Re: Reviving schroot as used by sbuild

2024-06-29 Thread Christian Kastner
On 2024-06-25 15:02, Simon McVittie wrote: > Could we use a container framework that is also used outside the Debian > bubble, rather than writing our own from first principles every time, and > ending up with a single-maintainer project being load-bearing for Debian > *again*? I had hoped that a

Re: Bits from the DPL

2024-04-01 Thread Christian Kastner
Hi Jonathan, just a brief correction: On 2024-04-01 18:05, Jonathan Carter wrote: > I don't want to single out DSA there, it's difficult and affects many > other teams. The Salsa CI team also spent a lot of resources (time and > money wise) to extend testing on AMD GPUs and other AMD hardware. It

Re: xz backdoor

2024-03-31 Thread Christian Kastner
On 2024-03-31 04:22, Santiago Ruano Rincón wrote: > I don't see the real benefit. > > As others have said, the best solution is to relay on HSW for handling > the cryptographic material. That's extremely important (which is why I use a HSM) but that "just" prevents exfiltration of the keys. An a

Re: xz backdoor

2024-03-30 Thread Christian Kastner
On 2024-03-30 22:59, Santiago Ruano Rincón wrote: > The backdoor was discovered by someone using the compromised xz-utils *in > their own machines*. So we are lucky we have people eating our own sid stuff > before it becomes part of a stable release. The luck was that this particular compromise

Re: xz backdoor

2024-03-30 Thread Christian Kastner
On 2024-03-30 20:20, Russ Allbery wrote: > I personally specifically want my workstation to be running unstable, so > I'm watching to see if that's considered unsafe (either, immediately, > today, or in theory, in the future). > > If I have to use a stable host, I admit I will be sad. I've been u

Re: xz backdoor

2024-03-30 Thread Christian Kastner
On 2024-03-30 17:00, Marco d'Itri wrote: > On Mar 30, Jonathan Carter wrote: > >> Another big question for me is whether I should really still >> package/upload/etc from an unstable machine. It seems that it may be prudent > If we do not use unstable for development then who is going to? Are you

Bug#1063673: ITP: llama.cpp -- Inference of Meta's LLaMA model (and others) in pure C/C++

2024-02-10 Thread Christian Kastner
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Christian Kastner X-Debbugs-Cc: debian-devel@lists.debian.org, debian...@lists.debian.org * Package name: llama.cpp Version : b2116 Upstream Author : Georgi Gerganov * URL : https://github.com/ggerganov/llama.cpp * License

Re: Issues in the Patch Tagging Guidelines

2023-08-18 Thread Christian Kastner
On 2023-08-16 13:22, Simon McVittie wrote: > I personally think the extent to which git has "won", both upstream and in > Debian package maintenance, means that the Patch Tagging Guidelines should > be encouraging the git-like style as primary I think this is an excellent argument. DEP-3 hails from

Bug#1049961: ITP: composable-kernel -- library for writing performance critical kernels for ML workloads

2023-08-17 Thread Christian Kastner
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Christian Kastner X-Debbugs-Cc: debian-devel@lists.debian.org * Package name: composable-kernel Version : 0+git20230816 Upstream Author : Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. * URL : https://github.com/ROCmSoftwarePlatform

Bug#1049960: ITP: half -- C++ library for half precision floating point arithmetics

2023-08-17 Thread Christian Kastner
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Christian Kastner X-Debbugs-Cc: debian-devel@lists.debian.org, debian...@lists.debian.org * Package name: half Version : 2.2.0 Upstream Author : Christian Rau * URL : https://sourceforge.net/projects/half/ * License

Re: snapshot.d.o has been in a bad state for several months

2023-08-11 Thread Christian Kastner
On 2023-08-02 13:33, Johannes Schauer Marin Rodrigues wrote: > snapshot.debian.org is getting worse again. There is not a single snapshot for > August yet and the last days of July are spotty: [...] > I'd argue that snapshot.d.o is part of the central services Debian provides > and > it should wor

Re: Firmware - what are we going to do about it?

2022-04-19 Thread Christian Kastner
On 2022-04-19 12:41, Jonas Smedegaard wrote: > Quoting Christian Kastner (2022-04-19 11:33:30) >> Here's a somewhat radical idea: I propose that we make option (1) and >> (2) conditional on all Debian infra switching to hardware entirely >> free of binary firmware/micr

Re: Firmware - what are we going to do about it?

