in Debian RT already? Yao Wei (This email is sent from a phone; sorry for HTML

Re: Unicode License Additional Coverage

2019-01-03 Thread Yao Wei (魏銘廷)
Never mind. I was wrongfully read as the license has the problem. (It is that, IVD files had no license attached to it, someone might think it is "All rights reserved" by copyright law in most jurisdictions. Please correct me if I am wrong again.) Yao Wei (This email is sent fr

Re: Unicode License Additional Coverage

2019-01-03 Thread Yao Wei (魏銘廷)
Hi, Could you elaborate what part of license that someone might have concern? It looks like X11 license for me at the first glance. Yao Wei (This email is sent from a phone; sorry for HTML email if it happens.) > On Jan 4, 2019, at 04:49, Paul Hardy wrote: > > Dear Debian, >

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

2019-06-08 Thread Yao Wei (魏銘廷)
ions. I admit that this name looks not > quite friendly. Maybe "SemiFree" look better? About the term ToxicCandy it makes me reminded of an existing term "Tainted" which also used in Linux kernel to describe kernel running with non-free module. So... how about "Tain

Re: Programs contain ads - acceptable for packaging for Debian?

2019-06-20 Thread Yao Wei (魏銘廷)
G-free software it should be possible per license agreement. We can review the license for that. Could you file a RFP for the exact software you would like to package? We would like to see where the problem is. Yao Wei (This email is sent from a phone; sorry for HTML email if it happens.)

Getting rid of codenames (Was: getting rid of "testing")

2019-06-27 Thread Yao Wei (魏銘廷)
squeeze with stretch. Yao Wei (This email is sent from a phone; sorry for HTML email if it happens.) > On Jun 28, 2019, at 04:17, Wouter Verhelst wrote: > > On Tue, Jun 25, 2019 at 01:11:09PM +0500, Andrey Rahmatullin wrote: >> On Tue, Jun 25, 2019 at 09:46:00AM +0200, Bast

Re: duplicate popularity-contest ID

2019-08-05 Thread Yao Wei (魏銘廷)
e caused by Debian-live installer based on Calamares? Yao Wei (This email is sent from a phone; sorry for HTML email if it happens.)

Re: Overinterpretation of DFSG? QR code for receiving donation is non-free???

2020-03-30 Thread Yao Wei (魏銘廷)
method than QR code form, while I can understand the extreme popularity in Mainland China. Yao Wei

Re: Thanks and Decision making working group (was Re: General Resolution: Statement regarding Richard Stallman's readmission to the FSF board result)

2021-04-18 Thread Yao Wei (魏銘廷)
chnical excellence. > Most of the non DPL-electing GRs are at risk of tearing Debian Project apart. And IMO this is the least dangerous option. It's not because we are not interested in non-technical affairs. Yao Wei

Re: Bug#1014908: ITP: gender-guesser -- Guess the gender from first name

2022-07-19 Thread Yao Wei (魏銘廷)
Description : Guess the gender from first name Hi, I'd like to ask a practical question, do we have anything either in WNPP or in the archive that depends or uses this package? Although I guess this library might violate DFSG 5 by itself, I would like to see where it's actually used and