2022-04-19 Thread Christian Kastner
Hi Steve, thank you for bringing this up. On 2022-04-19 02:27, Steve McIntyre wrote: > 1. Keep the existing setup. It's horrible, but maybe it's the best we can do? > (I hope not!)> > 2. We could just stop providing the non-free unofficial images altogether. > That's not really a promis

Re: Q: systemd-timer vs cron

2022-03-14 Thread Christian Kastner
On 2022-03-13 01:07, Simon McVittie wrote: > - reserving an environment variable like SKIP_CRON_JOB_UNDER_SYSTEMD=1 > to act as a request to skip parsing this cron job on systemd systems > (it would also be set like any other environment variable when the cron > job is executed on a non-syste

Re: Q: systemd-timer vs cron

2022-03-14 Thread Christian Kastner
On 2022-03-14 08:48, Marc Haber wrote: > On Sun, 13 Mar 2022 18:02:55 +0100, Christian Kastner >> I don't think that's a very constructive line of argument. As a former >> maintainer, it was evident that user crontabs (crontab -e) are still >> very popular,

Re: Q: systemd-timer vs cron

2022-03-13 Thread Christian Kastner
On 2022-03-13 11:06, Marc Haber wrote: > The anti-systemd faction in Debian is cordially invited to step in, > bring cron and cronie up to shape, before asking the rest of the > Distribution to stick with essential system software that has been > unmaintained for years. I don't think that's a very

Re: Q: systemd-timer vs cron

2022-03-13 Thread Christian Kastner
On 2022-03-12 21:42, Michael Biebl wrote: > - Teach cron about systemd timers and allow cron entries to be marked > with meta data that tells cron that when run under systemd it should > skip those entries. On 2022-03-13 01:07, Simon McVittie wrote: > If there was a way to flag system cron jobs wi

Re: Getting in contact with the i386 porters

2022-02-15 Thread Christian Kastner
On 2022-02-15 12:28, Marc Haber wrote: > Unfortunately, I don't have any i386 systems left, there don't seem to > be any public i386 porterboxes other than 64bit boxes running 32bit > chroots, and the i386 port traditionally doesn't have a port-specific > mailing list Package sbuild-qemu could hel

Re: Legal advice regarding the NEW queue

2022-02-05 Thread Christian Kastner
On 2022-02-05 16:07, Andrew M.A. Cater wrote: > Just because someone else can't be bothered to do licence review checking > doesn't mean that Debian shouldn't. I wasn't advocating against license review checking in general, though. We expect and trust all contributors to do that. The question as

Re: Legal advice regarding the NEW queue

2022-02-04 Thread Christian Kastner
On 2022-02-04 18:39, Russ Allbery wrote: > In other words, this thread is once again drifting into a discussion of > how to do copyright review *better*, when my original point is that we > should seriously consider not doing the current type of incredibly tedious > and nit-picky copyright review *

OpenSSL relicensed to Apache 2.0

2021-09-21 Thread Christian Kastner
In case anyone missed it, the most recent release is now distributed under the Apache 2.0 license: https://lwn.net/Articles/868536/

Re: Automated backports based on Janitor work?

2021-08-30 Thread Christian Kastner
On 30.08.21 15:49, Jelmer Vernooij wrote: > I think one of the main challenges here is to make sure that the > dependencies for packages in unstable/testing are correct. Why wouldn't they be correct, though? If it's less strict than it should be, then that is a bug. And if it's too strict, experime

Re: Automated backports based on Janitor work?

2021-08-27 Thread Christian Kastner
On 26.08.21 11:39, Lucas Nussbaum wrote: > Additionally, one could imagine a DSL to: > - make minor changes to the source package before building (adjust > dependencies, apply an additional patch, etc.) > - tell sbuild that some build-dependencies must be pulled from backported > packages > >

Re: Realtek RTL8723DE, RTL8821CE, RTL8822BE and RTL8822CE chipsets

2021-04-06 Thread Christian Kastner
On 01.04.21 08:52, Andrey Rahmatullin wrote: > Can you please list some unsupported chips in addition to these specific > Realtek ones? I was looking for a WIFI USB dongle recently, and I found this site quite useful for determining support status (I'm linking directly to the chipset page, but the

Re: Bug#977651: ITP: sphinx-prompt -- Sphinx directive to add unselectable prompt

2020-12-18 Thread Christian Kastner
Hi Bastian, On 18.12.20 10:16, Bastian Blank wrote: > On Fri, Dec 18, 2020 at 09:56:23AM +0100, Christian Kastner wrote: >> Description : Sphinx directive to add unselectable prompt > > I'm trying to decipher what this (short) description is trying to tell > me. &

Bug#977651: ITP: sphinx-prompt -- Sphinx directive to add unselectable prompt

2020-12-18 Thread Christian Kastner
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Christian Kastner * Package name: sphinx-prompt Version : 1.3.0 Upstream Author : Stéphane Brunner * URL : https://github.com/sbrunner/sphinx-prompt * License : BSD-3-Clause Programming Lang: Python Description

Re: Release status of i386 for Bullseye and long term support for 3 years?

2020-12-15 Thread Christian Kastner
On 15.12.20 01:55, Russ Allbery wrote: > Increasingly most of the people who work on Debian don't have i386 > hardware lying around, particularly i386 hardware that requires an i386 > kernel or that exercises the full range of older boot processes. If you > do, testing and reporting good bugs woul

NEW queue almost empty

2020-11-02 Thread Christian Kastner
The NEW queue length is down a single digit, from ~500 not all too long ago. That's an amazing effort by ftp-master that must have consumed a *lot* of energy. THANK YOU! https://ftp-master.debian.org/new.html

Re: archive: bullseye Sources files contain multiple versions of packages - why?

2020-10-02 Thread Christian Kastner
On 2020-10-02 09:34, Stéphane Glondu wrote: > 2.33.1-0.1 has "Extra-Source-Only: yes", so one if its binaries is > mentioned in "Built-Using" of some other package. > > Same for 2.34-0.1. Could this perhaps be a Release-specific attribute that's not present in every Source index? I've stumbled a

Re: archive: bullseye Sources files contain multiple versions of packages - why?

2020-10-02 Thread Christian Kastner
Stéphane, thanks for the fast reply! On 2020-10-02 09:34, Stéphane Glondu wrote: > Le 02/10/2020 à 08:57, Christian Kastner a écrit : >> numerous versions of some of the packages. >> >> Those three versions happen to be the current versions from stable, >> testing, and

archive: bullseye Sources files contain multiple versions of packages - why?

2020-10-02 Thread Christian Kastner
I happened to stumble over the fact that bullseye Sources files contain numerous versions of some of the packages. For example: $ wget http://ftp.debian.org/debian/dists/bullseye/main/source/Sources.gz $ zgrep -A 2 'Package: util-linux' Sources.gz | grep -v Binary Package: util-linux Ver

Bug#970708: ITP: sktime -- Python machine learning toolbox for time series

2020-09-22 Thread Christian Kastner
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Christian Kastner * Package name: sktime Version : 0.4.1 Upstream Author : sktime developers * URL : https://github.com/alan-turing-institute/sktime * License : BSD-3-clause Programming Lang: Python Description

Re: debian/rules and DEB_BUILD_PROFILES vs _OPTIONS

2020-09-08 Thread Christian Kastner
On 2020-09-08 17:43, Helmut Grohne wrote: > On Tue, Sep 08, 2020 at 12:33:07PM +0200, Christian Kastner wrote: >> nocheck >> --- >> >> A recipe such as >> >> override_dh_auto_test: >> ifeq (,$(filter nocheck,$(DEB_BUILD_PROFILES)))

Re: debian/rules and DEB_BUILD_PROFILES vs _OPTIONS

2020-09-08 Thread Christian Kastner
On 2020-09-08 14:34, Peter Pentchev wrote: > Just as a data point: for some time now I've been checking both > variables with a single check :) > > ifeq (,$(filter nodoc,${DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS} ${DEB_BUILD_PROFILES})) > ... > endif > > ...does the job, with some possible overkill, but, hey, it works

Re: debian/rules and DEB_BUILD_PROFILES vs _OPTIONS

2020-09-08 Thread Christian Kastner
On 2020-09-08 08:36, Niels Thykier wrote: > Fundamentally, the difference between the two are: > > * _PROFILES is a "new"[0] thing with a specific purpose to reduce >build-dependencies (at least in this case). It ends up in d/rules >for skipping builds of specific packages (e.g. "nopytho

Bug#969766: ITP: python-multipledispatch -- multiple dispatch in Python

2020-09-07 Thread Christian Kastner
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Christian Kastner * Package name: python-multipledispatch Version : 0.6.0 Upstream Author : Matthew Rocklin * URL : https://github.com/mrocklin/multipledispatch/ * License : BSD-3-clause Programming Lang: Python

Re: debian/rules and DEB_BUILD_PROFILES vs _OPTIONS

2020-09-07 Thread Christian Kastner
On 2020-09-06 23:27, Mattia Rizzolo wrote: > On Sun, Sep 06, 2020 at 10:53:05PM +0200, Christian Kastner wrote: > The thing is, according to the build profile spec, if you specify nodoc > or nocheck in _PROFILES you *MUST* also specify it on _OPTIONS (talking > about when you do th

debian/rules and DEB_BUILD_PROFILES vs _OPTIONS

2020-09-06 Thread Christian Kastner
It seems that "nocheck" and "nodoc" can be used with both variables. However, which one is to be used in debian/rules recipes? Or both, as suggested here [1]? Looking at random packages, newer packages seem to favor just checking DEB_BUILD_PROFILES to conditionally build documentation, but that w

Re: Accepting / adopting DEP-14

2020-08-30 Thread Christian Kastner
On 2020-08-29 01:05, Raphael Hertzog wrote: > But given that we recommend upstream/latest for the upstream branch, I'm now > leaning towards using debian/latest as default as well. I like this! There's a nice symmetry to it that makes it very intuitive, I think.

Tagging in Salsa -> upload: status?

2020-08-13 Thread Christian Kastner
Unless I'm grievously misremembering something, there was a discussion a while ago about automatically generating a source package and uploading it whenever a Debian release is (signed-)tagged in Salsa. If I did remember correctly: may I kindly inquire what the status on that is?

Bug#968152: ITP: python-iniconfig -- brain-dead simple parsing of ini files

2020-08-09 Thread Christian Kastner
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Christian Kastner * Package name: python-iniconfig Version : 1.0.1 Upstream Author : Ronny Pfannschmidt * URL : https://github.com/RonnyPfannschmidt/iniconfig * License : MIT Programming Lang: Python Description

Bug#968151: ITP: python-xmlschema -- implementation of XML Schema for Python

2020-08-09 Thread Christian Kastner
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Christian Kastner * Package name: python-xmlschema Version : 1.2.2 Upstream Author : SISSA (Scuola Internazionale Superiore di Studi Avanzati) * URL : https://github.com/sissaschool/xmlschema/ * License : MIT

Re: Preferred form of modification for binary data used in unit testing?

2020-07-18 Thread Christian Kastner
On 2020-07-17 18:30, Pirate Praveen wrote: > On 2020, ജൂലൈ 17 8:14:24 PM IST, Marvin Renich wrote: >> The intended purpose is to ensure that the recipient has every >> reasonable opportunity to modify the software in any reasonable way the >> recipient desires. The sole purpose of the requirement

Re: Preferred form of modification for binary data used in unit testing?

2020-07-16 Thread Christian Kastner
On 2020-07-16 12:53, Pirate Praveen wrote: >> Generally speaking, I think it's a mistake to apply the question of >> "preferred form for modification" to unit test payloads. Unit tests are >> purely about functionality. The original source to a payload is an >> arbitrary choice (possibly even rando

Re: Preferred form of modification for binary data used in unit testing?

2020-07-16 Thread Christian Kastner
On 2020-07-15 09:45, Philipp Hahn wrote: > if a *previous* version of a software generated a *buggy* binary > database, that bug got fixed in a *newer* version and also some > *recovery* mechanism was added to allow reading that broken format > *once*, but there is no code the write the *broken* fi

Re: DEP-14: renaming master to main?

2020-06-23 Thread Christian Kastner
On 2020-06-23 08:14, Christian Kastner wrote: > If it's not, then it's just about utility, and then honestly I don't see > enough of it to merit the head-ache of breaking with the conventional name. Having thought about that part some more, I realized I need to retract it.

Re: DEP-14: renaming master to main?

2020-06-22 Thread Christian Kastner
On 2020-06-23 02:12, Colin Watson wrote: > On Tue, Jun 23, 2020 at 01:10:31AM +0200, Ansgar wrote: >> On Mon, 2020-06-22 at 22:13 +0100, Colin Watson wrote: >>> [1] >>> https://mail.gnome.org/archives/desktop-devel-list/2019-May/msg00066.html >> >> You might be interested in [2] as well. Specul

Bug#960805: ITP: python-threadpoolctl -- Python helpers for common threading libraries (BLAS, OpenMP)

2020-05-16 Thread Christian Kastner
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Christian Kastner * Package name: python-threadpoolctl Version : 2.0.0 Upstream Author : Olivier Grisel * URL : https://github.com/joblib/threadpoolctl * License : BSD-3-Clause Programming Lang: Python Description

Bug#958123: ITP: pyswarms -- research toolkit for particle swarm optimization in Python

2020-04-18 Thread Christian Kastner
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Christian Kastner * Package name: pyswarms Version : 1.1.0 Upstream Author : pyswarms developers * URL : https://github.com/ljvmiranda921/pyswarms * License : MIT Programming Lang: Python Description : research

Re: What to do when DD considers policy to be optional? [kubernetes]

2020-03-27 Thread Christian Kastner
On 27.03.20 01:57, Paul Wise wrote: > On Thu, Mar 26, 2020 at 8:30 PM Christian Kastner wrote: > >> [Well, technically, you could use your own lawyer to perform the due >> diligence and have them submit any necessary changes to the BTS, but I >> think it's

Re: What to do when DD considers policy to be optional? [kubernetes]

2020-03-26 Thread Christian Kastner
On 26.03.20 19:57, Andrej Shadura wrote: > An example: commercial users. They need to know *exactly* what they > are running and under which licenses. The only way to know that is by performing your own due diligence. > They are often bound by regulations with heavy fines for violating > them, an

Re: What to do when DD considers policy to be optional? [kubernetes]

2020-03-26 Thread Christian Kastner
On 25.03.20 15:50, Scott Kitterman wrote: > The FTP Team review of debian/copyright is about DFSG and upstream license > compliance. Most licenses require things like copyright statement > preservation in binary distribution and debian/copyright is how we do that. > Occasionally, in the proces

Re: What to do when DD considers policy to be optional? [kubernetes]

2020-03-25 Thread Christian Kastner
On 25.03.20 15:14, Tomas Pospisek wrote: > I can be sure that if stuff lands in Debian then I won't get screwed > by weird, dirty, missleading, underhanded licensing rules, which > seems to be the standard outside the Open Source world and even on > its fringes. The only thing you can be sure about

Re: What to do when DD considers policy to be optional? [kubernetes]

2020-03-25 Thread Christian Kastner
Russ, On 25.03.20 03:25, Russ Allbery wrote: > I'll repeat a point that I made earlier but put a bit of a sharper point > on it: We should thoughtfully question whether the current approach to > license review that we as a project ask ftpmasters to do is a correct > investment of project resources

Bug#949692: ITP: tpot -- Automated Machine Learning built on top of scikit-learn

2020-01-23 Thread Christian Kastner
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Christian Kastner * Package name: TPOT Version : 0.11.1 Upstream Author : Epistasis Lab, Inst.for Biomedical Informatics, UPenn * URL : https://epistasislab.github.io/ * License : GPL-3+ Programming Lang: Python

Bug#949628: ITP: python-configspace -- module to manage configuration spaces

2020-01-22 Thread Christian Kastner
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Christian Kastner * Package name: python-configspace Version : 0.4.12 Upstream Author : ConfigSpace developers * URL : https://github.com/automl/ConfigSpace * License : BSD-3-Clause Programming Lang: Python

Bug#949594: ITP: liac-arff -- library for reading and writing ARFF files in Python

2020-01-22 Thread Christian Kastner
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Christian Kastner * Package name: liac-arff Version : 2.4.0 Upstream Author : Renato de Pontes Pereira * URL : https://github.com/renatopp/liac-arff * License : MIT/Expat Programming Lang: Python Description

Bug#948483: RFP: broot -- an interactive CLI directory browser

2020-01-09 Thread Christian Kastner
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist X-Debbugs-CC: debian-devel@lists.debian.org, pkg-rust-maintain...@alioth-lists.debian.net * Package name: broot Version : 0.11.2 Upstream Author : Canop * URL : https://dystroy.org/broot/ * License : MIT Programming Lang: Rust

Re: GPU-ready (with free driver) buildd/CI/porterbox?

2019-11-19 Thread Christian Kastner
On 19.11.19 05:59, Mo Zhou wrote: > Given that there are also a number of packages in debian with OpenCL > enabled, I'm wondering wether a shared buildd/CI/porterbox with GPU[2] > could be helpful? I would also be interested in this.

Bug#944261: ITB: python-seaborn -- Python data visualization library

2019-11-06 Thread Christian Kastner
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Christian Kastner X-Debbugs-CC: debian-devel@lists.debian.org, debian-pyt...@lists.debian.org, debian-scie...@lists.debian.org * Package name: python-seaborn Version : 0.9.0 Upstream Author : Michael Waskom * URL : https

Re: Cron, anacron, cronie, systemd-timers

2019-10-10 Thread Christian Kastner
Hi Marc, it took me a while to get into gears again... I just pushed a branch ckk/sf3 that contains my "release candidate" for src:cron converted to source format 3.0 (quilt). The unpacked source is identical to the 1.0 unpacked source, and unapplying all patches results in a source identical to

Re: Cron, anacron, cronie, systemd-timers

2019-07-16 Thread Christian Kastner
On 09.07.19 09:32, Marc Haber wrote: > It is good to know where things are going. Would you mind if I created > a wiki page with this road map laid out about where Debian's cron > world is going? Not at all, on the contrary -- thanks for the offer! > That would, though, only make sense if you cou

Re: Cron, anacron, cronie, systemd-timers

2019-07-07 Thread Christian Kastner
Hi, one of the cron maintainers here, and also the cronie maintainer. On 07.07.19 17:00, Marc Haber wrote: > On the other hand, there is cronie, which is used in the Red Hat world > for years, is a well-tested code base, maintained upstream (in a rather > slow pace), but only has an eight years o

Re: Please drop anacron from task-desktop

2019-03-08 Thread Christian Kastner
On 08.03.19 20:38, Michael Stone wrote: > On Fri, Mar 08, 2019 at 08:01:35PM +0100, Christian Kastner wrote: >> I intended to post a transition proposal here soon, but it's not ready >> yet... but long story short: I believe we would be far better off moving >> to croni

Re: Please drop anacron from task-desktop

2019-03-08 Thread Christian Kastner
(Speaking as one of the cron maintainers) On 08.03.19 19:28, Adam Borowski wrote: > On Fri, Mar 08, 2019 at 10:22:12AM -0800, Russ Allbery wrote: >> cron is effectively maintained by the distributions anyway; there >> hasn't been an official upstream release in more than twenty years. >> This seem

Re: liblemon_1.3.1+dfsg-1_amd64.changes REJECTED

2016-08-07 Thread Christian Kastner
On 2016-08-06 23:37, Andreas Tille wrote: > Hi, > > On Sat, Aug 06, 2016 at 05:00:09PM +, Thorsten Alteholz wrote: >> as you somehow add jquery.js to your doc-package, please add its license >> to your debian/copyright. > > The jquery.js is installed by doxygen in the documentation process.

Re: DEB_BUILD_MAINT_OPTIONS=hardening=+pie breaks shared library builds

2016-05-21 Thread Christian Kastner
On 2016-05-21 19:32, Theodore Ts'o wrote: > What is the suggested workaround if you have a package that has both > executables and shared libraries, and you want to enable pie > hardening for the executables? Here's one possible solution: https://sources.debian.net/src/keyutils/1.5.9-9/debia

Re: Any Debian Developers in Phoenix, Arizona?

2015-05-26 Thread Christian Kastner
On 2015-05-25 21:26, Andrew Kelley wrote: > I am working towards becoming a Debian Maintainer. Right now I need to > get 2 Debian Developers to sign my key. Are there any Debian > Developers in Phoenix, Arizona who would be willing to meet up and > sign each other's keys? AFAIUI, you only need two

Moving a conffile between packages

2015-03-25 Thread Christian Kastner
Hi, (this pertains to RC bug #781050 [1]) Assume a package A with a conffile /etc/foo.conf. A while ago, package A was split into package A and B, and B took over the conffile. B declares the necessary Breaks/Replaces. However, an upgrade to from a pre-split A to a post-split A did not automatic

Re: State of Roundcube packaging in Debian?

2015-03-15 Thread Christian Kastner
On 2015-03-15 21:38, John Goerzen wrote: > On 03/14/2015 07:36 AM, Vincent Bernat wrote: >> The main difficulty is to handle the 0.9.5 to 1.x upgrade where the >> configuration files change. > I assume you mean the config files change in some dramatic way; that is, > some way that means the existin

Re: Should .a library contains non-reallocatable code?

2015-02-24 Thread Christian Kastner
On 2015-02-24 11:01, Alastair McKinstry wrote: > I agree with this; are there any cases where only a static library _is_ > provided, and if so why? why not provide a .so? One use case that was described to me was about libraries with APIs that were not yet considered stable enough to be (properly)

Re: how to remove libsystemd0 from a live-running debian desktop system

2015-02-18 Thread Christian Kastner
On 2015-02-18 13:54, Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton wrote: > that's right - i haven't. because (a) i have complete confidence in > your technical abilities, as a group. i wouldn't use debian > otherwise! :) and (b) this isn't a technical issue, it's a strategic > one. No, it's not. The issue is

Re: how to remove libsystemd0 from a live-running debian desktop system

2015-02-16 Thread Christian Kastner
On 2015-02-16 16:26, Alastair McKinstry wrote: > On 16/02/2015 14:41, Christian Kastner wrote: >> I'll hazard another guess, namely that the great vast majority of users >> simply do not care. I'd be surprised if most users even know what an >> init system does,

Re: how to remove libsystemd0 from a live-running debian desktop system

2015-02-16 Thread Christian Kastner
On 2015-02-16 13:47, Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton wrote: > On Mon, Feb 16, 2015 at 11:42 AM, Christian Seiler wrote: >> Am 16.02.2015 um 02:54 schrieb Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton: >>> >>> http://lkcl.net/reports/removing_systemd_from_debian/ >> >> >> It's funny that when Wheezy (not Jessie!) came

Re: one package altering other package's postrm

2014-12-15 Thread Christian Kastner
On 2014-12-15 15:56, Alexandre Detiste wrote: >> Having various cron daemon implementations follows from their differing >> designs, >> but there isn't much design to merely writing out a file to a specific >> directory securely. > > I agree. > > bcrontab does special magic and talk to it's dea

Re: one package altering other package's postrm

2014-12-15 Thread Christian Kastner
(Alexandre, sorry for the double reply, I only now noticed that my webmail client did not reply to the list) On 2014-12-15 12:12, Alexandre Detiste wrote: >> On the other hand, if the problem is that the upgrade causes a remove, >> and then some time later the user is going to tidy up by purging c

Re: one package altering other package's postrm

2014-12-14 Thread Christian Kastner
On 2014-12-14 00:36, Guillem Jover wrote: > On Sat, 2014-12-13 at 23:09:08 +0100, Alexandre Detiste wrote: >> This is needed to avoid that /etc/cron.allow & /etc/cron.deny disapears >> when cron is purged but systemd-cron still needs those. (from v1.5.1) >> >> In http://anonscm.debian.org/cgit/pkg-

Bug#768508: ITP: gitinspector -- statistical analysis tool for git repositories

2014-11-07 Thread Christian Kastner
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Christian Kastner * Package name: gitinspector Version : 0.3.2 Upstream Author : Ejwa Software * URL : http://code.google.com/p/gitinspector/ * License : GPL-3+ Programming Lang: Python Description : statistical

Bug#767299: ITP: librscode -- library implementing a Reed-Solomon error correction algorithm

2014-10-29 Thread Christian Kastner
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Christian Kastner * Package name: librscode Version : 1.3 Upstream Author : Henry Minsky * URL : http://rscode.sourceforge.net * License : GPL-3+ Programming Lang: C Description : library implementing a Reed

Bug#767298: ITP: python-cachetools -- extensible memoizing collections and decorators

2014-10-29 Thread Christian Kastner
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Christian Kastner * Package name: python-cachetools Version : 0.6.0 Upstream Author : Thomas Kremmer * URL : https://github.com/tkem/cachetools * License : Expat Programming Lang: Python Description : extensible

Re: Possible abuse of dpkg-deb -z9 for xz compressed binary packages

2014-09-03 Thread Christian Kastner
On 2014-09-03 13:10, Changwoo Ryu wrote: > 2014-09-03 17:04 GMT+09:00 Simon McVittie : >> On 02/09/14 21:17, Changwoo Ryu wrote: >>> For fonts-nanum, the default is ~300 KiB 3.5% larger than -9e. And -9e >>> is not better than -8e. >> >> I don't think anyone is arguing that higher compression setti

Re: Standardizing the layout of git packaging repositories

2014-08-15 Thread Christian Kastner
On 2014-08-15 16:16, Raphael Hertzog wrote: > - pkg/ > (note: git-buildpackage uses debian/ but I find this confusing > as we then also have the "debian/" prefix for ubuntu or kali uploads, we > don't need the vendor prefix as the usual versioning rules embed the > downstream distribution

Re: Password Protecting GPG Keys

2014-06-17 Thread Christian Kastner
On 2014-06-17 05:45, Matthias Urlichs wrote: > Christian Kastner: >> While that is sadly true, AFAIK all those legislations still require at >> least good cause, but more usually a court order, to do so. >> > You have no legal protection whatsoever on the "internatio

Re: Password Protecting GPG Keys

2014-06-16 Thread Christian Kastner
On 2014-06-16 14:01, Thorsten Glaser wrote: > Russell Stuart debian.org> writes: > >> messages. One of the reasons raised for not doing it is some felt >> uncomfortable carrying around their GPG keys when travelling. >> >> My initial reaction was "that's being overly cautious" particularly >> gi

Re: Work-needing packages report for Oct 7, 2011

2011-10-08 Thread Christian Kastner
On 10/07/2011 02:28 AM, w...@debian.org wrote: > The following is a listing of packages for which help has been requested > through the WNPP (Work-Needing and Prospective Packages) system in the > last week. I really missed receiving this weekly update. Great to see it's back! Christian -- To

Re: Should pam_unix log non-interactive sessions? [c...@taz.net.au: Bug#612382: pam, non-interactive-sessions, and pam_unix spamming the auth log]

2011-02-15 Thread Christian Kastner
On 02/13/2011 11:50 PM, Patrick Matthäi wrote: > Am 13.02.2011 23:45, schrieb Steve Langasek: >> Hi folks, >> >> I have a bug report objecting to pam_unix logging all PAM sessions, >> interactive and non-interactive alike, to syslog. Should pam_unix be >> dropped from /etc/pam.d/common-session-non

Re: symbol patterns in .symbols files prior to dpkg-1.15.6

2011-01-24 Thread Christian Kastner
On 01/24/2011 04:32 PM, Adam Borowski wrote: > On Mon, Jan 24, 2011 at 03:02:17PM +0100, Christian Kastner wrote: >> Hello, >> >> it was recently pointed out to me that one of my library packages >> encountered a build error whilst attempting to backport it to an older

symbol patterns in .symbols files prior to dpkg-1.15.6

2011-01-24 Thread Christian Kastner
Hello, it was recently pointed out to me that one of my library packages encountered a build error whilst attempting to backport it to an older system. The build failed because I use symbol patterns, specifically c++ tags, in the package's .symbols file. This feature was introduced in dpkg-1.15.6

Re: securing/monitoring Debian devel environment

2010-12-30 Thread Christian Kastner
On 12/22/2010 05:10 PM, Yaroslav Halchenko wrote: > May be there is a lightweight utility which could be used for > monitoring, e.g. it would report suspicious actions being taken from > within a monitored environment? e.g., it would > > * sanitize environment variables > * monitor open/socket/..

Can a pure Python package be architecture-dependent?

2010-10-03 Thread Christian Kastner
Hello, While considering a possible NMU for #589995, the question (in general) came up whether an otherwise architecture-independent package can be considered architecture-dependent if its features are only supported on specific platforms. As the most simple example, the package contains code th

Re: machine-readable debian/copyright and arbitrary comments

2010-09-29 Thread Christian Kastner
On 09/29/2010 07:24 AM, Marc Haber wrote: > This is no longer possible with the machine readable format of > debian/copyright. Where am I supposed to put this information > nowadays? Not that I agree that the information should go in debian/copyright, but according to DEP5, you could use arbitrar

Bug#595485: ITP: shark -- Modular Machine Learning Library

2010-09-04 Thread Christian Kastner
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Christian Kastner * Package name: shark Version : 2.3.2 Upstream Author : Shark Project * URL : http://shark-project.sourceforge.net/ * License : GPL-2+ Programming Lang: C++ Description : Modular Machine

Re: License of a patch

2010-08-30 Thread Christian Kastner
On 08/30/2010 09:06 PM, D M German wrote: > > After my presentation at DebConf this year I was pointed to your efforts > on the Patch Tagging Guidelines. > > One thing I believe would be useful is if the patch included a > license. The simplest license would be "Same as patched code" but it > wi

Bug#590876: ITP: cronie -- Fork of the ISC cron job scheduler

2010-07-29 Thread Christian Kastner
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Christian Kastner * Package name: cronie Version : 1.4.4 Upstream Author : Marcela Mašláňová * URL : https://fedorahosted.org/cronie/ * License : ISC Programming Lang: C Description : Fedora's fork of ISC

Bug#587069: ITP: pybrain -- Modular Machine Learning Library

2010-06-24 Thread Christian Kastner
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Christian Kastner * Package name: pybrain Version : 0.3 Upstream Author : PyBrain Core Developers * URL : http://www.pybrain.org/ * License : BSD Programming Lang: Python Description : Modular Machine Learning

Bug#585789: ITP: libocas -- OCAS solver for training linear SVM classifiers

2010-06-13 Thread Christian Kastner
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Christian Kastner * Package name: libocas Version : 0.93 Upstream Author : Vojtech Franc, Soeren Sonnenburg * URL : http://cmp.felk.cvut.cz/~xfrancv/ocas/html/ * License : GPL-3 Programming Lang: C Description

Bug#585788: ITP: liblinear -- Library for Large Linear Classification

2010-06-13 Thread Christian Kastner
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Christian Kastner * Package name: liblinear Version : 1.51 Upstream Author : The LIBLINEAR Project * URL : http://www.csie.ntu.edu.tw/~cjlin/liblinear/ * License : BSD Programming Lang: C/C++ Description

Bug#582315: ITP: pyrit-cuda -- NVIDIA CUDA support for Pyrit

2010-05-19 Thread Christian Kastner
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Christian Kastner * Package name: pyrit-cuda Version : 0.3.0 Upstream Author : Lukas Lueg * URL : http://code.google.com/p/pyrit/ * License : GPLv3 + linking exceptions for OpenSSL and CUDA Programming Lang: C, Python

Bug#580924: ITP: pyevolve -- Complete genetic algorithm framework written in pure python

2010-05-09 Thread Christian Kastner
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Christian Kastner Owner: Christian Kastner * Package name: pyevolve Version : 0.6rc1 Upstream Author : Christian S. Perone * URL : http://pyevolve.sourceforge.net * License : PSF Programming Lang: Python